POLICY FIX
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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 …
The Inequality Budget
Finance Minister Joe Oliver had a chance Tuesday to prove the Harper government’s economic prowess. The budget he delivered, however, failed miserably to do that.
Lessons from Toronto: Winnipeg’s Rooming House Challenge
On April 16th, 2014, a fire broke out in a rooming house on Enfield Crescent in Winnipeg’s St. Boniface neighbourhood. The fire resulted in the death of an elderly man and injuries to several other residents of the …
Making a case for a Labour Market Intermediary
By Kirsten Bernas and Shauna MacKinnon There is a growing opportunity in Manitoba to bridge the economic and social divide between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. First of all, Manitoba employers are looking for skilled workers. Second of all, …
Temporary foreign workers face unjust crackdown
By Sarah Zell and Diwa Marcelino As part of an ongoing overhaul of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) the federal government imposed what is referred to as the “four and four” rule, the results of which will …
Shooting for the stars: Inner city basketball program has big impact
Alicia and Rachelle Dunsford with their AAA Junior Varsity Championship banner. They are now at the Collegiate. Young people from inner city Winnipeg made their neighbourhood proud on Monday night. Six youth who grew up playing basketball at …
Low response in National Housing Survey lead to bias
When the Government of Canada decided to cancel the long form cencus for 2011 and replace it with the voluntary National Household Survey (NHS) many expressed concern NHS data would be less reliable and vulnerable populations would be …
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