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Fast Facts: How Unions Protect Our Human Rights
Unions are usually thought of as being about higher wages. It’s true. Unions do produce higher wages for their members (and often, as a result of…
What Happens When the Bed Bugs Do Bite?
The Social Impacts of a Bed Bug Infestation on Winnipeg’s Inner-City Residents Download 1.11 MB31 pages Bed bugs (Cimex lectularius) are making an international comeback,…
Brigette DePape: Silently Speaking Truth to Power
Most Canadians will now have seen the striking image of Brigette De Pape. The determined solitary young woman, surrounded by the highest ranking public officials…
Fast Facts: Silently Speaking Truth to Power
Most Canadians will now have seen the striking image of Brigette DePape. The determined solitary young woman, surrounded by the highest ranking public officials in…
Fast Facts: Sustainable health care begins with the social determinants of health
It’s time to get it right On May 13, 2011 the Conference Board of Canada announced the formation of the Canadian Alliance for Sustainable Health…
Fast Facts: “Mean Streets” society coming
The election this month of a majority Conservative government will change Canada’s political landscape in ways that will be detrimental to most Canadians. Cuts to…
Fast Facts: An alternative approach to dealing with the infrastructure deficit
In the Friday April 8th Winnipeg Free Press, Jim Carr, President and CEO of the Business Council of Manitoba, proposed a new plan for dealing…
Fast Facts: The Winnipeg Street Health Report
In March 2010 the Winnipeg Street Health Report research team came together to set in motion a plan to study the health status, housing and…
Fast Facts: Bill C-393
Life-saving bill killed in the senate On March 25th when the Conservative government fell on a non-confidence motion, a number of bills died on the…
Fast Facts: Remember the Canary!
Stop the public health epidemic in our workplaces Ever look at work going on around you? The computer set-ups? The tools and equipment? How much…
Fast Facts: Electing to house Canadians – or not?
Little has been said by the political parties about housing in the lead-up to the federal election on May 2. This is surprising, considering that…
Fast Facts: And now for some un-conventional wisdom…
All the responses to the 2011/12 provincial budget in the April 13 Winnipeg Free Press speak with one voice that is critical of this year’s…
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