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Denying EIA Benefits Because of Outstanding Warrants – Unwarranted
The Provincial government announced recently that it will take away Employment and Income Assistance (EIA) benefits for people with outstanding warrants for serious crimes. Recently…
Playing politics with poverty in Manitoba
It’s been a bad week for advocates working to improve the lives of people living in poverty. Recent child poverty statistics continue to show high…
Winnipeg’s Social Purchasing Portal
From the Past to the Future Download 981.85 KB The Winnipeg Social Purchasing Portal (SPP) was started by SEED Winnipeg in 2004 based on a…
Errol Black Fundraising Brunch – Paul Moist speech
On October 28, just over one week before Errol Black passed away, CCPA-MB organized a fundrasing brunch at the Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg in…
National Housing Day
Still waiting for a plan November 22nd is National Housing Day in Canada. Canada is the only country in the G8 that does not have…
Fast and Loose with Tordon herbicide on the move
Our family business includes growing bedding plants. In the spring of 2010 every tomato, pepper and marigold we started curled up grotesquely and died. After…
Errol Black: A truly remarkable life
If we’re very lucky, every once in a while someone special will come into our lives. Errol Black was special. He would be the first…
Keeping them at Bay
Practices of municipal exclusion Download 917.65 KB31 pages Since the 1960s, planning for community-based care for people with disabilities has been a major focus in…
Fostering Community Economic Development with Ethical Consumption
An Experiment Using Fair Trade Coffee Download 1.36 MB31 pages This paper aims to contribute to an exploration of whether ethical consumption (purchasing commodities that…
Keeping them at bay: Practices of municipal exclusion
Control over the use of land is politically charged, and has frequently led to cases of unfair treatment in the courts and human rights tribunals.…
The Social and Economic (Under) Development of Northern Manitoba Communities Over the Past Two and a Half Decades
Download 1.61 MB46 pages Northern Manitoba is the area defined within the four Statistics Canada census divisons: number 19, 21, 22 and 23. It is…
Which side are you on?
NHL Lockout “The owners can basically be viewed as the Ranch, and the players, and me included, are the cattle. The owners own the Ranch…
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