Barrier Free Manitoba and the Broken Promises Campaign

Saturday, June 2, Ryder Smith came to visit me at the Academy Road Festival. He was promoting action to improve accessibility for Manitobans. In 2013, all parties in the Manitoba Legislature supported the Accessibility for Manitobans Act. Sadly progress since that time has not been as good as it needs to be to meet the targets legislated under the act. Indeed targets are already being missed, for the Pallister government missed the targeted date for appointing a person to head the review into the Act. This means the review will be late, and may mean a variety of changes such as a commitment to meet the education standard under the act, may proceed more slowly than they should. The result is that Barrier Free Manitoba has launched the "Broken Promises" campaign to remind Manitobans that progress under the Act in making Manitoba accessible has been slow.
To be a part of the Broken Promises campaign and support the effort to ensure a fully accessible Manitoba clink on this link.

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Comparison between Manitoba and South Dakota shows dramatic impact of Physical Distancing

Manitoba implemented physical distancing measures in mid-March. South Dakota has still not made physical distancing mandatory. The result is a dramatic difference in the incidence of covid-19 viral infections between the two jurisdictions. This graph shows the number of people with Covid-19 infections from March 27 to April 14. Manitoba ( red line ) started leveling off about April 4 and has seen only a small increase in Covid-19 infections since then. South Dakota ( blue line ) has seen a dramatic increase in Covid-19 infections since April 4. Those who are skeptical of the impact of physical distancing in Manitoba should look at this graph! Data are from the Johns Hopkins daily tabulations

Pushing for safe consumption sites and safe supply to reduce overdose deaths

On Monday June 20th, Thomas Linner of the Manitoba Health Coalition, Arlene Last-Kolb Regional Director of Moms Stop the Harm and Winnipeg City Councillor Sherri Rollins were at the Manitoba Legislature to advocate for better measures to reduce deaths from drug overdoses, most particularly for safe consumption sites and for a safe supply, measures which can reduce overdose deaths.

There is an imperative to have a provincial plan to ensure every child learns to read

Too many Manitoba children with learning disabilities like dyslexia are not being identified and helped early on starting in Kindergarten and grades 1 and 2. The Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that it is the provinces responsibility to ensure that every child learns to read, and even when, in the case of a child with dyslexia intensive intervention is needed. In 12 years Manitoba has failed to produce a provincial plan to address this issue. We are holding a Forum (see below) on this subject. Please come out to the Forum. There is no cost. Everyone is welcome. To learn more about the need to do better helping children, youth and adults with a learning disability click on this link

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