Activities and Issues – Social Planning Council of Winnipeg

Police Accountability Coalition

SPCW is a member of the Police Accountability Coalition and helped develop the briefing document. Please check out the full documents below:

Full brief: Community Organizations Call for Police Accountablity and the Reallocation of Resources – Updated September 25, 2020
Media Release: Media Release – PAC – September 24, 2020
Media Coverage:
- Global News: Winnipeg police board sees calls for budget cuts, policy changes (Sept 24th, 2020)
- CBC News: Winnipeg Police Board hears allegations of racial profiling, checkstops (Sept 24th, 2020)
- Winnipeg Free Press: Community coalition calls for redirection of slice of police budget (Sept 24th, 2020)
Watch the presentation to Winnipeg Police Board here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_ywT9AUkAg&feature=youtu.be

Stay tuned for more!

Join us for our Annual General Meeting!

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)

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86285441144

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!

Budgets are Coming – Get Involved!

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Holiday Resources Calendar – Winnipeg

We have pulled together this calendar of some of the resources that will be operating over the holidays. For additional details on hours and programming for each day, please click on the date of interest. We know that a lot … Continue reading →

With Love From Mom

With Love From Mom is a Christmas Campaign to get children gifts from their mom’s who are incarcerated this Christmas. Donations accepted at 1572 Dublin Ave or you can donate money online here. SCO requests that donations be dropped off … Continue reading →

Restorative Justice Association of Manitoba

The Restorative Justice Association of Manitoba (RJAM) is a community and grassroots initiative with the goal of transforming our current justice system. Its vision is for a Manitoba that is a just society in which all lives have equal value. … Continue reading →

Data Consortium

The Winnipeg Data Consortium purchases consistent socio-economic data from national sources, including the Census, for locally defined geographies, such as Winnipeg’s neighbourhoods and Manitoba’s Regional Health Authorities. This supports government and community groups/departments in policy analysis, research, and evidence-based decision-making. … Continue reading →

Make Poverty History Manitoba

Make Poverty History Manitoba (MPHM) is a coalition committed to changing public policy to achieve a Manitoba without poverty. The coalition is a multi-sectoral collaborative coalition representing business, education, student, youth, Aboriginal, newcomer, labour, women’s, disability, urban, rural, and northern communities. The … Continue reading →

Immigration Partnership Winnipeg

Immigration Partnership Winnipeg (IPW) helps create a community that has a strong desire and capacity to receive newcomers and make them feel at home. IPW is a Local Immigration Partnership (LIP). LIPs are multi-sectoral collectives that bring a new form … Continue reading →