The discounts should not be offered until Winnipeg Transit completes a long-delayed fare-collection upgrade that will see new electronic equipment installed on buses. Technological improvements to the system, which will likely involve some form of swipe-card readers, will have "a significant impact" on transit fares once the upgrades are complete in 2011, [Carrie Erickson] writes. [Sam Katz] announced Friday his office will fund a year-long employment program for the Winnipeg Aboriginal Sport Achievement Centre (WASAC), a non-profit organization that offers sport and cultural programs to about 2,000 youths every year. The money will allow WASAC to train 45 youths in sports, dance, first aid and other forms of instruction. WASAC instructors also gain access to bursaries and scholarships ...
... the means of students from low-income families. WASAC executive director Kevin Chief said one of ...
Canadian authorities approved a U.S. army plan in 1953 for spraying an aerosol cloud over parts of Winnipeg to test the most effective ways of distributing chemical and biological warfare agents, a U.S. study shows. [...] the New Democrats increased a number of tax credits, including the basic tax-free exemption, which will provide tax relief for low income families.
Herb Bjarnason took issue with Bud Selig's stance on Barry Bonds' alleged use of steroids. He wrote, "And (the commissioner) has the gall to say that all men are presumed innocent until proven guilty. What a hypocrite. His petty action belies the platitude that Bonds is innocent until proven guilty. Leaving aside the question of hypocrisy, both Selig and Bjarnason are wrong that "all men are presumed innocent until proven guilty." Neither I nor any of your readers are bound by any stipulation whatsoever that we must presume that Bonds is innocent. Such an admonition is simply the burden of proof that both American and Canadian courts impose upon their jurors for the duration of a criminal trial. Anyone else can "presume" whatever they want, whenever they want. I can't believe I am sti...
... can't believe I am still hearing about low-income families feeling they should have access to the mi...
Lots of low-income families and single-parent families and those on social assistance can not afford to pay (in Brandon anywhere from $131 to $230) to have a female cat spayed.
[BRAYDON McArthur]'s mom, Lorie, remembers his first words when she picked him up at the end of the session: "I'm coming back next year! It actually looks like a little western town. They've done the buildings and everything like you'd see in an old western movie, and they sleep in chuckwagons," she says. "If it wasn't for them, really, he wouldn't be going this year. They've helped in a huge way and I don't know how many single parents and low-income families out there are aware of the fund," she says.
This paper considers gender analysis of time allocation for paid and unpaid work in five different types of Russian households, as well as the ways of adaptation in household features since 1991 (when the Soviet Union was disorganized). Emphasis was given on analysing consequences of the financial crisis in 1998, when many people lost their jobs and most Russian families lost their life savings. The ways of adaptation varied depending on the types of families. Families with low income and with children perform more unpaid work, and this work, mostly performed by the females, widens the opportunities of sustaining normal life for those who suffer hardships due to economic transformations in the country. The study was based on a Russian State Statistical Bureau (Goskomstat) data. The data...
I live and work in an inner-city community that has a recreation centre that is closed on weekends, where we don't have the capacity to keep our skating rink operating, and we can't get help from the city to mow the grass in our parks so the kids can play in them. This just isn't right. We could be doing so much better. In a report for the Ontario government, Dr. Mark Totten stresses that "taxpayers are better off with improved access to recreation for low-income families... for each dollar spent on quality programs, more than a dollar's worth of benefits are generated." In the 2009 preliminary operating budget, city council proposes a mystifying savings of $400,000 in recreation "program efficiencies" and there continue to be whispers of the closing of Sherbrook Pool -- a facility of...
In particular, Manitoba has been at the forefront in improving child-care programs, expanding the supply of affordable housing, raising the minimum wage and introducing a variety of initiatives aimed at improving the health and education of children in low-income families and expanding job opportunities for social assistance recipients. Raising the minimum wage to $10 per hour and pegging it to increase in average weekly wages or consumer indexes, establishing a provincial dental-care program based in schools, establishing a fair system of social assistance payments to ensure that recipients are not condemned to a situation of hopelessness and despair, promoting the formation of trade unions, clarifying employment standards legislation to make it clear to everyone that nobody can be fi...
Remember how last year's budget was somehow successfully branded as "clean and green" even though it didn't actually contain any environmentally friendly initiatives? That, fellow Winnipeggers, is the power of spin. Who says Winnipeggers don't want taxes raised? I, for one, am completely fine with a tax increase -- provided that the additional money goes towards funding services like, say, an actual green initiative or two. (And, for the record, attempting to pass off a year's worth of prompt snow removal as evidence of successful green programming doesn't cut it, although I did appreciate the establishment of rapid transit savings fund -- even if the initial $2.75 million investment makes it a somewhat symbolic gesture.) I'm sure it's nothing personal. Home renovation grants to low-inc...
...Home renovation grants to low-income families just aren't a high priority, I guess, whe...
An acronym for Solutions Towards Eliminating Poverty, the plan is to provide low-income families with the opportunity to buy their own home, by reducing the cost of constructing the house in various ways. Now more than two years since Kruck heard of the concept, the CMHA officially broke ground yesterday for its first STEP house at 439 Rosser Ave. E. The land was donated by the City of Brandon, eliminating the land cost for the future owner.
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