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National Housing Day
Still waiting for a plan November 22nd is National Housing Day in Canada. Canada is the only country in the G8 that does not have…
The Cost of Learning–How does Manitoba Rank?
In the report titled Eduflation and the High Cost of Learning, CCPA researchers David Macdonald and Erika Shaker developed a Cost of Learning Index to…
Increasing Aboriginal Labour Market Participation
Making a case for Labour market intermediaries The Conference Board of Canada recently published a report titled Understanding the Value, Challenges, and Opportunities of Engaging…
Budget 2012: Deficit budget creates a surplus of spin
We went to the provincial legislature yesterday to review the budget and prepare our analysis. Our pre-budget predictions were accurate (see the April 16th Fast…
Fast Facts: It’s Budget Time Again
A glimmer of hope and a healthy dose of skepticism On April 17th Minister Stan Struthers will release details of how the Province will manage…
Canadians Deserve “A Budget for the Rest of Us”
As the federal government begins to reveal tidbits about what Canadians can expect in the 2012 federal budget, many of us are understandably anxious about…
Connecting Aborignal people to ‘good’ jobs
Manitoba has among the highest Aboriginal populations in Canada and it is growing at a faster rate than the non-Aboriginal population. Fifteen percent of Manitoban’s…
Making employment work
Connecting multi-barriered Manitobans to good jobs Download 891.25 KB 52 pages
Fast Facts: The Harper ‘apology’: Residential schools and Bill C-10
We learn fairly early in life that when you apologize for something that you have done wrong, it is expected that your apology will be…
State of the Inner City Report 2011
Neoliberalism: What a difference a theory makes Download 2.04 MB Attachments 2010 SIC long haul-web.pdf SIC_2009_report_120909.pdf SIC Report 2008.pdf State_of_the_Inner_City2007.pdf
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