Reading Time: 2 minutes Fell by 35 per cent in Alberta, 1.9 per cent in Manitoba and by 1.4 per cent in Saskatchewan
Category: Manitoba
The sad reality of teen mothers who give birth in care
Reading Time: 3 minutes A much greater emphasis needs to be put on dual placements – whenever possible, mothers and children should be placed together
We must fight crime at its social roots
Reading Time: 3 minutes The rash of liquor store robberies in Winnipeg says more about underlying social problems than it does about the effectiveness of police
Don’t romanticize the Winnipeg General Strike
Reading Time: 4 minutes The dangerous, violent seeds of the communist revolution were being sown in Canada
Mining permit waits hamper Canadian development
Reading Time: 3 minutes Exploration is the critical first stage in mining development. Yet many provinces don’t meet their own guidelines
How Manitoba can meet the challenges of a growing population
Reading Time: 3 minutes Government must cut public sector costs, taxes and fees. And become vastly better at providing needed and efficient services
There’s never enough for Manitoba’s expensive public schools
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s time the provincial government took over taxation decisions, merged school divisions and put a lid on spending
A staggering number of Indigenous Canadians are in jail
Reading Time: 4 minutes Canadian governments continue to allow the operation of a justice system constructed on a foundation of systemic racism
Tent cities aren’t the problem, just a symptom
Reading Time: 3 minutes We need to address contributing factors to homelessness, including mental illness, addictions and poverty
Two visions of mining for Manitoba
Reading Time: 3 minutes A path that includes meaningful consultation with Indigenous groups is destined to move development forward