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Bucking the Trend: Manitoba Defends Workers’ Pensions
Each day Canadian newspapers carry a version of the same story: working Canadians are not prepared for retirement. Statisticians and economists who look at the…
Fast Facts: Small Scale Food Report is food for thought
Public demand to buy food directly from farmers is growing. In Manitoba the government response has been slow and the regulatory hurdles are discouraging. The…
Fast Facts: Winnipeg’s Racism Challenge
The Maclean’s article citing Winnipeg as Canada’s most racist city has prompted a public conversation that may prove to be useful. It is important that…
Work Life: Supreme Court Rulings on Labour Legislation
An Affirmation of Workers’ Constitutional Rights The January 30, 2015 decision by the Supreme Court of Canada was a very significant one for the labour…
The Living Wage: Three reasons to expect more than minimum
CCPA Manitoba: Living Wage Lynne Fernandez, the Errol Black Chair in Labour Issues, explains the Living Wage and gives us three reasons to expect more…
The View From Here 2015
Manitobans call for a renewed poverty reduction plan Download 1.76 MB 92 pages Given that the policy landscape has changed since 2009, and that the…
Fast Facts: The View From Here 2015
Manitobans call for a Renewed Poverty Reduction Plan WINNIPEG—To address persistent poverty in this province, community groups have outlined a plan to provide Manitobans with…
Fast Facts: Realizing the Potential of Public Transit
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press Jan 20, 2015. Last year’s municipal election accommodated a healthy discussion on public transit. It was largely…
Social Impact Bonds
An Update Download 573.55 KB11 pages This paper is an update of a previous paper on Social Impact Bonds by John Loxley published by CCPA.…
Best Practices
Manitoba’s Worker Recruitment and Protection Act Download 318.72 KB4 pages Recent attention to the Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP) has raised questions about how these…
Fast Facts: No Silver Bullet to ‘solve’ poverty
Response to “Generosity doesn’t solve poverty” Winnipeg Free Press Dec 17, 2014 Mary Agnes Welch is right when she says charity is “not fixing the…
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