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Last Updated: December 18, 2023

Tax cuts true threat to Manitoba’s finances

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Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press December 18, 2023

Category: Deficit, Manitoba Tags: Jesse Hajer

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Posted: December 12, 2023

Manitoba Living Wage Update 2023

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December 12, 2023 For Immediate Release (Winnipeg, Treaty One): In Winnipeg, the living wage has risen to $19.21 per hour, in Brandon to $15.69 per hour, and in Thompson to $17.48 per hour. In Winnipeg, this is an …

Category: Living Wage, Manitoba, Wages

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Last Updated: December 4, 2023

An interview with Ricardo Tranjan, author of The Tenant Class

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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).

Category: housing, Manitoba, Rent Assist, Right to Housing, social exclusion Tags: Ricardo Tranjan

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Last Updated: November 30, 2023

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

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Manitoba far from meeting its child care promises

Category: childcare, Manitoba, Uncategorized Tags: Susan Prentice

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Last Updated: November 7, 2023

The high cost of austerity

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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 …

Category: Aboriginal issues, austerity, Indigenous, Manitoba, Role of Government, Truth and Reconciliation Commission Tags: Niigaan Sinclair