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Manitoba: Poverty Central

Social Planning Council of Winnipeg

Manitoba Report Card Update – December 2020

Manitoba: Poverty Central is an update to Broken Promise Stolen Futures. Both are based on the T1 Family File, with poverty status derived from income returns.

Please see our campaign 2000 Manitoba updated child poverty report below:

Manitoba: Poverty Central

Read our media release: Media Release Campaign 2000 MB Report Card Update – December 2020

Media Coverage: 

Police Accountability Coalition

Social Planning Council of Winnipeg

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

Stay tuned for more!

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) Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86285441144 Featuring Guest … Continue reading →

How can we secure a racism-free future?

Social Planning Council of Winnipeg

Take Action! Find out the different things you can do to support and promote racial justice henceforth. To paraphrase Angela Davis, it’s not enough to *not* be racist — you need to be anti-racist. First of all, What is Anti-Racism? Be … Continue reading →

PRESENT DAY RACISM IN CANADA:

Social Planning Council of Winnipeg

Be Informed! What is happening today and why? Below you can find out what the current issues are about. Police brutality continually treated like a ‘one-off’ in Canada Thousands rally in Toronto against anti-black racism after woman falls from balcony … Continue reading →

Racism in the PAST:

Social Planning Council of Winnipeg

Reflect! Learn about the history and get background information on racism in Canada What is Anti-Racism? Canada’s slavery secret: The whitewashing of 200 years of enslavement The tragic story of Africville: a part of a much larger story of Black … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

Corrections issues decades in the making

Social Planning Council of Winnipeg

“We have public health issues that we are now looking at, so I think we’re working with an eye to make sure everybody who is in, is in to protect the public,” the prosecutor said. “If they are supposed to … Continue reading →

Community Support – Do you want to help or do you need help?

Social Planning Council of Winnipeg
  • Kids Crisis Text Line – Need help now? Text CONNECT to 686868. Check out the link to volunteer as a crisis responder if you are interested and able. Volunteers are needed currently.
  • Join the Social Distance Pow Wow Facebook group to connect with Indigenous Peoples online for community support and to share ideas for navigating this shut-down period.
  • Help Next Door MB: If you are a volunteer ready to provide your support or someone who needs a helping hand through these difficult times, this platform can connect you.
  • CareMongering Facebook group: If you need someone to help you or you want to help someone in your community, please check out this group.
  • Charleswood-Tuxedo-Westwood residents: The staff at Charleswood 55+ Centre is available via phone (204-897-5263) from 10 am to 2pm, Mon – Fri,  to help seniors who are unable to leave their home and need essentials including food or medication

Broken Promise Stolen Futures: Child and Family Poverty in Manitoba, Campaign 2000

Social Planning Council of Winnipeg

Campaign 2000 is a national coalition that monitors progress and setbacks to end child and family poverty in Canada. It was initially formed to hold the federal government to its 1989 unanimous motion in the House of Commons to end child poverty by the year 2000.

This report is focused on the situation in Manitoba. Even with the federal Canada Child Benefit and using both the federal and provincial governments’ preferred and more forgiving poverty measure, the Market Basket Measure, Manitoba ranked 4th in both overall and child poverty in 2016. However in 2018, there was an increase of 7% in overall poverty and 19% increase in child poverty. The report demonstrates that at this rate it will take 697.5 years to end child poverty in Manitoba.

Read the full report here Broken Promise, Stolen Futures: Child and Family Poverty in Manitoba (2020 Report)

Read Sara’s story here .

Media Release: Manitoba Child Poverty Report 2020

Social Planning Council of Winnipeg

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 8th, 2020 Campaign 2000 is a national coalition that monitors progress and setbacks to end child and family poverty in Canada. It was initially formed to hold the federal government to its 1989 unanimous motion in … Continue reading →

COVID-19: Applying for EI

Social Planning Council of Winnipeg

The following documents may be helpful for yourself, your staff and/or your clients. The Applying For EI document is provided in English and French, and the Contact Information sheet is a bilingual document. On the sheet, there is information for … Continue reading →

City Budget 2020-2024: Fours Years of Cuts to Community

Social Planning Council of Winnipeg

COVID-19 CRISIS HIGHLIGHTS NEED FOR PROVINCIAL INVESTMENTS TO END POVERTY, SOCIAL EXCLUSION: BUDGET 2020 RESPONSE Make Poverty History Manitoba (MPHM) Please click here for our full final budget submission to the Executive Policy Committee (EPC) on the 18th and Council on the … Continue reading →

Winnipeg Needs More for Four More Years

Social Planning Council of Winnipeg

(Updated budget presentation to EPC in light of COVID-19, an update on Winnipeg: More than pipes, parks and pavement) I am here to disagree that this budget has balanced essentials and shared the pain of long overdue and needed austerity. … Continue reading →