This week’s headlines include cuts to a women’s centre and a senior’s crime prevention program, a soup kitchen receives unexpected donations of over $50 thousand, and Pride Winnipeg kicks off – with a two-spirit powwow for the first time!
Missing Persons Alert
Walter Wayne Steeves
Winnipeg police are asking for help finding a missing man. Walter Wayne Steeves, 79, was last seen on Wednesday in St. Boniface.
He is six feet tall and has a medium build. He is balding with white hair on the sides and back, police said. He was last seen wearing a black jacket, black pants and a grey and blue sweater with star and circle pattern on it. Anyone with any information regarding Steeves’ whereabouts can contact the Winnipeg Police Service missing persons unit at 204-986-6250.
Kenyon Lavallee
The Winnipeg Police Service is asking for the public’s help in finding a missing man.
Officers said Kenyon Lavallee, 20, was last seen in downtown Winnipeg on May 23. He was wearing a dark green, army-style jacket, dark jeans and black, high-top runners.
Police said they are concerned for Lavallee’s well-being. They ask anyone with information on his whereabouts to call the Missing Persons Unit at 204-986-6250 or 204-986-6222.
Poverty & Community Outreach
Events and Initiatives
- Silver Alert system a step closer to helping find missing Manitoba seniors: CBC
- Bedtime stories with Dad made possible through inmate literacy program: CBC
- Steinbach man driving hearse to raise awareness about texting and driving: CBC
- ‘This changes everything’: True North beefs up MTS Centre security after Manchester attack: CBC
- New made-in-Manitoba play breaks through silence on mental health: CBC
- ‘We feel very supported by this city’: Soup kitchen reopens early after $50K flood: CBC
- Fast and Furious Feast to take over Winnipeg’s Exchange District: CBC
- Revved-up to Ride for Dad in fight against prostate cancer: Winnipeg Free Press
- Meaning amid the misery: Winnipeg Free Press
- Local basketball community rallies for Wesmen player injured in attack: Winnipeg Free Press
- Refugee gives back with Harvest’s help: Winnipeg Free Press
- Students fill IGF to celebrate Canada 150: Winnipeg Free Press
- Plenty of goodwill in book sale supporting prison libraries: Winnipeg Free Press
- 5K to support refugees: Winnipeg Free Press
- Youth stack the building blocks: Winnipeg Free Press
- Bomber signs up to be a Big Brother: Winnipeg Free Press
- Healthy bodies, healthy minds: Winnipeg Free Press
Gender & Sexuality
Funding Cut at North Point Douglas Women’s Centre
- Funding dispute prompts rally at North Point Douglas Women’s Centre: CBC
- Funding cut to women’s centre ‘is not OK‘, supporters say: Winnipeg Free Press
- NDP, Tories butt heads over women’s centre funding: Winnipeg Free Press
Pride Winnipeg
- Pride Winnipeg needs volunteers days before festival start: CBC
- Police welcome in Pride Winnipeg parade, asked not to wear uniforms: CBC
- Pride Winnipeg Festival kicks off with 1st two-spirit powwow: CBC
- Rainbow Flag Raised over APTN Headquarters in Winnipeg: APTN News
Refugees & Race
- ‘No one chooses to be a refugee’: Manitoba refugees share stories, tackle misconceptions: CBC
- Post-war convention on refugees buckling under current crises, says Lloyd Axworthy: CBC
- Axworthy tells luncheon global group eyeing province’s refugee situation: Winnipeg Free Press
- Speech therapist helps newcomers mask accents: Winnipeg Free Press
Environment
- Feeling lucky? Clover lawns offer eco-friendly, practical substitute to grass, group says: CBC
- Dissecting insecticide: What you need to know about Winnipeg’s new mosquito killer: CBC
- From the Netherlands to Winnipeg, project promotes cycling culture: CBC
- Battling Mother Nature, again: Manitoba town of Churchill tackles high water levels, flooding: CBC
- Hydro rate hikes should come with plan to help low-income customers, Green Action Centre says: CBC
- Hog facility could impact waters, critics suggest: Winnipeg Free Press
- Garbage fight intensifies: Winnipeg Free Press
- Survival of the pollinators: Winnipeg Free Press
Health
- Brian Pallister defiant as impasse on federal health deal continues: CBC
- Palliative Manitoba provides more than end-of-life care: Winnipeg Free Press
