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  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Ratifying CETA – Easier Said than Done

    This commentary is available in French. The majority of Canadians never supported former Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s aggressive brand of neoconservativism. In the October election, they were determined to unite behind the opposition party with the best chance of defeating the Conservatives. This desire for change coalesced around Justin Trudeau’s…

  • Fast Facts: Judy Wasylycia-Leis, 2018 Errol Black Chair Honoured Guest

    The Errol Black Chair (EBC) in Labour Issues was established to honour the legacy of activist, author, politician, educator and founding member of CCPA-MB, Errol Black. Each year at the annual EBC Brunch, held to raise funds for EBC research and CCPA Manitoba, we honour an individual or organization who…

  • The power of ideas and research: A note from CCPA-BC’s incoming Director

    I first encountered the CCPA when I was a university student trying to make sense of the world and my place in it. I’d moved out to Vancouver at 19 with a longing to explore this beautiful coast, a passionate if somewhat disorganized commitment to social justice, my cat, and…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Fast Facts: Mothering Project – Effective prevention with vulnerable families

    “The root causes of neglect—including poverty, poor housing, food insecurity, and substance abuse—lie beyond the scope of the child welfare system to resolve. But a collaborative approach, working with parents and harnessing the collective resources of child welfare and other provincial government departments, other levels of government, and the province’s…

  • Fast Facts: No Silver Bullet to ‘solve’ poverty

    Response to “Generosity doesn’t solve poverty” Winnipeg Free Press Dec 17, 2014 Mary Agnes Welch is right when she says charity is “not fixing the province’s most serious problem.”   However, her critique of provincial anti-poverty efforts falls short. Complex problems, like the kind of poverty that exists and persists here…

  • July 2004: Enbridge Spreads Disaster in Columbia

    In the December 2000/January 2001 Monitor, I reported that Enbridge Inc., one of Canada’s leading energy corporations, was linked to death squads in Colombia according to information provided by Amnesty International. Below, I examine the impact of this revelation in Canada as well as detail the further damage caused in…

  • Economic Security Project (BC)
    Seniors Care

    A home support worker on an Uncertain Future for Seniors

    https://vimeo.com/4153703 Accesible, high-quality care for seniors : this issue touches everyone at some point in their lives — seniors receiving health services, people caring for aging relatives, anyone who worries about what their own life will be like when they grow old. Carla talks about the challenges of helping seniors…

  • Fast Facts: Community, Research and Social Change

    The 10th Annual State of the Inner City Report The State of the Inner City Report is an annual research collaboration between the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Manitoba and community organizations based in the inner city of Winnipeg. This year marks its tenth year anniversary. Since the beginning, the…

  • State of the Inner City Report Launch

    Celebrating 10 years of community-based research: the 2014 State of the Inner City Report launch Tuesday December 16, 2014 Circle of Life Thunderbird House 715 Main Street Lunch 11:30 am Program – 12-1:15 pm Poverty in Winnipeg’s inner city is often a topic of public and media attention, but neighbourhood-level…

  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    Judy Graves on why welfare matters to everyone

    https://vimeo.com/3670669 Judy Graves is a housing advocate with the City of Vancouver in BC, Canada. Judy talks about why welfare (or social assistance) is so important — and not just to people who find themselves going through a rough time. This video is part of a slideshow about welfare (or…

  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    The Time is Now

    A Poverty Reduction Plan for BC https://vimeo.com/3346138 This is the first chapter in a narrated slideshow about poverty in British Columbia and what we can do about it. View the rest of the slideshow here: http://vimeo.com/channels/bcpovertyreduction. Features interviews with a parent struggling to make ends meet by working two jobs,…

  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    Susan Henry talks about poverty in Vancouver, Canada

    https://vimeo.com/3670687 Susan is an advocate at First United Church in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside — the poorest neighbourhood in Canada. The church lets homeless people take shelter and sleep in the pews. There are more than 2600 homeless people in Vancouver, BC, and the province of BC has the highest poverty…