Winnipeg Human Rights News: October 15th-21st, 2017

We have all of the coverage on the MMIWG Inquiry hearings in Winnipeg. Also in this week’s news, an “ashamed” U of M student returns his degree, Manitobans hate Pallister’s health tax, a former cop is sentenced for recording nude images of his children, and more.

Missing Persons AlertScott Hadath

Poverty & Community Outreach

1. Man who nearly died in crash giving $25K for MADD bursaries: CBC 

2. Dayna Danger has a powerful message for gender non-conforming folks: 'This work is for you': CBC

3. In court and on the mat: 2 Future 40 nominees shaping Manitoba through yoga, legal support: CBC

4. Village in decline: Winnipeg Free Press

5. Hospital volunteers find joy in helping kids: Winnipeg Free Press

6. Meet the bike designer who changes lives: CBC

7. Singer shined light on nation's social issues: Winnipeg Free Press

8. Tangled roots: Winnipeg Free Press

9. Life after gangs: Newly published book documents the struggle of leaving a violent lifestyle behind: Winnipeg Free Press

10. Hunter & Gunn barbershop marks five years of trimming locks and giving back: Winnipeg Free Press

11. Building Belonging provides fun, safe haven for kids: Winnipeg Free Press

12. Taking back the night in Winnipeg: APTN News

Gender & Sexuality

1. 'Ashamed to be your alumnus': Former U of M student returns degree after Steve Kirby allegations: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

2. Another hashtag, another disturbing silence: Winnipeg Free Press

Refugees & Race

1. Red River College's refugee students learning reading, writing and roofing: Winnipeg Free Press

2. Syrian refugee resettlement experience the focus of public forum: Winnipeg Free Press

3. B'nai Brith, boycott-Israel group target Waters concert: Winnipeg Free Press

Environment

1. Soil testing in St. Boniface reveals 'no reason for concern,' province says:CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

2. Carbon-reduction plan nears: Winnipeg Free Press

3. Multiple wildfires across province under control: CBC

4. 'Nobody shows up': Winnipeg seniors waited 3 weeks for garbage pickup: CBC

5. Green herrings: Winnipeg 'clean energy' conference focused on unrealistic solutions: CBC

Health

1. Bumped from surgery 9 times, Winnipeg senior says she's stuck in medical limboat HSC: CBC

2. 50 new nurse positions to be added at St. Boniface Hospital in scheduling overhaul: CBC

3. Misericordia's closure left huge hole in care, area residents say: CBC

4. Job deletions, scheduling changes will affect 1,000 nurses at St. Boniface: Winnipeg Free Press

5. WRHA decides on criteria for in-clinic physio, occupational therapy: Winnipeg Free Press

6. No-sedation cataract surgery addresses long wait list, anesthesiologist shortage: Winnipeg Free Press

7. Manitobans against new tax: poll: Winnipeg Free Press, CBC

8. Pallister reneged on no-tax pledge: poll: Winnipeg Free Press

9. Patients billed for medical abortions: Winnipeg Free Press

10. Full reimbursement promised to HSC patients who paid for abortion pills: Winnipeg Free Press

11. Sister of man choked on city bus says more mental health services needed: Winnipeg Free Press

12. Requests for assisted death increase, health-care team grows to meet need: Winnipeg Free Press

13. Number of medically assisted deaths on the rise in Manitoba: CBC

14. Who is David Peachey? Meet the doctor-turned-consultant behind Manitoba's health-care overhaul: CBC

Indigenous

1. Ojibwe artist works with strangers to create mural at University of Winnipeg: CBC

2. 'We are tired of waiting ': Wasagamack takes airstrip into its own hands after summer wildfire evacuation: CBC

3. Elementary students explore residential school history at Canadian Museum for Human Rights: CBC

4. 'It tears at the heart': Manitoba Icelandic museum honours Indigenous hero John Ramsay: CBC

5. Residential school survivors can proactively preserve documents: Bennett: CBC

6. Manitoba, Canada agree to pay $90 million to 4 First Nations for 2011 flood:APTN News

MMIWG Inquiry Hearing in Winnipeg

1. MMIW inquiry begins week of hearings in city with daybreak ceremonies: Winnipeg Free Press

2. MMIWG inquiry hearings in Winnipeg LIVE: CBC

3. 2 families, 3 missing and murdered Indigenous women; inquiry reveals how tragedy follows tragedy: CBC

