Author of the article: Scott Billeck
Publishing date: Jul 01, 2021 • 51 minutes ago • 3 minute read • A large group of people, many dressed in orange, walked along Portage Avenue in Winnipeg today. The contingent was one of several events intended to have the Indian Residential School experience recognized as a genocide. Saturday, July 01, 2/2021.Winnipeg Sun/Chris Procaylo/stf
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Hundreds gathered in a sea of orange at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights on Canada Day, taking part in a march through the streets of downtown Winnipeg to call on the federal government to recognize Indian residential schools, day schools and the 60s Scoop as genocide.
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So, we have gone almost 15 months of wearing masks, washing our hands continually and trying our best to stay six feet apart from everyone.
Has it been easy? No, and lately, people here certainly seem to have their cranky pants on. A post on What’s Doin’ Manitoulin about locked Ministry of Transportation (MTO) garbage bins with a picture (a picnic area on Lake Mindemoya) showing garbage strewn beside it was enough to start the tide. It went from people being lazy and leaving their garbage and why don’t they take it with them, to it’s not just cottagers you know, Islanders litter, too.
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Manitoba’s COVID-19 numbers during the third wave continued their ascent in the wrong direction on Saturday as 276 new cases were identified and test positivity rates soared once again.
Manitoba’s test positivity rate is now at 6.8%, 1.7% higher than it was last Friday, and nearly 4% higher than it was a month ago. In Winnipeg, that number has climbed 2.3% during the same time frame, resting at 7.2% on Saturday.
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The province’s capital housed 183 of Saturday’s reported cases, with every health authority in the province recording at least double-digit cases. Prairie Mountain identified 34 new infections, with 27 in Southern Health, 21 in Northern Health and 11 in Interlake-Eastern also reported.
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