Winnipeg Human Rights News: October 1st-7th

In this week's news, a settlement is made with -some, but not all - Sixties Scoop survivors, a KPMG report makes several suggestions for further cuts, the courts are brimming with instances of inappropriate relationships, the legislature reconvenes and shows off its improved accessible chambers, and much more.

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Poverty & Community Outreach

1. Five ways to lend a hand to organizations that help the less fortunate: Winnipeg Free Press

2. Most Winnipeggers happy with quality of life but discrimination still an issue, report suggests: CBC

3. One-stop spot for families in need: Winnipeg Free Press

4. Boy meets world: device lets blind see: Winnipeg Free Press

5. Vermicelli for Thanksgiving: Vietnamese restaurant owner pays it forward: CBC

6. Siloam Mission doubles size of dining room, eliminates outdoor lineups: CBC

7. Syrian refugees put on barbecue to give back to Winnipeg: CBC

8. Fort Richmond resident thought man with gun demanding keys was playing a Halloween trick: CBC

9. Cooking with conscience: Winnipeg Free Press

10. Koats for Kids puts out plea for winter wear in Winnipeg: CBC

11. 'She just likes to prove everybody wrong': Manitoba girl with rare neck growthcomes home: CBC

12. Charity gives hope, meaning to Winnipeggers: Winnipeg Free Press

13. Concrete barriers erected around part of IGF: Winnipeg Free Press

14. 'Artists are doctors too': Tomson Highway to speak at art therapy conference in Winnipeg: CBC

15. Hall kept his word by constantly giving back: Winnipeg Free Press

16. WSD re-opens seating on buses for students outside catchment area: Winnipeg Free Press

17. 2 Manitoba authors up for Governor General's Literary Awards: CBC

Disability & Accessibility

1. Changes in legislature chamber barely noticeable, but monumental for disabled: Winnipeg Free Press

2. Disabled football player's Winnipeg family settles lawsuit with Quebec university: Winnipeg Free Press, CBC

Gender & Sexuality

1. U of M students demand changes to school's harassment policy after Steve Kirby allegations: CBC

Refugees & Race

1. West End refuge for asylum-seekers launched with private funds: Winnipeg Free Press

2. Single mom, sons 1st tenants at new home for refugees in Winnipeg: CBC

Environment

1. Energy East cancellation prompts jubilation and dismay: Winnipeg Free Press

2. Councillors to decide how far to expand urban beekeeping: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

New Trash Plan

1. Winnipeg hopes for minimal trash talk as new waste collectors hit the street: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

2. 'A great start': 2,000 garbage pick-ups missed on first day with new contractors: Winnipeg Free Press

3. More missed trash on Day 2 of new plan: Winnipeg Free Press

4. City fails to track missed waste pickups: Winnipeg Free Press

Health

1. St. Boniface surgeon threatens to stop hand surgeries if physio and occupational therapy programs cut: CBC

2. Southern Health Regions finds $1.2M in savings, larger plan for rural health care remains a mystery: CBC

3. Winnipeg seniors awaiting knee surgery opposes relocation of outpatient service to HSC: CBC

4. 'Life-saving conversations': How to advocate for yourself in the health-care system: CBC

5. WRHA restores some free therapy, but criteria unclear: Winnipeg Free Press

6. HSC to revamp old school into $8.8-M clinic: Winnipeg Free Press, CBC

7. Woman suing health authority for wrongful death after husband taken off ventilator:CBC

8. Physio services take a body blow: Winnipeg Free Press

ER Closures

1. 1 down, 2 to go: Winnipeg loses one of its 6 emergency departments: CBC

2. What you need to know as 1st ER closes in health-care overhaul: CBC

3. Sign comes down as Misericordia Urgent Care Centre prepares to close: CBC

4. Misericordia's urgent care centre tells its final tale: Winnipeg Free Press

Indigenous

1. Families commemorate first official MMIWG day in Manitoba: CBC

2. Largest exhibition of Indigenous artists making waves in Winnipeg: APTN News

3. Once inspired, now inspiring: Winnipeg Free Press

4. Construction begins on Reconciliation Way riverside trail: Winnipeg Free Press

5. Indigenous health care not fair, equal, or just: Moran: CBC

6. Federal government gives Manitoba First Nations $19M to fight diabetes: CBC

7. St. Theresa Point student hopes her story will inspire others to stay in school:APTN News

MMIWG Inquiry

1. MMIWG inquiry losing 2 more staffers: CBC

2. Another hire, another departure at MMIWG Inquiry: APTN News

3. MMIWG national inquiry names Manitoba woman as executive director: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

