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Grain shipping is for the bears: oil by rail to Churchill not worth the risk
By Eric Reder For visitors from around the world, the opportunity to see polar bears and beluga whales in the subarctic splendor of Churchill is a major attraction. This window to the tundra world is a source of …
Federal housing strategy key to improving child welfare
Before the findings of the Hughes commission report on the death of Phoenix Sinclair have been lost and forgotten and before the next child dies needlessly, we must all be reminded that there are more issues at play …
Unifor’s Jerry Dias Raises Important Issue
Lynne Fernandez, Errol Black Chair in Labour Issues As reported in today’s Winnipeg Free Press, Unifor president Jerry Dias is visiting communities across Canada with an important message: attempts by a variety of political forces in Canada to …
Manitoba on the right side when it come to the east side
Lynne Fernandez CCPA Mb. has contributed much to the ongoing debate on the fate of the east side of Lake Winnipeg (known as Pimachiowin Aki), particularly concerning the controversial decision to run Bi Pole III down the west …
Post Canada Post. Is it inevitable?
By Lynne Fernandez, Errol Black Chair in Labour Issues Apparently our country is going to hell in a mail bag. According to conservative analysts, public-sector workers are playing fast and loose with tax payers’ money and the only …
Wither Human Rights?
By Lynne Fernandez, Errol Black Chair in Labour Issues That Nelson Mandela’s memorial be celebrated on International Human Rights Day is destiny; a more poignant coupling of events cannot be imagined. It seems unusually cruel then to sully …
Book Review – From Demonized to Organized: Building the New Union Movement
From Demonized to Organized: Building the New Union Movement by Nora LoretoReviewed by Gabriel Bako This new book published by CCPA National provides a timely analysis of unions and neoliberalism. Mainstream media teaches youth, who have been born …
The Education Property Tax Rebate: Do we seniors really need it?
The opposition’s unproductive filibuster of the provincial 2013 budget increase in the PST has left many aspects of the budget undebated. One is its failure to provide for improvement in the Employment & Income Assistance Program (EIA – …
The Two Faces of Government Policy Towards Local Food
By Colin Anderson Download PDF Small farm owners Pam and Clint Cavers were blindsided on August 28, 2013 when Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives (MAFRI) staff showed up to “seize and destroy” their locally produced and cured …
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