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Since forming in 1997, the Manitoba Office has established a reputation for working in collaboration with the community to conduct quality research that advances social justice and environmental sustainability.
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Fast Facts: Wealth Care vs Health Care
The debate around the private financing of Canada’s health care system has recently been revived as one of a series of video shorts on human…
Work Life: People Want to Work
Are you willing to do physically demanding work for $12.50 -$13.50/hour, for a 1 month contract? One hundred and four inner-city young men and women…
Fast Facts: Why Canada Needs a Real Housing Policy
Every developed country except Canada knows that safe, affordable housing is a critical key to social, physical and emotional well-being. The list of poor outcomes…
Fast Facts: The Conservative Stealth Strategy to Undermine Medicare
The Harper government has a two-fold strategy to undermine Medicare. One part of the game plan is to underfund Medicare creating “shortages” over the medium…
Fast Facts: Fresh Food Fuels Change
An innovative pilot evaluation People are food insecure when they do not have access to, or enough money to buy safe and nutritious food, preventing…
Fast Facts: Rent Assist Increase
Community work in action Thanks to community advocacy, low-income Manitobans will have more money to help pay their rent. Three years ago Make Poverty History…
Fast Facts: A welcoming home for refugees – removing the stigma and increasing the support
Refugees across Canada are facing a structural housing crisis. Stagnant shelter allowances for the Government Assisted Refugees eligible to receive them, a federal retreat from…
Manitoba Conservatives open door to privatization
Social service schemes announced this week by the Manitoba Progressive Conservatives to encourage private childcare and introduce Social Impact Bonds soften the ground towards privatization.…
Work Life: Parables of Privatization
A cautionary tale of two telcos At a time when the Ontario Liberal government is planning to privatize Hydro One and other provincial governments are…
Fast Facts: When was the first time you heard about CCPA Manitoba?
June 1 – 7th is our second annual Supporter Drive Week. Help us continue to be your local source for alternative policy ideas and analysis.…
“It’s Home”
Listening to Female Post-Secondary Students in Northern Manitoba, Canada Download 822.62 KB24 pages Our research study responds to questions: how do female students define and…
Fast Facts: Springing to Action on Child Care
Numerous studies have demonstrated that quality child care has a positive correlation with improved childhood outcomes, notably higher social and cognitive scores upon school entry,…
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