POLICY FIX
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Rent Assist Increase: community work in action
Thanks to community advocacy, low-income Manitobans will have more money to help pay their rent. Three years ago Make Poverty History Manitoba (MPHM) began building support for increasing shelter benefits to 75 per cent of median market rent. …
A welcoming home for refugees: removing the stigma – increasing the support
Refugees across Canada are facing a structural housing crisis. Stagnant shelter allowances for the Government Assisted Refugees eligible to receive them, a federal retreat from social housing provision, and skyrocketing housing costs in numerous Canadian cities since the …
Manitoba Conservatives open the door to privatization
By Molly McCracken, Director of CCPA-MB Social service schemes announced this week by the Manitoba Progressive Conservatives to encourage private childcare and introduce Social Impact Bonds soften the ground towards privatization. The assumption is that the private sector …
Parables of Privatization: A cautionary tale of two telcos
By Toby Sanger, Senior Economist CUPE National At a time when the Ontario Liberal government is planning to privatize Hydro One and other provincial governments are also planning significant privatizations, it’s instructive to look back and see what …
When was the first time you heard of CCPA Manitoba?
Top: Front Row: Kate Sjoberg, Jackie Hogue Back row: Molly McCracken, Mary Walsh, Noel DePape, Jessica Irvine at the Mary Walsh Fundraiser 2009 Bottom: The View From Here launch 2015. June 1 – 7th is our second annual …
You don’t have to live like a refugee
This editorial on the housing needs of refugee newcomers was published in the Winnipeg Free Press. The research referenced in the editorial is through the Manitoba Research Alliance Partnering for Change grant funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities …
Trish Hennessy coming to Winnipeg June 3
Trish Hennessy Founding Director of CCPA Ontario Getting progressive values on the public agenda As part of CCPA Manitoba Supporter Drive Week June 1-7, please join us for Trish Hennessy, the founding director of CCPA Ontario and former …
The New Feudalism – consequences of rising income inequality
Winnipeg journalist Frances Russell’s latest article quotes CCPA MB’s Lynne Fernandez, Errol Black Chair in Labour Issues. Governments focus on the top income quintiles while low income and working people’s incomes stagnate. Constant tax reductions for corporations and the wealthy have depleted …
Making Homelessness History
Homelessness has recently been much in the news, because of the tragic deaths of three homeless people in Winnipeg and also because of the Canadian Housing and Renewal Association’s National Congress on Housing and Homelessness, held recently in …
Rickety altar of balanced budgets
It is unfortunate that the sitting government has to waste valuable political capital maneuvering around obstructionist balanced budget legislation (BBL), but the media and opposition continue to place recent budget analyses in its distorting frame. Contrary to established …
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