Winnipeg Human Rights News: June 18th-24th, 2017

In this week's headlines, LGBT families file a human rights complaint against school curriculums, the University of Winnipeg chooses not to fully divest from fossil fuels, St. Boniface Hospital bans medically-assisted deaths, the conversation on Churchill heats up, and more!

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Poverty & Community Outreach

1. Marking 40 years of helping youngsters: Winnipeg Free Press

Awards and Honours

1. Susan Thompson Building a 'declaration of respect for all women': CBC

2. Thompson broke glass ceiling at city hall, building now bears her name: Winnipeg Free Press

3. City naming building for Susan Thompson Thursday: Winnipeg Free Press

4. Selkirk, Man., to honour Senator Murray Sinclair in park name: CBC

5. Mural's message of hope, inspiration called heart-gripping: Winnipeg Free Press

6. Canadian Museum for Human Rights earns more praise south of the border: Winnipeg Free Press

Initiatives

1. New CMHR exhibit allows the visually impaired to experience photography with touch, sound: Winnipeg Free Press

2. Lost souls, found lives: Winnipeg Free Press

3. Activist, business owner offer free flashing lights for city school zones: Winnipeg Free Press

4. Kids Helping Kids Wheelathon set for June 25: Winnipeg Free Press

5. Business booming at lemonade stand: Winnipeg Free Press

Gender & Sexuality

1. LGBT families file human rights complaints over school curriculum: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

2. 'It was just time to bring Pride here,' says Flin Flon festival organizer: CBC

Refugees & Race

1. Shortage of U.S. border patrol officers sparks concern in southwest Manitoba: CBC

2. Asylum seeker tries to legally enter Canada, is turned away because of controversial agreement: Winnipeg Free Press

3. From child soldier to Winnipeg engineer, how 1 boy escaped the bloodshed: CBC

4. Letter writing campaign takes aim at Safe Third Country Agreement: Winnipeg Free Press

5. Asylum numbers: will they rest or rise?: Winnipeg Free Press

Environment

1. Bike Week sees pop-up lanes protect cyclists from vehicles on Winnipeg streets: CBC

2. Pallister must act soon on carbon-pricing strategy: Winnipeg Free Press

3. Manitoba's changes to mosquito larvicide fund leave rural residents at risk, mayor says: CBC

University of Winnipeg Rejects Fossil Fuel Divestment

1. Students gear up for battle after University of Winnipeg board rejects fossil fuel divestment: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

2. University of Winnipeg students camp outside for the night to support fuel divestment: CBC

3. U of W gets green guidance for investments: Winnipeg Free Press

Health

1. Ride, don't hide: Winnipegger cycles to break stigma around mental health issues: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

2. Doctor has licence suspended and charged $110,000 for making false accusations about colleague: Winnipeg Free Press

3. Closing urgent care centre 'unconscionable': Misericordia Sisters: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

4. Misericordia urgent care clinic will be closed overnight starting July 5: Winnipeg Free PressCanadaDrugs.Com

5. CanadaDrugs execs were under RCMP surveillance in May, court documents show: CBC

6. CanadaDrugs.com still has Manitoba pharmacy licence: CBC

7. Drug company CEO could be extradited: Winnipeg Free Press

St. Boniface Decision on Assisted Death

1. St. Boniface Hospital to allow assisted-dying assessments but not assisted dying: CBC

2. 2 more resignations follow St. Boniface Hospital decision on assisted death: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

3. Critics of St. Boniface ban on medically assisted deaths 'disingenuous': ER doctor: CBC

4. St. Boniface board veteran says he's lost trust in Catholic Health Corp. over assisted dying: Winnipeg Free Press

5. Stacking board within St. Boniface Hospital rules: health minister: Winnipeg Free Press

Indigenous

1. 'Our elders are our libraries': 9 Indigenous grandparents honoured for work to protect culture: CBC

