Winnipeg Human Rights News: April 9th-15th

We’ve got all your budget coverage, as well as info on a wish list for the premier, new lighting at the Higgins underpass, combating the epidemic of human trafficking, and more.

Missing Persons AlertKaitlyn Emily Parker

Poverty & Community Outreach

1. Sobriety Social celebrates heroes who give up addictions, organizer says: CBC

2. Winnipeg shelter to close intoxicated persons unit during day without funding boost: CBC

3. Siloam Mission serves up Easter dinner for Winnipeg's less fortunate: CBC

4. Winnipeg Harvest urgently needs canned goods, other items: CBC

5. Students take action against bullying on Pink Day in Manitoba: CBC

6. Respect in Schools: Anti-bullying program to expand to First Nations, private schools: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

7. 'Ugly, scary, dark' Main Street underpass starts turning corner with new lighting: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg Free Press

8. Brunch fundraiser supports women who need bras: CBC

9. Union decries layoffs at Main Street Project: Winnipeg Free Press

10. Bear Clan gets $10,000 from city: Winnipeg Free Press

Christine Wood 

1. 'There's no comfort yet': Hundreds gather, march at vigil for Christine Wood: CBC, APTN News, Winnipeg Free Press

2. Wednesday vigil for Christine Wood to be held steps from where she was killed:CBC, APTN News, Winnipeg Free Press

3. Christine Wood was killed but body still missing, Winnipeg police say: CBC

4. Murder charges laid in case of Christine Wood who vanished off the streets of Winnipeg last summer: APTN News

5. No chance Wood alive, police say; suspect won't tell them where to find body: Winnipeg Free Press

Refugees & Race

1. Border services officer assaulted by asylum seeker who was detained for criminal past: CBC

2. Border jumper faces threat, assault charges: Winnipeg Free Press

Environment

1. Make green clothing choices to protect Lake Winnipeg from microplastics: CBC

Flood Report

1. Portage Diversion flow down, lower Assiniboine flow up as crest moves toward Headingley: CBC

2. Assiniboine, Souris rivers on rise as overland floods subside in Manitoba: CBC

3. Assiniboine River to crest in Brandon on Monday, city says: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

4. Assiniboine crests in Portage, diversion channel controlling flow: Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg Free Press

5. St. François Xavier declares state of emergency as river rises: CBC

6. Regular flooding in southwest corner costs millions and affects thousands: Winnipeg Free Press

7. Water, concern rising along Assiniboine: Winnipeg Free Press

Health

1. Health-care workers learning to combat the 'epidemic' of human trafficking: CBC

2. Interactive map of overdose deaths brings opioid crisis to your doorstep: CBC

3. Winnipeg School Division says it's ready for legal pot, but former student thinks otherwise: CBC

4. Winnipeg QuickCare clinics 'may be on the chopping block,' health critic says: CBC

5. Mumps outbreak could climb as high as 600 cases before waning: CBC

6. Critics call modest increase in health-care spending a bitter pill to swallow: Winnipeg Free Press

ER Closure - Varying Stats on Protest Attendance

1. Dozens gather for 'Save our ER' rally at Concordia Hospital: CBC

2. Hundreds protest ER closure at Concordia: Winnipeg Free Press

3. ER closures, other changes to health care still need to be 'priced out,' premier says: CBC

Indigenous

1. Manitoba 'the most racist provincial government in Canada': Grand Chief Sheila North Wilson: CBC

2. Indigenous leader invites Brian Pallister to try living on reserve: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

3. Minister defends province against chief's racism claim: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

4. 'It's the heart of the community': Lake St. Martin breaks ground for new school: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

5. Health Canada turns to Facebook to find Indigenous kids in need of care: CBC

6. Connecting communities: First Nations company plans to lay 3,600 km of fibre optics in Manitoba: CBC

7. Trevor Herriot and Norman Fleury make the case for atonement: CBC

8. Canada vs. St. Anne’s Indian residential school survivor H-15019: APTN News

9. Face To Face: Dennis Ward sits down with MKO Grand Chief, Sheila North Wilson:APTN news

10. Goertzen backs plan to help pregnant indigenous women: Winnipeg Free Press

11. New 'tool kit' aims to demystify urban reserves: Winnipeg Free Press

Justice

1. Winnipeg police searching for man who attempted to abduct 11-year-old boy Friday: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

