Winnipeg’s rooming house challenge: What we can learn from Toronto
One year after a rooming house fire in Winnipeg’s St. Boniface neighbourhood killed an elderly man and injured several other tenants, what can the city and province do to ensure rooming houses remain safe, affordable places to live? One year after a rooming house fire...
read moreState of the Inner City Report 2015: Drawing on our Strengths
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 the Inner City Report 2015: Drawing on Our Strengths, shows that this is not the case. Important poverty-related...
read moreThe Impact of the Harper Government’s ‘Tough on Crime’ Strategy
Crime rates in Canada have been steadily dropping for over a decade, while prison populations have been increasing in recent years. Commentators have attributed this disconnection between falling crime rates and increasing incarceration numbers to the Harper...
read moreYou Don’t Have to Live Like a Refugee
By: Ray Silvius, University of Winnipeg Published in: Winnipeg Free Press Having fled their home countries to escape violence and war, refugees in Canada find their full inclusion in society delayed, threatened or obstructed. With all due respect to Tom Petty for...
read moreInclusive Urban Development and Poverty Reduction: Learning From Innovative Practice
The April 2015 issue of Universitas Forum titled “Inclusive Urban Development and Poverty Reduction: Learning From Innovative Practice” is the result of a collaborative project led by Sara Swartz, Director of the Universitas Programme of the KIP International School...
read moreCommunity-Campus Partnerships for Health Conference
MRA co-investigators Shauna MacKinnon (Urban and Inner City Studies, UW) and Diane Roussin (The Boldness Project) attended the CCPH conference in May 2014 in Chicago, Illinois. Their presentation entitled "It's All About Relationships" outlines the work of the MRA,...
read more“Indians Wear Red” wins Manitoba Book Award!
“Indians Wear Red”: Colonialism, Resistance and Aboriginal Street Gangs won in the non-fiction category on April 27, 2014 at the Manitoba Book Awards! Elizabeth Comack, Lawrence Deane, Larry Morrisette and Jim Silver wrote this book based on research done through the...
read moreSummary Report: Winnipeg Study Tour
Between October 21-25th, 2013, visitors from Albania, El Salvador, Italy and Mexico and students from the University of Manitoba’s Asper Business School Master in Business Administration explored a number of ongoing experiences that are successfully addressing...
read moreManitoba Research Alliance Receives 12th Annual CCPH Award
June 14, 2013, Corner Brook, NL — Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) is delighted to announced the 12th recipient of the CCPH annual award, the Manitoba Research Alliance in Winnipeg. The award highlights the power and potential of partnerships between...
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