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Work Life: Waiting for the Brad Wall Inquiry Report
In October 2019 the provincial government announced that former Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall would take over as commissioner of an inquiry into Manitoba Hydro’s Bipole…
Manitoba Hydro and the Public Utilities Board
An Uncertain Future Download 494.35 KB 20 pages Manitoba Hydro and the Public Utilities Board: An Uncertain Future unpacks the approaches used by the Manitoba…
Fast Facts: Under Cover of Covid, Beware Bill 44
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press June 22, 2020 On April 15th, after the province went into lockdown, the Conservatives tried to pass Bill…
Manitoba’s Debt and Fiscal Outlook
Round Two The province’s May 4 news release reminds us how much the private sector and government finances are being affected by the pandemic, the…
Work Life: COVID 19 Revealing Inequities in Canada’s Labour Market
The strange times we’re living in are bringing many issues into sharp focus for the public at large. This is true with regard to the…
Work Life: Austerity, the economy and COVID-19…Manitoba Government creating, not solving problems
First published CBC online April 21, 2020 COVID-19 has upended communities and economies across the globe. Canadian political leaders have taken unprecedented steps to slow…
Work Life: Brought to the Brink by Recklessness… First thoughts on COVID-19
This piece is dedicated to Mark Golden (August 6, 1948 – April 9, 2020). Mark was a scholar of classics, teacher, life-long social justice advocate…
Fast Facts: Manitoba’s 2020 Budget: Welcome to Reality
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press March 30, 2020 Never has a provincial budget become so out-of-date so fast. In many ways, it’s just…
Fast Facts: Change Starts Here
The Manitoba Alternative Provincial Budget 2020 One of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternative Mb.’s most rewarding projects is putting together alternative municipal and provincial…
Work Life: How will the new federal government respond to an economic crisis?
This article first appears in The Monitor Jan/Feb 2020 Far from altering the risky behaviour that precipitated the 2008 financial crisis, bankers, financiers and corporate…
Fast Facts: From the Throne to the Kitchen Table
Are the priorities of the Manitoba government in line with Manitobans’ more broadly? This is the question asked last week by a diverse group of…
Work Life: A tribute to John Loxley
Economist, Educator, Social Justice Advocate Dr. John Loxley will be honoured at the 8th Errol Black Chair in Labour Issues Brunch on November 3, 2019.…
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