The Last Installment of Winnipeg Human Rights News: December 3rd-9th 2017

Happy International Human Rights Day! In our last installment of Our City this Week, good deeds and outreach initiatives abound! Also in this week’s news, a $5 million dollar donation is put towards making Winnipeg a human rights research hub, a federal agreement is made with Manitoba chiefs, a new Senator from Manitoba is named, and much more.

Missing Persons AlertKyle Fortier

Poverty & Community Outreach

1. National housing strategy a way to change face of neighbourhoods: Winnipeg Free Press

2. A lesson in giving: Winnipeg Free Press

3. Breakfast of champions: Winnipeg Free Press

4. Many steps taken to help accessible arts programming: Winnipeg Free Press

5. Winnipegger flips traditional advent calendar on its head: CBC

6. Winnipeg's Pakistani community holds vigil for victims of attack at a Pakistani school: CBC

7. Angel Squad swaps coffee and smiles for donations from Winnipeg drivers: CBC

8. The crime: lack of transparency: Winnipeg Free Press

9. Mother of girl who died in Churchill boating accident leading food drive for northern town: CBC

10. Ski pants and bags of fruit: Gift requests from Winnipeg kids bring tears to paramedic's eyes: CBC

11. Harvesting Hope 2017: $107K raised so far during CBC Manitoba's weekend-long drive for Winnipeg Harvest: CBC

12. 'This is who I am': Photographers take free portraits at Siloam Mission: CBC

13. Salvation Army serves early Christmas dinner to 1,000 Winnipeggers in need:CBC

14. Pricked by needle, Bear Clan leader calls for Winnipeg safe injection site: CBC

15. Donation from local philanthropist launches guide dog program for the blind: Winnipeg Free Press

16. 'Lives are being lost': Bruce Oake Recovery Centre supporters host heated community meeting: CBC

17. Family fears for safety after brick hurled through window, narrowly missing baby:CBC

18. Five-million dollar donation to U of M could make city a human-rights research hub: Winnipeg Free Press, CBC

Gender & Sexuality

1. Pride Winnipeg reverses decision to change festival dates: Winnipeg Free Press, CBC

Refugees & Race

1. Laconic, sardonic look at Syrian refugee life: Winnipeg Free Press

2. Immigrant family can stay in Canada, grateful for public support: Winnipeg Free Press

Environment

1. 'Good news to report': Early spring flood forecast says risk is low in Manitoba: CBC

Health

1. A case of ambulance ambiguity: Winnipeg Free Press

2. City studying costs of getting out of ambulance service: Winnipeg Free Press

3. Province rejects criticism over personal care homes: Winnipeg Free Press

4. New women's hospital on budget, but delays mean it won't open until 2019, WRHA says: CBC

5. Province to monitor St. B air quality in response to residents' complaints: Winnipeg Free Press, CBC

6. Do cleaning products pose a threat to our health?: Winnipeg Free Press

7. Province's new health report takes aim at cutting back on bureaucracy: Winnipeg Free Press

Indigenous

1. Missing Garden Hill First Nation teen found dead kilometres from community: CBC

2. Guilty plea in death of 11-year-old girl on northern Manitoba First Nation: Winnipeg Free Press, CBC, Globe & Mail

3. Elementary school students rewriting the TRC's calls to action... as poetry: CBC

4. Help for First Nations men abused as kids: Winnipeg Free Press

5. Métis man receives cold housewarming: Winnipeg Free Press

6. Feds to spend $400M on Indian Act: Winnipeg Free Press

7. 'Historic' federal agreement will bring more accountability to Manitoba child welfare system: grand chief: CBC

8. On-reserve portion of Freedom Road complete, Shoal Lake 40 chief says: CBC

9. Manitoba chiefs get funding to help reform Indigenous child welfare: Winnipeg Free Press

10. AFN chiefs back resolution calling on MMIWG chief commissioner to resign:CBC

11. A quiet success story: Winnipeg Free Press

Justice & Crime

1. They have a lot to teach us': Inmates call for Canadian justice reform in journal:CBC

2. Men charged with stealing fentanyl from ambulance: Winnipeg Free Press

3. Sisters sentenced for fatal stabbing: Winnipeg Free Press

4. Police ask public for information on man who was disarmed, restrained by bystanders Saturday: CBC

5. Winnipeg man in coma after ordeal outside store on Main Street: CBC

6. Marijuana, pills, cocaine seized in schools across Winnipeg: CBC

In the Courts

1. 'Shake-and-bake' bombs sent to Winnipeg law firms made from household cleaners, says explosives expert: CBC

2. Handwriting analyst can't determine whether accused bomber addressed packages: Winnipeg Free Press

3. Guido Amsel handwriting sample comparison inconclusive: FBI expert: CBC

4. Accused linked to bombings through DNA, court told: Winnipeg Free Press

5. Amsel's trial for attempted murder hears from RCMP explosives expert: Winnipeg Free Press

6. Cop accused of sexual assault takes the stand, sees some criminal charges dropped: Winnipeg Free Press

7. Cop accused of harassment, sexual assault says he approached women as sources, not for sex: CBC

8. Defence attacks witness credibility: Winnipeg Free Press, CBC

9. Judge postpones bail hearing for woman convicted of hiding dead babies: Winnipeg Free Press

10. Fears of witness intimidation, destruction of evidence revealed in Caspian case:CBC

11. Unlicensed osteopathic therapist pleads guilty to 5 counts of sexual assault:CBC

Politics

Federal

1. Trudeau names 2 new senators, including Canada's 1st female Indigenous dentist:CBC

2. 'Inappropriate, humiliating': Liberal MP accuses Conservative of unwanted sexual remarks: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

3. Manitoba MP called out for "threesome" remarks: Winnipeg Free Press

Provincial

1. Premier under fire for thanking chamber chair for wearing high heels, says comment was joke about height: CBC

2. Premier 'meant no offence' with high heels remark: Winnipeg Free Press

3. Chamber chair laments premier's quips about her high heels: Winnipeg Free Press, CBC

4. Premier's high-heel blunder latest in a history of gaffes: Winnipeg Free Press

5. Province expanding, strengthening whistleblower protection: Winnipeg Free Press

6. Manitoba's top business leaders will help chart bold new economic strategy for province, Pallister vows: Winnipeg Free Press

7. Tories promise decision on funding for Inuit Art Centre before new year: Winnipeg Free Press

8. Government to slash membership numbers on provincially appointed boards: Winnipeg Free Press

9. Province may be first to axe newspaper notices: Winnipeg Free Press

10. Opposition blasts plan to axe print notifications: Winnipeg Free Press

11. Proposed North End Arts Centre on hold after funding freeze: CBC

Local

1. City hall to face wrath of residents over cuts to recreation programs: Winnipeg Free Press

2. More buses, repairs to streets: Wyatt: Winnipeg Free Press

3. City's budget process gets C grade from think tank: Winnipeg Free Press

4. City backs down on cuts to bus routes, fare increase remains: Winnipeg Free Press, CBC

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