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MIKE DEAL / FREE PRESS Salena Starling, Indigenous foster care advocate and CEO of Community of Big Hearts speaks during the event. Families Minister Nahanni Fontaine along with Housing, Addictions and Homelessness Minister Bernadette Smith, announce that the province is launching a renewed five-year poverty reduction strategy they say is “grounded in the voices of Manitobans with lived experience and supported by concrete objectives to reduce poverty provincewide,” during an event at the Manitoba Legislative Building, Tuesday. Reporters: Carol Sanders and Gabrielle Piche 260113 - Tuesday, January 13, 2026.