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  • Low-cost rental housing scarce in Winnipeg

    May 2, 2022 | News

    Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press April 27, 2022 by Shauna MacKinnon There continues to be a severe shortage of low-cost rental supply in Winnipeg, at the same time … 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

  • 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

  • Coming Back to Jail Book Launch

    June 6, 2018 | Media, News, Uncategorized

    Elizabeth Comack is a professor of sociology and criminology at the University of Manitoba and a CCPA–MB research associate. Her book, Coming Back to Jail: Women, Trauma, and Criminalization, will be … Read more

  • Being Involved in Uninvolved Contexts: Refugee Parent Involvement in Children’s Education

    January 22, 2018 | News

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  • New report – Indigenous People, Wage Labour and Trade Unions

    April 6, 2017 | Featured, News

    Have Indigenous people in Canada been active as wage labourers and union members? If so, what have been the circumstances? When and where and for what reasons have Indigenous people … Read more

  • Being involved in uninvolved contexts: Refugee parent involvement in children’s education

    April 3, 2017 | Featured, News

    The involvement of refugee parents in their children’s education is crucial for academic success and community development. Yet schools often struggle in promoting the involvement of newcomer parents, especially in … Read more

  • New report – Finding Her Home

    March 13, 2017 | Featured, News

    This winter, a 53 year-old woman died overnight in minus 32-degree temperatures, frozen to death on the streets of downtown Winnipeg. This tragic and preventable loss serves as a reminder … Read more

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