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  • Research for Communities: Inner-City Refugee Women

    Lessons for Public Policy Download 939.86 KB4 pages Attachments Research for Communities: Inner-City Refugee Women: Lessons for Public Policy

  • Fast Facts: Crowd Funding For Public Education? 

    Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press Dec 5, 2022 Students knocking on doors to fundraise for classroom books, school libraries, and general school supplies was already a strange practice. After all, these are basic educational materials essential to schooling that should be fully funded through the provincial education budget.…

  • Modular housing for LNG Canada workers, Kitimat BC/ Photo credit Marc Lee

    Fracking in BC’s northeast

    Last summer I got out of Vancouver and toured northern BC. While the trip was mostly for pleasure, my inner economist could not resist some industrial tourism and visits to resource towns and major industrial sites that are the heart and soul of BC’s resource economy. Forestry dominates near Prince…

  • Democratic Media Reform in Canada

    Campaigns, coalitions aim to democratize media system Faced with a corporate-dominated mediascape and perceived editorial indifference or hostility, trade unions and other progressive Canadian organizations have responded pragmatically when they need to influence public opinion.  They have adopted media relations strategies, often run by specialized staff, to gain whatever space…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    The Unique Social Housing needs of Resettling Refugees

    War and persecution force refugees to leave behind all that they know to embark on new and challenging experiences of resettlement. In Winnipeg, they meet a web of service providers willing to assist them in this process. Some of these organizations assist resettling refugees in finding and maintaining housing, which…

  • The changing nature of social housing in Manitoba

    What makes social housing ‘social’? In part, social housing is different from private-market housing because it intentionally provides low-cost housing for low-income households. But it is also a way of taking housing out of the market. It’s a way of keeping housing affordable, and of stabilizing housing as shelter, by…

  • Public Interest Research Project (BC)

    Minimum wage hike won’t ruin Alberta

    The Alberta government’s plan to increase the hourly minimum wage from $10.20 to $15 by 2018 has generated considerable public debate and some bold predictions. The Canadian Federation of Independent Businesses (CFIB), for example, claims that it would cost the province “between 53,500 and 195,000 jobs.” In other words, the…

  • Climate Justice Project

    Searching for the Good Life in a Carbon Neutral BC

    Meeting BC’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets with Fairness and Equity Download 1.19 MB49 pages

  • Increasing number of Nova Scotia children living in poverty—findings of the 2020 Report Card just released

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT December 9, 2020 Halifax/Wolfville– In Nova Scotia there are 41,370 children who live in poverty based on the most recent data. The 2020 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia reveals that the percentage of children living in low-income circumstances in Nova…

  • Why now is the time to reform BC’s oil and gas royalties

    The oil and gas royalty regime in British Columbia needs a major overhaul. The re-elected NDP promised during the election campaign to review oil and gas royalties and credits. In the context of a climate emergency the need for a managed wind-down is urgent. Despite “natural” gas being a finite…

  • Climate Justice and the Good Life, for Everyone

    In our Climate Justice Project, our research has stressed structural changes and collective action to lower carbon footprints rather than individual behavioural change. The ability of many actors to respond to incentives like a carbon tax is constrained by their circumstances. Suburban households often have no realistic option but to keep driving.…

  • Corporate Mapping Project

    Who Benefits from Caribou Decline

    Download 2.02 MB48 pages This report looks at the promised economic benefits of coal mining projects in northeastern British Columbia and concludes that the jobs, tax revenues and production activity estimates are wildly overstated, while pledges to protect vulnerable wildlife species have not been met. The woodland caribou—a distinct population called…