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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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Fast Facts: CCPA-MB research back social movements, leveraging change
Evidence-based policy research can exert a powerful force for social change, especially when it stands with the community in its actions and organising. The role…
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Fast Facts: The nexus of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Manitoba – A Brief History
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Work Life: More than a Dream
Many of us have, like John Lennon, imagined a world without war, greed, hunger or possessions. There are those rare individuals who insist that we…
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Fast Facts: Taking Back the City – The Winnipeg 2014 Alternative Municipal Budget
As Winnipeggers come out of an unusually punishing winter, the sun seems to be stimulating more than the usual spring activities. There is a feeling…
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Taking Back the City
2014 is an election year in Winnipeg and this Alternative Municipal Budget is meant to stimulate discussion around some of the important concerns facing our…
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Work Life: Why we still fight
The Day of Mourning, more than any other day in the labour movement’s calendar, brings home why we must remain vigilant in the area of…
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Fast Facts – Grain, Trains and Autocrats: farmers pay the price of dismantling the Wheat Board
This was originally published in the Winnipeg Free Press on April 15, 2014 A banner 2013 crop year and some rail delays due to cold…
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Fast Facts: Provincial Record on Housing a Welcome Achievement
The Provincial government has released an impressive record of its commitment to build affordable housing across Manitoba. Housing and Community Development Minister Peter Bjornson announced…
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Work Life: Temporary Foreign Workers: How federal settlement policies overlook some newcomers
Manitoba has embarked on aggressive immigration strategies to attract newcomers to settle in a variety of communities in the province with the purpose of meeting…
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Fast Facts: Grain Shipping is for the Bears
Oil by rail to Churchill not worth the risk For visitors from around the world, the opportunity to see polar bears and beluga whales in…
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Fast Facts: Cold winter a sign of climate change
Some winter we’re having, eh? This winter has been cold, no doubt about it. It is probably the coldest we’ve seen in North America since…
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Manitoba Budget a Leap Forward for Poverty Reduction
By substantially raising EIA shelter rates and increasing child care spaces, new apprenticeship programs and support to social enterprises, the province is taking action to…
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