Matthew Frank
@mattdfrank.bsky.social
I say a lot of stuff and write a lot of things.
Freelance reporter 🗞️
Freelance reporter 🗞️
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.
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...
www.winnipegfreepress.com
July 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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.
Reposted by Matthew Frank
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
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
www.theglobeandmail.com
April 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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!
workingdraftmagazine.com/after-the-sm...
Check out my article for Working Draft here!
workingdraftmagazine.com/after-the-sm...
March 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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!
workingdraftmagazine.com/after-the-sm...
Check out my article for Working Draft here!
workingdraftmagazine.com/after-the-sm...
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.
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
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February 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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.
Reposted by Matthew Frank
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.
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.
www.winnipegfreepress.com
January 3, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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.
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.
Tracking race when officers use force 'bare minimum' Winnipeg police should do, expert says | CBC News
Jordan Charlie, a 24-year-old Inuk, was the fourth person police have shot and killed in Winnipeg this year — but he's the only one whose race is publicly known, and that's a problem, a criminologist says.
www.cbc.ca
December 8, 2024 at 8:44 PM
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.
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.