4. Manitoba family split on testifying at MMIWG inquiry: CBC

5. Families push back at inquiry: Winnipeg Free Press

6. Tears, anger as families speak of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Winnipeg: Globe & Mail 

7. Thunderclaps of heartbreak: Winnipeg Free Press

8. Family of Indigenous woman who was decapitated says killing split community:Globe & Mail 

9. 'They're cutting our time short,' Catcheways' MMIWG testimony delayed, cut back:CBC

10. Investigation a 'tall order': commissioner: Winnipeg Free Press

11. Bags full of tears: how the MMIWG inquiry is honouring, healing trauma: CBC

12. 'I don't know nearly enough of who I am': Daughter of murdered parents testifiesat MMIWG hearings: CBC, APTN News

13. Institutions will be held to account, commissioner says: Winnipeg Free Press

14. MMIWG inquiry leaves Manitoba families wanting more: CBC

15. 100s of Faceless Dolls representing missing, murdered women disappear from Native Women's Association: CBC

16. Police said daughter was probably out drinking, mother of missing woman tells MMIWG inquiry: CBC

17. ‘Not only the RCMP failed you … it’s Canada’ Audette tells family at inquiry: APTN News

18. Sexual exploitation in the spotlight at MMIWG inquiry: APTN News

19. Manitoba rejected 24-hour safe place for LGBTQS2, inquiry told: APTN News

20. Using art to heal at the national mmiwg inquiry: APTN News

21. ‘This is not what I walked across Canada for’ tensions rise at national inquiry:APTN News

22. Nicole Daniels: A freezing death, false assumptions and pain: APTN News

23. Wood smoke and songs kick off MMIWG Inquiry in Winnipeg: APTN News

24. Crimes against women in Manitoba to take centre stage at MMIWG National Inquiry: APTN News 

Justice & Crime

1. Funeral planned for victim of deadly hit and run involving off-duty cop: CBC

2. 'All we want is justice': Funeral held for victim of fatal hit and run involving off-duty cop: CBC

3. First Nation honours man killed in hit-and-run: Winnipeg Free Press

4. Two more cops suspended as probe into deadly hit-and-run widens: Winnipeg Free Press, CBC

5. Russell Spence's mother calls for answers 1 year after son's death in Winnipeg remand centre: CBC

6. Law experts debate best way to drop cases: Winnipeg Free Press

7. 'There has to be a better way': Manitoba Court of Appeal slams family law system:CBC

8. More than half of police conduct complaints dismissed in 2016 for insufficient evidence: annual report: CBC

9. Make family law system user-friendly: province: Winnipeg Free Press

In the Courts

1. Developer sues 49 Parker Lands protesters: CBC

2. Parker lands protesters seek legal defence fund: Winnipeg Free Press

3. Lake Manitoba property owners fighting for class-action suit over 2011 flooding:CBC

4. 911 call at odds with evidence: Crown: Winnipeg Free Press

5. Province files statement of defence for wage freeze legislation: Winnipeg Free Press

6. Man who fatally stabbed wife found not criminally responsible: Winnipeg Free Press

7. Manitoba chiefs sue province for $888M: Winnipeg Free Press, CBC

8. Former police officer gets 4-year sentence after recording nude images of his children, possessing child porn: CBC

9. Province allowed convicted sexual predator to live with kids: CBC

 Candace Derksen Trial Verdict

1. Judge to decide fate of man accused in 1984 killing of Candace Derksen today:CBC

2. Mark Grant found not guilty in Derksen murder trial: Winnipeg Free Press

3. Mark Grant's defence lawyer Saul Simmonds: Winnipeg Free Press

4. Wilma and Cliff Derksen speak after the verdict: Winnipeg Free Press

5. Candace Derksen's parents hold onto love with candles: CBC 

Politics

Provincial

1. KPMG's value-for-money report fails Manitoba's universities: CBC

2. MPs staying within expense-report guidelines: Winnipeg Free Press

3. Poll shows support for Pallister gov't drops after 18 months of cuts and controversy: Winnipeg Free Press

4. Dougald Lamont wins leadership of Manitoba Liberals: Winnipeg Free Press

Local

1. Paramedics union concerned grudge delaying winter jackets: Winnipeg Free Press

Churchill

1. Temporary repairs to Churchill rail line could get it running in 30 days: Consultant report: CBC

2. Churchill will be warm this winter, but its future worries locals: CBC

3. Ship carrying supplies and fuel arrives in Churchill: CBC

4. Churchill waits as blame game continues: Winnipeg Free Press

5. Winter fuel arrives in Churchill: Winnipeg Free Press

6. Finger-pointing intensifies as train cars shipped out of Churchill: CBC

7. 'A very fixable problem': Winnipeg Free Press

8. Winter road will be carved through northern Manitoba to get supplies to Churchill:CBC

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