Matthew Frank

Accusations of ‘authoritarian leadership’ at Klinic Community Health lead to audit A third-party report on an inner-city community health facility reveals concerns about management practices and staff safety amid several doctor resignations, the Free Press has learned. TLS Enterpris...

SCOOP: A third-party report on an inner-city community health facility reveals concerns about management practices and staff safety amid several doctor resignations, the Free Press has learned.

Half of First Nation families in Manitoba have had file opened with child welfare system, study finds Co-author Kathleen Kenny pointed to Manitoba’s ‘birth alert’ system, discontinued in 2020, as the main reason for the high rates of child welfare involvement in First Nations families

Half of First Nation families in Manitoba have had file opened with child welfare system, study finds. ‘Birth alert’ system, discontinued in 2020, cited as the main reason for the high rates, by @mattdfrank.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

LATEST: Every year there are headlines about Manitoba First Nation communities evacuating from natural disasters. For communities, the story continues long after the news cycle has moved on.

Check out my article for Working Draft here!

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Manitoba homelessness strategy falls short meeting queer community’s needs, advocates, experts say Canadian queer people are twice as likely to experience some type of homelessness, compared to other groups: Statistics Canada

LATEST: Manitoba’s new homelessness strategy lacks the queer representation and queer-specific resources needed to help people in the community, advocates and experts say.

Province plans to begin tracking solitary confinement use in jails more than a year after judge called for review of practice Manitoba doesn’t track how much time provincial inmates spend in solitary confinement, nearly 1 1/2 years after a judge called on the government to launch an independent review of its use of the widely condemned practice.

Manitoba doesn’t track how much time provincial inmates spend in solitary confinement, nearly 1 1/2 years after a judge called on the government to launch an independent review of its use of the widely condemned practice.

Latest work:

Winnipeg police doesn’t track racial data for use-of-force incidents, but other Canadian police services do.

Advocates and experts say the data is necessary because it validates the experiences racial communities have with police.