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Poor Housing: A Silent Crisis
October 21, 2015 | Authored by: | Edited by: Jim Silver, Josh Brandon
Across Canada, there is a severe shortage of decent quality housing that is affordable to those with low incomes, and much of the housing that is available is inadequate, even …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Stream: Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization
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Fast Facts: New Federal Government: Opportunity to End Crisis of Poor Housing
October 21, 2015 | Authored by: Josh Brandon
For Winnipeg residents with low incomes, the lack of affordable quality housing is a crisis. With a potential partner at the federal level, the possibility for progress exists, but housing …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Stream: Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization
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Addressing Core Housing Need in Canada
October 1, 2015 | Authored by: Ian Skelton, Sarah Cooper
Social housing is at risk in Canada. Just a few decades ago, Canada had an internationallyrecognized social housing portfolio, but today the supply of public, nonprofit and cooperative housing is …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Stream: Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization
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The Impact of the Harper Government’s “Tough on Crime” Strategy: Hearing from Frontline Workers
September 30, 2015 | Authored by: Elizabeth Comack, Cara Fabre, Shanise Burgher
Crime rates in Canada have been steadily dropping for over a decade, while prison populations have been increasing in recent years. Commentators have attributed this disconnection between falling crime rates …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Stream: Justice, Safety and Security
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Deconstructing Neoliberal Rationality in an Increasingly Punitive Society: Canadian Public Support for ‘Tough on Crime’ Policies
September 23, 2015 | Authored by: Jill Patterson
Research has shown that criminal justice policy in Western democratic societies has become increasingly punitive (e.g. Wilson and Petersilia 2010), and that the public largely supports these policies, despite the …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Stream: Justice, Safety and Security
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Implications of Hydroelectric Partnerships in Northern Manitoba: Do Partnership Agreements Provide Social License?
September 22, 2015 | Authored by: Joseph Dipple
Over the past century, Manitoba has promoted the construction of hydroelectric dams as a means of producing energy. These projects are produced on Indigenous territory and bring these communities into …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Stream: Community Economic Development
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Fast Facts: The Tough on Crime Strategy has not made our Community Safer
September 22, 2015 | Authored by: Elizabeth Comack, Cara Fabre, Shanise Burgher
Frontline workers characterize the tough on crime strategy as “one size fits all” designed with the dangerous few in mind but applied to everyone. Workers believe the strategy sets the …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Stream: Justice, Safety and Security
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Work Life: Making the Case for a Labour Market Intermediary
April 10, 2015 | Authored by: Kirsten Bernas, Shauna MacKinnon
There is a growing opportunity in Manitoba to bridge the economic and social divide between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. First of all, Manitoba employers are looking for skilled workers. Second …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Stream: Community Economic Development, Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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Making the case for a Labour Market Intermediary: The Experience of BUILD
April 10, 2015 | Authored by: Kirsten Bernas, Shauna MacKinnon
This report weaves together findings from data gathered through two other research reports published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) Manitoba. The purpose is to build upon evidence …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Stream: Community Economic Development, Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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It’s Home: Listening to Female Post-Secondary Students in Northern Manitoba, Canada
March 1, 2015 | Authored by: Maureen Simpkins, Marleny Bonnycastle
Our research study responds to questions: how do female post-secondary students define and measure their own successes? And what factors have contributed to their successes? Bonnycastle and Simpkins interviewed 27 …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Stream: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
