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Since forming in 1997, the Manitoba Office has established a reputation for working in collaboration with the community to conduct quality research that advances social justice and environmental sustainability.
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Work Life: Manitoba’s Proactive Enforcement of Temporary Foreign Worker’s Rights is a model for Canada
Canada’s Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP) has become a hot potato for the federal government, which is frantically attempting to quell widespread outrage sparked by…
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Rooming Houses to Rooming Homes
Click here for the full Rooming Houses to Rooming Homes report on the disappearance of rooming houses in Winnipeg which are an important kind of…
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Fast Facts: Outsourcing Under Scrutiny
The long, hard 2013-14 winter revealed serious problems with some city services, such as snow removal and repair of water pipe and water main infrastructure.…
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Fast Facts: The High Cost of Low Taxes and Urban Sprawl
Much of Winnipeg’s infrastructure is in desperate need of repair or replacement. The City’s 2009 administrative report found that just to maintain our existing infrastructure…
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Fast Facts: Graduate Studies and Continuing Fees
Graduate enrolment is steadily increasing in Manitoba, with more students electing to pursue post-graduate programs at both the Master’s and PhD levels. The growth in…
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Rooming Houses to Rooming Homes
Download 1.37 MB28 pages In Winnipeg’s inner city, and espcially in West Broadway and Spence neighbourhoods, older homes converted to rooming houses are an important…
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Fast Facts: Rooming Houses to Rooming Homes
In Winnipeg’s inner city, and especially in West Broadway and Spence neighbourhoods, older homes converted to rooming houses are an important type of housing for…
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Fast Facts: You Get What You Pay For
Winnipeg’s mayoral race is now officially underway. Any serious contenders are going to have to convince a very skeptical public that they can turn around…
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Fast Facts: Decolonizing the Inner City – a look at Youth for Christ
Youth for Christ is an evangelical Christian organization whose “Centre for Youth Excellence” received public funding based on a business plan that promised to meet…
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Work Life: Youth Voices – Youth and Unions Need to Work Together
While the labour landscape has changed dramatically in Canada in the last 58 years, the legal framework has not. The labour relations framework that we…
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Fast Facts: World Urban Forum 7 – Policy Lessons from Colombia
For one week in early April, Sara Swartz (Universitas Programme of the KIP International School), Shauna MacKinnon (Manitoba Research Alliance [MRA] and University of Winnipeg…
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Economics are for Everyone – A webinar with Jim Stanford and Lynne Fernandez
As part of CCPA-MB’S Supporter Drive, economist Jim Stanford, currently living in Australia, joined Lynne Fernandez in an interactive video platform to talk about Economics…
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