WOLBERT: Manitoba should make poverty an issue

WOLBERT: Manitoba should make poverty an issue

Manitoba needs to focus on giving our poor a hand-up rather than handouts, says columnist Harry Wolbert. Leaders are visionaries. Robert F. Kennedy once said: “There are those that look at things the way they are and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not.”

As an anti-poverty advocate, I dream of a Manitoba without poverty and homelessness.

Provincial politicians promised us they would take steps to end poverty and homelessness. What happened? Ignoring poverty and homelessness will not make them go away. Unlike the City of Winnipeg’s executive policy committee which recently passed a motion […]

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