Exploring Stakeholder: "Government of Manitoba"

Guidance on information disclosure ‘comes from the top,’ says Caroline Maynard CBC Indigenous: A Senate committee examining barriers to the release of records of deaths at residential schools heard Tuesday that federal departments and agencies should make information disclosure processes more accessible and informal. “We heard that the privacy and information regimes cannot work if the government itself does not believe...

Property developer offers to set aside controversial area in south Winnipeg suburb of St. Norbert. The front gate of l’Asile Ritchot in the 1930s. Photo courtesy: Société historique de St-Boniface (SHSB) Tellier fonds.  Warning: This story contains distressing subject matter. APTN News: The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) is calling for a halt on the potential development...

First People’s Law Report: Prince Albert Daily Herald– First Nations leaders are asking the federal and provincial governments for financial support to see a private campground expropriated which they suspect contains unmarked graves. But the owner of the campground says he believes the remains of children can be respected and memorialized without shutting his business...

Hate speech and confrontations are growing over the truth about missing children, graves and genocide People attend the second annual Orange Shirt Day Survivors Walk and Pow Wow on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on Sept. 30, 2022. With Orange Shirt Day approaching Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023, a surge in residential...

No evidence of human remains found under church, but site has other anomalies: chief  WARNING: This story includes distressing details. CBC News: A Manitoba First Nation is weighing next steps in its search of a former residential school site after no human remains were found during the excavation of a Catholic church basement.  Minegoziibe Anishinabe,...

No remains found in excavation of church basement The Canada Press: MINEGOZIIBE ANISHINABE – No evidence of human remains has been found during the excavation of a Catholic church basement on the site of a former Manitoba residential school.  Chief Derek Nepinak of Minegoziibe Anishinabe shared the results of the four-week excavation in a social...

NationTalk: Provinces Failure to Protect Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites of former Indian Residential Schools leaves Children’s Remains At Risk and Affected Families without hope ‘Our relatives that are buried there are being treated as hostages,’ Chief Hubert Watt Treaty One Territory, Winnipeg, MB –The graves of former residential school children located on private property...

Governments and churches ‘standing between Indigenous Peoples and the truth,’ committee member says CBC News: A Senate committee is pledging to hold a hearing this fall to demand answers from organizations that have not released records tied to Canada’s residential school system. In a news release Wednesday, P.E.I. Sen. Brian Francis called it “disheartening” that so many governments and...

And how to confront it. Because without the truth, there can be no reconciliation. The Tyee: May 27, 2023 marked the two-year anniversary of the Tk’emlúps te Secwe̓pemc’s announcement about the location of 215 potential unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in the Interior of British Columbia. In recognition of the anniversary,...

McCrae resigned from judicial selection committee after articles tabled in legislature Ozten Shebahkeget · CBC News · Posted: May 27, 2023 8:36 AM EDT | Last Updated: May 27 Former senator Murray Sinclair believes the Manitoba government knew about Jim McCrae’s controversial views on residential schools. McCrae, a former Manitoba politician appointed to a judicial selection committee by the province earlier this...

Minegoziibe Anishinabe, also known as Pine Creek First Nation, learned of ground anomalies this summer CBC News · Posted: Oct 14, 2022 11:50 AM CT | Last Updated: October 14 WARNING: This story contains distressing details. RCMP are investigating the site of a former residential school in western Manitoba after ground-penetrating radar searches this summer revealed anomalies...

Nunantsiaq News: Nunavut MP Mumilaaq Qaqqaq and her fellow NDP MP Charlie Angus held a press conference on Parliament Hill Thursday to ask federal Justice Minister and Attorney General David Lametti to reach out to the International Criminal Court to launch an investigation into a system they said “represents a crime against humanity.” “We need...

The unmarked graves of 51 children who died at the Brandon Indian Residential School are physically located on a Recreational Vehicle (RV) campsite that now owns the former school property. Grand Chief Arlen Dumas of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) wants the city of Brandon to protect the unmarked graves that are now part...