LOW-INCOME Manitobans are in desperate need of housing. Yet housing remains low on the list of priorities as we near the end of this provincial election campaign and most Manitobans seem to be unaware of the issue. But the growing membership of the Right to Housing Coalition suggests that this is changing. Study after study; report after report; consultation after consultation, reveal that housing is among the most critical of challenges for poor households. However, a recent Right to Housing Coalition survey of Manitoba's political parties suggests a lack of understanding of the urgency and extent of the problem. Children without stable housing are changing schools several times in a year and often eventually drop out completely. Refugees are being placed in neglected and dangerous h...
The houses are part of the Kapyong Barracks, owned by the Department of National Defence and vacant since 2004, when the base relocated to Shilo. The cost of keeping these 150 houses empty, heated and maintained is estimated to be $1.5 million per year -- an expense paid for by the DND, which means Canadian taxpayers like you and I are the ones footing the bill. There's a finite time frame on the use of these houses, as the DND plans to sell them to a development company that likely will tear them down in favour of rebuilding. However, under current DND regulations, only military families or federal civil servants are allowed to live in them. The Right to Housing Coalition, a grassroots network of local groups, has enlisted the help of reputable, experienced agencies, and together, th...
The provincial government's attempt to sell Neepawa's former East View Lodge to the highest bidder may have jeopardized a plan to renovate the facility into affordable housing units. [...] it was the right thing for the community.
It's almost a given that they're going to be less livable," said housing advocate Clark Brownlee. "The fact that Kapyong has been in limbo and under dispute can't do much to increase the value. The homes aren't on the market, they can't be on the market and they can't be rented. Brownlee and his Right to Housing Coalition, backed by Liberal MP Anita Neville and the Doer government, has begged Ottawa to rent out some of the vacant homes at Kapyong to low-income families or recent immigrants, especially given Winnipeg's rock-bottom vacancy rate.
The vacant houses at Kapyong barracks sparked a war of words Thursday, and today they'll prompt a protest in front of Treasury Board president Vic Toews' office. They are a glaring example of the federal government's inaction on housing," said Ellen Kruger, spokesperson for the Right to Housing Coalition. "It's shameful. Peguis Chief Glenn Hudson, whose band is one of the seven First Nations claiming Kapyong, said the issue of moving the homes is a red herring. The bands don't want the homes to be moved onto reserves -- it's too costly. Instead, they want to help develop Kapyong.
.... The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, CMHC, is the domestically dominant re... notion that housing is either a fundamental right, or fundamentally good, which are related but diff...
I am tired of listening to the NDP bash the Tories about the MTS privatization and trying to make an illogical connection to Manitoba Hydro. Not only is the privatization of MTS old news, it has clearly turned out to be a good decision. MTS is now an effective, successful corporation instead of the bloated bureaucratic mess it once was. In fact, it is now one of the country's largest telecommunications companies. According to the NDP, this is a bad thing. And to think that this could happen to Manitoba Hydro as well! Not only do I think that the NDP seems to be out of touch with Manitobans, they seem to be out of touch with reality. It is so encouraging to see that [Gary Doer] and the NDP have finally outlined a decent housing policy for Manitobans. What an idea. The world's biggest tee...
...TOM SASKOSKY. Winnipeg. Right approach to skeeters. Re: City's annual skeeter ba...
A lot of our leaders said that the Indian Act is perhaps outdated," [Morley Watson] said. "There's perhaps new ways to operate, new ways to have an act that helps us govern our lives. We have to approach this with extreme caution because again, we don't know all the answers right now. "A lot of times in the past, in First Nations communities, we've been able to resolve a lot of these issues amongst ourselves," said Watson. "Our First Nations living under the Indian Act could not launch complaints against anyone. And an example of that is in housing. If our band membership applied for housing and was denied, that member felt that he or she was not fairly dealt with, he or she could not file a complaint against the human rights commission," Watson said.
IT'S been said that you can call any group a "people" or a "nation" once they have a shared set of stories -- something that reveals what they think about themselves and the world around them. Four decades later, Steinbach-born poet and playwright Patrick Friesen considers the same landmark in a similar way, in his poem Provencher Bridge: "We live like that," he writes, "with our different ways/ meeting on the bridge/ some moonlit nights/ the river glittering/ beneath us. I should tell you right now how I got to where I am: single mother on the dole, public housing, all that. It wasn't a goal of mine, certainly. As a child I never once dreamed, "I will be a poor mother." I had fully intended to be a forest ranger. . . So I'm not proud of it or anything, but it happened. And it's how ...
Decisions adults make about their immigration status shouldn't impinge on the children's right to go to school," she said. Crescent-Fort Rouge United Church, which is housing the [Hassan Raza] family, is in Liberal MP Anita Neville's riding. In October, Neville wrote to then-Immigration minister Monte Solberg asking him to grant the Razas landed immigrant status on humanitarian and compassionate grounds. There's since been a cabinet shuffle but no action on the Razas' immigration case. "When (volunteer) Diane Gillis arrived Friday morning to take them to school, the three-year-old was all dressed with his backpack, ready to go," said [Barb Janes]. "He refused to believe he wasn't going to school, too.
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