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WINNIPEG Close to 100 people gathered on the front steps of the Manitoba Legislative Building to protest against inaccuracies on residential school history and Bill 64. The rally was planned after the new Minister of Indigenous Affairs, Alan Lagimodiere said in a Thursday press conference that the architects of residential schools thought they were doing the right thing. Organizer of the rally and school teacher, Michael Kirkness said the topic of residential schools needs to be a bigger focus in the Manitoba curriculum. “If I had it my way, for one (the history of residential schools) wouldn’t be something that is like an anecdote within the curriculum of social studies, it needs to be something that is mandatory,” said Kirkness.
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“It’s not history,” said McKay, one of the speakers at the No Truth, No Reconciliation Rally held on the steps of the Manitoba Legislature on Saturday morning to protest the damage caused by residential schools and the provincial government’s Bill 64 Education Modernization Act while calling for the resignations of Premier Brian Pallister and newly-appointed Indigenous Reconciliation and Northern Relations Minister Alan Lagimodiere. “When we’re talking about the residential schools and we’re talking about the genocide of Indigenous people, it’s not history. I’m barely in my mid-30s and I was 12 when the last residential school closed (in 1996). My four children, the oldest isn’t old enough to get a learner’s permit and he is a second generation Sixties Scoop survivor.
Winnipeg Free Press By: Kevin Rollason | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Friday, Jul. 16, 2021 Save to Read Later
A new poll appears to bear out Indigenous leaders worries the recent toppling of statues in Winnipeg could undercut moves towards reconciliation and take focus away from discoveries of hundreds of unmarked graves at former residential schools.
A new poll appears to bear out Indigenous leaders worries the recent toppling of statues in Winnipeg could undercut moves towards reconciliation and take focus away from discoveries of hundreds of unmarked graves at former residential schools.
In a survey conducted by Leger for the
Winnipeg Free Press, 76 per cent of Manitobans believe acts such the Canada Day protest of tearing down monuments to Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II hurts the reconciliation process by distracting the public debate.
Winnipeg Free Press By: Dylan Robertson
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Janice Morley-Lecomte is the only MLA of the 32 Winnipeg electoral districts who would not say whether they have been vaccinated.
At least one member of the Pallister cabinet is not immunized against COVID-19, while a Winnipeg MLA says her constituents have no right to know whether she’s been vaccinated.
At least one member of the Pallister cabinet is not immunized against COVID-19, while a Winnipeg MLA says her constituents have no right to know whether she’s been vaccinated. My personal health is something I keep very strictly between me and my doctor. But thank you for your concern, Tory MLA Janice Morley-Lecomte (Seine River) told the