Dougald Lamont- Manitoba Liberal Leader chef du parti Libéral du Manitoba

In Manitoba, over an 11 year period, 652 kids who had some contact with the child welfare system within the past year of their life, died. 144 of those children were in care at the time of their death. #CFS

Please share >> Posted @withregram @amcmbchiefs Call for Artist Submission: First Nation Colouring Book Designs The Canadian Red Cross and the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs are seeking First Nation artists from the Manitoba area to design colouring pages for a health and wellness colouring book. Artists from Northern Saskatchewan and Northwest Ontario will also be considered.... Artists are asked to design a colouring page on a health and wellness topic that reflects their own artist style and/or reflects their culture and traditions. To participate, all artists are asked to submit the attached application, which provides further project details. Compensation will be $250 per selected design, up to three per artist. Final designs are not requested until after the selection has been made. A minimum of 10 artists will be invited to contribute designs to this project. Purpose: To reflect First Nations perspectives of health and wellness in a colouring book format. The final project will be shared with Indigenous communities in partnership with the Canadian Red Cross. This book will be geared towards Indigenous youth and used for programming to help decrease stress and increase mindfulness during stressful events. Deadline for application: Dec 16, 2020 Please submit the application and any questions to the project editor, Bran Friesen: Email: [email protected] Fax: 204-942-8367 Phone: 204-430-7232 For more information and to download application form please visit our website manitobachiefs.com - link in our bio. Scroll down to Latest News.

On Oct 22 we called for the Health Minister to resign or be fired. This latest message from him on his MLA page shows why we were right and why Manitoba’s active case rate is by far the worst in Canada. To even suggest that our cases have plateaued is reckless. We don’t know that. Our hospitals are filling up and our positivity rate is nearly a straight line up is madness. Right now, 3 of every 20 people who get tested are positive and we know there are people who can’...t get tests for days! There are hundreds of doctors, hundreds of nurses warning that we do not have the situation under control, because this government keeps undercutting public health. Covid is like an inferno, and people are its fuel. Some people it consumes. It can still do lasting damage to people who survive. We can get out of this, but it really requires everyone, and we have to make it easier for people. There is no point in threatening people with fines for breaking the rules when they will go broke if they follow them. We need emergency income and revenue supports, and we needed them yesterday.

This is important. In a pandemic, we need to be hopeful, but we also need to accept and deal with reality. 17 years ago this week, my wife and I were anxious new parents and our second daughter, after a difficult birth, was in the neonatal intermediate care unit. (Spoiler alert: she was fine) Aside from the anxiety of having a sick baby, I remember that the nurses were very honest and never gave us any false hope. I remember trying to get some optimism out of the nurse. They... knew better. It is important to be able to deliver hard truths, so that people can do what they need to get prepare themselves - mentally, spiritually, and through action. We can and we will get through this. It is also going to be hard and we cannot let our guard down. You are not alone in this. There are people who care and are fighting every day to make things better. Stay safe; stay healthy and keep speaking up. Posted @withregram @dr.gigiosler Today’s #manitoba #covid19 update. ICUs are operating at 146% pre- COVID capacity. Our numbers have not stabilized. We cannot sustain this. #canada are you watching? Many provinces & territories are on a similar trajectory.

PLEASE SHARE>> While the PCs are refusing to help thousands of small businesses, former PC candidate Michelle Richard’s consulting clients are all getting support from the PCs. Starlite got $28.7-million. The Lilyfield quarry was approved, and the Vivian Sands is being spared an environmental review, despite municipal and residents’ concerns. Richard has now been hired as a senior advisor to the PCs.

PLEASE SHARE >> Winnipeg and Manitoba have a proud tradition of service and legions, and like everyone else they have been hit hard by financial losses. The Federal Government has announced a new $20-million fund to help. The Veterans Organizations Emergency Support Fund is available to Legions and other veterans’ organizations who need financial assistance. You can apply here: ... https://www.veterans.gc.ca//emergency-support-organizations

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The stories coming out of personal care homes are horrific. There have been, and continue to be, catastrophic failures that could have been prevented. Why isn’t this government calling a full independent inquiry that will look into who is responsible for the neglect and failures that have taken place?

For many years, Manitoba was the child poverty capital of Canada - and the depth of poverty means that people would need $12,000 more a year to *get up to* the poverty line. One of the reasons for this is EIA rates. In 1992, the Filmon PCs rolled back EIA rates to 1986 levels and froze them there. When the NDP were elected in 1999, they left the freeze in place for the next 17 years. ... We have been calling for an overhaul for years, and last year said a Manitoba Liberal Government would bring in a form of basic income and the option of a job guarantee- that you could work to use your skills to help the community.