Winnipeg Human Rights News: October 29th-November 4th, 2017
- Buffy Davey
- Nov 5, 2017
- 4 min read
There are 8 people missing right now potentially in Winnipeg. Also in this week's news, a crowdfunding blitz raises more than 50k in two weeks, Princeton students come to learn from Winnipeg, a nurse fears for patient safety and more.
Missing Persons AlertPamela Anderson
Poverty & Community Outreach
160 tireless years of family support: Winnipeg Free Press
Crafting a place in the art scene: Winnipeg Free Press
Women's shelters doing more with less: Winnipeg Free Press
New safety plan seeks to boost monitoring of workplace hazards in Manitoba:CBC
Community rallies to aid of Art City after funding delay threatened to cut programming: Winnipeg Free Press
'Complete success': Art City programming resumes after more than $50K raised:CBC
Opening their eyes: Winnipeg Free Press
Teulon woman shot in Vegas at home, may be at fundraising social for her: Winnipeg Free Press
Food options limited in inner city: Winnipeg Free Press
Isolated Landscapes reveals decades of women's video work on the Prairies:CBC
Police hand out safety tips along with muffins over coffee: Winnipeg Free Press
Gender & Sexuality
Ballet Victoria cuts ties with former Royal Winnipeg Ballet instructor Bruce Monk:CBC
'I'm a survivor': MLA shares story of domestic abuse: Winnipeg Free Press
'Living death': Study suggests having kids in foster care bad for mothers: CBC
Disability
'I am at my wit's end': Manitoba man says limited home-care hours too restrictive: CBC
Refugees & Race
Manitoba Opera production of Madama Butterfly sparks discussion around race:CBC
Refugees boost Altona economy: Winnipeg Free Press
'Deepened understanding': Princeton University students visit Manitoba for education on refugees, resettlement: CBC
'Win-win situation': Expedited refugee claim process clears cases without hearings: CBC
Environment
Hydro link to Minnesota faces delay if NEB gets wish: Winnipeg Free Press, CBC
Conflict won't help save environment: Winnipeg Free Press
Manitoba's Carbon Tax Plan
Manitoba premier fires back at Ottawa on climate plan, says provincial strategy will be just as effective: CBC
'If we say no, we get Trudeau': Manitoba environment minister backs carbon tax:CBC
Feds' climate-plan rebuke not 'thoughtful': Pallister: Winnipeg Free Press
Health
Grace Hospital nurse fears for patient safety amid changes: CBC
Manitoba government rejects call to change how organs donated: Winnipeg Free Press
Province calls special committee to improve 'unacceptably low' organ donation rate: CBC
Manitoba nurses part of 'Wear White Wednesday' national movement: CBC
Proposed legislation to protect health professionals who object to assisted dyingcalled 'one-sided': CBC
Medically assisted dying: What happens when religious and individual rights conflict?: CBC
Arthritis Society a big help for concerned mom: Winnipeg Free Press
'They lost my baby': Winnipeg Free Press
Funeral held for stillborn misplaced by hospital: Winnipeg Free Press
National health monitor gives coronary care top marks: Winnipeg Free Press
Unions fighting WRHA clawback of overpayments to employees: Winnipeg Free Press
'Practice bravery': Winnipeg psychologist hosts event to help people deal with anxiety: CBC
Deer Lodge Loses Nurses
Equivalent of 15 nursing jobs to be eliminated at Deer Lodge Centre: union: CBC
Deer Lodge losing 15 nurses, adding aides; math doesn't add up for Kinew: Winnipeg Free Press
'Like we're family': Riverview patient speaks out as nurses' jobs deleted, new LPNs hired: CBC
Indigenous
Maori program helps Manitoba: Winnipeg Free Press
Reconnecting with the land: Winnipeg Free Press
Norway House chief believes meeting with judges will bring change: CBC
Missing and murdered inquiry wants task force established to review cold cases: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press, APTN News
Lake St. Martin flood evacuees finally get to return home: Winnipeg Free Press, CBC, APTN News
Winnipegger's picture book about residential school legacy wins Governor General's Award: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press
Louis Riel's walking stick donated to Manitoba Museum: CBC
Possessing all Louis Riel artifacts would help Métis own their story: law student: CBC
Who is Métis? Statistics Canada numbers open window on debate: CBC
First Nation banishes man suspected of selling drugs in community: CBC
First Nations should reconsider banishment, says Indigenous physician: CBC
