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Program interpreter Savannah Shore conducts student tours virtually at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
Nathalie Beerman’s ninth-graders took a trip to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights last week but despite attending school more than 400 kilometres northwest of the tourist attraction, no school bus shuttle was necessary.
Nathalie Beerman’s ninth-graders took a trip to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights last week but despite attending school more than 400 kilometres northwest of the tourist attraction, no school bus shuttle was necessary.
The students at Goose Lake High in Roblin didn’t even have to leave their desks to tour exhibitions about human rights atrocities and observe thought-provoking pieces of artwork in the Manitoba capital.
Children in a Holocaust concentration camp liberated by Red Army. (Alexander Voroncov, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
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Since 2005 people all over the world take the time to honour Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27.
Belle Jarniewski is the Executive Director of the Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada in Winnipeg, and she is also a member of Canada s delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. This day was designated by the United Nations since 2005. The United Nations encourages all its members to commemorate this date and it was chosen because it was 76 years ago when the largest Nazi extermination centre, Auschwitz concentration camp, was liberated, says Jarniewski.
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Multiple police cars were parked outside Premier Brian Pallister’s home Saturday afternoon, in anticipation of an anti-lockdown protest, which in the end never happened.
WINNIPEG The Canadian Museum for Human Rights is honouring health-care workers on Saturday night with a blue-themed light show. The show is an extension of a nightly holiday light display that has been taking place at the CMHR since December 21. The shows were set to expire January 9, but the museum has decided to keep them going until the end of January. You ll see different shades of blue, with still some tones of holidays and winter themes like snowflakes and things like that, said Jacques Lavergne, vice president of visitor experience and business development at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.