Fast Facts: World Urban Forum 7 – Policy Lessons from Colombia

For one week in early April, Sara Swartz (Universitas Programme of the KIP International School), Shauna MacKinnon (Manitoba Research Alliance [MRA] and University of Winnipeg [UW]) and Lynne Fernandez (MRA and CCPA MB) visited Medellin, Colombia to ta …

Rooming Houses to Rooming Homes: A Documentary Short

Rooming Houses to Rooming Homes

In Winnipeg’s inner city, and especially in West Broadway and Spence neighbourhoods, older homes converted to rooming houses are an important type of housing for many people living on low incomes. However, rooming houses are fast disappearing due to an …

2013 State of the Inner City: A Youth Lens on Poverty in Winnipeg

Sixteen youth from North and West End Winnipeg were given an important assignment: tell the stories of their neighbourhoods to the rest of Winnipeg for this year’s State of the Inner City Report. The CCPA’s Manitoba office worked with two youth-serving …

A Family Living Wage for Manitoba: 2013 Calculation Guide

The purpose of this guide is to assist others in calculating a living wage for their own communities, using the method developed by the CCPA-BC and First Call to calculate Vancouver and Victoria living wages in 2008. This particular guide will be most …