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Fast Facts: McFadyen’s crazy numbers won’t fool Manitobans
A Brandon Sun editorial of April 2, 2011 (“So what’s the real cost of Bipole III?”) reports that, in his announcement of the revised estimate…
Labour Notes: The attack on unions has now come to Canada
How do we respond? Anyone who has been keeping tabs on recent developments in what can accurately be called the assault on trade unions and…
Fast Facts: Literacy, Women and Poverty
The Manitoba Government recently announced increased funding of $700,000 per year for adult literacy programs and Adult Learning Centres, bringing the yearly total to 20.6…
Fast Facts: Housing Improvement Zones
A focused and grassroots approach to housing development On March 10, 2011, the Standing Committee on Property and Development recommended a move of $500,000 from…
Fast Facts: Manitoba’s Economic Indicators
The facts are more uplifting than the fiction There are those who worry that Manitoba is not performing up to its potential, but they don’t…
Scott Walker is not welcome in Canada
On March 4, 2011, the Financial Post published an article by Niels Veldhuis and Milagros Palacios titled, “We need Scott Walker here.” Scott Walker is…
Manitoba’s Bi Pole III Debate
Where the rubber hits the road Download 1.02 MB 4 pages It is not coincidental that whether to run Bi Pole III down the east…
Fast Facts: Manitoba Hydro
To be or not to be? In a recent article in the Winnipeg Free Press entitled “Reforming the Jurassic Crown” (Feb 26), law professor Bryan…
Quality of Life Assessment is too important to be left to economists
Download 229.48 KB 4 pages In 2008, French President Nicolas Sarkozy established the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress. It was…
Fast Facts: Economic and Fiscal Priorities
We need to get them right In recent months the Manitoba branch of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation has been calling for immediate action to eliminate…
Adult Refugees and Newcomers in the Inner City of Winnipeg
Promising Pathways for Transformative Learning Download 2.58 MB32 pages This paper focuses on English as an Additional Language (EAL) for adult newcomers and draws from…
Putting History on Track
Using Heritage as a Tool for Downtown Rejuvenation in Winnipeg Download
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