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Manitoba
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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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CETA: Constraining Manitoba’s Economic Prospects and Policy Options
Download 1.2 MB 42 pages This report also examines the potential impact of providing foreign investors with increased access to public procurement and the impact…
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Social Impact Bonds
Download 282.85 KB Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) are a relatively new method of funding and delivering social services. Under this approach the private or social…
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Creating Opportunities with Green Jobs
The story of BUILD and BEEP Download 1.33 MB52 pages Social enterprises have emerged as viable business models that create a blended return on investment…
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Losing Ground
How Canada’s Employment Insurance system undermines inner-city and Aboriginal workers Download 1.19 MB 18 pages The EI system allows workers to pay into a plan…
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An Evaluation of Parental Perspectives on Children’s Education in Skownan First Nations
Download 993.35 KB There is a substantive body of research that demonstrates the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment (Juarez, 2011; Huang, 2012). However, much of…
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State of the Inner City 2012
Breaking Barriers Building Bridges Download 1022.82 KB36 pages This year’s State of the Inner City Report: Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges speaks to concerns raised by community-based organizations…
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Report engages youth, elders and community leaders to tackle radicalized poverty in Winnipeg
State of the Inner City 2012 READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. WINNIPEG, MB – Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Manitoba (CCPA-MB) is releasing the 2012…
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Winnipeg’s Social Purchasing Portal
From the Past to the Future Download 981.85 KB The Winnipeg Social Purchasing Portal (SPP) was started by SEED Winnipeg in 2004 based on a…
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Keeping them at Bay
Practices of municipal exclusion Download 917.65 KB31 pages Since the 1960s, planning for community-based care for people with disabilities has been a major focus in…
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Fostering Community Economic Development with Ethical Consumption
An Experiment Using Fair Trade Coffee Download 1.36 MB31 pages This paper aims to contribute to an exploration of whether ethical consumption (purchasing commodities that…
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The Social and Economic (Under) Development of Northern Manitoba Communities Over the Past Two and a Half Decades
Download 1.61 MB46 pages Northern Manitoba is the area defined within the four Statistics Canada census divisons: number 19, 21, 22 and 23. It is…
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