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June 14, 2022: Joint Statement on Proposed Dismantling of Winnipeg Bus Shelters by City Council

Social Planning Council of Winnipeg

As a community, we are very concerned with the approach taken by Councillor Shawn Nason and the majority of the Infrastructure Renewal and Public Works (IRPW) committee on June 9, 2022. We do not support the motion to remove infrastructure from bus stops on Regent Avenue or anywhere else. These types of actions are regressive, punitive approaches to poverty and homelessness that have proven failures.

In the absence of adequate housing and safe consumption sites, people inevitably use substances in public spaces. Dismantling one or two bus shelters does not address this, as was openly admitted at the June 9 IRPW meeting. Safe consumption sites are an evidence-based best practice for reducing harms of street-level substance use. The only solution to homelessness is housing; and housing is a human right. To address street-level homelessness and substance use, the City must invest in safe, supportive, culturally appropriate housing, consumption sites and mobile outreach services. In this way, relationships between community outreach teams and unsheltered residents can lead to an even greater number of successful housing placements than local outreach providers are already achieving. 

The Kíkinanaw Óma Strategy contains many solutions-oriented recommendations, including interim steps such as a guide for the public on what to do if they encounter folks who may be unsheltered. The City of Winnipeg is a key partner in the strategy, alongside lived experts, other levels of government and community organizations such as End Homelessness Winnipeg, Main Street Project, 1JustCity, Aboriginal Health and Wellness Centre, West Central Women’s Resource Centre, Right to Housing Coalition, Fearless R2W and others. The City’s own Encampment Support Process is grounded in this strategy, stating that the City of Winnipeg is committed to working with partner agencies to find long-term solutions for supporting unsheltered Winnipeggers. The City’s own process also states that, at all times, the City’s actions will be guided by the human rights based approach outlined in A National Protocol for Homeless Encampments in Canada, issued by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing.

The motion to dismantle bus shelters undermines these commitments. Rather, it blames people experiencing homelessness and people who use substances for a host of  issues – related to community safety, housing, health, public transit, waste removal and maintenance of public space – that are the responsibility of municipal and other levels of government. In this sense, it is a mere distraction from urgent City Council priorities. Further, when leaders at City Hall misrepresent the City’s approach as ineffectual because it takes time, during which homelessness remains visible, they undermine Winnipeg’s commitment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and to Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples.

Research indicates that more than two-thirds of those experiencing homelessness in Winnipeg are Indigenous: survivors of legacies of colonization and cultural genocide including Residential Schools and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirit people. More than half of people experiencing homelessness in Winnipeg have been in the care of Child and Family Services, meaning they are also survivors of family separation, abuse and neglect. More than half of people experiencing homelessness have traumatic brain injuries. Nearly half are living with physical and/or mental health disabilities. 

Housing successes in this context still occur, in collaboration with every mobile outreach provider that has casework and navigation supports. Achieving results takes time, due to siloed and bureaucratic government systems that must be navigated to access housing: income assistance, identification, primary care, disability services, cultural supports, justice services, mental health and/or addictions treatment, all of which must be arranged separately, often with long wait times. This creates barriers to access and trust for people, even with the best-trained, housing-focused, peer-led outreach available.

In the interim, bus shelters can provide refuge from the elements and a sense of safety to community members, as well as a place to gather. They likewise provide a critical amenity to people who have housing and do not use substances in public places. Taking bus shelters away and blaming this action on “homelessness and drug use” only reinforces stigma, fear and hatred toward people without homes and with substance use concerns.

The stigmatizing and hateful language used by some Councillors to describe our unsheltered friends, relatives, and neighbours – in some cases literally comparing them to trash or excrement – is the most shocking and deeply concerning aspect of this issue. It is clear that some Councillors deem people gathering in bus shelters as undeserving of the most basic human respect or dignity, let alone rights. Proposals to dismantle bus shelters, implement hostile architecture (such as slanted benches as proposed at the IRPW meeting), and “move people along” deepen the rights violations and accessibility barriers faced by people who are already experiencing daily violations of their right to live in security, peace, and dignity.

