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  • North End Connect: A community network in the heart of Winnipeg

    August 4, 2023 | Authored by: Joel Templeman

    Most urban centers in North America have access to quality high-speed Internet connectivity. However, often in low-income pockets of these same cities there are neighbourhoods where residents cannot afford or have other barriers to accessing technology …


    Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
    Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building, Social Inclusion
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  • Disrupting the Circle: Action Through Art

    November 15, 2022 | Authored by: Ali Robson, Claire Therese Friesen

    Disrupting the Circle: Action through Art started as a research project between West Central Women’s Resource Centre (WCWRC) and Dr. Shauna McKinnon at the University of Winnipeg. The goal of the research was to better understand the experiences of wom …


    Grant: Community Economic Development in the New Economy - 2002-2004
    Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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  • Manitoba Living Wage Update 2022

    September 23, 2022 | Authored by: Michael Apata, Jesse Hajer, Niall Harney

    The 2022 living wage update comes alongside the fastest increases to the cost of living seen since the early 1980s. These increases are placing financial pressure on low-wage workers, amplifying calls for the adoption of a living wage in Manitoba. Usin …


    Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
    Category: Community Economic Development, Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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  • Unearth this Buried Treasure: Adult Education in Manitoba

    January 25, 2022 | Authored by: Jim Silver

    New report finds Adult Education struggling to meet demand. Underfunded adult education programs in Manitoba are struggling to meet the demand for literacy and grade twelve equivalency in the province. Unearth this Buried Treasure: Adult Education in M …


    Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
    Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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  • Hard Infrastructure, Hard Times: Workers Perspectives on Privatization and Contracting out of Manitoba Infrastructure

    September 3, 2021 | Authored by: Jennifer Keith, Jesse Hajer, Michael Conway

    For several years, the Manitoba government led by the Progressive Conservatives has been pushing hard to reduce the number of government workers, while transferring work and contracts to the private sector. This report examines the push for privatizati …


    Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
    Category: Community Economic Development, Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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  • Communities are Partners

    Communities are Partners: Workers Occupational Health and Safety Rights with Newcomers

    October 23, 2020 | Authored by: Dorothy Wigmore

    For the past 20 years, newcomer and migrant workers in Manitoba have learned about occupational health, safety and compensation rights thanks to the Cross Cultural Com­munity Development Program at the MFL Occupational Health Centre. Community Trainers …


    Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
    Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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  • Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: Indigenous Peoples and Unions in Canada

    February 20, 2019 | Authored by: Lynne Fernandez , Jim Silver

    It is true that historically unions have acted in the interests of non-Indigenous workers, failing to adequately represent the interests of Indigenous workers, and even actively excluding them from paid employment. Today’s unions are working to eradica …


    Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
    Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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  • Communities and Research: A tool for change

    December 18, 2018 | Authored by: | Edited by: Sara Atnikov

    The Manitoba Research Alliance has held its current Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Partnership Grant from 2012-2019. Now at the tail end of the project, this retrospective magazine shares the work the Manitoba Research Association has …


    Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
    Category: Community Economic Development, Education, Training, and Capacity Building, Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization, Justice, Safety and Security
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  • Na-gah mo Waabishkizi Ojijaak Bimise Keetwaatino: Singing White Crane Flying North – Gathering a Bundle for Indigenous Evaluation

    November 6, 2018 | Authored by: Gladys Rowe, Carla Kirkpatrick| Edited by: Ellen Smirl

    In Winnipeg, a city with a high population of Indigenous peoples, incorporating Indigenous ways of practice into helping programs and organizations makes sense, as organizations work to support community. However, funding expectations and evaluation me …


    Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
    Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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  • **Video** Stories of Decolonization: Land Dispossession and Settlement

    July 31, 2018 | Authored by: Teddy Zegeye-Gebrehiwot, Gladys Rowe, Liz Carlson

    Stories of Decolonization is a multi-film interview-based documentary project that shares personal stories in order to explore accessible understandings of colonialism and its continued impact on those living on the lands now called Canada. It also exp …


    Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
    Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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