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Last Updated: February 10, 2017
Lived Experience and Perspectives: Women, mental health and housing in Winnipeg
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By Jen Erdmann Supportive Housing is an important model on the housing continuum and a positive choice for many people living with mental illness. Whether it is because a person faces greater challenges or because they do not …
Category: health, housing, inequality, Mental Health, racism, safety, social exclusion, Uncategorized, Winnipeg, women Tags: Jen Erdmann, Winnipeg
Last Updated: February 10, 2017
Gains are Being Made: The State of the Inner City Report 2015
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By Jim Silver First published in the Winnipeg Free Press Dec 10, 2015 It has recently been claimed in the media that nothing is working in the fight against poverty. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ State of …
Category: Aboriginal issues, CCPA-MB Reports, economic well-being, economy, education, housing, inequality, Inner City, newcomers, poverty, safety, social exclusion, Uncategorized, women, youth Tags: Jim Silver, Winnipeg
Last Updated: February 10, 2017
Fixing our Divided City: Lessons from Youth and Elders
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By Shauna MacKinnon The Winnipeg Free Press headline “A City Divided” (Oct 7, 2014) and the revelation that “75 percent of Winnipeggers believe the division between the aboriginal and non- aboriginal communities is a serious issue” doesn’t come …
Category: Aboriginal issues, Inner City, poverty, racism, safety, social exclusion, Winnipeg Tags: Shauna MacKinnon, Winnipeg
Last Updated: February 10, 2017
Community Development Manitoba-style
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By Molly McCracken For fashion trends the world looks to Milan; Copenhagen has become synonymous with urban planning; but for community development, Manitoba is increasingly the source for inspiration and cutting edge policy. Manitoba’s home-grown approach to community …
Category: city planning, democracy, Fast Facts, Manitoba, newcomers, social exclusion, Winnipeg Tags: Molly McCracken, Winnipeg
Last Updated: February 10, 2017
Honouring the memory of Phoenix Sinclair: Our collective responsibility
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By Shauna MacKinnon “The social and economic conditions that render children vulnerable to abuse and neglect are well beyond the scope of the child welfare system” (Hon. Ted Hughes, Commissioner, The Legacy of Phoenix Sinclair: Achieving the Best …
Category: Aboriginal issues, Child Welfare, health, inequality, Manitoba, social exclusion Tags: Manitoba, Shauna MacKinnon
Last Updated: February 10, 2017
Protestors, Rights and Social Justice
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By Jim Silver Much critical commentary has been directed at Aboriginal students and others who disrupted a recent talk by Phil Fontaine. I would like to offer a response that is different, but that nevertheless agrees that the …
Category: Aboriginal issues, activism, environment, social exclusion Tags: Jim Silver, Manitoba
Last Updated: February 10, 2017
Canada Jobs Grant does not work for Manitoba
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By Molly McCracken Re: “Lets put the jobs-grant idea to work”, Winnipeg Free Press, January 17, 2014 The Canada Jobs Grant will not work for people who face barriers to employment, especially Aboriginal Manitobans. As Shauna Mackinnon wrote …
Last Updated: February 14, 2017
The Living Wage: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
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By Lynne Fernandez Minimum-wage workers are not just teenagers working at fast-food restaurants after school. According to the Manitoba Federation of Labour, 55 per cent of minimum wage earners in Manitoba are adults twenty years and older; 51 …
Category: Child Welfare, economic well-being, economy, Labour, labour market, Prosperity, social exclusion, Uncategorized, Wages, WorkLife Tags: Lynne Fernandez, Manitoba
Last Updated: February 14, 2017
Program to Subsidize Business at the Expense of the Unemployed
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By Kevin Linklater Federal Employment and Social Development Minister, Jason Kenney, met with his provincial counterparts last Friday to discuss the federal government’s proposed overhaul of job training, the Canada Job Grant (CJG) program. The Provinces have opposed …
Category: economy, Labour, labour market, social exclusion Tags: Kevin Linklater, Manitoba
Last Updated: February 14, 2017
Gathering seeks to expose settler colonialism and neoliberalism in Winnipeg
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By Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land Winnipeg is home to a long history of struggles over urban space. These struggles often seem to have two dimensions: on the one hand, low-income communities fight against the effects of an unjust political-economic system, …
Category: Aboriginal issues, activism, colonialism, education, neoliberalism, privilege, social exclusion, Winnipeg Tags: Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land, Winnipeg
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