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Marian Willis

Marian Willis

Founder and Executive Director of St. Boniface Street Links in Winnipeg, Manitoba; recipient of the Meritorious Service Medal (MSM) and Order of Manitoba (OM).

Sep 23, 2026

12:45
Because you're part of a service agency, from your perspective of the work that you're trying to do, how does it feel to hear that? Or how do you ruminate on what you said is a call to, you know, think about the gaps? Yeah.
12:58
Well, you know, I think that we kind of feel that too.
13:01
And it isn't just, you know, ordinary citizens and service organizations.
13:07
The population we serve feels it.
13:10
You know, a lot of people really truly are being left behind.
13:14
I look at the programs and services that are being developed, where services are being heavily situated.
13:24
It's all in the inner city.
18:12
What do you say to people that worry that that's not the right direction for us, that we should stay the course, that the right direction is more housing directly, getting people out of where they're at now, which is all over the city, but that we should stay the course?

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