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A Youth Lens on Poverty in Winnipeg
Inner City Youth Photography Exhibition Launch Winnipeg, MB – A collection of photographs taken by Winnipeg youth offers a fresh perspective on some of city’s…
State of the Inner City Report 2013
A Youth Lens on Poverty in Winnipeg Download 1.71 MB52 pages Sixteen youth from North and West End Winnipeg were given an important assignment: tell…
Fast Facts: Teenaged photojournalists document the inner city
Sixteen youth from North and West End Winnipeg were given an important assignment: tell the stories of their neighbourhoods to the rest of Winnipeg. The…
Fast Facts: It’s Time to Change the Budget Channel
The City of Winnipeg has released its proposed operational and capital budgets for 2014. As in previous years, it is hard to see the vision…
Hennessy’s Index: December 2013
2013: Year In Review Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the…
Fighting For A Better Future
Mi’kmaq protests in N.B. a source of hope for all of us With the images of burning cop cars, the Mi’kmaq blockade in New Brunswick…
A living wage for Manitoba families
WINNIPEG—Low-income families face difficult choices: pay the rent or buy food; forego dental care to buy school supplies. Parents faced with these dilemmas are stressed…
Work Life: The Living Wage
An idea whose time has come Minimum-wage workers are not just teenagers working at fast-food restaurants after school. According to the Manitoba Federation of Labour,…
The Nova Scotia Child Poverty Report Card 2013
1989–2011 Download 637.54 KB 26 pages Since 1999, Nova Scotia Child Poverty Report Cards have recorded changes in child poverty rates to track progress on…
Infographic: Nova Scotia Child Poverty Report Card 2013
Our infographic, based on the Nova Scotia Child Poverty Report Card 2013, takes a revealing look at child and family poverty across Nova Scotia. (Click the image…
Little change in Nova Scotia’s child poverty rate since pledge to eliminate
Halifax—In 2011, there were still 29,000 children living in poverty in Nova Scotia, twenty-two years after the House of Commons pledged to eliminate poverty for…
Rite of Passage
Graduating from high school is a rite of passage, but for students at risk, high school can be an oppressive and intimidating place. Programs like…
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