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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…
Inequality At Its Worst
The Scrooges in Canada are stealing our kids’ Christmas On Christmas morning this year, how many children in Canada will wake to…
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…
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…
What if the minimum wage was a living wage?
Increasingly, leadership for policy change comes from outside of government, not from within. It’s why many Ontarians who are focused on reducing…
Capitalism is the Crisis (Part III)
Time to sow seeds of a better world, says Vandana Shiva British colonial rule in India led to the killing of 200…
Homelessness-Moving toward real solutions
This week, as we think about homelessness in our communities, let us commit ourselves to solutions. Real solutions. Beyond the spontaneous generosity…
Capitalism is the Crisis (Part II)
Corruption, corporate power, inequality must all be curbed India’s poor rural majority has benefited little from the country’s economic boom, and in…
Looming increases to food prices will create more challenges to reducing poverty in Manitoba
Early last year stories hit the news about the potential for food prices to rise throughout 2011. Commodities prices for wheat, corn,…
Manitoba’s NDP: time to return to its social democratic roots
In June, 1969, Manitoba elected Canada’s first NDP government and Manitoba’s first social democratic government. The NDP has since become the dominant…
Dreaming Big Dreams?
Congratulations both to the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg (SPCW) for raising the issue of the long-standing divide between Winnipeg’s North End…
A Cheap Shot at the Poor
Harper government scraps the National Council of Welfare Ever since its creation by an act of Parliament in 1969, the National Council…