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Climate Plan Fails on Carbon Tax Basics
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press Oct. 5, 2017 A draft “Climate and Green Plan Town Hall Toolkit” circulated within the Manitoba government proposes…
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Spaces for Female Immigrant Youth
Girls Night Program Evaluation – Perspectives of Participants Download 596.24 KB24 pages Programming for youth is an important part of many community organizations’ mandates and…
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Public funding for Education in Manitoba
Introduction1 High quality public schooling is an expensive commitment. In Manitoba the operating costs for the 2015-16 school year was $2.24 billion, which translates to…
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Fast Fasts: Cutting taxes is not the answer
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press August 9, 2017 Last week I was chatting with my uncle, a retiree on a fixed income, about…
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Work Life: The $100 Million Question
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press Friday July 14th, 2017 In March of 2017, the Premier claimed that for every one per cent…
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Social Impact Bonds and the Financing of Child Welfare
Download 802.78 KB28 pages Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) are a relatively new way of financing social services in Canada. They differ from the normal way…
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Fast Facts: Giving Manitoba’s Working Families a Fair Shake:
The 2016-17 Living Wage Update Notwithstanding stable economic growth and consistently low unemployment, poverty remains a problem in Manitoba. In 2014, 11 percent of Manitobans…
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A Family Living Wage for Manitoba
2016-17 Update Download 407.39 KB 10 pages Families who work for low wages face impossilbe choices–buy food or heat the house, feed the children or…
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Fast Facts: Funding Community Strength in North Point Douglas
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press June 15, 2017, Inter-Agency effort to support inner-city women’s center It may seem unusual for an organization that…
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Fast Facts: The Pallister Government and the Path to Reconciliation Act
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press, Thursday June 8th. On Friday May 26, I attended an impromptu event organized by supporters of the North…
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Fast Facts: Proposed legislation a sentence of poverty for low income workers
Working should be a route out of poverty, but for some, low wages are a poverty trap. The current minimum wage is inadequate as at…
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Work Life: P3’s must give ‘value for money’
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press May 6, 2017 On May 2, 2017 the Province’s news release announced it would be putting out a…
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