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Access to Identification for Low-Income Manitobans
October 10, 2017 | Authored by: Ellen Smirl
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 barrier that prevents low-income Manitobans fro …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Community Economic Development
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Minoayawin: Manitoba Flood Healing Voices
October 3, 2017 | Authored by: Myrle Ballard
The Interlake Reserves Tribal Council (IRTC) partnered with Dr. Myrle Ballard from the University of Manitoba to facilitate an Elders Gathering to discuss, determine, and share strategies for First Nation Peoples to heal from the human-made flood in 20 …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Community Economic Development
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Offering our gifts, partnering for change: Decolonizing experimentation in Winnipeg-based settler archives
October 3, 2017 | Authored by: Sarah Story
Since the nineteen-fifties, Indigenous residents of Winnipeg, Manitoba have conceptualized and developed distinct strategies in response to the impacts of settler colonialism. Roughly seventy organizations have been established by and for Indigenous pe …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Community Economic Development
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Social Impact Bonds and the Financing of Child Welfare
July 10, 2017 | Authored by: John Loxley
Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) are a relatively new way of financing social services in Canada. They differ from the normal way of financing social services in that they are funded initially by private sector businesses or foundations, which are reimburse …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Community Economic Development
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A Family Living Wage for Manitoba: 2016-2017 update
July 5, 2017 | Authored by: Lynne Fernandez, Jesse Hajer, James Langridge
The 2016–17 Living Wage for Winnipeg is $14.54/ hour; for Brandon it is $14.55 and for Thompson it is $15.28. This is the amount needed for a family of four with two parents working full time to cover basic necessities, support healthy development of c …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Community Economic Development
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Kiya Waneekah: (Don’t Forget)
May 8, 2017 | Authored by: Dennis Davey
In this paper, I discuss how I planned to implement an Insurgent Research methodology articulated by Métis scholar, Adam Gaudry in his article “Insurgent Research.” I organized my historic Métis community using an insurgent research model as methodolog …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Community Economic Development
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Indigenous People, Wage Labour and Trade Unions: The historical experience in Canada
March 8, 2017 | Authored by: Lynne Fernandez, Jim Silver
Have Indigenous people in Canada been active as wage labourers and union members? If so, what have been the circumstances? When and where and for what reasons have Indigenous people worked for wages and been union members and how have they fared in the …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Community Economic Development
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“A Bit of Shame and Remorse May Go a Long Way”: Exploring the Social Impact of Discriminatory Practises in Thompson, Manitoba
February 28, 2017 | Authored by: Delia Chartrand, Chris Bignell
The community of Thompson is a regional hub which provides services to a number of surrounding communities in northern Manitoba. Demographically Thompson presents an intersection of diverse cultures and is unique in that it has the highest population p …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Community Economic Development
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It’s Time to Give Back to Manitoba’s North
September 12, 2016 | Authored by: Lynne Fernandez
A new Errol Black Chair report released today examines how events are unfolding in Churchill and The Pas. It puts these events in the context of the entire Northern region and urges government to consider the needs and aspirations of Manitoba’s Norther …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Community Economic Development
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Financial Inclusion and Manitoba Indigenous People: Results from an urban and rural case study
February 4, 2016 | Authored by: Jerry Buckland, Dion McKay, Nolan Reimer
This research project used a case study approach to examine access to mainstream Financial Institution (FI)1 services in one rural First Nation community and among Indigenous People in inner city Winnipeg. By case study we mean that through field resea …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Community Economic Development
