Winnipeg Human Rights News: October 29th-November 4th, 2017

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

1. 160 tireless years of family support: Winnipeg Free Press

2. Crafting a place in the art scene: Winnipeg Free Press

3. Women's shelters doing more with less: Winnipeg Free Press

4. New safety plan seeks to boost monitoring of workplace hazards in Manitoba:CBC

5. Community rallies to aid of Art City after funding delay threatened to cut programming: Winnipeg Free Press

6. 'Complete success': Art City programming resumes after more than $50K raised:CBC

7. Opening their eyes: Winnipeg Free Press

8. Teulon woman shot in Vegas at home, may be at fundraising social for her: Winnipeg Free Press

9. Food options limited in inner city: Winnipeg Free Press

10. Isolated Landscapes reveals decades of women's video work on the Prairies:CBC

11. Police hand out safety tips along with muffins over coffee: Winnipeg Free Press

Gender & Sexuality

1. Ballet Victoria cuts ties with former Royal Winnipeg Ballet instructor Bruce Monk:CBC

2. 'I'm a survivor': MLA shares story of domestic abuse: Winnipeg Free Press

3. 'Living death': Study suggests having kids in foster care bad for mothers: CBC

Disability

1. 'I am at my wit's end': Manitoba man says limited home-care hours too restrictive: CBC

Refugees & Race

1. Manitoba Opera production of Madama Butterfly sparks discussion around race:CBC

2. Refugees boost Altona economy: Winnipeg Free Press

3. 'Deepened understanding': Princeton University students visit Manitoba for education on refugees, resettlement: CBC

4. 'Win-win situation': Expedited refugee claim process clears cases without hearings: CBC

Environment

1. Hydro link to Minnesota faces delay if NEB gets wish: Winnipeg Free Press, CBC

2. Conflict won't help save environment: Winnipeg Free Press

Manitoba's Carbon Tax Plan

1. Manitoba premier fires back at Ottawa on climate plan, says provincial strategy will be just as effective: CBC

2. 'If we say no, we get Trudeau': Manitoba environment minister backs carbon tax:CBC

3. Feds' climate-plan rebuke not 'thoughtful': Pallister: Winnipeg Free Press

Health

1. Grace Hospital nurse fears for patient safety amid changes: CBC

2. Manitoba government rejects call to change how organs donated: Winnipeg Free Press

3. Province calls special committee to improve 'unacceptably low' organ donation rate: CBC

4. Manitoba nurses part of 'Wear White Wednesday' national movement: CBC

5. Proposed legislation to protect health professionals who object to assisted dyingcalled 'one-sided': CBC

6. Medically assisted dying: What happens when religious and individual rights conflict?: CBC

7. Arthritis Society a big help for concerned mom: Winnipeg Free Press

8. 'They lost my baby': Winnipeg Free Press

9. Funeral held for stillborn misplaced by hospital: Winnipeg Free Press

10. National health monitor gives coronary care top marks: Winnipeg Free Press

11. Unions fighting WRHA clawback of overpayments to employees: Winnipeg Free Press

12. 'Practice bravery': Winnipeg psychologist hosts event to help people deal with anxiety: CBC

Deer Lodge Loses Nurses

1. Equivalent of 15 nursing jobs to be eliminated at Deer Lodge Centre: union: CBC

2. Deer Lodge losing 15 nurses, adding aides; math doesn't add up for Kinew: Winnipeg Free Press

3. 'Like we're family': Riverview patient speaks out as nurses' jobs deleted, new LPNs hired: CBC

Indigenous

1. Maori program helps Manitoba: Winnipeg Free Press

2. Reconnecting with the land: Winnipeg Free Press

3. Norway House chief believes meeting with judges will bring change: CBC

4. Missing and murdered inquiry wants task force established to review cold cases: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press, APTN News

5. Lake St. Martin flood evacuees finally get to return home: Winnipeg Free Press, CBC, APTN News

6. Winnipegger's picture book about residential school legacy wins Governor General's Award: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

7. Louis Riel's walking stick donated to Manitoba Museum: CBC

8. Possessing all Louis Riel artifacts would help Métis own their story: law student: CBC

9. Who is Métis? Statistics Canada numbers open window on debate: CBC

10. First Nation banishes man suspected of selling drugs in community: CBC

11. First Nations should reconsider banishment, says Indigenous physician: CBC

12. Nation to Nation: How band membership is determined became an issue on Parliament Hill: APTN News

13. 'This is our birthright': Indigenous senators call on PM to end discrimination against women in Indian Act: CBC

