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
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press February 24, 2023
By Hannah Muhajarine,
We, the undersigned, denounce the return of a “Freedom Convoy” to Manitoba, re-branded as the “World Unity Convoy 2023.”
As published in the Winnipeg Free Press, February 16, 2023
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.
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