#Premier of Manitoba

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What a beautiful day! Wab Kinew was sworned-in yesterday as the 25th Premier of Manitoba.

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“Farmers Ask For Relief,” Border Cities Star. October 18, 1932. Page 19. ---- Unity League Delegation Calls on Manitoba Premier ---- Fight to Finish --- Free Land, Medical Attention, Guaranteed Income Among Demands ---- By Canadian Press --- WINNIPEG, Oct. 18. The struggle for their rights being carried on by the Farmers Unity League has just begun, and it will continue until some results are forthcoming, a delegation of farmers told Premier John Bracken of Manitoba at the legislative buildings here yesterday, while a crowd of something over 1,000 milled about the steps outside, prevented by Royal Canadian Mounted Police from entering the locked edifice. 

UNFAIR, SAYS PREMIER THE delegation, composed of eight men, one woman and a boy about 14 years of age, was told by the premier they had not "played fair" with him. He complained he had consented to meet the farmers from out of town, and that, subsequently, they had arranged a demonstration and attempted to parade in defiance of his standing rule that he would meet no more deputations by mass demonstrations. 

About 50 farmers took part in the demonstration on the steps of the building, which was organized by the neighborhood council movement in the city. The crowd outside carried banners. inscribed: "Down with the Bracken Government.” They were harangued by speakers throughout the afternoon, while the conference went on behind locked doors. 

Complaining first to the premier that they had been unfairly treated in having their meeting on the market square broken up and in being forced to proceed to the legislative buildings on the sidewalks, the farmer delegation listed a string of demands, headed by a request that their transportation back to their farms be paid by the government. 

ASK REDS RELEASE The farmers further asked the premier to make representations to Ottawa for the release of eight alleged Communists now serving terms in Portsmouth penitentiary at Kingston. Ont., and for repeal of sections of the criminal code prescribing deportation for conviction on charges of sedition. 

Assurance from the Manitoba government that all farmers incomes will amount to at least $1.000 a year each was asked by the delegation, which also listed the following demands: That lands seized by the government for nonpayment of taxes be given to poor farmers who need land for cultivation: that needy farmers be provided with free medical attention, education for their children In high schools and technical schools for 10 months in the year, clothing, motor licenses for their trucks, licenses to fish and hunt and noncontributory insurance against old age, sickness and incapacity. 

Premier Bracken promised to give every consideration to the requests.

[tomorrowusa]

While the US House of Representatives ousts its weakest Speaker in modern history, , Canada gets its first black Speaker of the House of Commons.

Canada’s House of Commons has elected Liberal MP Greg Fergus as speaker — the first time a Black Canadian will hold the role. Fergus, who represents a Quebec riding across the river from Ottawa, bested six other candidates: Chris d’Entremont, Carol Hughes, Alexandra Mendès, Peter Schiefke, Sean Casey and Elizabeth May. Fergus takes on the task of presiding over a fractious House. “What motivates me, and what I vow to work night and day to promote and advance, can be summed up in one word, respect,” Fergus said during a short speech before polling stations opened in the chamber. He promised to be “firm, thoughtful, collaborative, consistent and certainly fair.”

🍁 But that's not the only political first in Canada this week. 🍁

The province of Manitoba held elections on Tuesday which swept the left of center New Democratic Party (NDP) into power defeating the incumbent Progressive Conservative Party (PC). The Manitoba Liberal Party (MLP) placed a poor third in the election.

The leader of the Manitoba NDP is Wab Kinew who will become Canada's first indigenous provincial premier.

Manitoba NDP to form majority government in historic win for First Nations premier

Wab Kinew, who is to become Canada's first First Nations provincial premier, spoke to young Indigenous people and those from all backgrounds in his victory speech Tuesday after the NDP won a majority in the Manitoba election. "I was given a second chance in life," Kinew said to a cheering crowd. "And I would like to think that I have made good on that opportunity. And you can do the same." Kinew's late father was not allowed to vote as a young man under Canadian law at the time. His mother's birthday was election night, and he brought her on stage to celebrate the historic win along with his wife and three sons.

