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40% of Indigenous children in Canada live in poverty: study
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA—Indigenous children in Canada are over two and a half times more likely to live in poverty than non-Indigenous children,…
40 % des enfants autochtones du Canada vivent dans la pauvreté, selon une étude
lire l’etude ici. OTTAWA – Les enfants autochtones du Canada sont deux fois et demie plus susceptibles de vivre dans la pauvreté que les enfants non…
Infographic: From Bad to Worse: Child Poverty Rates in Canada
From bad to worse: our infographic reveals Indigenous and non-Indigenous child poverty rates across Canada, based on our study Poverty or Prosperity: Indigenous children in…
Breaking Barriers/Building Bridges
On October 13th, 2012, CCPA’s Manitoba Office facilitated an intergenerational learning and youth exchange at Thunderbird House in Winnipeg. In attendance were four elders and…
Idle No More: History Catching Up
First Nations honoured treaties, Canadian governments didn’t The immediate impact of the “Idle No More” protests has been, if nothing else, a rare, sustained focus…
BC forest bill urgently in need of a rewrite
It wasn’t so long ago that the British Columbia government was investing lots of political capital in striking a more productive “new relationship” with First…
Aboriginal Peoples Fight For All Canadians
We should join the First Nations in becoming “idle no more” The day after Stephen Harper finally agreed (Jan. 4, 2013) to meet with First…
Fast Facts: Losing Ground
How Canada’s Employment Insurance system undermines inner-city and Aboriginal workers. The EI system allows workers to pay into a plan that is supposed to provide…
Hennessy’s Index: January 2013
First Nations: The Long Shadow of Assimilation Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place…
Fast Facts: The Tragedy of Phoenix Sinclair
Media coverage of the Phoenix Sinclair inquiry has been quite thorough and often insightful. However, the bulk of the media coverage is missing the defining…
The Social and Economic (Under) Development of Northern Manitoba Communities Over the Past Two and a Half Decades
Download 1.61 MB46 pages Northern Manitoba is the area defined within the four Statistics Canada census divisons: number 19, 21, 22 and 23. It is…
Pluralism in the Arts in Canada
A Change is Gonna Come Pluralism in the Arts in Canada: A Change is Gonna Come captures some of the dialogue happening around critical diversity,…
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