An interview with Ricardo Tranjan, author of The Tenant Class

Ricardo Tranjan, author of The Tenant Class, joins us for a community conversation with local housing activists Rebecca Hume (Together at 149 Langside), Yutaka Dirks (R2H Coalition) and moderator Stefan Hodges (West Broadway Tenants Committee).

More than 20,000 committed child care spaces not yet delivered

Manitoba far from meeting its child care promises

Susan Prentice of the Child Care Coalition, Professor at the University of Manitoba and CCPA Research Associate speaking at the National Day of Action for Child Carr Nov 30 at the MB Legislature 

Austerity Hurts

Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press November 13, 2023

The high cost of austerity

By Niigaan Sinclair

Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press June 23, 2023

After winning the 2016 provincial election, then-premier Brian Pallister moved Manitoba’s department of Indigenous and northern affairs under the municipal relations banner — suggesting a radical change in how the government viewed treaty rights, Indigenous rights, and working with First Nations and Métis communities.

Healthcare is a Public Good

 

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Time to give adult education a boost

By Jim Silver

Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press October 26, 2023

Take aim at inequality

Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press Saturday October 21, 2023

We really can live without fossil fuels

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Austerity hurts public education

Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press September 9, 2023

By Ee-Seul Yoon

The Solution is More Housing

Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press October 11, 2023

There is a growing interest among politicians — including Winnipeg’s Mayor and those from Manitoba’s NDP — in learning from the “Houston model” to address homelessness. Those of us working to help transition people into housing cannot understand the fuss — this is the primary model we have used for almost 15 years. We know firsthand that Winnipeg does not need a “new” model — it needs more housing.