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State of the Inner City Report 2015
Drawing on our strengths Download 1.57 MB76 pages Poverty is deeply-rooted, spatially-concentrated, complex, often racialized, and not quickly solved. It damages, and in some cases…
Fast Facts: Community plays an important role in poverty reduction
Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press on December 4th, 2015. I teach in the Department of Urban and Inner City Studies at the University of…
Lived Experiences and Perspectives
Women, Mental Health and Housing in Winnipeg Download 2.28 MB32 pages This project is a qualitative research study seeking to understand the experiences of women…
Youth Voices: Strengthen the Ranks – Labour Movements in Canada and Nigeria
As an international student in Canada, the stark difference in labour laws and provisions between Canada and my home country Nigeria embitters my heart. On…
Fast Facts: Who’s keeping score?
Two interesting reports crossed my desk recently. The first one, a column by Dan Lett, appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press on November 18th. Lett…
Fast Facts: Manitoba was ahead of curve on modern fiscal policy
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press Monday, November 23, 2015 Economists worldwide have undergone a sea change in attitudes in the last five years…
National Housing Day: A profile of WestEnd Commons
This past weekend marked Canada’s National Housing Day. In recent history, housing in Canada hasn’t been a hopeful topic. In 1993 federal funds for new…
Fast Facts: Throne speeches put poverty on the agenda
There was encouraging news in Manitoba’s 2015 Speech from the Throne for people working to end poverty in Manitoba. In several areas, the Manitoba government…
Unions Boost Democracy and Prosperity for All
Download 728.42 KB24 pages For a purportedly democratic country such as Canada, it is strange that so many of us seem to accept, unquestioningly, the…
Fast Facts: Kathy Mallett – Inner City Builder
There are unsung heroes in Winnipeg’s inner city, especially in the Aboriginal community, and few of them have a list of accomplishments as long and…
Fast Facts: What is Access to Information and does it Matter?
Under Canadian law, every citizen has the right to request information from federal, provincial/territorial, and municipal governments. Gaining access to tightly controlled government information is…
Fast Facts: New Federal government – opportunity to end crisis of poor housing
For Winnipeg residents with low incomes, the lack of affordable quality housing is a crisis. According to the 2011 National Housing Survey, 34,000 Winnipeg renters…
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