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Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Manitoba Office There IS an alternative. The CCPA Manitoba is a charitable research institute that publishes non-partisan progressive social and economic research.

10/01/2026

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Rally to End Poverty

On October 15, right before the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, people across Manitoba will come together to say: poverty is not inevitable, and we can do better.

Join Make Poverty History Manitoba for a rally to celebrate the people and communities working for change—and to demand provincial government action to ensure everyone in Manitoba has a safe home, enough to eat, a decent income, and the opportunity to live with dignity.

Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026

12:00 - 1:00 pm

Manitoba Legislature

Featuring speakers from the following communities: First Nations, urban Indigenous, food banks, people with disabilities, newcomers, students, child poverty, feminists, housing, labour and Giiwedin Migizi drummers

Advocates know what it takes to end poverty, have the resources, the ideas, and the collective strength. What we need is the courage and political will to act.

Come raise your voice, stand together, and imagine a Manitoba where no one is left behind.

Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. 🧡 CCPA Manitoba joins in honouring residential school survivors ...
09/30/2026

Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. 🧡 CCPA Manitoba joins in honouring residential school survivors and their families, commemorating the tragic and lasting impact of residential schools that are a part of Canada's continuing colonial reality.

Anna Neil, author of the Indigenous relations chapter of the 2026 Alternative Municipal Budget, writes, "Indigenous Peoples in Winnipeg continue to live, govern, and relate through systems of law, responsibility, and kinship that existed long before the City of Winnipeg itself. Within Indigenous governance, responsibility is foundational: to protect people, to speak truth, and to hold systems accountable when they fail to uphold their obligations."

Read more in Weaving a Better Winnipeg to learn how Indigenous relations are a municipal election issue: https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/AMB-2026-7-Indigenous-relations.pdf?x21685

The Manitoba Living Wage Update 2026 is now here! 📢The living wage is the hourly wage a worker needs to cover basic livi...
09/29/2026

The Manitoba Living Wage Update 2026 is now here! 📢

The living wage is the hourly wage a worker needs to cover basic living expenses.

2026 Living Wages in Manitoba:

- Winnipeg: $20.31/hour

- Brandon: $17.40/hour

- Thompson: $18.73/hour

Rising food prices were a major driver of living wage increases in all three living wage cities, with price increases of just under four per cent. Higher transportation costs were also a contributing factor increasing at or near three per cent.

CCPA-MB calls on the Province of Manitoba to increase the minimum wage to $20.31 per hour, in line with the 2026 living wage, and to adopt an annual process for adjusting the minimum wage in line with a living wage.

Read the report here: https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/manitoba-living-wage-update-2026/

You're invited to our annual fundraising brunch! 🍳Please join us on Sunday, November 8 and hear from Morna Ballantyne on...
09/23/2026

You're invited to our annual fundraising brunch! 🍳

Please join us on Sunday, November 8 and hear from Morna Ballantyne on why Canada's child care program must succeed, while we honour the work of the Right Honourable Edward Schreyer.

Morna Ballantyne is the Executive Director of Child Care Now, Canada's national child care advocacy organization, and holds governments to account to fulfill the promise of $10-a-day universal child care. She served in senior staff positions with the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) until 2009, and then with the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC). She is a highly respected and experienced expert in public policy, advocacy, and government relations.

The 2026 Errol Black Chair in Labour Issues Fundraising Brunch will honour the incredible work of the Right Honourable Edward Schreyer, former Premier of Manitoba and Governor General of Canada. As Manitoba’s first NDP premier, Schreyer expanded the public sector’s role in the economy and in delivering universal services. His government eliminated health care premiums, introduced pharmacare and home care, created public auto insurance through Manitoba Public Insurance, expanded public housing, strengthened Manitoba Hydro, and led Winnipeg's amalgamation. Together, these reforms helped establish a distinctive “Manitoba model” of publicly owned essential services and infrastructure—an approach that continues to shape debates about affordability, inequality, privatization and the role of government.

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Manitoba needs your support to continue to publish research and push for progressive change.

🔗 Visit our website to purchase tickets: http://policyalternatives.ca/EBCbrunch2026

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