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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…
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),…
Ten things to know about Carey Doberstein’s book on homelessness governance
Carey Doberstein, a professor at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus, has written a book about homelessness governance in Canada. The book’s focus is…
Manitoba Inequality Update
Low Income Families Left Behind Download 1.72 MB 23 pages There is growing recognition that income inequality has been increasing to undesirable levels in many…
Fast Facts: A new report on income inequality in Manitoba
A decade ago the CCPA-MB released the Stuck in Neutral report on inequality in Manitoba. Although inequality was less pronounced in Manitoba than it was…
Manitoba By the Numbers
Income Inequality $262,000 – average market income of the top 10% of Manitoba households with children (2014). $4,500 – average market income of bottom 10%…
Fast Facts: Why the Pain for Women in Manitoba Jails?
The Free Press (May 23 and 26, 2018) recently reported on the case of an Indigenous man who served more than six months in jail…
Manitoba program model for National Housing Benefit
A shelter benefit called for by community advocates and developed in Manitoba is a model for the rest of the country. Rent Assist has offered…
Pipe Dreams: The risky bets behind Ottawa’s TMX purchase
The federal government’s decision, announced this morning, to purchase the existing Trans Mountain pipeline and the pipeline expansion project from Kinder Morgan for $4.5 billion…
From housing market to human right: A view from Metro Vancouver
Submission to the Government of Canada, National Housing Strategy public consultations Download 1.97 MB7 pages This submission was made to the Government of Canada’s consultation on National Housing…
BC Solutions: News and commentary from the CCPA’s BC Office
May 2018 Download 2.61 MB12 pages In this issue: Standing up to the corporate backlash Research and commentary on Kinder Morgan Relax. Employer health taxes…
Are middle class tax promises a false hope?
Ontario PC Leader Doug Ford has proposed a $2.8-billion “middle class tax cut,” despite the fact the province is facing a deficit.Promoting tax cuts as…
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