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Fast and Loose with Tordon herbicide on the move
Our family business includes growing bedding plants. In the spring of 2010 every tomato, pepper and marigold we started curled up grotesquely and died. After…
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Errol Black: A truly remarkable life
If we’re very lucky, every once in a while someone special will come into our lives. Errol Black was special. He would be the first…
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Fostering Community Economic Development with Ethical Consumption
An Experiment Using Fair Trade Coffee Download 1.36 MB31 pages This paper aims to contribute to an exploration of whether ethical consumption (purchasing commodities that…
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Keeping them at Bay
Practices of municipal exclusion Download 917.65 KB31 pages Since the 1960s, planning for community-based care for people with disabilities has been a major focus in…
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Keeping them at bay: Practices of municipal exclusion
Control over the use of land is politically charged, and has frequently led to cases of unfair treatment in the courts and human rights tribunals.…
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The Social and Economic (Under) Development of Northern Manitoba Communities Over the Past Two and a Half Decades
Download 1.61 MB46 pages Northern Manitoba is the area defined within the four Statistics Canada census divisons: number 19, 21, 22 and 23. It is…
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Which side are you on?
NHL Lockout “The owners can basically be viewed as the Ranch, and the players, and me included, are the cattle. The owners own the Ranch…
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Let’s Put the Horse Before the Cart
Why we need investment in social infrastructure In July, 2012, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba was invited by the federal government to…
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Tax Increment Financing and Social Enterprise
Promoting Equitable Community Revitalization in Winnipeg Currently, Manitoba is one of only two provinces in Canada that utilizes Tax Increment Financing (TIF) as a means…
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Homelessness-Moving toward real solutions
This week, as we think about homelessness in our communities, let us commit ourselves to solutions. Real solutions. Beyond the spontaneous generosity of bus drivers…
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Random Acts of Kindness Not Enough to Fight Inequality
It’s noteworthy how much media attention Mr. Doubledee’s random act of kindness is receiving. He and Mayor Katz were in New York this Saturday to…
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Together we have CLOUT
Together we have CLOUT When a group of strong-willed and compassionate women join forces to work for social justice in their North End community in Winnipeg,…
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