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  • Creating Opportunities with Green Jobs: The story of BUILD and BEEP

    January 6, 2013 | Authored by: Kirsten Bernas, Blair Hamilton

    Social enterprises have emerged as viable business models that create a blended return on investment as a result of the multiple economic, social, and environmental benefits they bring to local communities. They contribute to more inclusive and stronge …


    Grant: Transforming Inner-city and Aboriginal Communities - 2007-2012
    Category: Community Economic Development
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  • Losing Ground: How Canada’s Employment Insurance system undermines inner-city and Aboriginal workers

    December 6, 2012 | Authored by: Lynne Fernandez, Ellen Smirl

    Marginalized workers, many of whom live in Winnipeg’s inner city and in Aboriginal communities throughout Manitoba, exist at the fringe of the labour market. Their marginalized status is entrenched by their inability to access programs such as Employme …


    Grant: Transforming Inner-city and Aboriginal Communities - 2007-2012
    Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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  • An Evaluation of Parental Perspectives on Children’s Education in Skownan First Nation

    December 6, 2012 | Authored by: Kathryn A. Levine, Dawn Sutherland, Darrell Cole


    Grant: Transforming Inner-city and Aboriginal Communities - 2007-2012
    Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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  • Exploring the impact of a culturally restorative post-secondary education program on Aboriginal adult learners: The Urban Circle Training Centre model

    August 6, 2012 | Authored by: Jamie Koshyk

    The educational attainment gap between Canada’s Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples both reflects and perpetuates a parallel disparity in socioeconomic conditions. Aboriginal peoples’ distrust of and disengagement from educational systems can be link …


    Grant: Transforming Inner-city and Aboriginal Communities - 2007-2012
    Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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  • Measuring Off-Reserve Poverty and Income Inequality in Canada

    July 6, 2012 | Authored by: Ahmed Tazmeen

    Though there has been substantial research on poverty and inequality in Canada, the issue of Aboriginal poverty and inequality has not yet been examined in a systematic manner. The issue has been discussed, in some cases, as a part of the overall pover …


    Grant: Transforming Inner-city and Aboriginal Communities - 2007-2012
    Category: Community Economic Development
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