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Supporting Community-Led Development in Manitoba
Despite the current challenges facing communities and research supporting the benefits of community-led development (CLD), Manitoba hasn’t had a functioning, comprehensive CLD strategy or dedicated…
Building Inclusive Communities: A Policy Agenda for Nova Scotia Municipalities that Leaves No One Behind
As municipal elections approach in October 2024, Building Inclusive Communities: A Policy Agenda for Nova Scotia Municipalities that Leaves No One Behind lays out ways to turn the…
Leaving no one behind – CCPA-NS releases municipal report in advance of Fall elections
HALIFAX/K’jipuktuk – The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Nova Scotia Office released a new report today on the state of municipalities in Nova Scotia ahead…
New report sets out bold 10-year plan for integrated public transit throughout BC
UNCEDED SQUAMISH, TSLEIL-WAUTUTH AND MUSEQUEAM TERRITORIES/BURNABY, B.C.—Within the next decade, British Columbia’s local transit systems could be united into an upgraded provincewide public transit network,…
The Monitor – Spring 2024
Today, more than 80 per cent of Canada’s population lives in cities. They’re the engines of economic growth, but far too many cities are stuck…
Fast Facts: Taking Back the City – The Winnipeg 2014 Alternative Municipal Budget
As Winnipeggers come out of an unusually punishing winter, the sun seems to be stimulating more than the usual spring activities. There is a feeling…
Fast Facts: Winnipeg’s financial cupboard is bare
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press October 4, 2022 The cupboard looks pretty bare at the City of Winnipeg. The City’s Financial Report, released…
Code Red: Winnipeg’s Fire and Paramedic Service Infrastructure Deficit
Download 542.35 KB20 pages The condition ofWinnipeg’s infrastructure is a seemingly endless source of public frustration. The deterioration of roadways during Winnipeg’s annual spring thaw…
Falling Behind: Service and Wage decline at the City of Winnipeg
Download 597.92 KB 24 pages The City of Winnipeg is experiencing difficulty retaining and recruiting employees to deliver key public services due to low wages…
Reciprocal but not optimal
CCPA comments on the government’s reciprocal procurement proposals This spring, Global Affairs Canada sought advice on the development of a reciprocal procurement policy that would…
Fast Facts: Community vision for Portage Place
The clamour around the future of Portage Place has quieted down to a chirp, for the moment, closer to the timbre of the sparrows that…
The Monitor, March/April 2022
Out of service: Reimagining the future of Canada’s public transit Download 4.2 MB In the two years since Canada’s pandemic experience began, transit ridership across…
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