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Indigenous Peoples continue to face deep structural inequality in Canada
The Canadian state’s genocide of Indigenous Peoples is centuries-old. It continues to harm Indigenous communities today.
Fast Facts: Whose Freedom?
The Convoy that took over Ottawa for a month last year just met outside Winnipeg this past weekend. While the right to protest is an…
Fast Facts: Manitoba Needs Programs like BUILD
A version of this article was published in the Winnipeg Free Press January 11, 2022 Just before the holidays, BUILD, Inc. announced the closure of…
Unearth this buried treasure: adult education in Manitoba
When she was 34 years old and a single mother of four living on social assistance in a large public housing complex in Winnipeg’s North End, Aja Oliver saw a sign at a community centre for an Adult Learning Centre. She had not finished high school, had struggled, as did everyone in her family, with the many complexities of life in poverty, and was fed up with being on social assistance. She ventured in. Her life has not been the same since.
Barriers and opportunities: How Canadian activists see degrowth
Degrowth is a social movement and field of research founded on the premise that perpetual economic growth is incompatible with the biophysical limits of our planet.
The Monitor, July/August 2022
The Future of Growth Download 4.32 MB Issue highlights: The benefits of an inclusive infrastructure model: Part of a trilogy: 1) Trish Hennessy examines promising…
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…
Settler Work: Equity and safety gaps in Canada’s public transit systems
Exploring the structural, organizational and systemic barriers to equitable public transit service, using the Thunder Bay system as a case study.
Does the Liberal-NDP pact signal a new Pearsonian phase?
What the new agreement gets right—and where there’s room to go bolder
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…
Settler work: The ongoing history of disproportionate force
Exploring the use of disproportionate force and the rise of militarized police forces in Canada through the history of policing in Canada.
Fast Facts: Provincial budget should help people, planet in need
Previously published by the Winnipeg Free Press January 25, 2022 My partner and I ushered 2022 during frigid temperatures trying to protect our two…
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