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City Governance Committee convener Councillor Mark Flynn said: “Our staff work on extremely complex matters involving vulnerable people and there are some huge challenges, but the report shows how services have responded well. I would like to thank them all for their continuing dedication.”
Elderly woman holds an AI-powered Hyodol plushie robot companion. The device is designed to spend 24 hours a day with people who live alone, providing emotional support and health care monitoring.
In Winnipeg’s public spaces like libraries, hospitals, shelters, and government service buildings, safety has often meant exclusion: watching, pushing aside, or banning those already marginalized by poverty, mental health struggles, and discrimination. But what if safety was reimagined as belonging, where the measure is not how many people are removed, but how many feel they truly belong?
Alec Walters isn’t just a standout student — he’s someone who inspires everyone around him, Assiniboine social service worker instructor Brandy Robertson said.
For conservatives who believe the court should aggressively dismantle federal protections for reproductive freedom, LGBTQ+ rights, and the administrative state, Hawley is a near-perfect judicial nominee. For everyone else, especially those living in the Eighth Circuit, she represents an alarming escalation of the attack on their civil rights.
A recent report by Domestic Abuse Commissioner Nicole Jacobs (above), covering practice in 2023-24, echoed some of the findings of the 2020 report. It found that cases involving reported domestic abuse frequently ended with children having joint residence, or unsupervised contact with, the alleged perpetrator due to a “pro-contact culture” in the family courts that minimised abuse. Survivors spoke of Cafcass practitioners being reluctant to record their allegations of domestic abuse and of discouraging them from raising allegations because contact with the perpetrator would be ordered regardless.