14. Families want MMIWG inquiry extension: CBC

15. Workshops hope to inspire Indigenous youth to get involved in mapping: CBC

16. From street to scholar: Jesse Thistle creates new definition of Indigenous homelessness: CBC

17. New documentary about iconic Aboriginal artist making its Winnipeg premiere:APTN News (Video)

Justice & Crime

1. 'Zombie drug' flakka may have hit Winnipeg streets: police: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

2. Police warn more potentially lethal Halloween-stamped fentanyl blotters could be in Winnipeg: CBC

3. 'People do not want to wait': Train operator says Winnipeg tracks notorious for illegal crossers: CBC

4. 'They threw him out to me': Friend describes chaos at Kelvin before, after stabbing: CBC

5. Man wanted in numerous violent offences could be armed, dangerous: Winnipeg police: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

6. RCMP still searching for answers in decade-old unsolved killing: Winnipeg Free Press

7. Police ask public to avoid Main St. from Higgins to Euclid on Friday evening: Winnipeg Free Press, CBC

8. Walk-in clinic doctor now faces nine sex-assault charges: Winnipeg Free Press,CBC

9. The silent witnesses: Winnipeg Free Press

10. Investigators seeking witness in hit-and-run involving police officer: Winnipeg Free Press

11. Manitoba judges to hold meeting with Indigenous leaders to improve justice system: Globe & Mail, CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

12. Lives in the balance: Winnipeg Free Press

13. Concerns about teacher should be directed to authorities, not Facebook: law professor: Winnipeg Free Press

14. Accused killer of Kelvin High stabbing victim wasn't who he was looking to fight, court told: Winnipeg Free Press

15. No plan to cut air ambulance pilot training funds, province says: Winnipeg Free Press

In the Courts

1. Killer gets 15 years; confesses in pocket-call to victim's daughter: Winnipeg Free Press

2. Jury acquits man of murder after stabbing drug dealer to death: Winnipeg Free Press 

3. Guido Amsel bombing trial hears of crater, 70-metre debris field: CBC

4. Man acquitted in Michelle Stobbe murder trial after less than a full day of deliberations: CBC

Politics

Federal

1. Bill to restrict junk food ads worth the heat: MP: Winnipeg Free Press

2. Senators preparing for Indian Act showdown with Ottawa: Winnipeg Free Press

Provincial

1. 'It breaks the law': Justice minister slams bill to train judicial justices of the peace: CBC

2. 'Shocking' comments show Manitoba judicial justices of the peace need domestic violence training, MLA says: CBC

3. Manitoba Justice urged to probe 'disturbing' protection order denial: CBC

4. With cannabis legalization approaching, Pallister urges cabinet and staff todeclare potential conflicts of interest: Winnipeg Free Press

5. Province eager for immigrant workers: Winnipeg Free Press

6. Final chapter?: Winnipeg Free Press

7. Pallister gov't ready to drop unionized worker requirement on project bids: Winnipeg Free Press

8. Tories kill Gerrard's bid to add size, weight to human-rights protection: Winnipeg Free Press

9. Cab fares to increase when province passes regulatory control to city: Winnipeg Free Press

10. 'We're going in the right direction': Pallister speaks at PC AGM: CBC

11. Wab Kinew's troubled past the butt of premier's joke at PC meeting:CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

Local

1. Shock, fury over expropriation plan: Winnipeg Free Press

2. Councillor seeking to protect homes 'understands neither finance nor traffic': developer: CBC

3. Mayor poised to support Sterling Lyon Parkway switch, even though costs not yet known: CBC

4. Tough-love detour in parkway conflict: Winnipeg Free Press

5. City hall committee kills rogue engineers' plan to expropriate homes to build road: Winnipeg Free Press

6. Cabbies argue Uber drivers need shields if ride-hailing service comes to Winnipeg: CBC

7. City's taxi industry wants Uber to play by the same rules: Winnipeg Free Press

8. More speakers than time to speak at final hearing on Uber bill: Winnipeg Free Press

9. Winnipeg's mayor and CAO have too much power: left-wing think tank: CBC

10. City too secretive about location of Bruce Oake Recovery Centre, councillorsays: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

11. Non-profit group upset at being neglected in bid for Vimy Arena site: CBC

12. Bowman lashes out at political foes: Winnipeg Free Press

13. City expects $400,000 surplus for 2017: Winnipeg Free Press

Churchill

1. Price of gasoline in Churchill set to jump 30 per cent: CBC

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