Winnipeg Free Press By: Niigaan Sinclair | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Friday, Jul. 16, 2021
Last Modified: 8:14 PM CDT Friday, Jul. 16, 2021 | Updates
Alan Lagimodiere, Manitoba’s new Indigenous Reconciliation and Northern Relations minister, is a nice man.
He’s Métis and, while certainly not the first Indigenous person to serve in that role, having one in that position is always notable.
I know him and his family, because he’s MLA for Selkirk, my hometown. His family started the veterinary clinic there and cared for our family dog.
I later worked with his son at the University of Manitoba.
He’s originally from The Pas and has a mixed heritage. I’m not sure what Métis community Lagimodiere draws his Métis identity from, but Opaskwayak Cree Nation is right across the river and the two communities are deeply intertwined.
Winnipeg Free Press By: Tom Brodbeck | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Thursday, Jul. 15, 2021
Opinion
It’s a simple question: did newcomers to Canada and their elected governments attempt to destroy the lives, livelihoods, culture and identities of Indigenous people when they settled the country?
It’s a simple question: did newcomers to Canada and their elected governments attempt to destroy the lives, livelihoods, culture and identities of Indigenous people when they settled the country?
The answer is straightforward, based on incontrovertible historical evidence. Yet Premier Brian Pallister and his new minister in charge of Indigenous affairs are having great difficulty answering it.
Winnipeg Free Press By: Editorial | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Thursday, Jul. 15, 2021
One of the tenets of harm reduction is to meet people where they’re at.
Simply put, it’s about removing barriers to care be they physical, emotional or geographical and relating to people without judgment, regardless of where they are in their journey.
While it’s a phrase often used in the context of addiction and substance abuse, meet people where they’re at can be an instructive way to think about vaccination.
Manitoba’s pandemic reopening plan and eventual return to normal are pinned on meeting vaccine targets. The province’s Labour Day goal is for 80 per cent of eligible Manitobans to have received one dose, and more than 75 per cent of eligible Manitobans to be fully vaccinated.
Winnipeg Free Press By: Editorial | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Tuesday, Jul. 13, 2021
Let’s start with this baseline assertion: there is no justification.
It was revealed on Monday that a firm representing seven Manitoba churches that are challenging the constitutionality of the province’s public-health orders hired a private investigator to tail the judge who is adjudicating that case. Despite the man responsible for the hiring calling it simply an error in judgment, this egregious assault on the judicial process must be denounced in the strongest possible terms and should be followed by corrective action that reflects the gravity of the offence.
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Medical emergency buries international student in debt
Ugandan hit with more than $120,000 in bills after near-month hospital stay from life-saving stomach surgery, COVID Save to Read Later
An international student has been billed more than $120,000 after an emergency visit to the hospital for severe stomach pain spiralled into a three-week-long visit consisting of medical tests, procedures and recovery from both surgery and COVID-19.
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An international student has been billed more than $120,000 after an emergency visit to the hospital for severe stomach pain spiralled into a three-week-long visit consisting of medical tests, procedures and recovery from both surgery and COVID-19.