Winnipeg Human Rights News: September 10th-16th

In this week's news, Winnipeggers eat in the dark, Wab is elected NDP leader, Steve Kirby allegations come to light, health-care premiums are considered, and more.

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Poverty & Community Outreach

1. Dinner in the dark: Winnipeggers to dine blindfolded: CBC

2. Winnipegger honored for sharing history with newcomers: Winnipeg Free Press

3. United Way takes off on $20.5-M campaign run: Winnipeg Free Press

4. Median incomes up in Manitoba, but percentage living in poverty unchanged: Winnipeg Free Press

5. 'Turning grief into compassion': Winnipeg woman who lost partner in 9/11 quietly marks anniversary: Winnipeg Free Press

Gender & Sexuality

1. Good news for 1 member of unofficial 'Ghanaian pavilion': his home is now Canada: CBC

Steve Kirby Sexual Harassment Allegations

1. Berklee College puts Steve Kirby on leave after allegations of sexual harassment at U of Manitoba: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

2. Female students allege sexual misconduct against former U of Manitoba jazz prof Steve Kirby: CBC

3. U of M should be investigated: Winnipeg Free Press

4. U of Manitoba was warned about former jazz prof's behaviour years before he left: CBC

5. Jazz prof who left U of M amid concerns that were 'sexual in nature' hired by renowned U.S. school: Winnipeg Free Press

6. Complaints require confidentiality: U of M president: Winnipeg Free Press

7. U of Manitoba seeks feedback on sexual harassment policy: CBC

Refugees & Race

1. Syrian family struggling to reconcile good fortune in Winnipeg with barrage of bad news from home: CBC

2. Province on board with federal strategy to slow flow of asylum seekers: Winnipeg Free Press

3. Canada urged to help Muslims in Myanmar: Winnipeg Free Press

4. Refugees despondent English classes cancelled without notice: Winnipeg Free Press

Environment

1. Soil testing underway for 100 properties in St. Boniface amid contamination concerns: CBC

2. No need to tranquilize moose near Investors Group Field, says wildlife biologist:CBC

3. Winnipeg judge orders Parker Lands protesters to go home: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

4. Protesters quietly leave Parker lands: Winnipeg Free Press

5. Study finds Manitoba lakes among most susceptible to algal blooms: CBC

6. Hydro wants 7.9% annual rate hike to continue to 2024: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

7. Leading the charge: Winnipeg Free Press

Hurricane Irma

1. Winnipeggers rally to help family members in Cuba devastated by Irma: CBC

2. 'The most scared I've been': Winnipegger in Florida flees Hurricane Irma: CBC

3. Hurricane Irma worries for Winnipeggers with connections to areas affected: CBC

4. Former Winnipeggers describe harrowing experience during Hurricane Irma: Winnipeg Free Press

Manitoba Wildfires

1. Evacuated St. Theresa Point residents happy to be heading home: CBC, APTN News

2. Wasagamack First Nation evacuation ends as people prepare to return: CBC

3. Garden Hill evacuees returning home: Winnipeg Free Press

4. Manitoba wildfire evacuees given all-clear to head home: Winnipeg Free Press

Health

1. Majority of Manitobans support national school food program: poll: CBC

2. More than 100 health-care aide positions will be cut as part of WRHA changes, union says: CBC

3. WRHA altering 700 support jobs: Winnipeg Free Press

4. Winnipeg girl 1st Manitoban to be diagnosed with rare genetic disorder: CBC

5. Jimmy Carter recounts Canadian hospital experience in support of single-payer health system: CBC

6. Health tax proposal unpopular with rural Manitobans facing EMS changes, councillor says: CBC

7. Opioid poisoning puts Manitobans in hospital at a rate of 1 every 2 or 3 days, report says: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

8. Winnipeg health explores safe consumption sites, but no plans yet: Winnipeg Free Press

Health-Care Premiums

1. Pallister won't commit to doing what health-tax survey says: CBC

2. Health-care premiums are about taxation, not health care, policy expert says:CBC

3. Health premiums: 4 things to know: CBC

4. Manitobans must pay health premiums or face cuts to services: premier: CBC

5. Pallister government considering health care premiums: Winnipeg Free Press

Indigenous

1. With fewer fluent speakers, demand for teachers of Indigenous languages is on the rise: CBC

2. Mayor wants Senator Lynn Beyak to resign over 'incredibly ignorant' comments: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press, APTN News

3. Winnipeg FemFest brings story of two Mohawk cousins to the stage: APTN News (Video)

Justice

1. Winnipeg School Division looks at fast-tracking 'empty-seat policy': CBC

2. Mom wants emergency EpiPen cabinet in daughter's school: CBC

3. 23-year-old shot dead by Winnipeg police: CBC

4. Injury to suspect's wrist self-inflicted, not caused by police officer, IIU determines: Winnipeg Free Press

5. 13 Manitobans could have obtained phoney degrees, according to CBC investigation: CBC

In the Courts

1. Accused Winnipeg letter bomber fights DNA warrant ahead of trial start: CBC

2. Winnipeg man pleads not guilty to letter-bomb charges, fights DNA evidence: Winnipeg Free Press

3. Accused mail bomber 'a hundred per cent not guilty,' lawyer tells court: Winnipeg Free Press

4. Winnipeg magician, educator to be sentenced on child-porn charges Oct. 4: CBC

5. Nurse acquitted of sex assault, but still suspended: Winnipeg Free Press

6. Derksen family awaits judge's decision in daughter's murder trial three decades after her death: Winnipeg Free Press

Politics

Local

1. Winnipeg city hall told of cost overrun — at city hall: CBC

2. City on hook for $600,000 in snow-clearing damage: Winnipeg Free Press

3. Union says Peggo cards costing city thousands daily: Winnipeg Free Press

Provincial

1. New law lets agencies working with at-risk kids share information more effectively, province says: CBC

2. 'No room for a learning curve': Steve Ashton makes the case for why, finally, he should lead the NDP: CBC

3. Pallister says he's trying to get KPMG audit released: CBC

4. Manitoba asks Ottawa for clarity on pot legalization: Winnipeg Free Press

5. NDP leadership options have some party members feeling tentative: Winnipeg Free Press

6. Woman at centre of Wab Kinew domestic assault allegations says she was thrown: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press, APTN News

7. A leadership victory may not end questions about Kinew's past: CBC

8. 'I can't accept responsibility for things I did not do': Kinew: CBC

9. Despite assault allegation Wab Kinew still NDP frontrunner: analyst: APTN News

10. Manitoba's NDP chooses Wab Kinew as new leader: CBC, APTN News, Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg Free Press

11. Wab Kinew discusses what's next after NDP leadership win: Winnipeg Free Press

12. Manitoba Tories launch attack site against Wab Kinew: CBC

13. Family of Kinew's accuser wants their story heard: Winnipeg Free Press

Churchill

1. Feds working 'very hard' to restore Churchill rail line before freeze-up: Winnipeg Free Press

2. Bureaucrats stand in way of restoring Churchill line: Axworthy: Winnipeg Free Press 

3. Hudson Bay railway enters last-minute talks after rumours of bureaucratic drag: Winnipeg Free Press

Disability & Accessibility

1. Improving accessibility: Winnipeg Free Press

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