- Cities need national battle plan in opioid war, desperate mayors say: Winnipeg Free Press
Indigenous
- Katherena Vermette wins $40K Amazon.ca First Novel Award for The Break:CBC, Winnipeg Free Press
- Loretta Ross named new Manitoba treaty commissioner: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press
- Highlights of the weekend’s Manito Ahbee festival in Winnipeg: APTN News
- Former classmates of city residential school to hold reunion: Winnipeg Free Press
- Indigenous support workers to get suicide-prevention training: Winnipeg Free Press
Canada150
- Canadian actor Adam Beach walks a fine line as an ambassador for Canada 150:APTN News
- Grand chief’s 120-km walk to counter Canada 150 festivities, honour resilience:CBC
- 150 artists receive up to $10K to continue their work: APTN News
Red Sucker Lake FN Fire
- Forest fire prompts evacuations in Red Sucker Lake First Nation: CBC
- Forest fire near Manitoba First Nation quadruples in size: CBC
- Red Sucker Lake fire evacuees headed to Winnipeg: Winnipeg Free Press
MMIWG
- Manitoba makes Oct. 4 official day to honour MMIWG: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press
- Frustrated families vow to ‘blockade’ missing and murdered inquiry hearings: CBC
- Families of missing, murdered women urge critics to get behind national inquiry:CBC
- A painful whisper for the sisters who can’t speak: Winnipeg Free Press
One FN in Manitoba Is an “Underserviced” Site
- 53 First Nations reserves lack adequate fire protection: audit: CBC
Justice
Central Park Homicide
- Victim in Central Park-area homicide a mentor, role model to newcomer youth, friend says: CBC
- Man, 22, dead after stabbing in Central Park area of Winnipeg: CBC
Other News
- Winnipeg police on the hunt for driver in fatal hit and run: CBC
- Winnipeg Transit wants to test bus-driver safety initiatives: Winnipeg Free Press
- Rising Winnipeg basketball star accused in ‘horrific’ attempted murder:CBC, Winnipeg Free Press
- 3 Winnipeg police officers self-administer naloxone after possible fentanyl exposure: CBC
- Victim of ‘very serious’ West End assault is U of W student: CBC
- Manitoba man charged after Amber Alert ends with girl, 2, found safe: CBC
- Crown wants adult sentences for teens accused in Serena McKay slaying: Winnipeg Free Press
Politics
Local
- ‘It’s just not fair,’ says North End resident on hook for stolen garbage carts: CBC
- 911 operator who told Winnipeg mail carrier to give CPR followed rules, city says:CBC, Winnipeg Free Press
- City hall poised to take first step toward extinguishing patio smoking: CBC
- Omnibus budget bill gives province room to wriggle out of transit, infrastructure deals with Winnipeg: CBC
- Councillor, chief take shots at each other over police station plan: Winnipeg Free Press
- City council divided on issue of access to administration: Winnipeg Free Press
- Union representing city workers will vote on settlement: Winnipeg Free Press
Provincial
- ‘Pain for Winnipeg’: Mayor says provincial funding changes will lead to cuts:CBC, Winnipeg Free Press
- Pull plug on big Hydro rate hikes, heavy power users urge PUB: Winnipeg Free Press
- Manitoba seniors crime prevention program ending after $150K funding cut: CBC
- Wab Kinew promises NDP caucus will be half women, trans people:CBC, Winnipeg Free Press
- Freedom of information review gives PCs opportunity to close legislative loopholes: CBC
- Average weekly wages increasing in province: Winnipeg Free Press
- Tories’ food bank math doesn’t add up, poverty activists say: Winnipeg Free Press
- Province backs out of transit funding commitment for cities: Winnipeg Free Press
- Premiers heading to D.C. to counter anti-trade talk: Winnipeg Free Press
Steven Fletcher
- Tory MLA Steven Fletcher stonewalls his party’s Efficiency Manitoba bill: CBC
- Efficiency Manitoba doesn’t seem efficient to PC MLA: CBC
- Unorthodox Fletcher good for politics: Winnipeg Free Press
- Pallister dodges questions on discipline for Fletcher’s filibustering: Winnipeg Free Press
- MLA’s filibuster gets filibustered: Winnipeg Free Press
Federal
- Tax worker fired after biggest privacy breach at Revenue Canada: CBC
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