4. Families threaten anti-Inquiry coalitions with court action: APTN News

 Sixties Scoop Settlement

1. Ottawa announces $800M settlement with Indigenous survivors of Sixties Scoop:CBC, APTN News

2. Sixties Scoop settlement 'in the best interest of all class members': Lawyer: CBC

3. Sixties Scoop survivors say settlement, apology a milestone on path to healing: Winnipeg Free Press

4. Métis still fighting for Sixties Scoop compensation after being left out of federal agreement: CBC

5. 'Who are you? I don't know': Sixties Scoop survivor shares her story: CBC

6. Indigenous residential school records can be destroyed, Supreme Court rules:CBC, APTN News, Winnipeg Free Press

7. Court order to destroy residential school accounts 'a win for abusers': NCTR director: CBC

8. Sask. lawyer at centre of massive effort to contact 37,000 residential school survivors after court ruling: CBC

Justice & Crime

1. 'Just a beautiful girl': Vigil held in Lac du Bonnet for Brittany Bung: CBC

2. Sex assault data show city police likely to lay charge: expert: Winnipeg Free Press

3. Daycare provider was getaway driver for teen thieves: CBC

4. Nuit Blanche partygoers pepper-sprayed in Old Market Square: CBC

5. High-risk sex offender rearrested after breaching curfew in Winnipeg:CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

6. Police pull body from pond off Keewatin Street, Selkirk Avenue: CBC

7. Teen with machete in his pants arrested on Winnipeg bus, police say: CBC

8. Law society disbars lawyer found guilty of misappropriating $82K in client funds:CBC

9. Nurse's relationship with patient crossed boundary, college says: Winnipeg Free Press

10. Former school employee faces jail for sex with student: Winnipeg Free Press

11. Police hunt for fourth suspect in fatal July shooting: Winnipeg Free Press

Las Vegas Shooting

1. 'Everybody was screaming': 2 Manitobans hit by bullets in Las Vegas mass shooting: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

2. 'Unthinkable tragedy' rocks Brandon: Winnipeg Free Press, CBC

3. Brandonites remember shooting victim: Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg Free Press

4. 'I couldn't just leave her': Las Vegas man carried wounded Manitoba woman to ambulance after shooting: CBC

5. Manitoban shot in Las Vegas tearfully reunites with man who carried her to safety:CBC

6. Funds being raised to help Las Vegas shooting victim from Manitoba: CBC

In the Courts

1. Former cabinet minister files lawsuit over job beef: CBC

2. Parishioner suing former Manitoba Anglican priest for alleged sexual exploitation:CBC

3. Senior who exploited at-risk teen gets 4-year sentence: CBC

4. Accused Lac du Bonnet killer got probation last week after apologizing for vicious 2016 assault: Winnipeg Free Press

5. Taking $370K from Winnipeg church nets jail time for former admin: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

6. New Zealand police help arrest Winnipeg man for child porn: Winnipeg Free Press

7. Former RCMP officer pleads guilty to sexual exploitation: Winnipeg Free Press

Politics

1. Politics and sports can't be separated: Winnipeg Free Press

Federal

1. Sexism contributed to NDP leadership loss, Ashton says: Winnipeg Free Press

2. Pallister balks at Trudeau's proposed 10 per cent tax on cannabis: Winnipeg Free Press, CBC

Provincial

1. Price tag for 2016 provincial vote $13.5M: Elections Manitoba: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

2. Manitoba politician denied quick order striking down floor-crossing law: CBC

3. Tories ready to strike down legislation restricting MLAs from switching parties: Winnipeg Free Press

4. Red tape hunt saps Hydro resources: Winnipeg Free Press

5. 'Phone threat' leads to legislature evacuation: Winnipeg Free Press

6. NDP-backed cabbies want compensation as ride sharing becomes legal: Winnipeg Free Press, CBC

7. Many eyes on Kinew as legislature resumes Wednesday: Winnipeg Free Press

8. Province releases KPMG report, wants to cut civil service by eight per cent: Winnipeg Free Press

9. KPMG report tells Manitoba government to scrap interest-free student loans:CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

10. Privatize social housing for profit: KPMG: Winnipeg Free Press

11. Report urges means test for adult disability services: Winnipeg Free Press

12. Honesty not the policy for Tories: Winnipeg Free Press

13. Bjornson claims he was promised union job if he quit as MLA: Winnipeg Free Press

14. Independent MLA Steven Fletcher frustrates 1st day back at Manitoba legislature:CBC

15. Fletcher takes centre stage with legislature filibuster: Winnipeg Free Press

16. MLA's antics show sad state of provincial politics: Winnipeg Free Press

17. Premier faces health-care critics, new Opposition leader as Manitoba Legislature reconvenes: CBC

18. Kinew's debut as NDP leader caps off bizarre day at Manitoba Legislature: Winnipeg Free Press

19. Hounded by his past, Kinew will never fully shine: Winnipeg Free Press

Local

1. Decison to fire lawyer over botched city lawsuit fails to placate councillors: CBC

2. Winnipeg awards $180M sewage-plant contract to Ontario firm: CBC

3. Tentative deal reached in airport strike: Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg Free Press, CBC

4. Councillors push for reviews of bungled lawsuit: Winnipeg Free Press

5. Rules tightened for city councillors' credit cards: Winnipeg Free Press

Churchill

1. Storage for winter propane latest Churchill snag: Winnipeg Free Press

2. Via Rail to ship train out of Churchill, cut service: Winnipeg Free Press 

3. Calm Air swoops in to avert fuel crisis in Churchill, Man: CBC

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