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The tough on crime strategy has not made our communities safer
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The Impact of the Harper Government’s “Tough on Crime” Strategy
Hearing from Frontline Workers Download 521.95 KB37 pages Crime rates in Canada have been steadily dropping for over a decade, while prison populations have been…
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Fast Facts: The Tough on Crime Strategy Has Not Made Our Communities Safer
Crime rates in Canada have been steadily declining for more than a decade, yet prison populations have been increasing in recent years. Commentators have attributed…
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Focus on Food to Take Pressure off Health Care System
By some estimates, health care expenditures will account for about 80 percent of provincial program spending by 2030. This means fewer dollars for other priorities. …
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The Social Determinants of Health in Manitoba
2nd Edition “This 2nd Edition of the Social Determinants of Health in Manitoba is a timely reminder that the health of people is determined more…
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Why Vote Childcare in 2015
What Manitobans Need to Know Thirteen federal elections ago, in 1970, the Royal Commission on the Status of Women recommended a national childcare program. Fast-forward…
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Fast Facts: Wealth Care vs Health Care
The debate around the private financing of Canada’s health care system has recently been revived as one of a series of video shorts on human…
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Work Life: People Want to Work
Are you willing to do physically demanding work for $12.50 -$13.50/hour, for a 1 month contract? One hundred and four inner-city young men and women…
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Fast Facts: Why Canada Needs a Real Housing Policy
Every developed country except Canada knows that safe, affordable housing is a critical key to social, physical and emotional well-being. The list of poor outcomes…
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Fast Facts: The Conservative Stealth Strategy to Undermine Medicare
The Harper government has a two-fold strategy to undermine Medicare. One part of the game plan is to underfund Medicare creating “shortages” over the medium…
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Fast Facts: Fresh Food Fuels Change
An innovative pilot evaluation People are food insecure when they do not have access to, or enough money to buy safe and nutritious food, preventing…
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Fast Facts: Rent Assist Increase
Community work in action Thanks to community advocacy, low-income Manitobans will have more money to help pay their rent. Three years ago Make Poverty History…
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