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Work Life: Rowing against the tide of history
Manitoba’s pandemic response could do lasting damage to Manitoba economy Previously published by CBC Manitoba Opinion April 25, 2020 Manitoba’s provincial government is keen to…
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Work Life: Failure to act fails us all…Manitoba income supports needed during COVID
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press May 1, 2020 Manitoba must help those being clobbered financially by the COVID-19 pandemic: it is the right…
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Fast Facts: Austerity Agendas, COVID and Universities
An inside view As I write this, the University of Manitoba and all other post-secondary institutions are desperately working to meet the Pallister governments edicts,…
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Fast Facts: Normal is the Problem
Long term care and COVID The heart-breaking tragedy of multiple COVID-19 deaths in Canadian long-term care facilities, and the often-horrific manner in which those deaths…
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Work Life: Austerity, the economy and COVID-19…Manitoba Government creating, not solving problems
First published CBC online April 21, 2020 COVID-19 has upended communities and economies across the globe. Canadian political leaders have taken unprecedented steps to slow…
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Assisting Renters
Manitoba’s Rent Assist in the Context of Canada’s National Housing Strategy Download 3.37 MB 88 pages Assisting Renters examines how Manitoba’s Rent Assist program fits…
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Fast Facts: Now, more than ever, we need Rent Assist helping Manitobans
Rent Assist is a made-in-Manitoba solution to housing need: a province-wide rent supplement program that helps lower-income renters in the private market to afford housing…
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Work Life: Brought to the Brink by Recklessness… First thoughts on COVID-19
This piece is dedicated to Mark Golden (August 6, 1948 – April 9, 2020). Mark was a scholar of classics, teacher, life-long social justice advocate…
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Fast Facts: The Shock Doctrine Playing Out in Manitoba
Noted Canadian author and social activist Naomi Klein published The Shock Doctrine more than a decade ago. The book’s major thesis is that governments and…
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Fast Facts: Canada’s Long-Term Care Workers on the Front Lines of the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has in less than four months spread throughout the globe and altered both the daily lives of citizens and the economy of…
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Fast Facts: Homelessness, precarious housing and COVID-19
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press March 31, 2020. Governments around the world are urgently acting to minimize the impact of COVID-19. As we…
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