POLICY FIX
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New federal government: opportunity to end crisis of poor housing
By Josh Brandon For Winnipeg residents with low incomes, the lack of affordable quality housing is a crisis. According to the 2011 National Housing Survey, 34,000 Winnipeg renters paid more than 30 percent of their income in rent, …
Federal election: What’s at stake for Winnipeg women
Women have a lot at stake in this election: higher rates of economic inequality, impacts of violence and lack of child care. Here’s how Winnipeg women fare, and what the major federal parties have said they will do. …
CCPA Manitoba Fundraising Brunch November 15
November 15, 2015 Guest Speaker Kevin Chief MLA Point Douglas Minister of Jobs and the Economy Honoured Guest Kathy Mallett Community activist, Aboriginal educational leader, genealogy buff, and past director of Community Education Development Association Hotel Fort Garry …
Oct 7th book launch of Shauna MacKinnon’s new book on U of M Press
CCPA-MB congratulates Shauna MacKinnon in the launching of her new book Decolonizing Employment, Aboriginal inclusion in Canada’s labour market October 7th, 7pm at McNally Robinson. All are invited. “A cogent, well-documented critique of neoliberal labour market policy and …
Poor Housing: A Silent Crisis Book launch and community Symposium
Book launch Wednesday October 21, 7 pm at McNally Robinson Booksellers Grant Park Mall Community Symposium Thursday October 22, West End Commons, 641 St. Matthews Ave. RSVP at Event Brite 8:30 am – 4 pm
Book Launch September 24
Edited by Lynne Fernandez, Shauna MacKinnon and Jim Silver Book Launch September 24 McNally Robinson Booksellers Grant Park Shopping Centre 7 pm Books will be available after September 24 for $25.00 each from the CCPA office 205 – …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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