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  • Austerity in Manitoba

    October 4, 2024 | Featured, Reports

    Public Service in Tough Times: Working Under Austerity in Manitoba, 2016-2022 Project Summary The Public Service in Tough Times research project is documenting opinions, experiences, and perspectives on the impact … Read more

  • North End Connect: Transformative Research Toward Digital Inclusion

    July 18, 2024 | Featured

    By: Shauna MacKinnon with Joel Templeman and Shanleigh Chartrand North End Connect was established during the COVID-19 pandemic by organizations situated on Selkirk Avenue. They were concerned about the pandemic’s … Read more

  • Calling all housing policy advocacy groups or organizations: 

    February 28, 2023 | Events, Featured

    Tagged as: Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness, Canadian Housing and Renewal Association, End Homelessness Winnipeg, Housing, Institute for Change Leaders, Right to Housing, Social Housing

    Are you mobilizing your community to call on governments to make stronger investments in social housing?  Please join us!  April 20-21, 2023 Winnipeg, Manitoba At this event, we will develop … Read more

  • Orange and blue book cover reads: Social Service Private Gain

    Book Launch! Social Service Private Gain: The Political Economy of Social Impact Bonds

    November 1, 2021 | Events, Featured

    Tagged as: Book Launch, Economics, Jesse Hajer, John Loxley, Social Impact Bonds

    Join Jesse Hajer for the launch of Social Service Private Gain: The Political Economy of Social Impact Bonds (University of Toronto Press), co-written with John Loxley. The contributions of Dr. Loxley will be celebrated this … Read more

  • New Book: Returning to Ceremony: Spirituality in Manitoba Métis Communities

    May 18, 2021 | Featured, News

    Tagged as: Ceremony, Chantal Fiola, Indigenous, Métis

    The Manitoba Research Alliance is pleased to have supported research that has led to Returning to Ceremony, the follow-up to Chantal Fiola’s award-winning Rekindling the Sacred Fire that continues her ground-breaking examination … Read more

  • Federal budget 2021: More is needed to break the poverty cycle

    April 20, 2021 | Featured, News

      Here’s an excerpt from Shauna MacKinnon (University of Winnipeg) and Ian Hudson (Unviersity of Manitoba)’s piece in The Conversation Canada: “Nobody chooses to be poor. Poverty is far better … Read more

  • New Book: Did You See Us?: Reunion, Remembrance, and Reclamation at an Urban Indian Residential School

    March 11, 2021 | Featured, News

    Tagged as: Andrew Woolford, History, Indigenous, Residential Schools, TRC

    Did You See Us?: Reunion, Remembrance, and Reclamation at an Urban Indian Residential School Written by the Survivors of the Assiniboia Indian Residential School and edited by Andrew Woolford, Published … Read more

  • John Loxley

    Dr. John Loxley Honoured by Government of Canada

    December 7, 2020 | Featured, Media

    December 7, 2020 The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) announced its set of Impact Awards, which recognize Canada’s top leaders, thinkers and researchers in the social sciences and … Read more

  • Shauna MacKinnon stands in a classroom.

    New Principal Investigator Shauna MacKinnon Continues John Loxley’s Legacy

    September 21, 2020 | Featured, News

    Tagged as: Leadership, Principal Investigator, Shauna MacKinnon, University of Winnipeg

    The sudden passing of Dr. John Loxley made necessary the appointment of a new Principal Investigator for the Manitoba Research Alliance’s (MRA) project, Community-based Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities. … Read more

  • Justice Starts Here: New report by Public Interest Law Centre

    November 15, 2017 | Featured

    In the report Justice Starts Here: A one-stop shop approach for achieving greater justice in Manitoba, authors Allison Fenske and Beverly Froese from the Public Interest Law Centre spoke with … Read more

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