The Shock Doctrine in Manitoba During COVID-19

For Immediate Release (Winnipeg, Treaty One): A new report finds that the Manitoba government accelerated privatization efforts and weakened democracy while Manitobans were preoccupied with the COVID – 19 pandemic. 

“The Shock Doctrine in Manitoba: How the Provincial Government Pushed Privatization and Weakened Democracy During COVID-19” is by Nicholas Pauls Harder and Molly McCracken 

Winnipeg Global Climate Strike March 3

Winnipeg: Global Climate Strike

Manitoba Government Ignores Evidence For Supervised Consumption Sites

By Thomas Linner,

Province can tackle fossil-flation with local clean energy  

Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press February 24, 2023

By Hannah Muhajarine,

Statement Against “World Unity Convoy”

We, the undersigned, denounce the return of a “Freedom Convoy” to Manitoba, re-branded as the “World Unity Convoy 2023.”

Whose Freedom?

As published in the Winnipeg Free Press, February 16, 2023

Budget Submission 2023/24

Performance-based funding limits student access

Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press Friday Feb. 3, 2023

By Julius Chester

The following op-ed by MHC Provincial Director Thomas Linner was originally published in the Brandon Sun on Thursday, February 2, 2023.

On August 19, 2022 the provincial government announced plans to contract out inter-facility transfer of low acuity patients “from the Brandon, Selkirk and Winkler/Morden areas to medical appointments, diagnostic tests or for treatment.” The Manitoba Health Coalition (MHC) is concerned that, once again, the Pallister-Stefanson government has ignored the actual rural health care staffing crisis – the severe lack of rural health care professionals, including paramedics and emergency medical dispatchers – with a service provision crisis.