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Posted: January 9, 2020

Taking Stock of Manitoba’s Social Housing Plan

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Category: housing, Manitoba, Manitoba Research Alliance, Rent Assist, Urban Development, Winnipeg Tags: Manitoba, Shauna MacKinnon

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Last Updated: December 12, 2019

Ellen Smirl Public Works Presentation November 28, 2019

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Category: Committee Presentations, inequality, public sector, social exclusion, transportation, Winnipeg

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Last Updated: December 12, 2019

Lynne Fernandez Executive Policy Committee presentation November 28, 2019

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Category: budgets, city planning, Committee Presentations, Indigenous, inequality, infrastructure, Inner City, parks and recreation, taxes, Winnipeg Tags: Lynne Fernandez, Manitoba

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Last Updated: December 12, 2019

Transportation Equity & the Low Income Bus Pass

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Presentation to the City of Winnipeg Council

Category: climate change, Disability, economic well-being, environment, inequality, infrastructure, poverty, transportation, Uncategorized, Winnipeg Tags: Molly McCracken

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Last Updated: January 30, 2019

Valuing the Voice of People Living with Disabilities in Manitoba

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By Carlos Sosa Recently the Manitoba Government made a decision to reject a core funding application from the Manitoba League of Persons with Disabilities (MLPD) for the 2018-19 fiscal year. It can be very difficult for an organization …

Category: Disability, economic well-being, Employment, health, Income Equality, poverty, Seniors, social exclusion, Winnipeg Tags: Carlos Sosa, Manitoba

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Last Updated: January 30, 2019

The Deep Roots of the Meth Crisis

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By Jim Silver First published in the Winnipeg Free Press December 19, 2018 Winnipeg’s meth crisis continues to skyrocket. I think a case can be made that in large part, the meth problem is a reflection of a …

Category: Income Equality, Manitoba, Meth, social exclusion, Winnipeg Tags: Jim Silver, Manitoba

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Posted: October 23, 2018

How to make a low income bus pass work

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By Ellen Smirl 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 re-elected mayor on October 24th. This is great news because …

Category: budgets, city planning, environment, Income Equality, inequality, infrastructure, newcomers, poverty, transportation, Winnipeg Tags: Ellen Smirl, Manitoba

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Last Updated: October 3, 2018

Drop the Stereotypes and deal with the real problem

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By Jim Silver 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. 24, 2018) that painted a very negative picture of Lord …

Category: housing, Inner City, North End Winnipeg, Winnipeg Tags: Jim Silver, Manitoba

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Last Updated: September 25, 2018

Winnipeg: Where the buildings have no names and the streets have no crossings

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By Doug Smith 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 to have been city’s most celebrated act of jaywalking. The …

Category: infrastructure, Inner City, privatization, taxes, transportation, Uncategorized, Winnipeg

Taking Stock of Manitoba’s Social Housing Plan

Lynne Fernandez Executive Policy Committee presentation November 28, 2019

Transportation Equity & the Low Income Bus Pass

How to make a low income bus pass work

Drop the Stereotypes and deal with the real problem

Winnipeg: Where the buildings have no names and the streets have no crossings

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