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Connecting Aborignal people to ‘good’ jobs
Manitoba has among the highest Aboriginal populations in Canada and it is growing at a faster rate than the non-Aboriginal population. Fifteen percent of Manitoban’s…
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TransLink Funding and Governance (Yet Again)
I always smile when I think of the provincial negotiator Peter Cameron’s comments when we were wrapping up the final details in the transit funding…
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The Loonie’s Stagnant Purchasing Power
Year E-Rate PPP 2002 63.7 81.3 2003 71.4 81.5 2004 76.8 81.2 2005 82.5 82.4 2006 88.2 82.8 2007 …
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A toxic spill and communications chill
So here’s the little that we know about a pipeline break that occurred more than half a year ago and that British Columbia’s Oil and…
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Making employment work
Connecting multi-barriered Manitobans to good jobs Download 891.25 KB 52 pages
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Shared Futures
Big Institutions and their Inner-City Neighbours Download 676.93 KB38 pages “This paper examines cases of institutional expansion in three neighbourhoods within Winnipeg’s inner city. In…
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Increasing number of migrant labourers in Nova Scotia deserve adequate protection
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Tilting at Windmills: What to do about Dutch Disease
In response to Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty’s complaint about oil and the exchange rate, several (conservative) commentators argued that this “Dutch disease” is not what…
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Slim pickin’s for BC’s children and youth in budget
Just in case anyone missed just how bad BC’s new budget is for the province’s children and youth, I thought I’d post First Call’s reaction…
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BC isn’t broke: putting teacher bargaining in perspective
Last Monday, BC teachers held a Day of Action in communities across the province to protest the BC government’s decision to legislate a contract and…
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Santa Claus Delivers a Positive Quarter Despite Corporate Scrooges
The Month: Christmas Gift Canada’s economy was buoyed by Christmas cheer as a December bounce more than offset slight declines in October and November to turn the fourth quarter positive. Unfortunately,…
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Consequences of outsourcing Toronto’s city cleaning jobs
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Canadians were justifiably outraged when Electro-Motive, owned by Caterpillar, threatened its London, Ont., workers with a 50 per cent pay…
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