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Last Modified: 6:20 AM CST Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021 | Updates
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Police investigate at the scene of a fatal fire at an encampment on Higgins Avenue in Winnipeg on Tuesday.
On Tuesday morning, at a small encampment on Higgins Avenue, aerosol cans exploded near a tent and engulfed it in flames. They were likely located too close to a fire.
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On Tuesday morning, at a small encampment on Higgins Avenue, aerosol cans exploded near a tent and engulfed it in flames. They were likely located too close to a fire.
After putting out the blaze, Winnipeg Fire and Paramedic Service members found the body of a resident in the rubble.
Winnipeg Free Press By: Dan Lett | Posted: 7:00 PM CST Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021
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The United Fire Fighters of Winnipeg has had precious little to say about the allegations that two of its members refused to provide medical support to an Indigenous woman because of an inherent racial bias.
The United Fire Fighters of Winnipeg has had precious little to say about the allegations that two of its members refused to provide medical support to an Indigenous woman because of an inherent racial bias.
Throughout this story, which the
Free Press first exposed last October, the UFFW and its mercurial president Alex Forrest have declined comment. Even when we reported the confidential details of an independent review of the incident in question, which concluded racial bias was involved, Forrest remained silent.
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The Independent Investigation Unit of Manitoba says that police officers did not do anything wrong after a 42-year-old man died following an arrest in August 2019.
Police were called to the 800 block of Consol Ave. in Elmwood just after midnight on August 2, 2019, for a domestic incident. When officers arrived a man fled and a foot pursuit ensued, the IIU says in its report.
The pursuit came to an end in the 900 block of Consol Ave. The man was uncooperative with officers in the arrest and a Taser was deployed. The man became unresponsive a short time later and was taken to St. Boniface Hospital, where he was pronounced deceased.