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Manitoba Justice Minister Cameron Friesen.
The province is walking a fine line between empathy and enforcement, and compassion and consistency, in upholding pandemic public health orders, Justice Minister Cameron Friesen says.
The province is walking a fine line between empathy and enforcement, and compassion and consistency, in upholding pandemic public health orders, Justice Minister Cameron Friesen says.
With COVID-19 patients filling Manitoba hospitals and overwhelming its ICUs, the province has to make sure such orders are followed to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus, the MLA for Morden-Winkler said Wednesday by phone from his office at the legislature.
A Summer of Protest
Four organizers from the Prairie provinces reflect on the world they’re fighting for.
By Melissa Fundira
Four organizers from the Prairie provinces reflect on the world they’re fighting for.
By Melissa Fundira
The realities of anti-Blackness on the Prairies became hypervisible in the summer of 2020.
Massive protests catalyzed by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis swept across Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta, bringing renewed attention to the many Black and Indigenous victims of police violence in Canada.
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The YYC Justice for All Victims of Police Brutality protest on June 3, 2020, began in Calgary’s Kensington area. The march then moved through downtown toward city hall. (Leah Hennel for CBC News)
Prairie Portraits
Prairie Portraits By Melissa Fundira. Illustrations by Enas Satir.
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There are countless Black folks laying the groundwork for brighter futures on the Prairies. They’re pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in the sciences, sports and arts. They’re taking their rightful place in prairie politics and media. They’re elevating the fight for Black liberation to heights never seen before and showing the full spectrum of Black identity. Ultimately, they’re building a world we can only dream of today, just as the earliest Black settlers in the Prairies did before them.
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Below, we give flowers to just a few of the movers and shakers shaping the future of the Prairies.
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The fate of police-in-schools programs in two Winnipeg districts could hinge on student, staff and community feedback.
Winnipeg and Louis Riel school divisions have pledged to consult their respective populations about the future of school resource officer contracts with the Winnipeg Police Service.
Plans are underway to gather community input before trustees finalize budgets for the upcoming school year in March. Our 2021-22 budget is about priorities, said Jennifer Chen, a trustee in WSD. We are facing challenges in this upcoming budget, so I really think, at this time, we need to re-evaluate our priorities and see what programs are our priorities.