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Fast Facts: Social Enterprise improves food security in Garden Hill First Nation
Food insecurity is a pressing problem for thousands of Indigenous people living in remote reserves in the North of Manitoba. The new CCPA Manitoba report…
Fast Facts: A new report on income inequality in Manitoba
A decade ago the CCPA-MB released the Stuck in Neutral report on inequality in Manitoba. Although inequality was less pronounced in Manitoba than it was…
Manitoba Inequality Update
Low Income Families Left Behind Download 1.72 MB 23 pages There is growing recognition that income inequality has been increasing to undesirable levels in many…
Manitoba By the Numbers
Income Inequality $262,000 – average market income of the top 10% of Manitoba households with children (2014). $4,500 – average market income of bottom 10%…
Fast Facts: Why the Pain for Women in Manitoba Jails?
The Free Press (May 23 and 26, 2018) recently reported on the case of an Indigenous man who served more than six months in jail…
Manitoba program model for National Housing Benefit
A shelter benefit called for by community advocates and developed in Manitoba is a model for the rest of the country. Rent Assist has offered…
Fast Facts: A Comparison of the Carbon Tax Rebates to Families in Manitoba and British Columbia 2017
When British Columbia introduced its carbon tax, it provided a rebate to families to offset the higher cost of goods and services created by that…
Rising Tuition
Implications for Access and Career Choice for Manitoba Students Download 730.17 KB26 pages Governments in Canada have often turned to investments in higher education to…
Fast Facts: A Made-in-Manitoba Tragedy of the Commons
In February, a provincial news release about changes to agricultural crown advised that “The Manitoba government has launched a consultation focused on agricultural Crown lands,…
Winnipeg Without Poverty
Calling on the City to Lead Download 4.14 MB60 pages This report, endorsed by more than 90 organizations, calls on Winnipeg’s Mayor to be a…
Fast Facts: Justice system lacking fairness
Almost half of the people in Manitoba agree there is a problem with the Canadian justice system when it comes to treatment of Indigenous Peoples…
Fast Facts: He Had a Dream
Fifty years ago today, April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis Tennessee. James Earl Ray was convicted, but as Angela Davis…
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