POLICY FIX
A blog for progressive Canadians by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Manitoba Office
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The Next Step: Literacy Programming in Manitoba
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba new publication release: Low levels of adult literacy in Manitoba are a barrier to full participation in our society. Easily accessible supports, located in low-income communities are needed to address this …
No Jesuit School in Winnipeg’s North End: Stop them before they do it again
The Catholic Church ran more than half of Canada’s residential schools. In these schools they immersed Indigenous children and youth in Catholic culture. The effect on these children and youth and their families has been so great that …
Winnipeg’s Racism Challenge
The Maclean’s article citing Winnipeg as Canada’s most racist city has prompted a public conversation that may prove to be useful. It is important that Winnipeg’s two solitudes get to know each other, at a personal and social …
No silver bullet to ‘solve’ poverty
In response to “Generosity doesn’t solve poverty” Winnipeg Free Press article December 17 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 …
“Indians Wear Red”: Aboriginal Street Gangs in Winnipeg
They were kids when they started. Teenagers locked up in the youth detention centre, watching movies about American street gangs. Soon they realized that if they stood up for each other, and worked together, it was easier to …
Film Review: The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
By Josh Brandon “It began as a housing marvel. Two decades later, it ended in rubble.” In 1972, the St Louis Housing Authority put dynamite to the massive Pruitt-Igoe housing complex, a social housing project that was once …
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