We urge the City to undertake the following:

  1. Create Housing: commit to provide 150 new units of low-barrier transitional housing with supports in 2022-23, by securing a hotel, or other facilities, and partnering with community organizations to run the housing specifically to transition people from encampments, bus shelters or sleeping rough
  2. Create safe consumption sites and mobile services connected to housing and treatment options
  3. Create additional, community-based crisis stabilization spaces and services
  4. Enhance outreach grants to cover costs of 24-hour services with casework supports
  5. Provide funding to implement the city’s Poverty Reduction Strategy
  6. Engage the Province of Manitoba to increase income supports and rental benefits 

These actions will help to achieve the City’s stated goals and commitments to human rights and Reconciliation.
Signed,

Jacob Kaufman, Peer Advocate
Kris Clemens, End Homelessness Winnipeg
Betty Edel, End Homelessness Winnipeg 
Lauren Lange, End Homelessness Winnipeg
Yvonne Dubois, End Homelessness Winnipeg
Daniel Waycik, PCS
Thomas Linner, Manitoba Health Coalition
Lin Howes Barr, Spence Neighbourhood Association
Jamil Mahmood, Main Street Project
Carly Nicholson, MFL Occupational Health Centre
Tessa Whitecloud, Siloam Mission 
Marnie Vieira, North End Women’s Centre Outreach
Glynis Quinn, 1JustCity
Aja Oliver, North End Women’s Centre Culture and Ceremony Coordinator
Amanda Liévana-MacTavish, Harm Reduction Outreach Worker
Joanna Bergen, Mennonite Central Committee Manitoba 
Kelly Holmes, Resource Assistance for Youth (RaY)
Janet Forbes, Inclusion Winnipeg 
David Kron, Cerebral Palsy Association of Manitoba
Kemlin Nembhard, Women’s Health Clinic 
Tara Zajac, North Point Douglas Women’s Centre
Lorie English, West Central Women’s Resource Centre
Charlie Eau, West Central Women’s Resource Centre
Mary Burton, Fearless R2W
Leigh Anne Caron, Sexual Education Resrouce Centre
Kate Kehler, Social Planning Council of Winnipeg
Cynthia Drebot, North End Women’s Centre (NEWC)
Paula Hendrickson, Aboriginal Health & Wellness Centre of Winnipeg Inc.
Della Herrera, Aboriginal Health and Wellness Centre of Winnipeg Inc. 
Al Wiebe, Of No Fixed Address
Susan Berthiaume, North End Women’s Centre 
Stephanie Ross, North End Women’s Centre
Lisa Carriere, North End Women’s Centre
Tracy Wark, North End Women’s Centre  
Linda English, End Homelessness Winnipeg
Angie Hutchinson, Wahbung Abinoonjiiag Inc.
Mary Burton, Fearless R2W

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62% v 19% of Winnipeggers Say Spend More Money on Poverty than Police

October 13, 2022

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Results from a recent poll of Winnipeggers challenge the notion that we should address concerns about safety by spending more on police. September 2022 polling feedback confirms that the majority of Winnipeggers understand that creating a safer community means spending more to address poverty as opposed to policing.

“We have been monitoring a variety of polling information on policing and crime reduction. While they seemed to indicate people do understand that the over-investment in policing and jail is not getting us a safer community for all, no one had asked a straightforward, binary question, on where we should invest to reduce crime and so we did. The results are clear.” Abdikheir Ahmed, PAC Co-Chair.

Through Probe Research, PAC asked: “There are many causes of crime and many potential solutions. In your view, though, what’s the single best way to reduce crime in Winnipeg?” Winnipeggers are three times as likely to favour spending more on poverty reduction than on investing in additional police services. More than 6 in 10 say poverty reduction is the best way to reduce crime.

“We hope that any candidates in this municipal election and the upcoming provincial election who are or are considering beating the ‘tough on crime’ drum for votes, will look at this information and rethink. It is clear that they are speaking both for and to the minority.” Kate Kehler, Social Planning Council of Winnipeg, PAC Member.

“At the very least, candidates who insist we have to spend more on policing at the moment, had also better be proposing substantial poverty reduction measures as well. This includes building rent-geared-to-income housing and making transit more affordable.” Desiree McIvor, Spokesperson, Make Poverty History Manitoba, PAC Member.

Women, younger adults, those with higher levels of education as well as Indigenous and racialized Winnipeggers are most likely to favour a poverty reduction approach to addressing crime. Conversely, older people (those aged 55+) and those with lower levels of formal education are more likely to favour additional police spending.

These polling results suggest strong public support for PAC’s and Make Poverty History Manitoba’s call to make poverty reduction a priority. Our recommendations to municipal election candidates include redirecting at least 10% of police funding to community organizations providing community-based mental health supports to address the root causes of crime and expand support for 24-hour safe spaces. PAC is a contributor to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Manitoba’s Alternative Municipal Budget 2022: Winnipeg at a Crossroads:
https://policyalternatives.ca/newsroom/updates/winnipegs-alternative-municipal-budget-2022-winnipeg-crossroads.

