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Copies of a special report on the death of fifteen-year-old Tina Fontaine released by Daphne Penrose, the Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth, are pictured at a release event at the Sagkeeng Mino Pimatiziwin Family Treatment Centre on the Sagkeeng First Nation, Man., Tuesday, March 12, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods
Five years since find: Cora Morgan, head of the First Nations Family Advocate Office created after the death of Tina Fontaine, says “nothing has changed” since the teen’s body was found in the Red River five years ago. READ MORE
On the campaign trail: Manitoba NDP Leader Wab Kinew will make an announcement in St. James this morning. Meanwhile, Green Party of Canada Leader Elizabeth May will announce a “plan to address issues of poverty in Manitoba.” Nicholas Frew reports on May’s visit to Winnipeg in support of provincial candidates. READ MORE
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What’s happening today
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City Councillors Ross Eadie and Jason Schreyer held a press conference outside the Winnipeg Transit North Garage on Main Street Thursday morning backed by Aleem Chaudhary, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1505 and transit drivers, calling on Mayor Bowman and the EPC councillors to stop the “combative collective bargaining process.”
Councillors take union’s side: Today is the final day for Winnipeg Transit drivers to vote on the city’s latest contract offer. On Thursday, two city councillors said they are concerned about the collective bargaining process. Nadya Pankiw reports. READ MORE
Israel allows entry: U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib has been granted permission to enter the West Bank to visit her grandmother on humanitarian grounds, Israel’s interior minister said. The news came a day after Israel barred Tlaib and another Democratic U.S. congresswoman, Ilhan Omar, from entering the country, citing their support for a boycott against Israel. READ MORE
In case you missed it
Kam McLeod (left) and Bryer Schmegelsky are seen in this still frame obtained from video captured from a store in Meadow Lake, Sask on July 21, 2019. Social media can help or hurt police investigations such as the one into three northern B.C homicides, says a Manitoba criminologist.THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, RCMP *MANDATORY CREDIT*
It’s ‘tips on steroids’: Social media can help or hurt police investigations, a former RCMP deputy commissioner said in the wake of a manhunt that ended with the death of two murder suspects in northern Manitoba. READ MORE
Lion tamers: The Bombers beat the B.C. Lions for their second consecutive win after suffering their first two losses of the season, and running back Andrew Harris surpassed Ben Cahoon for the all-time record for yards from scrimmage by a Canadian. Jeff Hamilton reports. READ MORE
On this date
On Aug. 16, 1945: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that British prime minister Winston Churchill defended the United States’ use of two atomic bombs to force Japan to surrender, ending the Second World War, because it saved a million lives that would have been lost in a conventional assault on the country. King George voiced his gratitude to the war efforts of the British Commonwealth in a radio address. High-level Japanese military officials were found to have died by suicide. Soviet troops, pressing on to Japan, were within 125 miles of the Chinese capital. READ MORE
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