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You Know You’re Not Alone: Community Development in Public Housing (the report)
Download 2.29 MB This report looks at family resource centres in six Manitoba Housing complexes outside Winnipeg’s inner city. These resource centres meet very basic…
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Fast Facts: You Know You’re Not Alone
Community Development in Public Housing In Winnipeg, three out of five households living in poverty live outside the inner city. This suggests that although the…
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Fast Facts: Hostile Labour Relations Cause Unnecessary Conflict with Brandon’s Public Sector Workers
Last week, the Manitoba Labour Board reinstated Brandon Professional Fire Fighters/Paramedics Association president Wade Ritchie in his job as a fire fighter. The city of…
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Fast Facts: Ask Target for Fairness
Retail jobs worth fighting for In 2011, American retail giant Target bought 189 Zellers stores across Canada. Soon after the purchase, the corporation sold 39…
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Fast Facts: Thinking Alternatives
It is essential that we oppose the terribly destructive policies being imposed upon us by the federal Conservative government, but it is equally if not…
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2012 Preliminary Operating Budget
Madly Off in All Directions Download 605.28 KB16 pages Winnipeg’s 2012 Preliminary Operational Budget lacks a central policy goal or cohesive vision for the future…
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Canadians Deserve “A Budget for the Rest of Us”
As the federal government begins to reveal tidbits about what Canadians can expect in the 2012 federal budget, many of us are understandably anxious about…
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Connecting Aborignal people to ‘good’ jobs
Manitoba has among the highest Aboriginal populations in Canada and it is growing at a faster rate than the non-Aboriginal population. Fifteen percent of Manitoban’s…
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Making employment work
Connecting multi-barriered Manitobans to good jobs Download 891.25 KB 52 pages
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Shared Futures
Big Institutions and their Inner-City Neighbours Download 676.93 KB38 pages “This paper examines cases of institutional expansion in three neighbourhoods within Winnipeg’s inner city. In…
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Fast Facts: Bill C-10: The truth about consequences
On September 20, 2011, a few months after winning a majority election, Stephen Harper’s Justice Minister, Rob Nicholson, tabled Bill C-10, the Safe Streets and…
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