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Fast Facts: Make Homelessness History
Homelessness has recently been much in the news, because of the tragic deaths of three homeless people in Winnipeg and also because of the Canadian…
Fast Facts: Rickety altar of balanced budgets
Manitoba’s Provincial Budget 2015 It is unfortunate that the sitting government has to waste valuable political capital maneuvering around obstructionist balanced budget legislation (BBL), but…
Fast Facts: The Inequality Budget
Finance Minister Joe Oliver had a chance Tuesday to prove the Harper government’s economic prowess. The budget he delivered, however, failed miserably to do that.…
Fast Facts: Lessons from Toronto
Winnipeg’s Rooming House Challenge On April 16th, 2014, a fire broke out in a rooming house on Enfield Crescent in Winnipeg’s St. Boniface neighbourhood. The…
Work Life: Making the case for a Labour Market Intermediary
There is a growing opportunity in Manitoba to bridge the economic and social divide between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. First of all, Manitoba employers are…
Making the Case for a Labour Market Intermediary
The Experience of Build Download 1.17 MB 20 pages This report weaves together findings from data gathered through two other research reports published by the…
Work Life: Temporary foreign workers face unjust crackdown
As part of an ongoing overhaul of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) the federal government imposed what is referred to as the “four and…
Fast Facts: Shooting for the stars-Inner city basketball program has big impact
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press on-line edition and in the Winnipeg Free Press Weekend Edition as Blog of the Week. Young men and…
Stagnant wages for over 80 percent of Canadian workers
Download 1006.5 KB3 pages Are wages in Canada stagnant or growing? The short answer is another question: do you live in an oil boom province?…
Low response in National Household Survey leads to bias
Download 985.33 KB 3 pages When the Government of Canada decided to cancel the long form census for 2011 and replace it with the voluntary…
Fast Facts: Alternative ideas to address Winnipeg’s woes
The Alternative Municipal Budget (AMB) is the tool we use to engage citizen groups on the Winnipeg budget. Part of our message is that the…
Fast Facts: Counting women in
A gender-based analysis of homelessness International Women’s Day (IWD) will be celebrated this weekend. Although progress has been made regarding women’s rights and equality, the…
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