Fast Facts: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
As the Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) continues, a new study looks at the problems of reactive government policy on MMIWG in Manitoba. The complex…
Fast Facts: The unique social housing needs of resettling refugees
War and persecution force refugees to leave behind all that they know to embark on new and challenging experiences of resettlement. In Winnipeg, they meet a web of service providers…
Fast Facts: The changing nature of social housing in Manitoba
…through community-based organizations and government programs, and funded collectively through taxes and government spending. Today, social housing in Canada is changing as decades of consistent long-term federal and provincial funding…
Fast Facts – Gains are being made: State of the Inner City Report 2015
…2015: Drawing on Our Strengths, shows that this is not the case. Important poverty-related indicators are improving. After decades of decline, public investment in community-led initiatives is making a difference….
Fast Facts: Prove Yourself! Barriers to accessing ID for low-income Manitobans
Government-issued identification (ID) is essential to gain access to a wide range of government entitlements, commercial services and financial systems. Lack of ID on the other hand, represents a critical…