Overview
- Harvest Manitoba reports a five-year, 150% rise in clients to about 60,000 people a month, with a broader user profile that now includes more families, nearly one-third employed users, and 61% with post-secondary education, as Manitoba CPI rose 3% year over year in October.
- The charity urges governments to boost social assistance and housing, offer free transit for low-income residents, and expand access to low-cost child care.
- Elections Alberta approved a recall petition targeting Premier Danielle Smith, with a letter signed by the chief electoral officer, and organizers in Brooks–Medicine Hat must collect more than 12,000 resident signatures as recalls were also cleared for 14 other UCP MLAs.
- The UCP says the recall process is being abused, and Justice Minister Mickey Amery says the government will not amend the Recall Act during the current legislative session.
- Ontario Education Minister Paul Calandra says he will decide early next year on trustee roles, signals he is inclined to largely eliminate English public trustees while retaining denominational roles for Catholic and French boards, and rules out closing or amalgamating boards or introducing charter schools.