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Fast Facts: No Jesuit School in Winnipeg’s North End
The Catholic Church ran more than half of Canada’s residential schools. In these schools they immersed Indigenous children and youth in Catholic culture. The effect…
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The Political Economy of Culturally Appropriate Foods in Winnipeg
A Case of Refugee Path Immigrants (RPI’s) Download 1 MB 52 pages Culture, acquired taste and past experience shape people’s food preferences (Adekunle et.al, 2010,…
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Fast Facts: Mothering Project – Effective prevention with vulnerable families
“The root causes of neglect—including poverty, poor housing, food insecurity, and substance abuse—lie beyond the scope of the child welfare system to resolve. But a…
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Fast Facts: Lived Experience and Perspectives: Women, Mental Health and Housing in Winnipeg
Supportive Housing is an important model on the housing continuum and a positive choice for many people living with mental illness. Whether it is because…
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Fast Facts: More at Stake than Cold Beer – Let’s Keep Liquor Sales in the Public Sphere
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press Dec. 12, 2015 The Winnipeg Free Press has devoted a lot of attention recently to the question of…
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State of the Inner City Report 2015
Drawing on our strengths Download 1.57 MB76 pages Poverty is deeply-rooted, spatially-concentrated, complex, often racialized, and not quickly solved. It damages, and in some cases…
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Fast Facts: Gains are being made – State of the Inner City Report 2015
It has recently been claimed in the media that nothing is working in the fight against poverty. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives State of…
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Fast Facts: Community plays an important role in poverty reduction
Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press on December 4th, 2015. I teach in the Department of Urban and Inner City Studies at the University of…
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Lived Experiences and Perspectives
Women, Mental Health and Housing in Winnipeg Download 2.28 MB32 pages This project is a qualitative research study seeking to understand the experiences of women…
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Youth Voices: Strengthen the Ranks – Labour Movements in Canada and Nigeria
As an international student in Canada, the stark difference in labour laws and provisions between Canada and my home country Nigeria embitters my heart. On…
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Fast Facts: Who’s keeping score?
Two interesting reports crossed my desk recently. The first one, a column by Dan Lett, appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press on November 18th. Lett…
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Fast Facts: Manitoba was ahead of curve on modern fiscal policy
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press Monday, November 23, 2015 Economists worldwide have undergone a sea change in attitudes in the last five years…
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