The Impact of the Harper Government’s “Tough on Crime” Strategy: Hearing from Frontline Workers

Crime rates in Canada have been steadily dropping for over a decade, while prison populations have been increasing in recent years. Commentators have attributed this disconnection between falling crime rates and increasing incarceration numbers to the …

Deconstructing Neoliberal Rationality in an Increasingly Punitive Society: Canadian Public Support for ‘Tough on Crime’ Policies

Research has shown that criminal justice policy in Western democratic societies has become increasingly punitive (e.g. Wilson and Petersilia 2010), and that the public largely supports these policies, despite the fact that crime rates have been declini …

Implications of Hydroelectric Partnerships in Northern Manitoba: Do Partnership Agreements Provide Social License?

Over the past century, Manitoba has promoted the construction of hydroelectric dams as a means of producing energy. These projects are produced on Indigenous territory and bring these communities into direct conflict with the province and Manitoba Hydr …

Fast Facts: The Tough on Crime Strategy has not made our Community Safer

Frontline workers characterize the tough on crime strategy as “one size fits all” designed with the dangerous few in mind but applied to everyone. Workers believe the strategy sets the community up for danger by keeping people in prison longer in overc …

Work Life: Making the Case for a Labour Market Intermediary

There is a growing opportunity in Manitoba to bridge the economic and social divide between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. First of all, Manitoba employers are looking for skilled workers. Second of all, our large and young Aboriginal population …

Making the case for a Labour Market Intermediary: The Experience of BUILD

This report weaves together findings from data gathered through two other research reports published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) Manitoba. The purpose is to build upon evidence that demonstrates how and why a Labour Market Int …

It’s Home: Listening to Female Post-Secondary Students in Northern Manitoba, Canada

Our research study responds to questions: how do female post-secondary students define and measure their own successes? And what factors have contributed to their successes? Bonnycastle and Simpkins interviewed 27 female postsecondary students.

Aboriginal Women, Mining Negotiations, and Project Development: Analyzing the motivations and priorities shaping leadership and participation

The major objective of this thesis is to assess the role and contributions of Aboriginal women to mining negotiations and project development. Utilizing qualitative feminist research methodology, this research incorporated the perspectives of several p …

Learning from our Koogums (Grandmothers): Integrating Participatory Video as a Tool to Share Knowledge on Food from the Land

The project applied participatory video to archive traditional food recipes and stories in O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation in Northern Manitoba.

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