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Winnipeg at a Crossroads in bite size pieces
The Alternative Municipal Budget in one-page shareables! Download 179.92 KB8 pages Dowload individual shareables below thanks to the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg! Attachments FoodAccess.pdfHousing.pdfTransit.pdfPolice.pdf
Fast Facts: Winnipeg’s financial cupboard is bare
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press October 4, 2022 The cupboard looks pretty bare at the City of Winnipeg. The City’s Financial Report, released…
What to know before you vote: Implications of Winnipeg Mayoral Candidate Platforms
I’m being asked which mayoral candidate with the potential to win Winnipeg’s election has the better platform when it comes to policing, recreation, housing, taxation…
Safer Schools Without Policing Indigenous and Black Lives In Winnipeg
Download 2.53 MB44 pages School safety is important for all students and families. Feeling safe in schools can provide the optimal learning space where students…
Leaning Against the Wind
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Code Red: Winnipeg’s Fire and Paramedic Service Infrastructure Deficit
Download 542.35 KB20 pages The condition ofWinnipeg’s infrastructure is a seemingly endless source of public frustration. The deterioration of roadways during Winnipeg’s annual spring thaw…
Falling Behind: Service and Wage decline at the City of Winnipeg
Download 597.92 KB 24 pages The City of Winnipeg is experiencing difficulty retaining and recruiting employees to deliver key public services due to low wages…
Work Life: Lots to Consider this Labour Day
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press Sept 1, 2022 September marks the end of summer, the return to school and Labour Day, an opportune…
Manitoba Living Wage
Update 2022 Download 2.46 MB 12 pages The 2022 living wage update comes alongside the fastest increases to the cost of living seen since the early…
Manitoba fails to adequately raise Minimum Wage
For Immediate Release (Winnipeg): The Manitoba government’s minimum wage announcement today will not cover the massive cost of living increases low-income workers face in 2022.…
Fast Facts: Respect and the right to abortion
The loss of abortion rights in the U.S. has spurned new debate here in Canada. In the Free Press op ed “A key question in…
Unearth this buried treasure: adult education in Manitoba
When she was 34 years old and a single mother of four living on social assistance in a large public housing complex in Winnipeg’s North End, Aja Oliver saw a sign at a community centre for an Adult Learning Centre. She had not finished high school, had struggled, as did everyone in her family, with the many complexities of life in poverty, and was fed up with being on social assistance. She ventured in. Her life has not been the same since.
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