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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…
Work Life: 18 Prominent Manitobans Fail the Canada Challenge
The ancestors of 18 prominent Manitobans would all be turned away if they applied today to immigrate to Canada. That was the finding of the…
Fast Facts: Justice Requires Hope
Sunday, August 10th, marks the 40th anniversary of what has come to be known as Prisoners’ Justice Day in Canada. Ever since the suicide of…
Beer Bottles to Books
Remaking Merchants Corner Young North End activists hailed it as the latest example of “North End Rising.” That was the response when Premier Selinger announced…
Work Life: Seeds Planted for Green Economy in Manitoba
Last week, I was in Winnipeg and elsewhere in southern Manitoba for a roundtable and a series of field visits. Representing the Green Economy Network…
Fast Facts: Engaging Manitobans to Change Food Safety Regulations – the Bigger Picture
We all want healthy food for our neighbors, we all want to promote as many farms as possible growing that food and we want to…
Work Life: Manitoba’s Proactive Enforcement of Temporary Foreign Worker’s Rights is a model for Canada
Canada’s Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP) has become a hot potato for the federal government, which is frantically attempting to quell widespread outrage sparked by…
Rooming Houses to Rooming Homes
Click here for the full Rooming Houses to Rooming Homes report on the disappearance of rooming houses in Winnipeg which are an important kind of…
Fast Facts: Outsourcing Under Scrutiny
The long, hard 2013-14 winter revealed serious problems with some city services, such as snow removal and repair of water pipe and water main infrastructure.…
Fast Facts: The High Cost of Low Taxes and Urban Sprawl
Much of Winnipeg’s infrastructure is in desperate need of repair or replacement. The City’s 2009 administrative report found that just to maintain our existing infrastructure…
Fast Facts: Graduate Studies and Continuing Fees
Graduate enrolment is steadily increasing in Manitoba, with more students electing to pursue post-graduate programs at both the Master’s and PhD levels. The growth in…
Rooming Houses to Rooming Homes
Download 1.37 MB28 pages In Winnipeg’s inner city, and espcially in West Broadway and Spence neighbourhoods, older homes converted to rooming houses are an important…
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