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Tailings dam spills at Mount Polley and Mariana
Chronicles of disasters foretold Download 7.07 MB64 pages This paper explores the many parallels between the tailings dam spills at the Mount Polley mine in…
Image: What do the two largest mining disasters in Canada’s and Brazil’s histories have in common?
The Mount Polley disaster took place in August 2014, when the dam holding toxic waste from the copper and gold mine collapsed, creating the largest…
Living in the City
Documenting the Lived Experiences of the Island Lake Anishininew People Download 943.76 KB19 pages For First Nations peoples living in rural and remote areas, accessing…
Provincial Support for CED in Manitoba
The Experience of CED Practitioners Download 756.92 KB 32 pages This is a study of the previous provincial government’s policy approach to Community Economic Development…
The Monitor, July/August 2018
Work in Transition Download 6.93 MB Here at the CCPA, we’re constantly thinking about what needs to change in our lives, our economy and our…
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),…
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…
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…
Fast Facts: Justice system lacking fairness
Almost half of the people in Manitoba agree there is a problem with the Canadian justice system when it comes to treatment of Indigenous Peoples…
Nearly 200 arrests and counting
Image: Rogue Collective (Flickr Creative Commons) The build started with a single West Coast cedar tree. In the early hours of March 10, against the…
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