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The right to the city as a foundation for social justice
The right to the city comes out of critical theory, a branch of intellectual thought originating in the early 20th century at the University of Frankfurt.…
Fast Facts: The Deep Roots of the Meth Crisis
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press Dec 19, 2018 Winnipeg’s meth crisis continues to skyrocket. I think a case can be made that in…
Why is Milk So Expensive in First Nations Communities?
Access to and Affordability of Milk in Northern Manitoba Download 1.48 MB20 pages This study finds milk is significantly costlier in First Nations communities than…
A prescription for savings
Federal revenue options for pharmacare and their distributional impacts on households, businesses and governments Download 1.11 MB 45 pages Pharmacare is high on Canada’s political…
Assurance-médicaments et partage de la richesse
Selon un nouveau rapport, un régime universel d’assurance-médicaments à financement progressif permettrait aux familles d’économiser des centaines de dollars par année 5 décembre 2018 CLIQUEZ ICI…
Une prescription d’économies
Options de recettes fédérales pour un régime national universel d’assurance-médicaments et leurs effets distributifs sur les ménages, les entreprises et les gouvernements Download 200.7 KB7…
Why high U.S. drug prices matter to Canada
Photo by ccPixs.com, Flickr Creative Commons. In the mid-1970s the average monthly cost of a cancer drug in the United States was about $100. By 1995 that…
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…
Alternative Federal Budget 2019
No Time to Lose Download 1.26 MB84 pages With the country facing significant and unpredictable headwinds going into another federal election year, the 2019 Alternative…
Fast Facts: Indigenous language revitalization and child care
Indigenous peoples have a troubled relationship with the systems that have been imposed by settler colonial populations. The imposition of education through the residential school…
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…
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