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Fast Fasts: CEO Sleep Out – Charity not Change
Last night several dozen business leaders, politicians and high profile Winnipeggers spent a night at Portage and Main in the annual CEO Sleep Out to…
Fast Facts: A vote for austerity is a vote for more suffering
Lorrie Steeve’s distasteful comments about Aboriginal panhandlers set off a series of responses that reflected badly on many Winnipeggers. The following week’s big story was…
Fast Facts: Justice Requires Hope
Sunday, August 10th, marks the 40th anniversary of what has come to be known as Prisoners’ Justice Day in Canada. Ever since the suicide of…
Beer Bottles to Books
Remaking Merchants Corner Young North End activists hailed it as the latest example of “North End Rising.” That was the response when Premier Selinger announced…
Work Life: Seeds Planted for Green Economy in Manitoba
Last week, I was in Winnipeg and elsewhere in southern Manitoba for a roundtable and a series of field visits. Representing the Green Economy Network…
Fast Facts: Decolonizing the Inner City – a look at Youth for Christ
Youth for Christ is an evangelical Christian organization whose “Centre for Youth Excellence” received public funding based on a business plan that promised to meet…
Work Life: A Province with No Poverty?
The so-called war on poverty has been an abysmal failure. Poverty rates in Canada remain at stubbornly high levels. Most provinces, including Manitoba, still have…
Fast Facts: Federal housing strategy key to improving child welfare
Before the findings of the Hughes Commission report on the death of Phoenix Sinclair have been lost and forgotten and before the next child dies…
Fast Facts: Honouring the memory of Phoenix Sinclair
Our collective responsibility “The social and economic conditions that render children vulnerable to abuse and neglect are well beyond the scope of the child welfare…
Fast Facts: Protestors, Rights and Social Justice
Much critical commentary has been directed at Aboriginal students and others who disrupted a recent talk by Phil Fontaine. I would like to offer a…
Fighting For A Better Future
Mi’kmaq protests in N.B. a source of hope for all of us With the images of burning cop cars, the Mi’kmaq blockade in New Brunswick…
Rite of Passage
Graduating from high school is a rite of passage, but for students at risk, high school can be an oppressive and intimidating place. Programs like…
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