Posted: Feb 17, 2021 5:00 AM CT | Last Updated: February 17
Al Wiebe, a homeless advocate, says more money must be spent on permanent housing.(Jeff Stapleton/CBC)
Advocates, outreach workers and a provincial politician are calling for more permanent solutions to homelessness in Winnipeg, after someone living in a homeless encampment died in a fire Tuesday morning. It s very unfortunate to see this happen, said Serge Uwimana, who worked with people living at the encampment near Higgins Avenue as a member of the outreach team at Resource Assistance for Youth Inc., a Winnipeg non-profit working with street-entrenched and homeless youth. People can t stay in the cold when it s -40. You re going to have a fire because you want to stay warm, and things are going to happen, said Uwimana.
As the extreme cold continues to pose a serious safety risk for those without permanent shelter in Winnipeg, community members are doing what they can to help.
Winnipeg Free Press I have moved, but I am not leaving
Point Douglas community leader Sel Burrows has downsized, saying it s time to pass the torch to a new generation By: Ben Waldman | Posted: 7:00 PM CST Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021
Last Modified: 9:05 AM CST Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021 | Updates
The house on the corner of Grove Street and Rover Avenue is a landmark in North Point Douglas: its scrambled-egg hue makes it hard to miss, but the people who’ve lived in it make it nearly impossible to ignore. That’s exactly how Sel and Chris Burrows wanted their abode to be the couple’s mission statement of community distilled into canary yellow siding.
Posted: Feb 04, 2021 5:00 AM CT | Last Updated: February 4
A leaked report says members of the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service were guilty of racism and bias in their treatment of an Indigenous woman who needed medical attention in October 2020.(Travis Golby/CBC)
Indigenous leaders and healers in Winnipeg say they re traumatized, angry and need public support after a report found two firefighters racism and biases prevented a young Indigenous woman from getting the medical care she needed.
The report concludes the firefighters who responded in October to a woman with a self-inflicted neck wound failed to help despite several requests by the paramedic in charge, which delayed her medical care and transportation to hospital by two minutes. A firefighter did not apply pressure to the woman s neck to stop the bleeding during the ambulance ride, so she had to do it herself, the report says.
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Manitobans buoyed by vaccines potential for return to normal in 2021
Lori Baker, co-owner of McNally Robinson Booksellers, with the pandemic selling system.
Ringing in a new year comes annual resolutions, and predictions for the months ahead.
Ringing in a new year comes annual resolutions, and predictions for the months ahead.
Admit it: we failed in the prediction department as the clock struck midnight Dec. 31, 2019.
Few foresaw months of social distancing, restrictions to daily lives, code reds, tens of millions of people getting sick and more than 1.8 million deaths around the world, face masks and anti-mask protests.
As we prepare to toast to 2021, we’ll also be able to say finally 2020 is toast.