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Fast Facts: The Beginning of the End for Manitoba Hydro?
A version of this first appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press October 26, 2018 An October 18th provincial news release advises that former BC Premier…
Fast Facts: How to Make a Low Income Bus Pass Work
A year after announcing a 25-cent a trip fare increase, mayoral candidate Brian Bowman has promised to create a low-income transit pass if he is…
Manitoba’s Climate & Green Plan
Catastrophic Failure of Leadership Last week, the Manitoba government announced it would amend Bill 16, the “Climate and Green Plan,” to eliminate its flat $25/tonne…
What we heard: Frequent, Affordable, Safe and Accessible
The key to achieving a more equitable transportation system in Winnipeg Key Findings from the Transportation Townhall meeting Access to affordable, reliable, safe, and accessible…
Fast Facts: Drop the Stereotypes, and Deal with the Real Problem
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press September 28, 2018 In August the Free Press published an article (Safety complaints at Lord Selkirk Park, Aug.…
Fast Facts: Tax increment financing and True North Square
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press September 20, 2018 On Thursday September 20, Winnipeg City Council will vote on a motion to clear the…
Fast Facts: Winnipeg-Where the buildings have no names and the streets have no crossings
Nearly forty years ago, in March 1979, Winnipeg city councillor Joe Zuken led a band of a dozen or so pedestrians in what is likely…
Fast Facts: Searching for fairness in Manitoba’s Carbon Tax
Last month our office released a report authored by Harvey Stevens that found the federal carbon tax will reduce more greenhouse gases than the proposed…
Fast Facts: Indigenous language revitalization and child care
Indigenous peoples have a troubled relationship with the systems that have been imposed by settler colonial populations. The imposition of education through the residential school…
Fast Facts: Activist legacy at risk if pesticide ban reversed
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press September 8, 2018 I went to visit a friend and colleague recently – someone I hadn’t seen for…
Hope on the horizon?
What the new federal poverty plan means for Manitoba The federal government released its national poverty reduction strategy “Opportunities for All” last month. The plan…
Fast Facts: Municipalities must prepare for climate change
First published in the Winnipeg Sun September 8, 2018 In response to Jonathan Alward’s piece on municipal overspending, small business owners are not the only…
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