Manitoba Office Updates
Winnipeg celebrates CCPA-MB's 10th annual report on the issues most relevant to inner city neighbourhoods. This year was a retrospective on the last ten years by Shauna MacKinnon and it also...
December 17, 2014 |
Manitoba Office While Winnipeg is home to Canada's largest Aboriginal population, those same people are most likely to experience homelessness and are also over-represented in housing that is unaffordable,...
December 9, 2014 |
Manitoba Office In Canada between the 50's and the 90's the federal government committed to long-term housing agreements. Today those agreements are ending. See full report.
November 21, 2014 |
Manitoba Office 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 low-income individuals and communities...
October 16, 2014 |
Manitoba Office In Winnipeg's inner city, and espcially in West Broadway and Spence Neighbourhoods, older homes converted to rooming houses are an important type of housing for many people living on low incomes. ...
May 23, 2014 |
Manitoba Office 2014 is an election year in Winnipeg and this Alternative Municipal Budget is meant to stimulate discussion around some of the important concerns facing our city. By reframing issues, raising...
April 29, 2014 |
Manitoba Office The long awaited Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry report is comprehensive in scope. It includes 62 recommendations that if implemented, will improve services to vulnerable children and families. CCPA-MB's...
February 5, 2014 |
Manitoba Office This year, CCPA-MB's State of the Inner City Report will take you through a visual walk-through the neighbourhoods of inner city youth. Sixteen young people from two community-based organizations...
December 16, 2013 |
Manitoba Office Lynne Fernandez summarizes A Family Living Wage for Manitoba, the 2013 Update in this issue of Work Life:
"Minimum-wage workers are not just teenagers working at fast-food restaurants after school....
November 28, 2013 |
Manitoba Office CCPA-MB's new film, Right of Passage by Carole O'Brien, is about the experiences of at-risk students attending Gorden Bell High School's alternative education program in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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November 26, 2013 |
Manitoba Office CCPA-MB Research Associate, Pete Hudson, weighs in on seniors and the Education Property Tax (EPT). Read more in the latest Fast Facts, also published in the Winnipeg Free Press on October 17th.
October 17, 2013 |
Manitoba Office In August 2013, the Province of Manitoba introduced changes to its RentAid Program. Is it enough?
September 19, 2013 |
Manitoba Office The unified voice of the six unions was able to get the administration to listen to the concerns of the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) Local 3007...read more.
August 28, 2013 |
Manitoba Office Doctors are demonstrating their ethical duty to patients by working towards a society in which everyone has an opportunity to lead a healthy life. Last winter, the Canadian Medical Association (CMA)...
August 16, 2013 |
Manitoba Office Affordability of housing has been an important issue in Winnipeg for the last decade or so, with vacancy rates well below three percent and rents rising every year. In recent years, however, there...
August 7, 2013 |
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