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The State of the Inner City Report 2021: Placing Community at the Heart of the Recovery from COVID
Download 8.11 MB108 pages Since the 2020 State of the Inner City report, which looked at the impact of the first wave of the COVID-19…
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Fast Facts: Placing Community at the Heart of the Recovery from COVID
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press, February 23, 2022 While the COVID-19 pandemic shows no sign of ending anytime soon, public debates have shifted…
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Fast Facts: Financing Education in Manitoba: Equity, Adequacy and Innovation
Historically in Canada[1], education was seen as a private good. Parents paid most of the fees and school for most kids ended by about grade…
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CCPA Manitoba welcoming new Senior Researcher Niall Harney
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba office is pleased to announce the appointment of Niall Harney as the Errol Black Chair of Labour…
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Work Life: Remembering Jay Cowan
In the late 1970s, it was almost impossible to open a newspaper or listen to a local news broadcast and not run up against Jay…
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Fast Facts: Adult Education— Unearth this Buried Treasure
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press January 26, 2022 Adult education in Manitoba is a largely buried treasure. Outstanding work is done throughout the…
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Fast Facts: Provincial budget should help people, planet in need
Previously published by the Winnipeg Free Press January 25, 2022 My partner and I ushered 2022 during frigid temperatures trying to protect our two…
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Unearth this Buried Treasure
Adult Education in Manitoba Download 734.32 KB44 pages New report finds Adult Education struggling to meet demand. Underfunded adult education programs in Manitoba are struggling…
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Fast Facts: Manitoba’s Silica Sand: Use for Fracking Natural Gas
The Manitoba government is poised to approve two silica sand mines, one near Vivian in Southeastern Manitoba proposed by CanWhite Sands (CWS), the other on…
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Fast Facts: Winnipeg poverty reduction plan needs financial commitment
On November 25th the City of Winnipeg passed its first ever poverty reduction strategy.
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Fast Facts: Canadian Premium Sand Doubles Down With Its Revamped Silica Sand Mine Development Project
Canadian Premium Sand (CPS) is an Alberta-based company proposing to operate a silica sand mine adjacent to Hollow Water First Nation, on the eastern shores…
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Work Life: Suffering U of M students deserve better from their Administration and the Province
University of Manitoba (U of M) students are in educational limbo during the longest legal strike in history by the University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA).…
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