2. 'You had no choice': Indigenous Manitobans shed light on exploitative farm labour program that ran for decades: CBC

3. Circles for Reconciliation attracting attention across Canada: CBC

4. More than 80 organizations sign indigenous accord: Winnipeg Free Press

5. Métis Federation declines to sign Winnipeg's Indigenous Accord: CBC

6. The return home: Winnipeg Free Press

7. Indigenous people see growing racism but are hopeful for next generation, poll suggests: CBC

8. Residential high school reunion filled with memories, emotions: Winnipeg Free Press

9. Sagkeeng high school marks graduation of Serena McKay with diploma, red gown after death in April: CBC

10. 'We are enough.' A roundtable conversation on navigating Indigenous traditions with respect: CBC

11. Search for Jennifer Catcheway's body resumes on her 26th birthday: CBC

12. Manitoba premier's reconciliation ride includes PC fundraiser but no meetings with Indigenous people: CBC

13. Church, First Nation 'building things up': Winnipeg Free Press

14. After 35 years, Métis man finally makes it home: APTN News

15. Indigenous communities in Canada finally on Google Maps: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

16. CFL's 1st Metis referee spends bulk of his life enforcing rules: CBC

17. Lighting the torch, 50 years later: Winnipeg Free Press

Bill S-3: Indigenous Lineage 

1. Bill dealing with Indian status left in limbo by Senate: Winnipeg Free Press

2. Youth shine as legislative battle rages: Winnipeg Free Press

3. Government, Senate at odds over scope of indigenous lineage bill: Winnipeg Free Press

4. Senator prepared to fight for indigenous women's rights: Winnipeg Free Press

National Indigenous Peoples Day

1. Rain delays powwow, but can't stop Winnipeg's National Aboriginal Day celebrations: CBC

2. Manitoba Métis honour their own residential, day school survivors: CBC

Churchill

1. Churchill rail line could be fixed in 2 months, northern leaders say: CBC, APTN News

2. 'It's about time to build a road to Churchill': Engineer says it's possible: CBC

3. 'It's fixable': Colorado motorcyclists ride rail line to Churchill: CBC

4. North West Company to stop subsidizing food for Churchill: Winnipeg Free Press

5. Northern First Nations offer to repair damaged rail line to Churchill before winter: Winnipeg Free Press

6. Keewatin Tribal Council representatives demand action for Churchill rail line: Winnipeg Free Press

7. Cynicism on the rails: Winnipeg Free Press

8. Province has no plan to survey Omnitrax damage for itself: Winnipeg Free Press

9. Mixed messages rekindle fears in Churchill: Winnipeg Free Press

Justice

1. Winnipeg man who says he found stolen bike for sale online frustrated by police response: CBC

2. Province's top court slams justice system for keeping criminal's case in limbo: Winnipeg Free Press

3. Labour Federation demands Manitoba Hydro improve safety after tower collapse: CBC

4. 'An incredible amount of guilt': Judge opens up about gruesome murder case in new book: Winnipeg Free Press

5. Crowd gathers at vigil for Winnipeg dad killed in Father's Day slaying: CBC

6. Live stream of dying man was effort to show plight of Winnipeg's North End, says resident: CBC

7. Do the crime, (kind of) do the time: Winnipeg Free Press

In the Courts

1. Manslaughter charges laid in connection to Spence Street homicide: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

2. Man pleads not guilty to massage assaults: Winnipeg Free Press

3. Transcona man faces child pornography charges: Winnipeg Free Press

4. Arrest made in U of W washroom peeping: Winnipeg Free Press

5. 'There is no justice': Family disappointed by 1-year sentence for driver who killed Amy Gilbert: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

Politics

1. Ottawa sticks with July 2018 deadline to legalize pot despite provincial worries: CBC

2. Manitoba government hiking rent for some tenants in public housing: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

Disability

1. Wheelchair participants don't let disability, or gravel, slow them down: Winnipeg Free Press

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