The Next Step: Literacy Programming in Manitoba

Economists have estimated that low literacy levels cost the Canadian economy billions of dollars annually (Gulati 2013; McCracken and Murray 2010; Sharpe et al. 2009).  Those with low literacy skills …

How Government Support for Social Enterprise can Reduce Poverty and Green House Gases

A new Errol Black Chair paper explains how a combination of governmental policies and initiatives in Manitoba allows social enterprises to reduce Manitoba’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions while training and …

Work Life: Investing in Social Enterprise to Reduce Poverty and Green House Gases

A new Errol Black Chair paper explains how a combination of governmental policies and initiatives in Manitoba allows social enterprises to reduce Manitoba’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions while training and …

Engendering Alternative Justice: Criminalized Women, Alternative Justice and Neoliberalism

Feminist criminologists have a long history of arguing against the use of imprisonment and other formal justice system processes for criminalized women. Often feminist analyses of the formal criminal justice …

The Political Economy of Culturally Appropriate Foods in Winnipeg: A Case of Refugee Path Immigrants

Drawing on our Strengths: State of the Inner City Report 2015

It has recently been claimed in the media that nothing is working in the fight against poverty. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ State of the Inner City Report 2015: Drawing …

Fast Facts – Gains are being made: State of the Inner City Report 2015

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ State of the Inner City Report 2015: Drawing on Our Strengths, shows that this is not the case. Important poverty-related indicators are improving. After …

Fast Facts: National Housing Day – A Profile of WestEnd Commons

This past weekend marked Canada’s National Housing Day. In recent history, housing in Canada hasn’t been a hopeful topic. In 1993 federal funds for new social housing development were cut …

Lived Experiences and Perspectives: Women, Mental Health and Housing in Winnipeg

Lived Experience and Perspectives: Women, Mental Health and Housing in Winnipeg is a qualitative research study seeking to understand the experiences of women with mental illness living in supportive housing …

The Inclusion of Aboriginal Voices in Co-constructing “Home”: Aboriginal Homelessness in a Northern Semi-urban Community in Manitoba

Dominant approaches to homelessness often exclude the voices of those without a home, when solutions are designed. We argue that attempts to develop meaningful and long-term initiatives without including the …