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Federal, provincial, municipal and Métis leaders honoured Louis Riel at a ceremony at his grave site in Winnipeg's St. Boniface neighbourhood on Thursday, the 138th anniversary of his death.
Fort Battleford, a former outpost of the Northwest Mounted Police, is widely believed to be occupied by the spirits of soldiers and indigenous people who met their fate at this site.
In early July, former MP Dennis Gruending acquired a series of documents pertaining to the campaign for universal health care in 1960s Saskatchewan. The documents reveal that the RCMP considered supporters of the Saskatchewan Medical Care Insurance Act to be communist subversives and kept files on leading advocates of the bill, including former Premier Tommy Douglas.