Winnipeg Human Rights News: May 14th-20th, 2017

Ample concerns raising about the MMIWG Inquiry, the government denies funding for much-needed shelter beds, environmentalists caution against entombing a nuclear waste site, and more in this week's headlines.

Missing Persons AlertWalter Wayne Steeves

Poverty & Community Outreach

1. 'Tante Madeleine,' 1st female member of Winnipeg Press Club, dies at 97: CBC

2. Online raffle tech a game-changer: Winnipeg Free Press

3. Manning nominees make big impact: Winnipeg Free Press

4. High schoolers learning to make the right decisions: Winnipeg Free Press

5. Think tank report card gives Manitoba food concerns to chew on: Winnipeg Free Press

6. Fire won't extinguish ambitious project for 'the Merch': Winnipeg Free Press

Events

1. Giving their cut: 24-hour salon marathon supporting homeless: CBC

2. Like mother, like child: Exhibit showcases art made in collaboration with children: CBC

3. Rights, camera... moved to action: Winnipeg Free Press

Gender & Sexuality

1. 'Typical bureaucracy': Funding for Winnipeg emergency shelter beds denied: CBC

2. Meet the artist drawing a 'naturally unnatural' world in contrast with her war-torn childhood: CBC

3. On Mother's Day, what about fair pay for moms?: CBC

4. NDP questions health minister's role in women's issues: Winnipeg Free Press

5. PM's formal apology to persecuted Canadians is about time: city activist: Winnipeg Free Press

Refugees & Race

1. 'Typical bureaucracy': Funding for Winnipeg emergency shelter beds denied: CBC

2. Meet the artist drawing a 'naturally unnatural' world in contrast with her war-torn childhood: CBC

3. On Mother's Day, what about fair pay for moms?: CBC

4. NDP questions health minister's role in women's issues: Winnipeg Free Press

5. PM's formal apology to persecuted Canadians is about time: city activist: Winnipeg Free Press

Environment

1. Plan to entomb Manitoba's nuclear waste worries environmentalists: CBC

2. The Green gospel: Winnipeg Free Press

3. Pallister insists federally imposed carbon pricing is negotiable: Winnipeg Free Press

Health

1. 'I went into distress': patient wakes up during surgery: CBC

2. Some border-town Manitobans have U.S. medical bills repaid, others left in debt: CBC

3. Manitoba bill aims to protect staff unwilling to offer assisted death: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

4. Health-system ads 'propaganda,' Swan says: Winnipeg Free Press

5. Home-care patients increase, health-care aides decrease, NDP charges: Winnipeg Free Press

6. HSC room still suicide risk: inquest judge: Winnipeg Free Press

Rural Shortage of Doctors

1. 'There is such a need': new doctor grads want to find solutions to rural shortages: CBC

2. 'Disturbing' shortage of rural Manitoba doctors fuels calls for new recruitment approach: CBC

Indigenous

1. Family visits long-lost, unmarked gravesite of grandmother on Mother's Day: CBC

2. Winnipeg School Division votes to recognize Treaty 1 in morning announcements: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

3. Grand chief's 120-km walk to counter Canada 150 festivities, honour resilience: Winnipeg Free Press

4. 'A healing journey': Winnipeg Free Press

5. Trudeau to ask Pope to apologize over residential schools: CBC, APTN News

6. Manitoba First Nation targets drug dealers after close call: Winnipeg Free Press

Death in Grand Rapids

1. Woman found dead on Manitoba First Nation was mauled by dogs, family says: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

2. Province won't send COs to Little Grand Rapids, just letting them advise community on wild dogs: Winnipeg Free Press

Events and Initiatives

1. Indigenous artist IsKwé shares her inspiration for music: CBC

2. Indigenous Music Awards show returns to Winnipeg: CBC

3. Manitoba school's powwow club teaches dance, culture, reconciliation: CBC

4. 'It gives them their sense of self-worth': Rossbrook House holds 35th powwow: CBC

