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Since forming in 1997, the Manitoba Office has established a reputation for working in collaboration with the community to conduct quality research that advances social justice and environmental sustainability.
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Fast Facts: Rooming Houses to Rooming Homes
In Winnipeg’s inner city, and especially in West Broadway and Spence neighbourhoods, older homes converted to rooming houses are an important type of housing for…
Fast Facts: You Get What You Pay For
Winnipeg’s mayoral race is now officially underway. Any serious contenders are going to have to convince a very skeptical public that they can turn around…
Fast Facts: Decolonizing the Inner City – a look at Youth for Christ
Youth for Christ is an evangelical Christian organization whose “Centre for Youth Excellence” received public funding based on a business plan that promised to meet…
Work Life: Youth Voices – Youth and Unions Need to Work Together
While the labour landscape has changed dramatically in Canada in the last 58 years, the legal framework has not. The labour relations framework that we…
Fast Facts: World Urban Forum 7 – Policy Lessons from Colombia
For one week in early April, Sara Swartz (Universitas Programme of the KIP International School), Shauna MacKinnon (Manitoba Research Alliance [MRA] and University of Winnipeg…
Economics are for Everyone – A webinar with Jim Stanford and Lynne Fernandez
As part of CCPA-MB’S Supporter Drive, economist Jim Stanford, currently living in Australia, joined Lynne Fernandez in an interactive video platform to talk about Economics…
Fast Facts: CCPA-MB research back social movements, leveraging change
Evidence-based policy research can exert a powerful force for social change, especially when it stands with the community in its actions and organising. The role…
Fast Facts: The nexus of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Manitoba – A Brief History
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Work Life: More than a Dream
Many of us have, like John Lennon, imagined a world without war, greed, hunger or possessions. There are those rare individuals who insist that we…
Taking Back the City
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Work Life: Why we still fight
The Day of Mourning, more than any other day in the labour movement’s calendar, brings home why we must remain vigilant in the area of…
Fast Facts – Grain, Trains and Autocrats: farmers pay the price of dismantling the Wheat Board
This was originally published in the Winnipeg Free Press on April 15, 2014 A banner 2013 crop year and some rail delays due to cold…
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