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  • Tribute to Journalist Frances Russell

    Before there was a CCPA-Manitoba, there was Frances Russell. Her journalistic career started in the 1960s and took her to Ottawa, Toronto, and Victoria. But in the mid-1970s, she returned to Winnipeg and began to occupy a perch, first on the op-ed page of the Winnipeg Tribune and from the…

  • Electoral reform will not enable the far right: Debunking a red herring

    Debunking the claims of proportional representation naysayers This is the second post of a series explaining the benefits of proportional representation and debunking myths from the ‘No’ side of BC’s 2018 electoral reform referendum. More from the series is available at policynote.ca/pr4bc. It is now clear that a core assertion…

  • New Tri Level Agreeement should focus on Equity, Community Development – State of the Inner City report 2024

    Winnipeg, MB – The 2024 State of the Inner City report, titled “Visioning a Just Transformation in Winnipeg’s Inner City,” will be released on

  • Making Women Count

    The Best and Worst Place to be a Woman in Canada

    An Index of Gender Equality in Canada’s Twenty Largest Metropolitan Areas Download 715.37 KB58 pages This study reveals the best and worst places to be a woman in Canada. It ranks Canada’s 20 largest metropolitan areas based on a comparison of how men and women are faring in five areas:…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Fast Facts: Drop the Stereotypes, and Deal with the Real Problem

    First published in the Winnipeg Free Press September 28, 2018 In August the Free Press published an article (Safety complaints at Lord Selkirk Park, Aug. 24, 2018) that painted a very negative picture of Lord Selkirk Park, a large Manitoba Housing complex in Winnipeg’s North End. The story claimed that…

  • Soft rock and a soft touch

    Trove of FOI documents sheds new light on lax regulation of troubled Site C dam It was the bureaucratic equivalent of waiting for a box of Timbits and a Double-Double at the Tim Hortons’ drive thru.  In the space of just hours on a single day in June 2020, the…

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    Closing the Gap between a living wage and minimum wages in Newfoundland and Labrador

    Our detailed submission outlines reasoning and evidence to support key recommendations to ensure that the minimum wage provides sufficient protection for workers in Newfoundland and Labrador.

  • Yes Mr. Harper It Is A Sociological Phenomenon

    This piece originally appeared on Blogging for Equality. Inter‑American Commission on Human Rights Issues Breakthrough Report on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls The Inter‑American Commission on Human Rights has provided a direct answer to Prime Minister Harper: Yes, the murders and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls are a…

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    Was Canada’s Online News Act compromise a last-minute win or a failure?

    Just before Bill C-18 came into effect, the Canadian government announced a compromise with Google—but not Meta. How did we get here?

    Public support for any kind of novel legislation is always difficult to predict. In the case of the Online News Act, Bill C-18, the starting point was that the governing Liberals and Opposition Conservatives both endorsed a news bargaining code in their 2021 election platforms, just as the major Australian parties…

  • Despite the overblown AI hype, we’re not ready for what comes next

    The initial generative AI hype may have been overblown, but we have a lot of work to do to prepare for what comes next.

    When OpenAI’s ChatGPT was released to the public in November 2022 it sparked a frenzy of hype and panic about the capabilities of generative artificial intelligence (AI)—a form of AI that creates original content based on a user prompt.

  • Maher Arar

    Fragile Rights: The erosion of our human rights and civil liberties in the name of national security On February 12, 2009, Maher Arar spoke at a benefit for the CCPA’s BC Office. Watch his speech, Fragile Rights: The erosion of our human rights and civil liberties in the name of…

  • A portion of a massive, 3,000-hectare clear-cut in the Kerry Lake East region near the community of McLeod Lake on treaty lands held by the McLeod Lake Indian Band. Photo: Conservation North

    BC First Nation logs almost all of its treaty lands, leaving behind lots of stumps and questions

      In just three years, much of the McLeod Lake Indian Band’s treaty lands were stripped of their bountiful and exceedingly valuable trees in a surge of logging that included one massive clear-cut that is almost 3,000 hectares in size, or 7.5 times larger than Vancouver’s Stanley Park.   The extensive…