Fast Facts: Federal Withdrawal Results in Loss of Social Housing

Manitoba is losing subsidized rental housing units—a delayed result of the federal government’s withdrawal from funding social housing in the 1990s. As operating agreements between the federal government and housing …

About Canada: Poverty

For a country as wealthy as Canada, poverty is utterly unnecessary. In About Canada: Poverty, Jim Silver illustrates that poverty is about more than a shortage of money: it is …

Fast Facts: First Rung on the Ladder

Westgrove Literacy is a grassroots, community-based literacy program operated by Family Dynamics. This type of literacy programming serves the crucial function of being the first rung on the literacy and …

First Rung on the Ladder: Community-Based Literacy Programming in Public Housing Complexes

A wealth of evidence—both global and local—confirms the value of literacy, and the importance of programs that promote literacy. !is is especially the case for low-income individuals and communities, for …

We’re All in this Together: Factors that Influence and Support Success for Female Post-Secondary Students in Northern Manitoba, Canada

At the University College of the North, women make up approximately 80% of the student population in the Faculty of Arts and in the Nursing program (UCN, 2012). In the …

Every House Counts: First Nations Housing in Manitoba

A lot has been written about the housing crisis in Canada’s First Nation communities. Adequate housing is not available in many communities, resulting in high rates of overcrowding and long …

Tribulations and Tears: Stories from the Youth of Norway House Cree Nation

The nuances within the youth of the Norway House Cree Nation along with the escalation in drugs, gangs and violence have led to climbing incarceration rates within the youth population. …

Street Gangs in Winnipeg: Inner-city Youth Prevention Programs as Sites of Resistance?

Drawing on both post-colonial literature and critical gang studies research, this Master’s thesis situates the advent and growth of Indigenous street gangs in the context of settler colonialism, global economic restructuring, …

Fast Facts: World Urban Forum 7 – Policy Lessons from Colombia

For one week in early April, Sara Swartz (Universitas Programme of the KIP International School), Shauna MacKinnon (Manitoba Research Alliance [MRA] and University of Winnipeg [UW]) and Lynne Fernandez (MRA …

Rooming Houses to Rooming Homes: A Documentary Short