Winnipeg Human Rights News: March 26th-April 1st

In this week’s headlines, there are 4 missing persons alerts, 3 product recalls, 2 Senators respond to Senator Beyak’s comments on residential schools, and 1 NBA team hangs out with a Northern Manitoba community team.

Missing Persons AlertBianca Beauregard

Poverty & Community Outreach

1. Greendell Park Community Centre gets upgrades: CBC

2. Inspiring others after so much pain: Winnipeg Free Press

3. A true helper, from head to toe: Winnipeg Free Press

Disability & Accessibility

1. Disability, teen angst take centre stage in Royal MTC play 'Kill Me Now': CBC,Winnipeg Free Press

2. Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre's Kill Me Now a messy, heartbreaking and funny look at disability: CBC

Refugees & Race

1. Emerson reeve says military at border would be overkill: CBC

2. Changes to provincial nominee program draw protest at Manitoba legislature: CBC

3. Pallister eyes scaling back refugee support as tiff with Ottawa festers: CBC

4. 'Dramatic' cut to refugee funding: Winnipeg Free Press

5. Asylum seekers an opportunity for Manitoba: Winnipeg Free Press

6. Tories talk tough on refugees: Winnipeg Free Press

7. PM Justin Trudeau answers questions regarding asylum seekers: Winnipeg Free Press

Environment

1. Hog industry likes changes to manure rules that critics say smell bad: CBC

2. Province amending big pile of manure regulations: Winnipeg Free Press

3. 'Water, water everywhere': Neighbours call on city to fix culvert overflow in St. Boniface: CBC

4. Red River Floodway and Portage Diversion activated, cutting flood risk in Winnipeg: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

5. St. Boniface residents say metal shredder is polluting air, harming health: CBC

6. Animal cruelty laws rarely result in jail time: lawyer: CBC

7. Manitoba will join with Nunavut to monitor essential caribou herd: CBC

8. City 'very well prepared' to handle flood risks: Winnipeg Free Press

9. National organization slams Manitoba environment survey: Winnipeg Free Press

Indigenous

1. 'The ultimate goal is to reduce the number of children in care': Indigenous Affairs minister: Winnipeg Free Press, CBC

2. Welfare agency misused money for indigenous kids' care, audit revealed: Winnipeg Free Press

3. 'I was completely scared': First Nation elder's van falls through ice on Shoal Lake: CBC

4. Winnipeg artist sews TRC's calls to action into Canadian flags: CBC

5. Shooting hoops with the Raptors: Northern Manitoba community team in T.O. for tourney: CBC

6. Manitoba families meet with missing, murdered Indigenous women inquiry staff: CBC

7. Lynn Beyak tells residential school survivors she wants audit of all First Nations spending: CBC

8. Sagkeeng's missing and murdered Indigenous women honoured with ceremony: CBC

9. Indigenous students claim sexual abuse at Catholic day school in Manitoba: CBC

10. Ottawa gives Manitoba chiefs money to study reforming child welfare system: APTN News

11. AFN holding outreach sessions for families of MMIWG in Manitoba: APTN News

12. Interview with St. Anne’s Indian Residential School Claimant K-10106: Betrayal, again: APTN News

13. A Roof Overhead: Teenagers struggle through school, growing up, boredom and no place to sleep in Garden Hill: APTN News

14. First Nation sues Ottawa, province over outstanding land claim: APTN News, Winnipeg Free Press

15. Crisis team to the rescue: Winnipeg Free Press

Senator Beyak's Comments Continue to Cause Controversy

1. Conservative senators come to Lynn Beyak's defence while others say 'shame': CBC

2. Indigenous leaders call for Senator Lynn Beyak's resignation: CBC

3. Senator Murray Sinclair responds to Lynn Beyak's defence of residential schools: CBC

4. Senator McPhedran responds to Senator Beyak's comments: CBC

5. Senator Lynn Beyak says she has 'suffered' with residential school survivors: CBC

Justice

1. Not a drill: RCMP say thieves armed with auger stole $20K worth of canola from Manitoba silo: CBC

2. Winnipeg's bomb disposal unit blows up suspicious package: CBC

3. Canada's slacker pot legalization could create interprovincial haze: CBC

4. Premier has alternatives to high-handed approach that could bring court case: CBC

5. Research volunteer sues University of Manitoba for ear damage: CBC

6. Man accused in Cooper Nemeth murder to go straight to trial: CBC

7. RCMP officer facing assault charges: Winnipeg Free Press

8. Accused killer angry, jealous after moving from Africa: sponsor: Winnipeg Free Press

9. Camera in bathroom key to case against foster dad: Winnipeg Free Press

10. Accused in child porn case back in jail after video surfaces: Winnipeg Free Press

11. Authorities seek information on sex offender's whereabouts: Winnipeg Free Press

12. Maimed animal carcasses under investigation: Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg Free Press

13. Mental health to be focus of murder trial: Winnipeg Free Press

Politics

1. Justin Trudeau called 'scumbag' while touting federal child-care plan in Winnipeg:CBC

2. Trudeau to discuss child care in Winnipeg visit: Winnipeg Free Press

3. Winnipeg parents irate after new school bus policy leaves them stranded: CBC

4. Leaks happen, so province needs to find a way to disclose kids' deaths in care, say privacy experts: CBC

5. Manitoba government under fire for keeping millions meant for kids in care: CBC

6. Provinces poised to sign historic Canadian Free Trade Agreement in April: CBC

7. Lawyer, 87, retires rather than submit to professional development rules: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

8. Wait for care too long for kids, families: Winnipeg Free Press

9. Take the field, Mr. Pallister: Winnipeg Free Press

10. Public servants always get stuck with the cheque: Winnipeg Free Press

11. Pallister hails new deal for Manitoba: Winnipeg Free Press

12. Province wants public input on privacy laws: Winnipeg Free Press

13. 14 children died slipping through CFS cracks: Winnipeg Free Press

Cultural

1. Winnipeg Jewish Theatre's How to Disappear Completely illuminates, stimulates: CBC

2. Winnipeg woman vying for Miss Indian World title: CBC

Health

1. Not looking good: Manitobans face longest wait in Canada for cataract surgery: CBC

2. E. coli risk prompts recall of Robin Hood all-purpose flour: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

3. PureCare skin care cream sold for children contains prescription steroid, Health Canada warns: CBC

4. Canada joins recall of EpiPens: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

5. Factory of the Future funding for Winnipeg not at risk, says Trudeau: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg Free Press

6. Fewer abortions in province: data: Winnipeg Free Press

7. HSC provides first abortion via pill: Winnipeg Free Press

8. Province trims ambulance fees: Winnipeg Free Press

9. Wait time report shows Manitobans better off breaking a hip than wearing it out: Winnipeg Free Press

10. Former Saskatchewan MLA heads Manitoba health-care wait-times task force: Winnipeg Free Press

11. Accused is schizophrenic, doctor tells jury: Winnipeg Free Press

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