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Reducing poverty and carbon emissions: lessons from Manitoba
I often get asked about alternatives to our fossil-fuelled status quo. In recent years, there have been many new projects that point to the way forward,…
Ending Homelessness?
A Critical Examination of Housing First in Canada and Winnipeg Download 635.46 KB 20 pages The Housing First model is an increasingly popular approach to…
Financial Inclusion and Manitoba Indigenous People
Results from an Urban and Rural Case Study Download 1.29 MB54 pages This research project used a case study approach to examine access to mainstream…
Fast Facts: Fight food insecurity with income
The rise in food costs disproportionately affects the poor as food makes up a larger portion of their spending. Increased income, educational programs, and northern…
The Next Step
Literacy Programming in Manitoba Download 342.69 KB20 pages Economists have estimated that low literacy levels cost the Canadian economy billions of dollars annually (Gulati 2013;…
Work Life: Investing in Social Enterprise to reduce poverty and green house gases
A new Errol Black Chair paper explains how a combination of governmental policies and initiatives in Manitoba allows social enterprises to reduce Manitoba’s greenhouse gas…
How Government Support for Social Enterprise can Reduce Poverty and Greenhouse Gases
Download 773.12 KB24 pages A new Errol Black Chair paper explains how a combination of governmental policies and initiatives in Manitoba allows social enterprises to…
Fast Facts: No Jesuit School in Winnipeg’s North End
The Catholic Church ran more than half of Canada’s residential schools. In these schools they immersed Indigenous children and youth in Catholic culture. The effect…
The Political Economy of Culturally Appropriate Foods in Winnipeg
A Case of Refugee Path Immigrants (RPI’s) Download 1 MB 52 pages Culture, acquired taste and past experience shape people’s food preferences (Adekunle et.al, 2010,…
Fast Facts: Mothering Project – Effective prevention with vulnerable families
“The root causes of neglect—including poverty, poor housing, food insecurity, and substance abuse—lie beyond the scope of the child welfare system to resolve. But a…
Fast Facts: Gains are being made – State of the Inner City Report 2015
It has recently been claimed in the media that nothing is working in the fight against poverty. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives State of…
State of the Inner City Report 2015
Drawing on our strengths Download 1.57 MB76 pages Poverty is deeply-rooted, spatially-concentrated, complex, often racialized, and not quickly solved. It damages, and in some cases…
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