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  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Social Housing with Supports – The Case of WestEnd Commons

    Download 2.96 MB36 pages Since late 2014, twenty-six families in Winnipeg’s inner city have been living in a new, supportive social and affordable housing complex called WestEnd Commons. The innovative development was retrofitted in the 100-year-old St. Matthew’s Anglican Church building. Church and community leaders worked for years to build…

  • Now It’s Up To The Provinces

    Premiers don’t require federal help to implement Pharmacare Canadians generally are not as wildly and uncritically patriotic as Americans. We don’t continually wave the Maple Leaf flag and boast about our country’s social and economic pre-eminence. But most of us – quietly and unostentatiously — are proud of Canada and…

  • Paternity Leave: An Idea Whose Time has Come

    More than 80% of men in Quebec take leave after their child is born. On average they take 5 weeks. In the rest of Canada, less than 30% of fathers take leave and on average they take just over 2 weeks. There are two possible explanations for this difference:

  • Come together for pension justice

  • Canada at a Crime Crossroads

    National Conversation on “crime” and prevention urgently needed At a time when the economic, political, and social costs of increasing our reliance on incarceration are widely known, the federal, provincial, and territorial governments are in the process of creating 10,600 new prison spaces with an infrastructure cost of $3.6 billion…

  • From the Missing Election Issues file: poverty reduction

    It’s odd to see Stephen Harper continuing to crow about his economic management prowess, even while almost 1.5 million Canadians remain unemployed, nearly one in ten people live in poverty, and according to one recent survey one-third of Canadians can’t afford basic expenses. Yet isn’t dealing with such issues at…

  • Can Canada Expand Oil and Gas Production, Build Pipelines and Keep Its Climate Change Commitments?

    Download 2.48 MB 38 pages Under the Paris Agreement, Canada has pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 30% below 2005 levels by 2030. This study assesses the consequences of several scenarios of expansion in the oil and gas sector in terms of the amount that the non–oil and…

  • Australia’s LNG catastrophe: Why Petronas’ LNG cancellation is a blessing for BC

    British Columbians should not be lamenting Petronas’ decision to pull its Pacific Northwest Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) proposal. Instead, they should be celebrating the demise of a project built on bad economics, climate change denial and wishful thinking. A few pundits have told the Petronas story as a tragedy. Some…

  • On the Forest Fire Front Line: One Ecologist’s Take on What it Will Take to Safeguard Communities

    With one of the colder springs on record, many British Columbians quite naturally yearn for a good stretch of warm, dry weather. But for many people in the province, prolonged periods of hotter and drier weather are often far from welcome. That’s because when things get hot and dry they…

  • Contract U: Follow up statement

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT A note of information – November 7th 2018 Contract U: Contract faculty appointments at Canadian universities provides an analysis of the data that 67 Canadian universities provided in response to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request concerning faculty appointments. The FOI request was made to the…

  • It’s time for forestry to benefit British Columbians not multinational companies

    There was a time when securing a good-paying forestry job in British Columbia was not just an option but an expectation for many.

  • Federal environment spending dwarfed by rising defence budget

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—A new report shows that Canada’s rising National Defence spending is $21.185 billion in 2009-2010, making Canada’s rank 13th highest in the world, and 6th highest among NATO’s 28 members, dollar for dollar. Defence analyst and author Bill Robinson says the rise in…