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

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