City of Winnipeg’s lead testing and control programs information: https://legacy.winnipeg.ca/WaterAndWaste/water/lead.stm
City of Winnipeg’s Identifying Pipe Fixtures Information: https://legacy.winnipeg.ca/waterandwaste/water/identifyingPipesFixtures.stm
March 5, 2025 Winnipeg Free Press Community Review
Let’s support local businesses in Manitoba
By: Jim Maloway
2025 has started off as a year of uncertainty with our American neighbours. For years, we have enjoyed a mutually beneficial trade relationship that provides us with access to quality goods and resources that enrich both our economy and our lives. With the ongoing threat and imposition of tariffs, Canadians must come together to resist their impact on our economy and on our everyday lives.
That’s why Manitoba recently responded to those threats with a recommendation for all Manitobans to shop locally. Supporting local business has become more important than ever for our economy. How you choose to spend your money is a choice that holds power, and we want to empower every Manitoban to choose local whenever they can.
Manitoba has released an index that connects you to multiple resources that guide you to where you can find made-in-Canada and made-in-Manitoba items. From made in Canada cereal and vitamins to local Manitoban made goods, this list provides everything you need to know where and how to buy local.
To visit the index for the full list of resources, stores, and markets that can connect you with the local goods you love, you can find the link here: gov.mb.ca/buylocal/index.html
As we continue to build partnerships with other trading partners to protect our province from the impact of tariffs, know that we will continue to fight for every Manitoban. Over the coming months, let’s all stand together as a united Manitoba and a united Canada.
If you have any questions or concerns, please call my office at 204-415-1122 or email me at jim.maloway@yourmanitoba.ca. Please also visit my website, YourElmwood.com, to see my previous Elmwood MLA community news reports.
As we continue to build partnerships with other trading partners to protect our province from the impact of tariffs, know that we will continue to fight for every Manitoban. Over the coming months, let’s all stand together as a united Manitoba and a united Canada.
If you have any questions or concerns, please call my office at 204-415-1122 or email me at jim.maloway@yourmanitoba.ca. Please also visit my website, YourElmwood.com, to see my previous Elmwood MLA community news reports.
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF MANITOBA
Friday, March 21, 2025
Members’ Statements
MAHCP Collective Agreement Settlement
MLA Jim Maloway (Elmwood): The Manitoba Association of Health Care Professionals, MAHCP, led by its president, Jason Linklater, and his team, has reached an agreement with Shared Health and the Winnipeg-Churchill and northern health regional employers organizations, averting a strike scheduled for March 7, 2025, earlier this month.
MAHCP represents more than 7,000 allied health professionals in more than 20 regulated health professions, including audiologists, cardiology technologists, diagnostic medical sonographers, medical laboratory assistants and technologists, radiation technologists, occupational therapists, paramedics, physiotherapists, respiratory therapists and speech language pathologists. These professionals are indispensable to our health‑care system and work around the clock in a variety of settings.
The negotiated settlement between the MAHCP and Shared Health and Winnipeg-Churchill and Northern Health Region Employers Organizations is another meaningful step in resetting and restoring our health‑care system and more properly aligning wages within our system.
Elmwood residents recognize that restoring our health‑care system is very much a work in progress. We have much more work to do. The cracks in our health‑care system did not appear overnight and they will not disappear overnight.
A major step forward with our government’s recruitment of 873 net‑new health‑care workers into Manitoba’s public health system. After all, our health-care system depends on the workers.
This important settlement reflects everyone’s commitment to the collective bargaining process and more fairness in the system for our workers.
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF MANITOBA
Monday, October 28, 2024
Members’ Statements
January 8, 2025 Winnipeg Free Press Community Review
Advocating for full disclosure of lead pipes
Winnipeg Free Press Community Review – January 3, 2024
Excerpt from article “East Winnipeg MLAs plan for the year ahead”. By: Sheldon Birnie, Simon Fuller staff reporters.
Jim Maloway (Elmwood) — The City of Winnipeg needs to press forward on the Louise Bridge replacement issue. While the 112-year-old bridge is in the queue, and the site chosen as part of its Eastern Corridor (Rapid Transit) project, our aging infrastructure is catching up with us. The 25,000 daily users of the old Louise Bridge don’t want to be the next victims of a future closure.
Elmwood residents are also served by an aging sewer system, which places them at high risk for sewer backup, not to mention the sewage overflows pouring into the Red River and beyond. The city needs to move faster on separating our combined sewer systems, which they do in tandem with street renewal. Where can you find an issue that solves so many problems? We can prevent basement flooding and overflow sewage into the river, while paving your pothole-filled street. And while we are doing this, we can help 2,500 families in Elmwood replace their lead pipes connecting from their basement to the city-owned main lines and reduce the clear and present danger of lead levels to their health, as warned by Health Canada.
Thirdly, I’ll continue to advocate for approved home and business security protection system rebates so residents get some financial help to feel safe in their own homes.
Private Member’s Statement, May 17, 2023 – GlenElm Neighbourhood Association’s Town Hall on Climate Change.
On May 12th, the GlenElm Neighbourhood Association held a Town Hall on Climate Change. Congratulations to this vibrant and creative neighbourhood association for bringing into focus the things we can do on a local level to build a sustainable future.
Please complete our other surveys if you haven’t already done so. Below you’ll find my Louise Bridge Site Survey 2022, Diagnostic Lab Testing Closures Survey and Cancercare Outpatient Services at Concordia Hospital Closure Survey.
With Spring around the corner, we are planning another Garden Seed drop-off in your mailbox once the
weather permits! Last year we distributed over 20,000 seed packets to Elmwood residents. We plan on another drop-off as soon as weather permits in Spring 2023! We’d love to see a picture of your results, too!
Thursday, Nov. 4th & Wednesday, Nov 9th at University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA) picket lines: Fighting for a Fair Deal.
Visiting the picket lines at the University of Manitoba campuses. Top right: U of M – Bannatyne Campus, Nov 4th, with striking members of the University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA). Bottom Picture: At U of M – Main Campus, Nov. 9th, with Councillor Jason Schreyer (3rd from left) and UMFA members at the University of Manitoba.
We need a government that strengthens our universities, not interferes with them. The PCs need to end Pallister’s wage freeze mandates and allow free and fair negotiations so students can finish their education and we can recruit and retrain staff.
News Stories:
https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/advocates-promote-need-for-new-louise-bridge-1.5635856
Jim Maloway Elmwood MLA Reports on the Louise Bridge Replacement Issue:
Friday, October 22, 2021 : https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/our-communities/herald/correspondent/New-Louise-Bridge-update–so-far-so-good-575585251.html
Monday, September 27, 2021: https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/our-communities/herald/correspondent/The-Louise—a-troubled-bridge-over-waters-575388001.html
Elmwood residents’ comments added.
Elmwood residents’ comments added.