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Something Needs to Change: Austerity in Manitoba Transportation and Infrastructure
October 4, 2024 | Authored by: Jennifer Keith, Holly Scotland
In 2021, the Progressive Conservative (PC) Government in Manitoba was issued a stern warning: “continue on the path of austerity they had started when elected in 2016 and Manitobans and the public service would suffer.” The report, commissioned by the …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Community Economic Development
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Manitoba Government Cuts Threaten Ability to Welcome—and Retain—Newcomers
October 4, 2024 | Authored by: Sarah Zell
“We have to dream big for this province,” former Premier Heather Stefanson said, referring to a pledge to increase Manitoba’s population to 2 million by 2030. The source of much of that population growth? Immigration. Emerging from the pandemic, immigr …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Community Economic Development
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The High Cost of Austerity in Adult Education in Manitoba
October 4, 2024 | Authored by: Jim Silver
Earlier this summer, the Director of an adult basic education program located outside Winnipeg contacted me to say that the latest round of cuts to provincial government funding for her program would result in a former full-time position being reduced …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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Austerity and Advanced Education in Manitoba
October 4, 2024 | Authored by: Scott Forbes
In 2016 the Manitoba PCs were elected on an election platform that included moderate fiscal restraint: simply hold growth in spending below the rate of growth in the economy and the budget, which was in deficit, would be balanced over two terms in offi …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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Manitoba Housing and Renewal Corporation and Austerity
October 4, 2024 | Authored by: Sarah Cooper
Housing has long been a pressing issue in Manitoba. Although the Manitoba Housing and Renewal Corporation’s budget increased between 2011 and 2022, how housing needs are being addressed is shifting towards the market, with funding increasingly used to …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization
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Child Welfare and Austerity in Manitoba
October 4, 2024 | Authored by: Shauna MacKinnon
In 2022 we surveyed Manitoba Government Employee Union (MGEU) and Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) members employed in the Manitoba child welfare system. We wanted to learn from people working on the front lines if the Manitoba government’s au …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Social Inclusion
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Austerity v. Manitoba Women
October 4, 2024 | Authored by: Mara Fridell
When governments look to cut spending, women are often disproportionately impacted. It has been no different in Manitoba under the austerity agenda of the Progressive Conservatives (PCs) since forming government in 2016. This agenda consisted of mandat …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Social Inclusion
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Adult Basic Education in Manitoba: “It’s Like, Life Changing!”
June 26, 2024 | Authored by:
What could lead people to say such things as, “I can physically, like on every level, physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, feel myself changing and transforming,” and “my peers, they see a difference, they see me more open and, you know, thi …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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A Betrayal of Trust: Exploring the Financialization of Lions Place in Winnipeg as a Case of Organizational Elder Abuse
May 7, 2024 | Authored by: Laura Funk, Rachel Dunsmore
The case of the sale of Lions Place represents both a major net loss of affordable housing and an example of the targeted dismantling of community for older adults in Winnipeg. We conclude that it can also be conceptualized as organizational elder neg …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization
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Thinking Inside the Box: Rediscovering How to Build Social Housing in Manitoba
March 6, 2024 | Authored by: Lynne Fernandez
Despite years of advocacy by Manitoba’s Right to Housing Coalition urging government to increase the supply of social housing, politicians seem convinced that the social housing crisis is an unsolvable problem that can only be tinkered with using priva …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Featured, Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization
