Current Problems: Government Commitments to Truth and Reconciliation
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October 2, 2023
Weaponized by PCs, sidelined by NDP: Indigenous concerns largely absent from Manitoba election
Indigenous voters will have to wait for the next election to see substantive dialogue CBC News: With Indigenous population growth outpacing the rest of the province, there may come a year where the needs of First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples will be front and centre in a Manitoba election campaign. This was not that...
September 30, 2023
Indigenous voters say reconciliation in Manitoba takes more than landfill search promises
Process involves return of languages, resources and ‘bringing us to the table,’ says former youth chief CBC Indigenous: Indigenous voters in Manitoba say discussions about the proposed search of a Winnipeg-area landfill for the remains of two First Nations homicide victims have dominated this year’s provincial election season for good reason, but achieving reconciliation goes...
September 30, 2023
Manitoba founded by Métis but oppressive history soon made Indigenous premiership impossible
Last time Manitoba had an Indigenous premier was 136 years ago Manitoba has existed as a province for 153 years and, in that time, has had 19 premiers lead it through rewarding and turbulent times, marking milestones and influencing history. Despite its lengthy resumé, the province comes up short in two significant measures. It has never elected a premier who is...
September 29, 2023
Ottawa poised to make decision on search of Manitoba landfill for human remains: minister
Families looking for federal commitment to funding a search of the Prairie Green Landfill in Manitoba CBC News: Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Gary Anandasangaree says the federal government is on the verge of presenting a plan in response to calls for a search of a Manitoba landfill for the remains of two First Nations women believed to have been murdered by...
September 27, 2023
AMC Increasingly Concerned by Human Rights Violations in Premier Stefanson’s Election Campaign
Nationtalk: Treaty One Territory, Manitoba – The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) is growing increasingly concerned about the human rights violations prevalent in Premier Heather Stefanson’s newest campaign slogan. The slogan, “Stand firm” references the position of her party to not search two Winnipeg landfills for the remains of Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran, and Mashkode...
September 27, 2023
New blockade goes up at Winnipeg’s Brady Road landfill as protesters demand search for women’s remains
Poll, CBC Manitoba focus group suggest voters are split on issue of landfill search ahead of Oct. 3 election Rachel Ferstl, Sarah Petz WARNING: This story contains distressing details. CBC News: A new barricade has gone up at Winnipeg’s Brady Road landfill, as calls continue for a search for the remains of two First Nations women...
September 26, 2023
Federal minister criticizes Manitoba Tory ad that cites rejection of landfill search
Former Crown-Indigenous services minister Marc Miller told Canadian Press that the decision not to search the landfill is ‘heartless.’ Photo: APTN. APTN News: The Canadian Press – Manitoba’s Progressive Conservatives came under fire Monday for taking out a newspaper ad that highlights, in part, the province’s decision to not search a landfill for the remains...
September 25, 2023
PCs make opposition to landfill search a central facet of campaign as Manitoba election day nears
Heather Stefanson pledges to ‘stand firm’ against search for missing and presumed murdered Indigenous women CBC Indigenous: As the Oct. 3 election day in Manitoba draws closer, the Progressive Conservatives are now actively campaigning on their opposition to searching a Winnipeg-area landfill for the remains of two Indigenous women police presume are victims of an alleged serial...
September 24, 2023
Heather Stefanson Launches Ads Declaring She Will Never Search Landfill For Remains of Murdered Women
Manitoba PC leader Heather Stefanson is running partisan ads politicizing search for Indigenous women believed murdered by a serial killer The Tyee: Press Progress – Heather Stefanson, the leader of Manitoba’s PCs, has launched a new ad campaign promoting her opposition to searching a landfill for the remains of two Indigenous women believed to have...
September 18, 2023
Rallies calling for landfill search to be held across Canada on Monday
Families, supporters hope to put pressure on provincial, federal governments to search for women CBC Indigenous: The families of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran hope their calls to search a landfill for the remains of their loved ones will be heard across the country. People in at least 17 cities, including Ottawa, will rally on Monday as...
September 8, 2023
No Moral Struggle Here: Search the Landfill for Lives Lost
The refusal to search for murdered Indigenous women is causing avoidable trauma. The Tyee: The Conversation – In May 2022, Winnipeg resident Jeremy Skibicki was arrested and charged with the murder of 24-year-old Rebecca Contois. By the end of that year, Skibicki would be charged with the murder of three other women: Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran and an unidentified...
August 18, 2023
Resisting landfill search sees Manitoba chiefs call for premier’s resignation
The AMC passed a resolution this week demanding Stefanson step down for not following the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) is calling for the resignation of Premier Heather Stefanson for her continued refusal to support a search of two Winnipeg-area landfills for missing Indigenous women....
August 17, 2023
‘They are being disappeared’: Tax union backs Winnipeg landfill search
The remains of three women are believed to be in two Winnipeg-area landfills: Marcedes Myran, Morgan Harris and an as-yet-unidentified victim known as Buffalo Woman. APTN News: “This is absolutely appalling, in my opinion, that the government is disrespecting the Indigenous people – especially Indigenous women,” said union president Marc Briere during the noon-hour rally....
August 15, 2023
AMC Receives Unwavering Support from the Canadian Human Rights Museum
NationTalk: Treaty One Territory, Manitoba – The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) wishes to announce the unequivocal support received from the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) in response to the urgent calls to recover the remains of Marcedes Myran, Morgan Harris, and Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe (Buffalo Woman) at two Winnipeg landfills. The CMHR’s letter of...
August 10, 2023
Manitoba can’t walk away ‘scot-free’ from landfill victims: former Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister
CBC News: There is no scenario in which a province gets to walk away “scot-free” when two women are believed to be lying dead in a dump, says former Crown-Indigenous relations minister Marc Miller. In recent weeks, rallies have been held to demand a search of the Prairie Green Landfill, north of Winnipeg, for the remains...
August 3, 2023
While Indigenous people call for justice, Winnipeg’s police take aim at graffiti
TANYA TALAGA, SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL The Globe and Mail: When I first read the Winnipeg Police Service’s July 31 press release, I thought it was a joke. I thought maybe the Walking Eagle, the satirical Indigenous news site, was hard at work again. Sadly, you can’t make this type of disdain up. According to...
August 3, 2023
Hundreds rally, march in downtown Winnipeg to demand search of landfill for women’s remains
‘Impossible to move forward’ on a search without Manitoba’s co-operation, feds say CBC News: Chants to search a landfill for the remains of two First Nations women rang out across downtown Winnipeg on Thursday, as hundreds of people flooded the city’s most famous intersection for a round dance. CBC News counted about 200 people gathered...
July 26, 2023
Chiefs in Manitoba encourages new minister to continue push for landfill search
Gary Anandasangaree says he’ll be reaching out to families in Winnipeg. APTN News: The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs is encouraging the new minister of Crown-Indigenous relations to continue the work of Marc Miller in pushing for the search of the Prairie Green Landfill outside Winnipeg. “We hope that Minister Gary Anandasangaree can help us and...
July 24, 2023
The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) Demands Urgent Action to Search Prairie Green Landfill
NationTalk: Ottawa, Ontario – The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) condemns the continued refusal to search the Prairie Green Landfill, as it disregards the value of First Nations women’s lives. Furthermore, the AFN denounces the removal of the blockade set up by demonstrators at the Brady Road landfill, as it obstructs the path to justice....
July 21, 2023
The connection to spirit and body and the need to search the Winnipeg landfill
The closer your access to land and nature in its rawer forms, the more direct the links of body to spirit can seem. The Toronto Star: The voices defending the blockade of a privately owned garbage landfill in Winnipeg are eloquent, passionate and Indigenous. The murdered bodies of two Indigenous women and possibly more are...
July 20, 2023
Unifor statement of support for families seeking justice for missing and murdered women in Winnipeg
NationTalk: Unifor supports the calls by families of missing women Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran for police and municipal professionals to thoroughly search the Brady Road landfill for their remains. Police believe the bodies of the two women were deposited there by their killer last year. Unifor also supports extending the search at the landfill...
July 20, 2023
Toronto Star: Opinion – A ‘heartless’ decision
A protest blockade was taken down on a road leading to a landfill just outside Winnipeg Tuesday, but that should not end the saga of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran. The remains of the women are believed to be in another Winnipeg-area landfill and a decision to leave them there was quite rightly branded as...
July 19, 2023
CLC: Governments Must Search for Indigenous Women’s Remains
NationTalk: WINNIPEG—Canadian Labour Congress President Bea Bruske, with the support of Manitoba Federation of Labour President Kevin Rebeck issued the following statement today: “Canada’s unions call on governments at all levels to commence a search for the remains of Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran, and an unidentified woman who has been named Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe (Buffalo Woman)...
December 15, 2022
At this rate, Canada won’t meet Truth and Reconciliation calls until 2065, report suggests
Seven years after the TRC released its final report, Canada has much work to do, Yellowhead Institute says. The Toronto Star: Canada has completed only 13 of 94 calls to action outlined by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, seven years after its final report, a new update shows. “Survivors (of residential schools) are ageing, and many...
November 15, 2022
Premier Heather Stefanson Unveils Path to Fight Violent Crime, Strengthen Health Care, Grow Economy and Help Manitobans in Speech from the Throne
Indigenous Watchdog Comment: The conclusion of the Speech from the Throne repeats all of the following priorities except “Advancing Reconciliation” which unfortunately does not inspire confidence that the Government of Manitoba is seriously committed to “significant efforts towards reconciliation” (as quoted from the Manitoba Speech from the Throne): Helping Make Our Communities Safer Helping Families...
September 14, 2021
Native Women’s Association of Canada Political Party Report Card
Native Women’s Association of Canada – NWAC commissioned Nanos Research to compare the parties’ platforms with the 11 policy issues NWAC determined to be of primary importance. Those policy issues include: human rights self-determination reconciliation environment clean water housing child welfare justice and policing employment and economic development, and health care. The result is a...
September 14, 2021
Native Women’s Association of Canada Political Party Report Card
NDP Liberal Green Conservative Bloc Québecois A B B D D Rights of Indigenous Women & MMIWG2S 4 5 5 2 1 Self Determination & Decision-Making 5 5 5 4 5 Reconciliation & residential Schools 5 3 4 3 3 Environment & Climate Change 5 4 4 1 1 Clean Drinking Water & Public Services...
December 15, 2020
TRC Commissioners comments about pace of Reconciliation
APTN – The three commissioners of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Senator Murray Sinclair, Chief Wilton Littlechild, and Dr. Marie Wilson, are issuing a public statement expressing their concern about the slow and uneven pace of implementation of the Calls to Action released by the TRC five years ago today… While they acknowledge important and...
July 11, 2019
The Council of The Federation, bi-annual meetings of the Federal, Provincial and Territory Premiers
Refusal to allow leaders of the Assembly of First Nations, the Métis National Council, the Inuit Tapariit Kanatami and the Native Woman’s Association of Canada to participate in the main body of meetings with a primary focus on climate change within each jurisdiction. As has been noted by numerous media, Indigenous peoples are on the...
February 26, 2018
Failure to attend Métis Nation Health Forum
Manitoba Métis Federation – MMF is frustrated and disappointed by the lack of representation from the Province of Manitoba at a national Métis Nation Health Forum and the message that sends to the Métis Nation. A first ever Metis Nation Health Forum was held in Ottawa on February 26, 2018. The Forum brought together over...
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