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Kate Kehler, kkehler@spcw.mb.ca (PAC contact)

Statement on Convoy Protest

February 11, 2022

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

The opportunity to express discontent with government decisions in a non-violent and peaceful manner is part of the democratic process. Ordinary people, though, expect that rights are balanced with responsibilities.  Safety and consideration of everyone impacted in engaging in the democratic process must be prioritized.  This means that police should respond to the acts of violence, harassment, hate speech and racist actions occurring, including responding to citizen calls and complaints in a balanced approach.

The occupation and blockades that have occurred at the Manitoba Legislature, health facilities, schools, and at the Emerson border are impacting people’s lives, including their employment, health, wellbeing, and sense of safety. We know this group doesn’t represent the views of science or everyday Canadians. 

We are concerned with political representatives at municipal, provincial and federal levels creating a false narrative naming the Convoy Protest as equivalent to protests and marches by groups like Black Lives Matter and Idle No More. 

Unlike the Protest Convoy, Black Lives Matter, Every Child Matters and Idle No More protests are characterized by:

  • Absence of symbols of hate such as swastikas or that promote slavery (U.S. Confederate flags);
  • Absence of harassment or threats to personal safety of others;
  • Teachings offered and welcome made to people who may disagree or may not fully understand the issue;
  • Disruptions are limited to acknowledge that while Indigenous, Charter and all Human Rights issues must be honoured, there are too many who struggle just to get by for a variety of reasons, poverty, mental health, addictions etc…, so potential harm to them must be limited;
  • Media coverage is welcomed and dialogue encouraged.

We know that approximately 90% of Canadians have gotten vaccinated and are fulfilling their responsibilities to keep themselves, all of our loved ones, and every one of us safe. The concerns brought by the convoy group do not represent systemic oppression and it is irresponsible and damaging to be making these statements and do not reflect that we have serious concerns to address in Winnipeg and Manitoba, including:

  • the highest rates of child and family poverty, 1 in 4 Manitoba children live below the poverty line;
  • the number of children in the child welfare system in Manitoba, 90% of whom are Indigenous;
  • community members without access to mental health and housing supports;

And sadly the list could just continue.

We are calling for our leaders to provide leadership and bring an immediate end to the occupations and at minimum a public statement that police will respond to acts of violence, harassment, and racism when they occur, including responding to citizen calls and noise complaints in a balanced approach.

Thank you to the 100+ organizations that are signatories to the Police Accountability Coalition Policy Brief and allies.

“We live in a democratic country, and everyone has the right to protest and air their grievances with civility and decorum. We should not be making connections between civil protests like Black Lives Matter, Every Child Matters and Idle No more with hate filled, swastika waving, racist individuals who have no respect for other people’s rights.”  Abdikheir Ahmed, PAC Co-chair 

 “As the police accountability coalition we are calling for police accountability. All citizens of Winnipeg deserve safety and should receive appropriate responses when asking the police to address safety concerns in their neighbourhood.” – Michael Redhead Champagne, PAC Co-chair

“There are almost 89,000 Manitoba children living in poverty.  This means that their freedom is limited by their lack of resources and the stigma of being poor.  Their parents, who struggle in poverty which is largely created by our systems, are at greater risk of infection by Covid 19 and of hospitalization. These freedom violations dwarf the misguided concept of freedom by the occupiers who demand that their liberty is more important than a democratic government’s actions to protect its citizens, especially the most vulnerable.”  Sid Frankel, Campaign 2000MB

“I do worry about the false equivalency messages.  Of the many reasons that what is happening at the Leg, the border, Ottawa etc… are out of bounds is because what they are asking for had already been signaled.  Here, the provincial government had already said they were looking for a restriction free Spring.  A move that was immediately questioned by front-line medical professionals as too soon.  The data didn’t support it.  Today they have released an accelerated timeline as they continue to announce more deaths.  Time will tell but past lifting restrictions too soon has caused a resurgence of Covid hospitalizations and death.”  Kate Kehler, Social Planning Council of Winnipeg

We work with newcomer and ethnocultural groups and COVID-19 has taken a disproportionate toll on in terms of their income, education,  health and social wellbeing. However the freedom these  communities embrace is the one that is centered in people’s  health,  safety, inclusion  and acceptance for all.  The public health restrictions are about keeping us all as safe as possible in these very difficult times.”  Reuben Garang, Immigration Partnership Winnipeg

