An advocate for the safety of children and youth says child suicide data released late last year and recommendations made are not getting the attention they deserve, and until there
Emergency shelters are supposed to be stopgap measures for child welfare in Manitoba. But people involved say the province's strained system is leaning too heavily on them, putting vulnerable kids at risk as they grow up in shelters with little supervision from under-trained workers.
'We are, unfortunately, seeing an increase in almost all manners of child deaths in Manitoba. Last fiscal year, our office reported 265 formal child death notifications.'
The chief of a First Nation devastated by flooding more than a decade ago says the malnutrition death of a two-month-old baby in Winnipeg likely wouldn't have happened if his mother had been able to return home and had the support of her community.