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  • Blackberry and what’s wrong with sectoral development

    Another year, another dead Canadian tech giant. Blackberry was sold yesterday for scrap to the Toronto private equity firm Fairfax. The purchase price of $4.7 billion is essentially valued at its cash of $2.6 billion and the value of its patents. Blackberry’s active businesses are essentially being valued at nothing.  If Fairfax can…

  • Fast Facts: Responding to the Fentanyl crisis

    Constructing better drug policy in Manitoba First published on CBC online Dec 3, 2016 Increasing tragic deaths from Fentanyl are raising calls to deal with this crisis. Evidence shows that controlling supply and criminalizing drug users does not address the root causes of addictions, which are complex and multi-faceted. Research…

  • Aboriginal Homelessness in Flin Flon Manitoba

    Download 617.24 KB24 pages While it is widely recognized that Aboriginal people are over-represented in the urban homeless population, most research has focused on Aboriginal homelessness in metropolitan areas. Very little attention has been paid to the issue in small northern towns. The small amount of research that has been…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Fast Facts: Newcomer Families

    The role of housing and wrap around supports in Winnipeg As housing advocates across the country recognize National Housing Day on November 22nd, we must continue to acknowledge the central role of housing in building inclusive communities and seek ways to ensure  that all low-income families have access to affordable,…

  • Fast Facts: Time is Now for 2020 Vision

    Need Manitoba Climate & Social Action Budget First published in the Winnipeg Free Press January 23, 2020 According to United Nations scientists we have just ten years to cut Green House Gas emissions in half or face catastrophic impacts that threaten life on earth. Accordingly, 12,000 people protested on the…

  • Manitoba tax changes need to target wealthy to reduce poverty

    Basic Personal Exemption (BPE) increases are being brought in by the new provincial government under the auspices of reducing poverty. The BPE is the floor at which we start paying provincial income taxes. Not only will these changes do little to help low-income earners, they will bring in less revenue…

  • Fast Facts: Investment in Aboriginal Early Childhood Development Needed

    Doctors are demonstrating their ethical duty to patients by working towards a society in which everyone has an opportunity to lead a healthy life. Last winter, the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) and MacLean’s magazine hosted a series of town hall meetings, including one at the Winnipeg Art Gallery specifically focused…

  • A Response to Saskatchewan’s Climate Change White Paper

    Download 1.46 MB20 pages The Saskatchewan government’s recent Climate Change White Paper presents an incomplete analysis of the impact of carbon pricing on Saskatchewan. That is the conclusion of Environmental Economist Dr. Brett Dolter in A Response to Saskatchewan’s Climate Change White Paper. A joint publication of the Saskatchewan Environmental Society…

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    Why is the CEO of a big Canadian bank giving speeches about climate change and pipelines?

    Royal Bank of Canada CEO David McKay made a few headlines last week when he offered his thoughts to the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce on the energy and climate challenges facing Canada. In his speech he called on the federal government to help get fossil fuel resources to market by…

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    Does Premier Clark, the great petro pretender, have a Plan B?

    In January, one of the world’s most sophisticated deep-sea drilling vessels, the $540-million Chikyu, left the Japanese Port of Shimizu destined for a distant point in the Phillippine Sea. The voyage marked a milestone in what by then was an 18-year, $700-million research and development effort aimed at one day…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Manitoba Researach Alliance wins international award

    Community Campus Partnerships of Health (CCPH) is delighted to announce the 12th recipient of the CCPH annual award, the Manitoba Research Alliance in Winnipeg. The award highlights the power and potential of partnerships between communities and academic institutions as a strategy for health equity and social justice. Selected from a…

  • Corporate Mapping Project

    Oil Industry Influence in Saskatchewan public schools: Report

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT REGINA⁠—With climate and energy issues dominating much of the political debate, the question of how and what students learn about these issues in our public schools has become an increasingly contentious issue. This is especially the case in Western Canada, where recent comments…