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Fast Facts: “Mean Streets” society coming
The election this month of a majority Conservative government will change Canada’s political landscape in ways that will be detrimental to most Canadians. Cuts to…
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Fast Facts: An alternative approach to dealing with the infrastructure deficit
In the Friday April 8th Winnipeg Free Press, Jim Carr, President and CEO of the Business Council of Manitoba, proposed a new plan for dealing…
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Fast Facts: The Winnipeg Street Health Report
In March 2010 the Winnipeg Street Health Report research team came together to set in motion a plan to study the health status, housing and…
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Fast Facts: Bill C-393
Life-saving bill killed in the senate On March 25th when the Conservative government fell on a non-confidence motion, a number of bills died on the…
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Fast Facts: Remember the Canary!
Stop the public health epidemic in our workplaces Ever look at work going on around you? The computer set-ups? The tools and equipment? How much…
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Fast Facts: Electing to house Canadians – or not?
Little has been said by the political parties about housing in the lead-up to the federal election on May 2. This is surprising, considering that…
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Fast Facts: And now for some un-conventional wisdom…
All the responses to the 2011/12 provincial budget in the April 13 Winnipeg Free Press speak with one voice that is critical of this year’s…
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Labour Notes: The attack on unions has now come to Canada
How do we respond? Anyone who has been keeping tabs on recent developments in what can accurately be called the assault on trade unions and…
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Fast Facts: McFadyen’s crazy numbers won’t fool Manitobans
A Brandon Sun editorial of April 2, 2011 (“So what’s the real cost of Bipole III?”) reports that, in his announcement of the revised estimate…
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Fast Facts: Literacy, Women and Poverty
The Manitoba Government recently announced increased funding of $700,000 per year for adult literacy programs and Adult Learning Centres, bringing the yearly total to 20.6…
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Fast Facts: Housing Improvement Zones
A focused and grassroots approach to housing development On March 10, 2011, the Standing Committee on Property and Development recommended a move of $500,000 from…
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Fast Facts: Manitoba’s Economic Indicators
The facts are more uplifting than the fiction There are those who worry that Manitoba is not performing up to its potential, but they don’t…
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