2. 'It's pretty frustrating': Winnipegger irked by property damage from snow clearing:CBC

3. 4 girls arrested for fire that destroyed Harbourview Park playground:CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

4. Suspicious grocery store hugger ID'ed by police: CBC

5. Police arrest 2 more suspects in shooting death of Shania Chartrand: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg Free Press

6. Woman arrested in killing of Wolseley neighbour: CBC

7. 'It's just wrong,' says Winnipeg mother who lost son to gun violence: CBC

8. Riot redemption: Winnipeg Free Press

9. Cooper Nemeth's accused killer gets probation over stolen vehicle: Winnipeg Free Press

10. Winnipeg student awaits sentence for role in global fraud ring: Winnipeg Free Press

11. HIV-infected sex offender moving back to Winnipeg, police say: Winnipeg Free Press

12. Cold-case homicide going to trial: Winnipeg Free Press

13. CFS ignored abuse by her foster father, woman claims in suit: Winnipeg Free Press

Politics

1. Pallister government quietly kills act designed to track utility affordability: CBC

2. If you want to influence government, the City of Winnipeg wants your specs: CBC,Winnipeg Free Press

3. No estimate of financial, employment impacts of public-sector wage controls: Winnipeg Free Press

4. Tories under fire over ER closures, other health moves: Winnipeg Free Press

5. Winnipeg School Division has a wish list for the premier: Winnipeg Free Press

6. 'Wide range of emotions' for non-profits as budget holds future of Neighbourhoods Alive!: CBC

7. Manitoba owed $500M or more in back disaster assistance funding from Ottawa:CBC

8. Senator Beyak can complain about free speech all she wants. Fact is, she earned her demotion: CBC

New Child Advocate Named

1. Daphne Penrose named Manitoba children's advocate: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

2. Ready to tackle challenges 'head-on': Winnipeg Free Press

3. Young asylum seekers, number of kids in care key issues facing new child advocate: CBC

Wab's Running for NDP Leadership!

1. Running for love: Wab Kinew launches bid to lead Manitoba NDP: CBC

2. Wab Kinew making it official: set to announce run for leadership of beleaguered NDP: CBC

3. Kinew enters NDP race, expects to take some punches: Winnipeg Free Press

Budget

1. No-news budget is bad news for Manitobans, labour market economist says: CBC

2. 2017 Manitoba budget: Arts, sports programs to see big cuts: CBC

3. Budget 2017 fails to deliver on innovation and efficiencies to tackle deficit: CBC

4. Manitoba 2017 budget highlights: From tax credit reductions to new child care spaces: CBC

5. Budget needed 'bold action,' didn't go far enough: Canadian Federation of Independent Business: CBC

6. 2017 Manitoba budget: Students, caregivers take tax hit but budget leaves most wallets unaffected: CBC

7. One budget to annoy them all: CBC

8. 2017 Manitoba budget: Numerous jabs but no death blows: CBC

9. 2017 Manitoba budget: Tuition tax credit cut slays deficit 'on the backs of students':CBC

10. No more tuition tax rebate, but more money for refugee housing coming in Manitoba budget: CBC

11. NDP accuses province of putting money ahead of patient care with ER closure: Winnipeg Free Press

12. Manitoba budget 2017: A breakdown of the government's priorities: Winnipeg Free Press

13. Cautious course: Winnipeg Free Press

14. Budget a step in the right direction: premier: Winnipeg Free Press

15. Liberal MLA Jon Gerrard reacts to budget: Winnipeg Free Press

Cultural

1. Hundreds fill Winnipeg streets for Way of the Cross march: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

2. Funding limbo continues for major cultural projects: CBC

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