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2013 Preliminary Operating Budget Fails Tax Fairness Test
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has been analysing the City’s operating budget for several years now. We fully understand the challenges council faces: lack…
Losing Ground
How Canada’s Employment Insurance system undermines inner-city and Aboriginal workers Download 1.19 MB 18 pages The EI system allows workers to pay into a plan…
Fast Facts: Losing Ground
How Canada’s Employment Insurance system undermines inner-city and Aboriginal workers. The EI system allows workers to pay into a plan that is supposed to provide…
An Evaluation of Parental Perspectives on Children’s Education in Skownan First Nations
Download 993.35 KB There is a substantive body of research that demonstrates the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment (Juarez, 2011; Huang, 2012). However, much of…
Fast Facts: A Sober Second Look at Liquor Privitization
A story in the Winnipeg Free Press’s The View from the West (12/10/2012 – Private Ontario liquor stores will benefit consumers) brings the issue of…
Fast Facts: Housing Housing Everywhere
One way to make some of it affordable The Province of Manitoba recently introduced a bill that would allow municipalities in Manitoba to encourage or…
Canada – EU Trade Deal Bad for Manitoba
Recent leaks from the negotiations between Canada and EU confirm concerns that a comprehensive economic and trade agreement (CETA) would infringe on Manitoba’s ability to…
State of the Inner City 2012
Breaking Barriers Building Bridges Download 1022.82 KB36 pages This year’s State of the Inner City Report: Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges speaks to concerns raised by community-based organizations…
Canadian pig industry: the need for change
In Canada, large industrial operations designed to raise hundreds to thousands of pigs in confinement have largely replaced the small, mixed farms that dominated the…
Fast Facts: Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges
The 2012 State of the Inner City Report is titled Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges. We called it this because we believe it captures the essence…
Fast Facts: The Tragedy of Phoenix Sinclair
Media coverage of the Phoenix Sinclair inquiry has been quite thorough and often insightful. However, the bulk of the media coverage is missing the defining…
Report engages youth, elders and community leaders to tackle radicalized poverty in Winnipeg
State of the Inner City 2012 READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. WINNIPEG, MB – Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Manitoba (CCPA-MB) is releasing the 2012…
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