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Winnipeg Free Press By: Brenda Still
Opinion
Why are school-age children being excluded?
Provincial government statistics indicate just under 13,000, or 12 per cent of, children aged six to 12 years, had the opportunity to attend licensed school-age (SA) child-care programs in our province. But if Bill 47, The Early Learning and Child Care Act, is passed this may no longer be the case. It is not what is written in this bill that is worrying, but what is missing.
This bill defines a child as an individual under the age of 12, a preschool-age child , as a child two years of age or older who is not a SA and an infant as a child under two years. Yet, within the body of the bill there is no mention of services for SA children.
Brandon Sun By: Drew May
Winnipeg-based Migrante Manitoba organizer Diwa Marcelino said the pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on people of colour, many of whom work in food processing. (Winnipeg Free Press)
Workers in meat and poultry processing plants should get priority access to the COVID-19 vaccine given the risks they face at work, according to a coalition of Manitoba unions and immigration groups.
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Workers in meat and poultry processing plants should get priority access to the COVID-19 vaccine given the risks they face at work, according to a coalition of Manitoba unions and immigration groups.
The pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on people of colour, many of whom work in food processing, said Winnipeg-based Migrante Manitoba organizer Diwa Marcelino. Migrante Manitoba is part of the coalition calling for priority access, Health Care for All Manitoba.
Winnipeg Free Press By: James Bedford
THE saying goes, “Life is what happens while we make other plans.” In the wake of 2020, there can be no doubt that even the sturdiest of plans and noblest of intentions are subject to the forces of bigger, unforeseen agendas.
Opinion
THE saying goes, Life is what happens while we make other plans. In the wake of 2020, there can be no doubt that even the sturdiest of plans and noblest of intentions are subject to the forces of bigger, unforeseen agendas.
Take, for example, the planned release of the Manitoba government’s K-12 Education Commission report, slated for early spring of last year. The novel coronavirus had other plans, raging into Manitoba and putting everything, from spring-break trips to highly anticipated government report releases, abruptly and indefinitely on hold.
Four years ago, when Siddiqui first heard news of the mosque shooting in Quebec City, she was shocked but not overly surprised, she said.
Since the Twin Towers fell in New York on Sep. 11, 2001, Siddiqui experienced many instances of Islamophobia, she said. Before the shooting in Quebec City, she felt something was going to happen, but didn t expect the incident would be in Canada.
The fact the shooting happened at a mosque was also a deliberate message to all Muslims, she said.
Six men died in the attack on the Quebec Mosque. They are, clockwise from left, Mamadou Tanou Barry, Azzedine Soufiane, Abdelkrim Hassane, Ibrahima Barry, Aboubaker Thabti and Khaled Belkacemi.(CBC)