West End drop-in site opens on weekends as pandemic closes many Winnipeg warming spots
The St. Matthews-Maryland Community Ministry has been serving people on weekdays for 40 years, but is now opening its doors two extra days a week so people can find a place to warm up or grab a bite to eat.
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Posted: Jan 09, 2021 4:57 PM CT | Last Updated: January 9
Josh Ward from 1JustCity helps a person find some warm clothes at the West End Commons location. The community ministry is opening its doors on weekends to support more people during the pandemic.(Walther Bernal/CBC)
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Tories make good on promises to eliminate probate fees, reduce payroll tax burden; critics decry revenue loss By: Carol Sanders | Posted: 7:00 PM CST Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2020
The province s elimination of death taxes this year is being both praised and panned by politicians and lawyers.
The province s elimination of death taxes this year is being both praised and panned by politicians and lawyers.
On Nov. 6, the budget implementation bill that contained several changes to legislation including the elimination of probate fees was proclaimed by the legislature.
The revenue generated from law fees and probate charges was more than $9 million a year, according to information provided by the province.
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If a parent or parents are in poverty, advocates say the children are also in poverty. Case in point is Sara, one of the people profiled in the report, who lost one of her part-time jobs during the pandemic and is struggling to pay her bills and support her son. Student loans is now threatening to take my income tax return because I missed reapplying for repayment delay. I had to come up with $500 to sort that out as I need my tax return, Sara said.
Staggeringly high rates
The 2018 data shows that across Canada, the child poverty rates are still staggeringly high, regardless of whether the child is in a one- or two-parent household. In Manitoba, poverty affected 16.3 per cent of two-parent households, compared to the national average of 9.8 per cent. In single parent households, the rate quadruples with 63.4 per cent of children living in poverty.
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A federal campaign to end child poverty is 20 years past its deadline and has shown little progress, especially in Manitoba.
Manitoba: Poverty Central, a report released Wednesday, indicates over one in four children in Manitoba still live in poverty – more than 10% above the national average.
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Michael Redhead Champagne, a community organizer, has been working on these reports since 2014.
Champagne and his peer contributors on the report directly condemn Bill 2, section 231 and the impact it has pulling money away from families in need.
“Our provincial government is absorbing federal funding meant to go directly to kids and families affected by CFS,” Champagne said. “This keeps those kids in [CFS] care, and those dollars going into Manitoba’s general revenue.”