Denying EIA Benefits because of Outstanding Warrants – Unwarranted!

PDF version by Dennis Lewycky and John Hutton The provincial government announced recently that it will take away Employment and Income Assistance (EIA) benefits for people with outstanding warrants for serious crimes. Recently there have been a couple …

Playing politics with poverty in Manitoba

PDF version by Shauna MacKinnon It’s been a bad week for advocates working to improve the lives of people living in poverty. Recent child poverty statistics continue to show high rates for Manitoba and Monday’s throne speech gave …

State of the Inner City Report Launch

                Join us for this year’s State of the Inner City report launch! December 12 at Circle of Life Thunderbird House, 715 Main St. Lunch at 11:30, presentation at 12:00. Please …

Errol Black Chair in Labour Issues Fundraising Brunch – Paul Moist speech

On October 28, just over one week before Errol Black passed away,  CCPA-mb organized a fundraising brunch at the Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg in support of the Errol Black Chair in Labour Issues.  Thanks to the Hotel’s …

National Housing Day: Still waiting for a plan

PDF version by Shauna MacKinnon November 22nd is National Housing Day in Canada. Canada is the only country in the G8 that does not have a national housing strategy. There have been many attempts to rectify this in …

Job Posting: CCPA-MB Director

PDF version The Board of Directors of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Manitoba (CCPA-MB) seeks to hire a Director, to start May 1, 2013. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is an independent, non-partisan research institute concerned with …

Fast and loose with Tordon herbicide on the move

PDF version by David M. Neufeld and Magdalene Andres Our family business includes growing bedding plants. In the spring of 2010 every tomato, pepper and marigold we started curled up grotesquely and died. After weeks of trying new …

Errol Black: A truly remarkable life

[Ed. Note: The funeral for Errol Black will be held at 1:30pm on November 8, 2012, at the Westman Manitoba Centennial Auditorium, Brandon University.] PDF version by Jim Silver If we’re very lucky, every once in a while …