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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 …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Stream: Community Economic Development, Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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Putting Home at the Heart of Refugee Resettlement
July 8, 2021 | Authored by: Ray Silvius, Emily Halldorson, Hani Ataan Al-Ubeady
The culmination of a 5-year study based on interviews with recently arrived former refugees finds that securing good housing is a key part of successful settlement. However, a tight rental …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Stream: Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization
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COVID-19, Austerity and an Alternative Social and Economic Policy Path for Manitoba
April 6, 2021 | Authored by: Jesse Hajer, Lynne Fernandez
This report provides context and presents Manitoba-specific policy alternatives to austerity that could form part of an advocacy agenda. Section 1 sets the stage by reviewing the economic and political …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Stream: Featured
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Staffing the Crisis: The Capacity of Eleven Municipal Housing Departments Across Canada
February 17, 2021 | Authored by: Stefan Hodges
This research turned to ten other Canadian cities to ask how municipal housing departments supported the creation of affordable rental housing, and how much staff capacity was dedicated to that …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Stream: Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization
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West Broadway Methamphetamine Strategy
February 5, 2021 | Authored by: Erica Charron, Laura Canfield
The West Broadway Methamphetamine Strategy was born from the collaborative efforts and communal concerns of members who sit on the West Broadway Directors Network (WBDN), a committee spearheaded by the …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Stream: Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization, Justice, Safety and Security
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2020 State of the Inner City Report: The Changing State of the Inner-City
January 21, 2021 | Authored by: Shayna Plaut, Sarah Cooper, Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land, Justin Grift, Katharina Maier, Niigaan Sinclair
The acute and ongoing social, economic, cultural and political impacts of the COVID 19 pandemic cannot be overstated. Health and safety have required collective and social changes to everyday life …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Stream: Community Economic Development, Justice, Safety and Security
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Displacement, Housing and Homelessness in Northern Manitoba Communities
November 5, 2020 | Authored by: C. Lee Anne Deegan, Marleny M. Bonnycastle
Displacement, Housing and Homelessness in Northern Manitoba Communities by Lee Anne Deegan and and Marleny Bonnycastle was developed in two communities, Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation (NCN) and Thompson from 2018-2020. Community-Based …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Stream: Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization
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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 …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Stream: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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Indigenizing the Co-operative Model
October 15, 2020 | Authored by: Mark Intertas, Jim Thunder
Indigenizing the Co-operative Model by James Thunder and Mark Intertas begins with a delineation of the diversity and complexity of Indigenous peoples and their distinct cultures and history. The authors …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Stream: Community Economic Development
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State of the Inner City Report 2019
April 15, 2020 | Authored by: Ellen Smirl
The 2019 State of the Inner City report “Forest for the Trees: Reducing Drug and Mental Health Harms in the Inner City” finds that there is no clear strategy in how the …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Stream: Community Economic Development, Justice, Safety and Security
