Winnipeg Human Rights News: May 28th-June 4th, 2017

Amidst the discussion about whether to allow cops to participate in the Pride Parade, someone was arrested in the lead-up to the first Trans March. Also in this week's headlines, more cuts occurred - to chiropractic coverage and a restorative justice program - and MMIWG families retied red ribbons to a bridge after they were removed by the province.

Missing Persons AlertUpdate: Kenyon Lavallee has been found safe.  Walter Wayne Steeves

Poverty & Community Outreach

1. 'Beyond frustrated': Manitoba Housing tenants cry out for better living conditions: CBC

2. Reaping fear at Harvest: Winnipeg: Winnipeg Free Press

3. Meetings may decide fate of friendship centre: Winnipeg Free Press

4. Transit safety initiatives given the green light: Winnipeg Free Press

5. Local charities applaud feds for famine relief contributions: Winnipeg Free Press

6. La fille de réfugié vit ses rêves: Winnipeg Free Press

Awards 

1. The Social Page: Young humanitarians: Winnipeg Free Press

2. Manitobans to receive peace awards: Winnipeg Free Press

3. Winnipeg professor recognized for work with refugee students: CBC

Gender & Sexuality

1. Winnipeg dance instructor left in the lurch at OutGames: CBC

2. Conservatives trying to 'kill the bill' that would make O Canada gender neutral, senator says: CBC

Pride Winnipeg

1. Winnipeg's LGBT community gathers at Pride vigil to honour lives lost: CBC

2. 1 arrested in lead-up to Trans March in Winnipeg: CBC

3. Rainbow crosswalk unveiled at The Forks: CBC

4. Police union upset by Pride Winnipeg's decision against officers in uniform: CBC

5. No weapons, uniforms allowed for off-duty police taking part in Pride parade: Winnipeg Free Press

Refugees & Race

1. 'We can't leave her body': Manitoba Ghanaians want to help after border crosser found dead: CBC

2. Community fundraises to return woman's remains to Ghana: Winnipeg Free Press

3. Body of woman, 57, found near Manitoba border believed to be asylum seeker, U.S. police say: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg Free Press

4. Ghanaian grandmother who died in ditch en route to Canada might have been able to enter legally: CBC

5. Woman found dead near border was en route to Canada to see newborn granddaughter: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

6. Border-town residents upset, but not surprised by asylum-seeker's death: Winnipeg Free Press

Environment

1. Winnipeggers better at recycling, conserving water, Peg report says: CBC

2. Winnipeggers sending less waste to landfill: Winnipeg Free Press

3. Winnipeg cutting back on tree planting by 20 per cent: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

4. Winnipeg plans to peer deep into its old garbage: CBC

5. Award-winning proposals for cycling plan ignored: Winnipeg Free Press

6. Ready, set, commute: Winnipeg Free Press

Health

1. Manitoba government cuts chiropractic coverage by $4.8M: CBC

2. Doctors pen letter pleading for Misericordia urgent care centre to stay open: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

3. Petition protesting closure of Concordia ER presented to health minister: Winnipeg Free Press

4. ERs to be slashed within two years: Winnipeg Free Press

5. Nursing shortage could be on Manitoba's horizon, union warns: Winnipeg Free Press

6. Big price tag, or big waitlist: addicts face barriers no matter where they turn in Manitoba: CBC

7. Sick, diabetic man says Greyhound bus driver left him stranded on highway: CBC, APTN News

8. Health information of nearly 1,200 compromised after website hack at Prairie Mountain Health: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

9. Jobs to be privatized, union charges: Winnipeg Free Press

10. Manitoba Health worker guilty of record search: Winnipeg Free Press

11. Manitoba nurse fined $1,000 for privacy breach: Winnipeg Free Press

Indigenous

1. 'An incredible scar.' This archivist won't let Canada forget: CBC

2. Meet Manitoba’s new Treaty Commission and the challenges she faces: APTN News

3. Winnipeg financial firm facing federal probe over ‘potential inappropriate payments’ to First Nation: APTN News

4. 'It's a breach of treaty': Manitoba First Nations want promised land: CBC, APTN News

5. Mothers, grandmothers protesting at Long Plain First Nation say child and family services ignoring them: APTN News

MMIW

1. MMIWG families retie red ribbons province removed from Selkirk bridge: CBC

2. After Day 2, is the #MMIWG Inquiry unfolding as families expected?: APTN News

3. First public hearings for MMIW Inquiry to begin in Whitehorse: CBC

4. MMIW inquiry opens with story of Mary Johns, a mother and residential school survivor: APTN News

5. As more families share, themes, patterns emerging in 1st MMIWG public hearings: CBC, APTN News

6. Who’s in charge at the Inquiry? It sure isn’t the families says Joan Jack: APTN News

7. Missing, murdered women inquiry urged to earn trust of family members: Winnipeg Free Press

8. Missing and murdered inquiry wraps emotional 1st hearings in Whitehorse: CBC

9. Include Indigenous women living on the streets in MMIWG inquiry, says front-line worker: CBC

10. National #MMIW Inquiry hearings in Whitehorse hear from families at first public hearing: APTN News

Justice

1. Winnipeg police locate remains of homicide victim Christine Wood: CBC, APTN News, Winnipeg Free Press

2. Tribute to slain woman: Winnipeg Free Press

3. 'This is Candace's legacy,' Wilma Derksen says as Candace House secures location: CBC

4. Prearranged funeral money in limbo after funeral company goes out of business: CBC

5. Police still building case against alleged killer of Tina Fontaine: CBC

6. Man dies of suspected fentanyl overdose in South Osborne: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

7. Green light for Uber is discrimination against East Indian cabbies, MLA charges: Winnipeg Free PressIn the Courts

8. Family of teen stabbed to death near Kelvin High School suing school and the accused: CBC, Winnipeg Free Press

9. Province's top court dismisses case of molested residential school survivor: Winnipeg Free Press

10. Doctors disagree on accused killer's mental state: Winnipeg Free Press

11. Sex offender pleads guilty to voyeurism, luring: Winnipeg Free Press

12. Man admits to directing abuse of boy over Internet: Winnipeg Free Press

Politics

Provincial

1. Party loyalty shouldn't stifle constructive debate in Manitoba Legislature: CBC

2. Manitoba government pushing wage freeze bill through legislature as battle looms: CBC

3. Labour federation to challenge Tories' wage-control bill in coming weeks: Winnipeg Free Press

4. Pallister government to eliminate 'ground-breaking' restorative justice program: CBC

5. Backbench Manitoba MLA Steven Fletcher to introduce bill to chop seats in legislature: CBC

6. Street cred: Winnipeg Free Press

7. Balanced budget plans in jeopardy: academic: Winnipeg Free Press

8. Looks like Pallister could use a vacation: Winnipeg Free Press

Federal 

1. Mayors press Trudeau Liberals for help to handle legalized marijuana: CBC

2. Pallister says Ottawa is failing to act on migrant file: Winnipeg Free Press

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