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Manitoba Living Wage Update 2025
Winnipeg’s living wage rises by $1.02 per hour, Brandon and Thompson essentially hold steady
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Assisting Renters
Manitoba’s Rent Assist in the Context of Canada’s National Housing Strategy Download 3.37 MB 88 pages Assisting Renters examines how Manitoba’s Rent Assist program fits…
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L’annulation des loyers : un débat incontournable
Face à la dette locative, quelle sera la réponse des pouvoirs publics ? C’est un débat que nous devons engager dès maintenant. Au cours des…
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Fast Facts: Now, more than ever, we need Rent Assist helping Manitobans
Rent Assist is a made-in-Manitoba solution to housing need: a province-wide rent supplement program that helps lower-income renters in the private market to afford housing…
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COVID-19: Misinformation on steroids
About the authorsRalph BenmerguiCanadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
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Swimming with the sharks
Poverty, pandemics, and payday lenders Download 424.67 KB16 pages As COVID-19-related layoffs affect workers across the country, Canada’s payday loan companies will see windfall profits…
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Without new rules, COVID-19 will mean windfall profits for payday lenders: CCPA report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA— Canada’s payday loan companies will see windfall profits at the expense of low- and moderate-income people if…
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Work Life: Brought to the Brink by Recklessness… First thoughts on COVID-19
This piece is dedicated to Mark Golden (August 6, 1948 – April 9, 2020). Mark was a scholar of classics, teacher, life-long social justice advocate…
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Fast Facts: The Shock Doctrine Playing Out in Manitoba
Noted Canadian author and social activist Naomi Klein published The Shock Doctrine more than a decade ago. The book’s major thesis is that governments and…
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Women bearing the brunt of economic losses: One in five has been laid off or had hours cut
About the authorKatherine ScottKatherine serves as the director for the CCPA’s gender equality and public policy work. She has worked in the community sector as…
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Excess profits tax needed to prevent profiteering amid COVID-19
People and businesses all over the country and the world are hurting as large parts of the economy have shut down to help stop the…
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COVID-19 changes everything
About the authorTrish HennessyTrish is the Director of the Think Upstream project and a senior communications strategist with the CCPA National Office. She is focused…
