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Today’s must-read
Siloam Mission has released details of a new strategy to bolster Winnipeg’s stock of affordable housing, issuing a plea for community stakeholders to step forward and donate property or funding.
The Winnipeg non-profit has set a target of creating between 700 and 1,000 new housing units over the next decade. It hopes to meet the goal by forming and leveraging community partnerships, including a potential commitment from the owners of the Winnipeg Jets.
“I strongly believe that we should love our neighbours and that housing is how we do that,” Siloam Mission CEO Tessa Blaikie Whitecloud said by phone Sunday. Tyler Searle has the story.
Siloam Mission CEO Tessa Blaikie Whitecloud says constructing a variety in the location and type of housing is the best way to tackle the housing crisis. (Mike Deal / Free Press files)
On the bright side
Volunteers writer Aaron Epp catches up with two people he wrote about in his first columns for the Free Press in 2014, Sangeetha Nair and Hannah Lank, to find out how they are still making a difference in their community 10 years later. Read more here.
Sangeetha Nair (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On this date
On April 29, 1930: The Manitoba Free Press reported Ald. W. N. Kolisnyk, leader of the Communist Party of Canada, was ejected from city council chambers by a special constable after Kolisnyk was charged with making statements about Ald. J.A. Simpkin, chair of the unemployment committee, that were branded as “lies.” Kolisnyk would not be allowed to return to the council unless he retracted his statements and offered a public apology to Simpkin. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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