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Fast Facts: The Participatory Budgeting Potential for Winnipeg
Citizens are becoming more aware of the importance of equitable and accountable city management and development. Attendees at a recent forum organized by local non-profit…
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Fast Facts: Moving Forward, Giving Back
Transformative Aboriginal Adult Education When she was 12 years old and still in grade 7, Claudette Michell left home in The Pas, running from racism…
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Fast Facts: Still Waiting for the Thaw
Just like the ice and snow that refuse to go away this April, the provincial government is frozen into a perennial cycle of cutting revenue…
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Work Life: An Ounce of Suppression Prevents a Pound of Cure
This April 28 we will commemorate the National Day of Mourning for workers killed or injured on the job. This yearly tribute is a somber…
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She Fixes So Many Problems
The Impacts of the Neighbourhood Immigrant Settlement Worker Download 1.04 MB25 pages The Neighbourhood Immigrant Settlement Worker (NISW) is one of the programs established by…
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REVIEW: Shannon’s Story of Hope and Healing
It started slowly. It usually does. He chipped away at her self-esteem, isolated her from friends, then family. She wasn’t allowed to work. She wasn’t…
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Fast Facts: Nine Appeals and Seven Months Later
Manitoba Conservation and Water Stewardship is not living up to its name. Problems with the Environment Act, the environmental assessment, licensing and appeal process, and…
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Child Welfare in a Neoliberal Era: Past, Present and Future
Available to the public online through the University of Toronto library is an insightful doctoral dissertation in which the student, Kristen Smith, interviewed front-line child…
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New Director for CCPA-MB appointed
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Manitoba is pleased to announce the appointment of Molly McCracken to the position of Director, CCPA-MB. Ms. McCracken brings more than…
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Fast Facts: First a ripple, then a wave
There was a ripple in the waters of public service provision late last year that has left some people perplexed. The Manitoba government announced that…
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Fast Facts: Excuse me, Canada, your homelessness is showing
Dear Canada, This is a little awkward, but I wanted to let you know before it gets any worse: your homelessness is showing. It used…
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Fast Facts: More cells not the answer
A recent editorial in the Winnipeg Free Press (“Programs won’t solve jail crisis” Feb 8, 2013) by the President of the Manitoba Government Employees Union…
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