5. Manito Ahbee youth education day takes aim at cultural divide: CBC

6. Annual Manito Ahbee Festival kicks off in Winnipeg: APTN News

7. Ignite your spirit at Manito Ahbee: CBC

Cultural Appropriation 

1. 'We've all expressed our opinions': Peter Mansbridge responds to cultural appropriation controversy: CBC

2. 3 Indigenous writers discuss cultural appropriation with CBC's Rosanna Deerchild: CBC

MMIW

1. Commission on missing, murdered Indigenous women has become a fortress of bureaucratic incompetence: CBC

2. MMIW inquiry gets failing grades in 2nd report card: CBC, APTN News

3. Missing and murdered inquiry needs extension and new approach, families and activists say: CBC

4. Families unsure whether to take part in missing Indigenous women inquiry: CBC

5. MMIWG families speak out about latest inquiry delay: APTN News

6. MMIWG chief commissioner still has 'hope' despite rocky start: CBC

7. Manitoba MMIWG families on inquiry delay: ‘We’re not going to wait no longer’: APTN News

8. MMIWG Commissioner Marion Buller responds to criticism: APTN News, Winnipeg Free Press

9. Trudeau stands by inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women: Winnipeg Free Press

Justice

1. Breaking the silence, easing the anguish: Winnipeg Free Press

2. Senior warns confusing signage could be costly: Winnipeg Free Press

In the Court

1. 'Justice has not been done': Woman sues disbarred lawyer for failure to act on suit against son's killer: CBC

2. Family of victim in murder-for-hire case launches civil suit: Winnipeg Free Press

3. Former high school staffer denies she had sex with student: Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg Free Press

4. Court waits on assessment of fugitive truck driver: Winnipeg Free Press

5. Former cabinet minister Vic Toews challenges conflict ruling in Federal Court: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

Arrests

1. Man throws aside handgun while being chased by Winnipeg police: CBC

2. Son of slain RCMP officer exchanges letters with the man who killed his father: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

3. Man charged in 2 shooting deaths, including Jeanenne Fontaine's: CBC, APTN News, Winnipeg Free Press

4. 'Why didn't they just leave her alive?' says mother of Jeanenne Fontaine: CBC

Politics

Local Politics

1. City of Winnipeg's largest union hints at potential labour disruption ahead of 'final offer' from the city: CBC

2. Winnipeg poised to be last city to allow public patio smoking: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

3. Police, transit, roads: Here's why budget uncertainty matters to Winnipeggers: CBC

Provincial Politics

1. Manitoba Tories broke government advertising ban during byelection: NDP: CBC

2. Review has potential to 'completely change the way education is funded in Manitoba': NDP: CBC

3. Manitoba's minimum wage to get inflation-based raises every year: CBC

4. Province plans modest boost to minimum wage: Winnipeg Free Press

5. Fletcher's four-hour filibuster: Winnipeg Free Press

6. Tories accused of playing games with wage bill: Winnipeg Free Press

7. Universities, colleges a step ahead of Pallister's axe: Winnipeg Free Press

8. Tories turn attention to colleges, universities with order to reduce managers by 15 per cent: Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg Free Press

9. Labour advocates, pot activists at odds over business model: Winnipeg Free Press

10. Fact check: Pallister on email use in Costa Rica: CBC

11. Pallister's dropped calls: Manitoba premier remains mum on how he communicates while abroad: CBC

12. Cloaked firm a holding company, premier tells MLAs: Winnipeg Free Press

13. Verbal battle between Brian Pallister and Andrew Swan continues: Winnipeg Free Press

14. Pallister, Swan continue incessant squabbling: Winnipeg Free Press

15. Premier sold transparency, but he's delivering truculence: Winnipeg Free Press

16. Losing Point Douglas would be body blow to NDP: Winnipeg Free Press

Federal Politics

1. Electoral reform: Window of opportunity opens to revive our democracy: CBC

2. Audit report slams federal fish agency for mismanagement: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg Free Press

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