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Fast Facts: Revolutionary Health Care
Each of us read Steve Brouwer’s Revolutionary Doctors (MR Press, 2011) the same week the media reported average gross fee-for-service earnings of Manitoba doctors at…
Election 2011 UNSPUN: Why the Manitoba Provincial Election Matters
Elections matter. Some matter more than others. The October 4, 2011 provincial election in Manitoba is important. This is less because of what is going…
Election 2011 UNSPUN: Winnipeg’s Inner City and North End Neighbourhoods
Lessons from Ten Years of Research The inner city suddenly becomes important to politicians during elections. Some political parties choose to focus solely on crime…
Fast Facts: The Inequality Agenda and the Specious Ideas that Support It
In June, 1998, Toronto’s Centre for Social Justice published a report by Armine Yalnizyan on the dimensions and implications of growing inequalities in the distribution…
Fast Facts: How Unions Protect Our Human Rights
Unions are usually thought of as being about higher wages. It’s true. Unions do produce higher wages for their members (and often, as a result of…
Fast Facts: “Mean Streets” society coming
The election this month of a majority Conservative government will change Canada’s political landscape in ways that will be detrimental to most Canadians. Cuts to…
Labour Notes: The attack on unions has now come to Canada
How do we respond? Anyone who has been keeping tabs on recent developments in what can accurately be called the assault on trade unions and…
Scott Walker is not welcome in Canada
On March 4, 2011, the Financial Post published an article by Niels Veldhuis and Milagros Palacios titled, “We need Scott Walker here.” Scott Walker is…
Fast Facts: Reverse the Cuts to Anti-Gang Programs
Recent reports that federal funding for four anti-gang programs in Winnipeg will end in March raise the issue, yet again, of how our tax dollars…
Fast Facts: The social and economic conditions that produce poor health
In a recent editorial (“Aboriginal HIV Rates Disturbing”) the Winnipeg Free Press expressed concern about the rising incidence of HIV infection in, among other places,…
The Social Determinants of Health in Manitoba
This book examines the social and economic conditions that contribute to health inequities in our province. The purpose of this book is to make the…
Fast Facts: The Social Determinants of Health in Manitoba
What we know about health inequity in Manitoba and what we can do about it Why are some people, and more particularly some groupings of…
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