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Author of the article: Dave Baxter Local Journalism Initiative reporter Publishing date: Jul 24, 2021  •  4 hours ago  •  3 minute read  •  Shannon Hoskie, the executive director of Winnipeg-based Manitoba Moon Voices, says she has seen the organization offer that helping hand that has led many Indigenous women to make positive changes in their lives, and go on to find success. Photo by Handout /Manitoba Moon Voices Inc. Article content Over the years that Shannon Hoskie has w...

Article content Health Minister Patty Hajdu announced Thursday that the federal government is now accepting proposals for funding from community programs that work directly with drug users, and will be accepting those applications until Sept. 24. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Feds announce addictions funding while confirming opioid deaths are on the rise Back to video She said she believes the money will be put to good use, as addictions issu...

Article content On Wednesday morning workers with Toronto-based AltoMaxx began their second day of searching for unmarked graves in the area near the former Fort Alexander residential school on the Sagkeeng First Nation, an Anishinaabe community about 120 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg, that sits just next to the town of Powerview-Pine Falls. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Sacred fire burns as Sagkeeng searches for unmarked graves near reside...

Author of the article: Dave Baxter Local Journalism Initiative reporter Publishing date: Jul 20, 2021  •  1 hour ago  •  4 minute read  •  Winkler Mayor Martin Harder says he is asking for Manitobans to try and get a better understanding of why there has been so much vaccine hesitancy in his community since COVID-19 vaccines first became available in the province. City of Winkler photo Article content A Carman resident says he was disturbed by the number of maskless people he ...

Article content Sagkeeng is an Anishinaabe community about 120 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg, and sits just next to the town of Powerview-Pine Falls. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Sagkeeng First Nation begins grim search for unmarked graves Back to video On Tuesday, Sagkeeng Chief Derrick Henderson said searchers with AltoMaxx, a Toronto-based company, had arrived in the community and would begin the work of searching for unmarked graves i...

Article content “When that press conference happened at the Leg I just said, ‘that’s it, I’m out,’” Brown, a Manitoba business owner said, regarding a press conference by Selkirk MLA Alan Lagimodiere on Friday, where Lagamodiere said that those who created the residential school system thought they were doing the “right thing.” We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Reconciliation not possible with Pallister leading the Tories, says out...

Author of the article: Dave Baxter Local Journalism Initiative reporter Publishing date: Jul 19, 2021  •  2 hours ago  •  3 minute read  •  In a fiery and impassioned speech on the steps of the Manitoba Legislature in Winnipeg, Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Arlen Dumas took direct aim at Manitoba Indigenous Reconciliation and Northern Relations Minister Alan Lagimodiere, after he made comments last week defending the intentions of Canada’s residential school system....

Tataskweyak battling suicide crisis and bootleggers, says councillor July 15, 2021 Local Journalism Initiative Reporter A band councillor in a northern First Nations community says if help doesn’t arrive soon he fears more young people will die, and he said the situation has gotten so bad that he does not even want his own name published in the newspaper, because he fears reprisal from those who are bringing drugs and alcohol into the community. The Tataskweyak Cree Nation declared a state of...

Article content “You’re looking at the fields and at your only source of income, and you’re literally watching it just burn away in the sun,” Peters, a Randolph-based farmer said on Monday morning, while surveying the fields at his farm, which sits about 50 kilometres southeast of Winnipeg. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or TIPPING POINT: Farmers watching fields ‘burn away’ as drought conditions push crops to the brin...

Article content “We really don’t have a choice, it’s a matter of protecting our sovereignty and our treaty,” Long Plain First Nation Chief Dennis Meeches said on Thursday. “It has come to a head, and they have forced our hand, so we have no choice but to defend our sovereignty.” We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Long Plain chief wont back down from province over unlicensed pot shop claim Back to video Last week, the province filed a s...