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Impact of the National Housing Strategy for Low-Income Renters in Winnipeg and Manitoba
October 10, 2024 | Authored by: Shauna MacKinnon
In 2017, the Government of Canada launched its 10-year National Housing Strategy (NHS): A Place to Call Home. The strategy “sets out a long-term vision for housing and focuses on improving housing outcomes for those in greatest need.” Central to the NH …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization
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Austerity in the Department of Economic Development, Investment and Trade, and in the Department of Agriculture
October 4, 2024 | Authored by: Fletcher Barager
This chapter examines the effect of the austerity policies implemented by the Manitoba provincial government on work and workers in the province’s Department of Agriculture and Department of Economic Development, Investment and Trade (EDIT). The releva …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Community Economic Development
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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