Nation to Nation: How band membership is determined became an issue on Parliament Hill: APTN News
'This is our birthright': Indigenous senators call on PM to end discrimination against women in Indian Act: CBC
Families want MMIWG inquiry extension: CBC
Workshops hope to inspire Indigenous youth to get involved in mapping: CBC
From street to scholar: Jesse Thistle creates new definition of Indigenous homelessness: CBC
New documentary about iconic Aboriginal artist making its Winnipeg premiere:APTN News (Video)
Justice & Crime
'Zombie drug' flakka may have hit Winnipeg streets: police: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press
Police warn more potentially lethal Halloween-stamped fentanyl blotters could be in Winnipeg: CBC
'People do not want to wait': Train operator says Winnipeg tracks notorious for illegal crossers: CBC
'They threw him out to me': Friend describes chaos at Kelvin before, after stabbing: CBC
Man wanted in numerous violent offences could be armed, dangerous: Winnipeg police: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press
RCMP still searching for answers in decade-old unsolved killing: Winnipeg Free Press
Police ask public to avoid Main St. from Higgins to Euclid on Friday evening: Winnipeg Free Press, CBC
Walk-in clinic doctor now faces nine sex-assault charges: Winnipeg Free Press,CBC
The silent witnesses: Winnipeg Free Press
Investigators seeking witness in hit-and-run involving police officer: Winnipeg Free Press
Manitoba judges to hold meeting with Indigenous leaders to improve justice system: Globe & Mail, CBC, Winnipeg Free Press
Lives in the balance: Winnipeg Free Press
Concerns about teacher should be directed to authorities, not Facebook: law professor: Winnipeg Free Press
Accused killer of Kelvin High stabbing victim wasn't who he was looking to fight, court told: Winnipeg Free Press
No plan to cut air ambulance pilot training funds, province says: Winnipeg Free Press
In the Courts
Killer gets 15 years; confesses in pocket-call to victim's daughter: Winnipeg Free Press
Jury acquits man of murder after stabbing drug dealer to death: Winnipeg Free Press
Guido Amsel bombing trial hears of crater, 70-metre debris field: CBC
Man acquitted in Michelle Stobbe murder trial after less than a full day of deliberations: CBC
Politics
Federal
Bill to restrict junk food ads worth the heat: MP: Winnipeg Free Press
Senators preparing for Indian Act showdown with Ottawa: Winnipeg Free Press
Provincial
'It breaks the law': Justice minister slams bill to train judicial justices of the peace: CBC
'Shocking' comments show Manitoba judicial justices of the peace need domestic violence training, MLA says: CBC
Manitoba Justice urged to probe 'disturbing' protection order denial: CBC
With cannabis legalization approaching, Pallister urges cabinet and staff todeclare potential conflicts of interest: Winnipeg Free Press
Province eager for immigrant workers: Winnipeg Free Press
Final chapter?: Winnipeg Free Press
Pallister gov't ready to drop unionized worker requirement on project bids: Winnipeg Free Press
Tories kill Gerrard's bid to add size, weight to human-rights protection: Winnipeg Free Press
Cab fares to increase when province passes regulatory control to city: Winnipeg Free Press
'We're going in the right direction': Pallister speaks at PC AGM: CBC
Wab Kinew's troubled past the butt of premier's joke at PC meeting:CBC, Winnipeg Free Press
Local
Shock, fury over expropriation plan: Winnipeg Free Press
Councillor seeking to protect homes 'understands neither finance nor traffic': developer: CBC
Mayor poised to support Sterling Lyon Parkway switch, even though costs not yet known: CBC
Tough-love detour in parkway conflict: Winnipeg Free Press
City hall committee kills rogue engineers' plan to expropriate homes to build road: Winnipeg Free Press
Cabbies argue Uber drivers need shields if ride-hailing service comes to Winnipeg: CBC
City's taxi industry wants Uber to play by the same rules: Winnipeg Free Press
More speakers than time to speak at final hearing on Uber bill: Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg's mayor and CAO have too much power: left-wing think tank: CBC
City too secretive about location of Bruce Oake Recovery Centre, councillorsays: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press
Non-profit group upset at being neglected in bid for Vimy Arena site: CBC
Bowman lashes out at political foes: Winnipeg Free Press
City expects $400,000 surplus for 2017: Winnipeg Free Press
Churchill
Price of gasoline in Churchill set to jump 30 per cent: CBC