WINNIPEG The City of Winnipeg may soon start looking into providing a simplified and fare-free transit system. Coun. Vivian Santos, who represents the Point Douglas ward, put forward a motion calling on Winnipeg s public service to study both the cost of providing $1 bus fare for all riders while keeping transit free for kids aged 11 and under, and the implementation of a fare-free transit service. I personally would like to see fare-free transit for everybody, said Santos. She feels free bus service would help seniors, families on fixed incomes and those who are struggling with the pandemic. She also said it would help boost ridership numbers as they have been impacted by COVID-19.
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Main Street Project offers warm place for city s homeless, but pandemic creates new level of agony By: Ryan Thorpe | Posted: 7:00 PM CST Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021 Save to Read Later
When the temperature drops below -30 C overnight, Sean will be safe and warm inside Main Street Project, having traded a bus shack for a shelter bed two nights ago after the cold snap descended on southern Manitoba.
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When the temperature drops below -30 C overnight, Sean will be safe and warm inside Main Street Project, having traded a bus shack for a shelter bed two nights ago after the cold snap descended on southern Manitoba.
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A conglomerate led by the Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre and End Homelessness Winnipeg has quietly planned a revamp of the Thunderbird House site, giving hope to one of the city’s most struggling neighbourhoods.
A conglomerate led by the Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre and End Homelessness Winnipeg has quietly planned a revamp of the Thunderbird House site, giving hope to one of the city’s most struggling neighbourhoods.
For years, the area around Thunderbird House, at the corner of Higgins Avenue and Main Street, has been struggling, with the COVID-19 pandemic making things worse.
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Jim Bell, CEO of Siloam Mission, speaks about the Rapid Housing Initiative funding as mayor Brian Bowman listens at City Hall in Winnipeg on Friday.
OTTAWA A handful of fast-tracked housing projects meant to take in the most vulnerable Winnipeggers got the final green-light Friday.
OTTAWA A handful of fast-tracked housing projects meant to take in the most vulnerable Winnipeggers got the final green-light Friday.
It means 88 new units should be open by the end of 2021 to those at highest risk of ending up on the street the result of federal funding used to repurpose unused floors and buildings in Point Douglas, North End and West End.
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Speaker Devi Sharma voted against the operating budget tightening the vote to 9 to 7 as it narrowly passed. (Darin Morash/CBC )
The 2021 budget was passed by Winnipeg s city council with a tighter margin than in recent times.
The vote was 9-7 in favour of the operating budget, and 11-5 for capital spending.
The narrow margin came from the usually understated voice of council Speaker Devi Sharma, who broke her consistent record of supporting budgets by voting no on the operating portion of the 2021 budget.
The Old Kildonan councillor said the structure of how the budget is pulled together and the input that s gathered for it must be greatly improved.