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Meeting the Needs of Youth
Perspectives from Youth-Serving Agencies Download 1.26 MB 37 pages This research report provides an overview of the ‘state of youth’ in Winnipeg communities by addressing…
From Revitalisation to Revaluation in the Spence Neighbourhood
Download 926.38 KB53 pages This is a look at the state of one neighbourhood, and how it is changing. It is about who has been…
Fast Facts: Making waves out of ripples
Mayoralty candidate Judy Wasylycia-Leis recently sparked discussion about government procurement practices when she suggested that locality be a consideration in the City of Winnipeg tendering…
The Fraser Institute’s bizarre stance on census long-form
Virtually alone in the growing outrage over the federal government’s decision to scrap the long-form mandatory census, the Fraser Institute threw it’s support behind the…
Rolling Thunder Census Review
The sound of backlash to the government’s decision on cutting the Census long-form questionnaire continues to rumble across the country. Tuesday’s Globe and Mail published…
Statistics Canada’s Senseless Census Decision
Open letter to the Honourable Tony Clement, Ministry of Industry and Minister Responsible for Statistics Canada and Munir Sheikh, Chief Statistician, Statistics Canada June 30,…
Our Schools/Our Selves: Summer 2010
The School as Community Hub: Beyond Education’s Iron Cage The summer issue of Our Schools/Our Selves, the third in the “Iron Cage” series, is edited…
Un-equal access to opportunity between suburban and inner-city youth
Three weeks ago, a 19-year-old from Winnipeg’s inner city shot two teenagers. Our city government’s response was to send in more police officers. But incarceration…
Fast Facts: Contract with Veolia for waste-water treatment does not pass the smell test
On May 12 EPC unanimously voted to accept a report prepared by Winnipeg Public Services. The Report recommends that the City award a contract to…
Future Transportation Will Rely on Bikes and Buses, Too
Electric cars helpful, but not sole advance in mobility As we enter the second half of the oil age and the first half of the…
Public funds for Youth For Christ
Have our politicians learned nothing from past mistakes? On February 17, 2010, the Mayor’s Executive Policy Committee (EPC) passed a motion to provide a grant…
How to make municipal tax reform as fair as possible
On January 26, the HRM Council will again address municipal tax reform proposals. But the proposals are merely piece-meal changes. We need to ask and…
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