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Approximately 30 Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) personnel have been deployed to Garden Hill First Nation to provide humanitarian assistance and address the emergent needs of the community.
Between Jan. 17 and 18, members of the CAF were sent to support an Indigenous Service Canada-led liaison and reconnaissance team to rapidly assess the situation in the northern Manitoba community.
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Following a formal Request for Assistance, the CAF arrived at the First Nation on Wednesday to work alongside other community members and other government departments and agencies.
Winnipeg Free Press
People enter the Law Courts in Winnipeg on Monday, Feb. 5, 2018.
Beaten to death by her abusive partner, Kathleen Wood had no place to turn living on a First Nation with few resources for battered women, a court heard Monday.
Beaten to death by her abusive partner, Kathleen Wood had no place to turn living on a First Nation with few resources for battered women, a court heard Monday.
The 35-year-old St. Theresa Point resident was killed in January 2018, after a night of drinking potent homebrew with her husband, Jonathan Wood.
Wood, convicted on four prior occasions of assaulting Kathleen, was found guilty of manslaughter following a trial earlier this year.