“The protests and occupation are promoting dangerous far-Right ideas. For example here in Manitoba a geometric symbol with origins in antisemitism was marked in the snow outside Manitoba’s Legislative Building. Leaders of the protests have documented ties to anti-Islamic and white supremacist causes. We unequivocally condemn such ideas. Freedom gained through the oppression or deprivation of another is unworthy of the name. We stand for positive freedom: striving to make sure everyone has what they need to make a good life. This can only be achieved through democratically elected governments acting in the public interest, constantly pushed by an informed citizenry, and committed building of a fairer and more just society for all.” – Molly McCracken, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba

“What we hear is:  “We want our lives back, a return to normal, the pandemic over etc…”  Who doesn’t?  But they seem to want to impose what they deem to be an acceptable level of risk on the rest of us?  We do call on the province  to address the real harms caused by the necessary public health restrictions such as poverty, mental health and addictions all too prevalent prior to the pandemic and now are so much worse.”  David Kron, Cerebral Palsy Association of Manitoba

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The Executive Policy Council (EPC) meets this morning to determine the 2022 municipal budget. Please fill out our 5-min. survey to inform the Winnipeg Alternative Municipal Budget (WAMB) to give the city better ideas about how to spend our money:
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For more ideas on how to inform the municipal budget, check out these appearances by community experts and leaders at the last EPC on December 10, 2021:

Kate Kehler, Executive Director, SPCW (full EPC statement)

Reuben Garang, Executive Director, IPW

Molly McCracken, Executive Director, CCPA MB

Michael Barkman, Chair of MPHM and Manitoba Public Policy Coordinator, CCEDNet

Lisa Forbes, Manager of BEST, SEED Winnipeg, and Board Member, Trees Please

 

Executive Director Kate Kehler’s Appearance at the Executive Policy Council on the 2022 Budget

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What We Don’t Change, We Choose

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Manitoba: Missed Opportunities, Manitoba Child & Family Poverty Report Card Release, Campaign 2000, December 2021

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

December 1st, 2021

What We Don’t Change, We Choose

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.

Campaign 2000 Manitoba’s most recent child and family poverty report card Manitoba: Missed Opportunities demonstrates once again that successive Manitoba governments have failed to meaningfully tackle child and family poverty. Manitoba remains the province with the highest rate of child poverty. More than 1 in 4 Manitoba children live in poverty. When speaking of children under the age of 6, it is 1 in 3. Manitoba used to be home to the federal ridings with the 1st, 3rd and 5th highest rates of child poverty but now we have the 1st, 3rd and 4th.

“The saying goes: What we don’t change, we choose. We have continued to either ignore the problem or blame those who are trapped in the systems that are supposed to help them out of poverty but in reality end up keeping them mired in it. We are a rich country. Why do we allow this to continue?” Sid Frankel, Campaign 2000 National Steering Committee

“Each year, campaign 2000 releases a report on poverty in Manitoba and each year the impacts of poverty for First Nations continues to be far worse. There is a direct correlation between what perpetuates inequality amongst First Nations and systemic, institutional, and colonial practises. First Nations are disproportionately over-represented in Child and Family Services, Justice, Health, and homelessness. In an era of reconciliation, we need a committed government to begin putting tangible action into the recommendations that Campaign 2000 identifies. As First Nations, we are willing to collaborate with the government to address these contributing factors of poverty and to finally eliminate poverty for First Nations in Manitoba.” Cora Morgan, First Nations Child and Family Advocate Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs

“Fearless R2W serves families involved in child welfare in one of the poorest ridings in Canada, Winnipeg North. We are calling for increased access to quality public services, the ending of selling Manitoba Housing stock, free internet and exemption from CERB/CRB recovery to alleviate child and family poverty, and reduce the over apprehension of children.” Mary Burton, Fearless R2W

“We called the report Missed Opportunities because of the most recent missed opportunity of our provincial government to capitalize on a federal initiative, the  2016  Canada  Child  Tax  Benefit. The government released their poverty strategy in 2017 but did not resource it and even changed the legislation so they would no longer be required to report back on it. The result? Child poverty rose in 2017, 2018 and 2019 which is the most recent data available. And again, we are still talking about pre-pandemic conditions. How do we think these families weathered the pandemic storm? Too many children in Manitoba are missing out on opportunity” Kate Kehler, Social Planning Council of Winnipeg, C2000 MB

“The recent Throne Speech promised to develop innovative approaches to meet the needs of single parents and Indigenous youth. Given that 62% of children living in single parent families live in poverty and Indigenous people living on reserve and off reserve make up 65% and 53% respectively of people living in poverty in this province, and 90% of the kids in Child and Family Services are Indigenous and we know these kids then end up being over-represented in houselessness and jail, any and all investment is long, long overdue. We need a real commitment to providing the necessary supports to keep families together while helping parents fulfill their dreams of better education and/or meaningful employment.” Desiree McIvor, Make Poverty History Manitoba

