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🍀 If you’re feeling a bit Scrooge-ish about St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, to mix holidays, Devil May Care Brewing Co. is serving up beers for humbugs this weekend. The Not-A-St.-Patrick’s-Day Party takes place today and Saturday at Devil May Care Brewing Co., 155-A Fort St., noon-11 p.m. Admission is free.
Today’s must-read
Terisa Taylor is deemed a low-income senior, based on the federal tax bracket classification, but the numbers don’t take a full measure of the person.
At age 73, the St. Boniface resident relies on the three acronyms synonymous with aging — CPP, GIS and OAS — to make ends meet.
Despite that, Taylor considers herself one of Manitoba’s more fortunate seniors since she’s able to continue to pursue a meaningful life.
Artist Terisa Taylor, a low-income senior, doesn’t let her financial situation get in the way of creative pursuits and physical activity. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
The federal government considers seniors living on an annual income of less than $22,488 as low-income. According to the University of Manitoba’s Centre on Aging, single adults 65 and older make up 13.8 per cent of Manitoba’s low-income earners.
That exacts a human cost — from substandard housing to a lack of nutrition, and from mental and emotional health issues, such as isolation, loneliness, anxiety and depression, to physical health concerns. Janine LeGal has the story here.
On the bright side
A home in River Heights will soon be filled with Indigenous mothers and mothers-to-be receiving care and wraparound supports.
Come this summer, a six-bedroom home on Lindsay Street will provide three to six months of pre- and post-natal care and programs.
Hillary Thompson has chosen her room at the Mino’Ayaawag Ikwewag mothering centre. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
Hillary Thompson, an 18-year-old who is in her third trimester, has already picked her bedroom.
The spacious room on the main floor has plenty of space for her and a crib, and she can decorate it the way she wants. It’s a far cry from the homes she grew up in as a foster child, she said. Nicole Buffie has more here.
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