November
30
2019
Good Will to All is the Greatest Gift
By Jim Bell, CEO ** This column first appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press ** I dread this time of the year. It’s not that I don’t like the Christmas season. In fact, it’s one of my favourite holidays and gives me hope every year. It’s not the fact that the football season is […]
Tags: Community, Homelessness, Jim Bell
October
28
2019
Entertaining Angels Unawares
By Jim Bell, CEO ** This column first appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press ** It happened at 4 in the morning on a cold and rainy night last week. The wind was howling. We had just come back from walking through the downtown core with the Bear Clan. Along the way we had […]
Tags: Homelessness, Jim Bell, Siloam Sleepout
August
01
2019
An Open Invitation
One of the most heartbreaking revelations of the final report on the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls inquiry is the constant threat Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA people have to live with. It’s clear that, no matter the setting or region in Canada, security is a key concern for the overwhelming majority of […]
Tags: Homelessness, Jim Bell, Make Room, News, Systems
March
20
2019
Calling All Villagers
By Jim Bell, CEO **This column first appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press** There’s an adage that says it takes a village to raise a child. Nowadays, it often gets misinterpreted. The proverb was never meant to say that the entire village is responsible for raising that child. It simply means that an entire […]
Tags: Community, Homelessness, Jim Bell, Partnership, Systems