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Fast Facts: Provincial Record on Housing a Welcome Achievement
The Provincial government has released an impressive record of its commitment to build affordable housing across Manitoba. Housing and Community Development Minister Peter Bjornson announced…
Work Life: Temporary Foreign Workers: How federal settlement policies overlook some newcomers
Manitoba has embarked on aggressive immigration strategies to attract newcomers to settle in a variety of communities in the province with the purpose of meeting…
Fast Facts: Grain Shipping is for the Bears
Oil by rail to Churchill not worth the risk For visitors from around the world, the opportunity to see polar bears and beluga whales in…
Fast Facts: Cold winter a sign of climate change
Some winter we’re having, eh? This winter has been cold, no doubt about it. It is probably the coldest we’ve seen in North America since…
Manitoba Budget a Leap Forward for Poverty Reduction
By substantially raising EIA shelter rates and increasing child care spaces, new apprenticeship programs and support to social enterprises, the province is taking action to…
Work Life: International Women’s Day 2014 – The continuing struggle for bread and roses
This edition of Work Life forms part of the research by CCPA’s National Office for an upcoming report, “Working across Canada” which will analyze quantitative…
Work Life: A Province with No Poverty?
The so-called war on poverty has been an abysmal failure. Poverty rates in Canada remain at stubbornly high levels. Most provinces, including Manitoba, still have…
Fast Facts: Federal housing strategy key to improving child welfare
Before the findings of the Hughes Commission report on the death of Phoenix Sinclair have been lost and forgotten and before the next child dies…
Work Life: The 2014 Federal Budget
Austerity for the many, prosperity for the few Observers were not expecting anything more than a middle-of-the-road federal budget for 2014, but even so the…
Fast Facts: Government responds to calls to increase EIA shelter allowance
This past weekend, Theresa Oswald, Minister of Jobs and the Economy said she agreed with a long-standing anti-poverty goal. “We agree that 75 percent as…
Fast Facts: Community Development Manitoba – style
For fashion trends the world looks to Milan; Copenhagen has become synonymous with urban planning; but for community development, Manitoba is increasingly the source for…
Fast Facts: Honouring the memory of Phoenix Sinclair
Our collective responsibility “The social and economic conditions that render children vulnerable to abuse and neglect are well beyond the scope of the child welfare…
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