Manitoba rejected 24-hour safe place for LGBTQS2, inquiry told
“We gave them a proposal for $600,000. They said ‘No.”
“We gave them a proposal for $600,000. They said ‘No.”
The province of Manitoba and the federal government have agreed to a $90 settlement with four First Nation communities affected by the massive 2011 flood.
When Nicole Daniels was found frozen to death it wasn’t the worse thing that happened to her family, the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls heard Monday.
Elders blessed the sacred fire and put down their bundles to open the week of hearings for families of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Winnipeg Monday.
Children for sale, women gone missing, and bodies dumped in rivers – these are some of the crimes commissioners probing an epidemic of violence against Indigenous women and girls will hear about at the national inquiry in Winnipeg Oct 16-20.
Ten communities in Manitoba are celebrating the opening of a First Nations school system that comes with a unique curriculum and thousands of dollars more money per student.
Two First Nation organizations in Manitoba are receiving $3.3-million from the federal government, province and a Winnipeg foundation to cover programs, and studies related to the province’s child welfare system.