POLICY FIX
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Report launch – Moving to the City: Housing and Aboriginal Migration to Winnipeg
A Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Manitoba report by Josh Brandon and Evelyn Peters
About the divide: It’s complicated
By Shauna MacKinnon Winnipeg’s divide is far more complex than Bartley Kives suggests in his article “High hopes for first indigenous Winnipeg mayor” (Winnipeg Free Press Saturday October 25). Having a self-identified Métis mayor will undoubtedly dispel many …
Grassroots women’s mayoral forum sheds light on key issues
By Mareike Brunelli On October 8th, over 60 women gathered at the Circle of Life Thunderbird House on Treaty One territory to share their views on municipal issues and address mayoral candidates. This forum was different than any …
Terminally ill professor pleads for asbestos ban
University of Manitoba professor Patricia Martens has one more mission as an epidemiologist as she confronts her final days with a terminal disease. She wants the government to stop aiding and abetting the lethal trade in asbestos. Martens …
CEO Sleep Out: Charity not Change
By Molly McCracken Last night several dozen business leaders, politicians and high profile Winnipeggers spent a night at Portage and Main in the annual CEO Sleep Out to raise funds and awareness about poverty and homelessness. However if …
City hall can help jobless
While election cycles bring some community challenges to the spotlight, the work creating solutions to these complex challenges is ongoing. Winnipeg’s inner-city neighbourhoods have been quietly transforming — creating employment, reducing poverty, reversing neighbourhood decline and preventing crime. …
Winnipeg mayoral debate on environmental issues
Winnipeg’s all-candidates mayoral forum on the environment will take place September 30th at the First Unitarian-Universalist Church (603 Wellington Crescent). The forum will give voters the opportunity to hear how candidates would address major environmental challenges facing Winnipeg …
Beer Bottles to Books: Remaking Merchants Corner
By Jim Silver Young North End activists hailed it as the latest example of “North End Rising.” That was the response when Premier Selinger announced on June 24 that the Provincial Government is investing more than $9 million …
Seeds Planted for Green Economy in Manitoba
By Tony Clarke Last week, I was in Winnipeg and elsewhere in southern Manitoba for a roundtable and a series of field visits. Representing the Green Economy Network [GEN] — a national alliance of civil society organizations committed …
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