Join us for our Annual General Meeting!

Social Planning Council of Winnipeg
The Social Planning Council of Winnipeg would like to invite you all to our Annual General Meeting.
Date: Thursday, September 24th, 2020
Time: 5:30 pm (Members encouraged to sign it at 5:15pm to establish quorum)
Featuring Guest Speaker: Evelyn L. Forget on What a Universal Basic Income Could Mean
Evelyn L. Forget is an economist in the College of Medicine at the University of Manitoba. Several years ago she began researching the data associated with a basic income field experiment conducted in Manitoba in the 1970s. She has been consulted by governments and researchers in Ontario, British Columbia, Quebec, Finland, the Netherlands and Scotland on this topic. Her research has been featured on CBC Ideas, PBS Marketplace, Freakonomics and in the documentary The Free Lunch Society. Her most recent book is “Basic Income for Canadians: from the covid-19 emergency to financial security for all.”
This year, we will be having a virtual AGM via Zoom, and although we have been working hard with lots to report on, we are planning to keep the AGM business short and to the point since we know most of us are already all ‘Zoomed out’.

AGM documents:

After the AGM, please stay on a bit longer for a talk by Evelyn Forget on Universal Basic Income. Let’s take the politics out of the conversation and discuss the facts. Hope you can join us!

Anti-Racism Resources

Social Planning Council of Winnipeg

For anyone who still believes we do not have systemic racism in Canada, please look at these statistics. If your takeaway is that the people of colour are somehow inferior and that is why they are not succeeding, then you are a racist. If you understand the reasons why so many are left behind is because the barriers they face are simply too insurmountable for far too many, then please have a look at the resources we have gathered so you can take some actions. 

 

Resources:

 

One last note on numbers, when we released the  Broken Promise, Stolen Futures: Child and Family Poverty in Manitoba report card, we highlighted that child poverty in Manitoba and all across Canada is both gendered and racialized.  Please have a look at this graph for the evidence:

This chart provides the poverty rates for Indigenous children[xxiv, xxv], immigrant children (children of persons who are or have ever been landed immigrants or permanent residents)[xxvi] and racialized children (persons other than Indigenous Peoples who are non-Caucasian in race, or non-white in colour)[xxvii].

To paraphrase Angela Davis, it’s not enough to *not* be racist — you need to be anti-racist.

Kate Kehler,

Executive Director