“As nurses, we see firsthand the results of children and families living in poverty, which includes poor health outcomes. The Manitoba: Missed Opportunities report is aptly named, as we are indeed missing the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the lives of so many Manitobans, especially our children. We call for action on the part of the Manitoba government, there is simply no more time to waste.” Darlene Jackson, President of the Manitoba Nurses Union

“Teachers know that child poverty has a profound effect on students’ ability to learn—and on their opportunities for educational success. As a society, we need to find the moral compassion and financial commitment to help these children more quickly. Lifting kids and families out of devastating poverty is not a burden, but a privilege.” James Bedford, The Manitoba Teachers’ Society

“One in 7 Manitoba households were food insecure prior to the pandemic, meaning they did not have the financial resources to buy enough food (PROOF Food Insecurity Policy Research) and resulting in significant impacts to their physical and mental health. One in 5 Manitoba children lives in a food insecure household. Rising food prices and lost wages during the pandemic have only made the situation worse. Household food insecurity is not an issue of food, but one of equity, including our collective obligation to provide a high quality of life to everyone in Manitoba. A properly resourced provincial strategy with clear timelines for ending child poverty is key to fulfilling this obligation.” Rob Moquin, Food Matters Manitoba

“If there is anything that needs Manitobans to pull together, it should be to eliminate or reduce poverty among sections of communities and specially among children with newcomer children included. Government leaders have to commit to allocate funding differently to empower families and communities that are often left out in decision making processes. For newcomer children investment in after school programs and culturally sensitive holistic health programs are a few of the practical ways to reduce poverty.” Reuben Garang, Immigration Partnership Winnipeg

“Poverty grinds people down. It makes for an endless set of days that are stressful for parents from the time they wake to the time they go to bed. Newcomer families living in poverty worry about how they are going to pay their bills and also pay for their children’s school supplies. They worry about not having enough money to pay back the transportation loans they were charged by our government, a poverty-entrenching policy that few other governments require. If we alleviated poverty through financial empowerment, a living wage, affordable social housing, and low-cost universal child care, that ideal passage from newcomer to citizen would be so much smoother, and we could achieve the ideal of an inclusive multicultural society that we hold dear.” Shereen Denetto, Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization of Manitoba.

“The report also makes note that Manitoba’s income disparity is growing which makes the province an outlier when compared to others. In Manitoba, those earning less than $25,000 annually saw their income go down while those earning $50,000 to $80,000 saw their after-tax income rise. These are policy choice from this government that must be amended so that those who need the most get more.” Josh Brandon, Social Planning Council of Winnipeg

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Media Release Child Poverty MB 2021_Final



Manitoba: Missed Opportunities – December 2021 Child and Family Poverty Report Card, Campaign 2000

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It is Income Tax Time so Time for a CERB Amnesty!

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Dear Social Justice Supporter!

The CERB was essential when the pandemic first hit.  We would argue that it should have continued longer if not until this day.  Too many are still facing too many challenges!

Manitoba is the province with the highest rates of child poverty in Canada.  More than 88,000 kids and their families live in poverty.  Please join us in calling on the federal government to implement an income tested CERB Amnesty: Sign the petition!

PETITION CLOSES April 23rd, 2021

To learn more, please check out this article. Campaign 2000’s position brief can be seen here.

You may be someone who received CERB during the worst of the panic caused by the pandemic.  If you would like to share your story, please do so here.

If you are able to work though, we did want to share a number of opportunities from some of our community partners.  Please check out the links on our Employment Opportunities page.

Probe Research: Manitobans’ Views on Solutions to Poverty

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New data shows child poverty in Manitoba is on the rise, a situation worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic. In collaboration with Campaign 2000 and Make Poverty History Manitoba, we are releasing this new polling research showing Manitobans strongly support increased funding to help people living in poverty, ahead of Manitoba’s Budget 2021. Read the full report below:

Report: PROBE REPORT – MANITOBANS’ VIEWS ON THE SOLUTIONS TO POVERTY 2020

Media Release: April 6 Media Release – Poll says Budget must provide more money for people living in poverty

Watch Report Launch event: Pre-Budget Poverty Panel – April 6, 2021

Additional links you may find helpful: Resources – Pre-Budget Poverty Panel

Manitoba: Poverty Central

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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 Definition and Measurement for our … Continue reading →

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