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The First Rung on the Ladder: Community-based Literacy Programming in Public Housing Complexes
Download 859.53 KB18 pages A wealth of evidence—both global and local—confirms the value of literacy, and the importance of programs that promote literacy. This is…
Fast Facts The First Rung on the Ladder: community-based literacy programming in public housing complexes
A wealth of evidence—both global and local—confirms the value of literacy and the importance of programs that promote literacy. This is especially the case for…
Work Life: A living wage lifts workers and the economy
As first published in the Winnipeg Free Press Oct 2, 2014. As of October 1st, minimum wage earners in Manitoba will earn $10.70 per hour…
Canada should get back into the social housing game
The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), Canada’s national housing agency, has undergone a profound shift in recent decades. Prior to 1993, it was the…
Interview: Ann Collins on the challenges and opportunities for uniting Indigenous and settler struggles
From August 21 to 24, thousands of participants from social movements across the country converged in Ottawa for the Peoples’ Social Forum. Among its many…
Time to move beyond the debate on assisted suicide
The long smouldering debate on physician-assisted suicide (PAS) flared up early this summer when on June 5 the Quebec National Assembly passed Bill 52, An…
Testing the human right to water in Detroit
In March, the beleaguered—some would say besieged—city of Detroit, Michigan announced it would begin shutting off water services to between 1,500 and 3,000 households every…
Fast Fasts: CEO Sleep Out – Charity not Change
Last night several dozen business leaders, politicians and high profile Winnipeggers spent a night at Portage and Main in the annual CEO Sleep Out to…
Fast Facts: A vote for austerity is a vote for more suffering
Lorrie Steeve’s distasteful comments about Aboriginal panhandlers set off a series of responses that reflected badly on many Winnipeggers. The following week’s big story was…
Something is rotten in the state of labour negotiations
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Call the inquiry
“I think, though, this is not a time to commit sociology.” —Prime Minister Stephen Harper, April 25, 2013 On August 21, facing new calls for…
BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends
Fall 2014, Volume 17, Number 3 Download 1.99 MB8 pages Inside this issue: Precarious temp agency work requires public policy attention by Andrew Longhurst Don’t…
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