POLICY FIX
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The Repeal of the Literacy Act: Submission to Bill 55
Jim Silver’s Submission on Bill 55
Bill 64 Earns a Failing Grade
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press March 26, 2021 By Jim Silver
Normal is the Problem: long term care and COVID
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press April 28, 2020 By Jim Silver
Red River College Decision Part of a Pattern of Bad Decision-Making
By Paul Moist and Jim Silver
Drop the Stereotypes and deal with the real problem
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 …
He Had a Dream
By Jim Silver Fifty years ago, April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis Tennessee. James Earl Ray was convicted, but as Angela Davis said, “racism was Martin Luther King’s assassin.”
KPMG: Reasons to be skeptical of the advice they offer
By Jim Silver It is curious that the Pallister government would have hired consulting firm KPMG to provide advice on how to manage the Province’s affairs. KPMG’s actions across the world and in Canada—some illegal; many promoting the …
Don’t cut Neighbourhoods Alive!
By Jim Silver The provincial government has halted funding for Neighbourhoods Alive! This is a serious mistake. Neighbourhoods Alive! (NA) is a provincial government program that funds community development initiatives in thirteen low-income urban areas in Manitoba, including …
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