Menu

Search results for “node/"https:/commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jigsaw_Puzzle.svg"”

  • Fast Facts: The View from Here Hasn’t Changed

    Last week the Manitoba government held a community consultation to help with the development of its poverty reduction plan. The Manitoba Poverty Reduction Strategy Act requires the government to implement a long-term strategy to reduce poverty and increase social inclusion across Manitoba, and update the strategy at least once every…

  • The Monitor, May/June 2021

    The Future of Organizing Download 2.89 MB “It is certainly driven by young people,” Martin O’Hanlon, the president of CWA Canada told Kevin Philipupillai for his feature article on the Alphabet Workers’ Union. “The new generation that are coming up have a different sense of what’s right, and they’re more…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    The false hopes and empty promises of investment treaty modernization

    A Canadian company’s successful challenge to a precautionary mining ban in Colombia shows how little investor–state dispute panels care about the right to regulate.

    A Canadian company’s successful challenge to a precautionary mining ban in Colombia shows how little investor–state dispute panels care about the right to regulate.

  • Labour Matters

    Fast Facts: Manitoba Needs Programs like BUILD

    A version of this article was published in the Winnipeg Free Press January 11, 2022 Just before the holidays, BUILD, Inc. announced the closure of its training program upon the breakdown of funding negotiations with the Provincial Government. BUILD (Building Urban Industries for Local Development) is a social enterprise. Its…

  • Four Years to Rebuild Democracy

    NGOs and unions must unite to set stage for 2015 revival The 2011 federal election was historic in many ways, and most of us are still trying to process the outcome. It is crucial that we pause to reflect on its meaning and think carefully about the next steps we…

  • What the Just? Transitioning to a low carbon, good jobs economy

    For most working people, environmental concerns have historically been a bit like Harvey Dent—two faced. One face says that poisoned water supplies and changing weather patterns threaten our health, our way of life, and our planet. The other face says we do not entirely understand human-environment interaction and cannot endure…

  • Carbon Pricing and Climate Mitigation Backgrounder – Part I of II

    The federal government has stated that if provinces don’t impose a price on carbon, it will impose its own price by 2018.  Trudeau has stated that “if neither price nor cap and trade is in place by 2018, the government of Canada will implement a price in that jurisdiction.” Eight…

  • 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…

  • Fast Facts: Bill C-393

    Life-saving bill killed in the senate On March 25th when the Conservative government fell on a non-confidence motion, a number of bills died on the Order Paper. Bill C-393 was poised to save lives, and its untimely death was entirely preventable. This private member’s bill was designed to cut through…

  • Federal Debate Bingo

    Click here to download the file to play along

  • Ten tax myths revisited: 20th Anniversary retrospective

    In October 1999, I wrote the report Ten Tax Myths. Any retrospective on this issue must examine the relationship between research and analysis and the question of political agency. We know that no matter how good the research and analysis, unless there is a change agent to use it, the…

  • Fast Facts: Labour-Management Conflict in Brandon’s Public Sector

    Chapter 2 Labour-management conflict has once again taken centre stage in the city of Brandon. The first episode involved the Brandon University Faculty Association (BUFA) and Brandon University. The recent conflict involves the City of Brandon and the Brandon Professional Firefighter/Paramedics Association (IAF Local 803). The two conflicts have important…