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Fast Facts: How to Make a Low Income Bus Pass Work
A year after announcing a 25-cent a trip fare increase, mayoral candidate Brian Bowman has promised to create a low-income transit pass if he is…
What we heard: Frequent, Affordable, Safe and Accessible
The key to achieving a more equitable transportation system in Winnipeg Key Findings from the Transportation Townhall meeting Access to affordable, reliable, safe, and accessible…
Fast Facts: Tax increment financing and True North Square
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press September 20, 2018 On Thursday September 20, Winnipeg City Council will vote on a motion to clear the…
Fast Facts: Winnipeg-Where the buildings have no names and the streets have no crossings
Nearly forty years ago, in March 1979, Winnipeg city councillor Joe Zuken led a band of a dozen or so pedestrians in what is likely…
The Monitor, September/October 2018
Fragile Recovery Download 9.57 MB A decade after the worst financial crash since the Great Depression, a fragile recovery is obscuring threats—some new, some as…
Planting perennials: In memory of Kate
Artwork by Karlene Harvey Kate McInturff came to work with us as a result of a very CCPA mashup of serendipity, optimism, and a leap…
Love and spreadsheets
One of the most important revelations of my life came to me not when I was diagnosed with cancer three years ago. (From this I…
The Monitor, July/August 2018
Work in Transition Download 6.93 MB Here at the CCPA, we’re constantly thinking about what needs to change in our lives, our economy and our…
Imagine a Winnipeg…
Alternative Municipal Budget 2018 Download 11.37 MB100 pages Imagine a Winnipeg… Alternative Municipal Budget, Winnipeg 2018 is a community effort that dares to imagine a…
Harnessing the Potential of Social Enterprise in Garden Hill First Nation
Download 1.2 MB56 pages This paper explores the economy, the health status, and particularly the issue of food sovereignty of Garden Hill First Nation (GHFN),…
Fast Facts: Social Enterprise improves food security in Garden Hill First Nation
Food insecurity is a pressing problem for thousands of Indigenous people living in remote reserves in the North of Manitoba. The new CCPA Manitoba report…
Why would a boom town need charity? Report examines inequities in Saskatchewan’s oil boom
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Regina — When we think of a “boom town,” we often imagine a formerly sleepy rural town suddenly…
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