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Stoking the Fire to Make Change: Supporting Policy Advocacy by Community-based Organizations and the Communities They Serve in Winnipeg
February 24, 2025 | Authored by: Sarah Cooper, Yutaka Dirks
This study examines how community based organizations in Winnipeg support community and grassroots policy advocacy to address the needs of their participants. Results from a survey and interviews with staff working at CBOs show that Winnipeg’s non-prof …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building, Social Inclusion
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The High Cost of Austerity in Adult Education in Manitoba
October 4, 2024 | Authored by: Jim Silver
Earlier this summer, the Director of an adult basic education program located outside Winnipeg contacted me to say that the latest round of cuts to provincial government funding for her program would result in a former full-time position being reduced …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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Austerity and Advanced Education in Manitoba
October 4, 2024 | Authored by: Scott Forbes
In 2016 the Manitoba PCs were elected on an election platform that included moderate fiscal restraint: simply hold growth in spending below the rate of growth in the economy and the budget, which was in deficit, would be balanced over two terms in offi …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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Adult Basic Education in Manitoba: “It’s Like, Life Changing!”
June 26, 2024 | Authored by:
What could lead people to say such things as, “I can physically, like on every level, physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, feel myself changing and transforming,” and “my peers, they see a difference, they see me more open and, you know, thi …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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Art as Medicine: Utilizing Creative Arts and the Medicine Wheel as a Tool to Wellness
March 4, 2024 | Authored by: Nyla Comeau
Art as Medicine: Utilizing Creative Arts and the Medicine Wheel as a Tool to Wellness comprised of a six-week workshop with focus on self-love, self-worth, and self-esteem from an Indigenous perspective; self-worth being derived from a place of wholene …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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Falling Behind: What Explains a Wave of Strikes in Rural Manitoba School Divisions
December 22, 2023 | Authored by: Niall Harney
This report calls on the provincial government to work with school divisions, unions, and the ministry of education to equalize wages for educational support staff across the province. Pay disparities are not present for teachers across the province. T …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Community Economic Development, Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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Child Care Also an Austerity Victim
September 13, 2023 | Authored by: Susan Prentice, Jesse Hajer
Manitoba billboards promoting $10/day childcare create the perception that the Province of Manitoba has increased funding and support for childcare. The reality is quite different. Despite provincial ELCC spending being higher than it was in 2016, fede …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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Austerity in Public Education Hurts
September 13, 2023 | Authored by: Ee-Seul Yoon
As educators and children are heading back to the classroom next week, it’s worth reviewing what they’re returning to after seven years of funding shortfalls and cuts. Teachers are doing their best with the resources they have, but it’s not enough. Wh …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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Manitoba can’t afford cuts to parks, environmental protection
August 29, 2023 | Authored by: Mark Hudson
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press August 15, 2023 Manitobans, like much of the rest of the world, are increasingly concerned with the state of the planet—including our own little corner of it. Global concerns like biodiversity decline and …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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Cutting straight to the bone: Austerity and Manitoba crown corporations
August 29, 2023 | Authored by: Niall Harney, Lynne Fernandez
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press on August 5, 2023 On July 19, workers at Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries (MBLL) began rotating strike action after contract negotiations between Manitoba Government and Generals Employees’ Union (MGEU), who …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