The NDP will end up with 34 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba – up from 18. The PC will have 22 – down from 35. And the MLP will have 1 – down from 3. There was one vacant seat prior to the election.

29 seats are required for a majority government.

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Secularists applaud Wab Kinew's pledge to reform Manitoba legislature prayer

Publisher: In-Sight Publishing Publisher Founding: September 1, 2014 Publisher Location: Fort Langley, Township of Langley, British Columbia, Canada Publication: Freethought Newswire Original Link: https://www.bchumanist.ca/secularists_applaud_wab_kinew_s_pledge_to_reform_manitoba_legislature_prayer Publication Date: April 15, 2024 Organization: British Columbia Humanist…

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every week I learn at least one new fucked up thing about my province

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Canadian premiers converge in Winnipeg, kicking off a three-day long agenda - Winnipeg | Globalnews.ca

The nation’s territorial and provincial premiers convened in Winnipeg today, picking through a three-day agenda to address a number of issues. Top of mind at the day’s meeting was health care, which comes on the heels of a $46 billion funding announcement from the federal government to be used to revamp Canada’s public health care system. Announced in February, the funding puts the onus of…

[allthecanadianpolitics]

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 been murdered by an alleged serial killer. On Saturday, the Manitoba PCs took out a full page ad in the Winnipeg Free Press as well as site-wide banner ads on the province’s biggest newspaper’s website featuring a sensational and highly unusual campaign message from the incumbent premier, who is currently trailing by a wide margin in the latest opinion polls. “Stand firm,” reads both the print and digital versions of Stefanson’s ad. “For health and safety reasons, the answer on the landfill dig just has to be no.”

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Tagging: @politicsofcanada

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Dozens of people outside Winnipeg's Brady Road landfill have built barricades and are signalling their unwillingness to leave, despite a noon deadline from the city to vacate the area and the possibility of legal action.

Cambria Harris, whose mother's remains are believed to be in the Prairie Green landfill north of Winnipeg, is one of the people who called for the blockade to be erected and for others to join the demonstration at the Brady Road landfill.

The blockade of the city-run Brady Road landfill began Thursday after Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson said the province would not support a search of the privately owned Prairie Green Landfill north of the city, where the remains of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran were believed to have been dumped last year.

"When you say you won't move forward with the search, you're telling my community that it's OK and that you condone the continuous dumping of Indigenous women," Harris said in an interview on Monday.

(…)

Harris's aunt, Melissa Robinson, said what's happening is not acceptable.

"We're talking about our women laying in landfills. You don't put a dollar on that — absolutely not. I don't care if it costs $200 million, $300 million, they need to go and get them. I'm not going to have my nieces go sit at a landfill to visit their mom for the rest of eternity. It's wrong."

(…)

Some members of the group of demonstrators at the dump moved to the Leaf — a conservatory in Assiniboine Park, where Manitoba's premier is hosting officials from seven provinces — on Monday afternoon.

Carrying drums and a megaphone, the people named missing women and chanted, "We are not trash," while demanding Stefanson reverse her decision.

After speeches were made by members of the group, they left peacefully.

The remains of Sue Caribou's niece, Tanya Nepinak, are believed to have been dumped at the Brady Road landfill in 2011, but none were found following a six-day search by police.

Caribou wants to see all landfills searched for the remains of missing Indigenous women.

"We want our loved ones home. We want closure," she said.

"No human being belongs in the trash."

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not your founding father (mouthpiece)

My thoughts on Louis Riel being named first premier of Manitoba.

Taanshi kiyawow, Riel dishinikashoon. I descend maternally from seven Métis families from the historic Red River Settlement in Manitoba and Batoche, Saskatchewan. Notably, my Berthelett ancestors worked for the North West Company and were community leaders in the Métis settlement of Pointe a Grouette before it was systemically overtaken by French settlers who claim we formed no roots in the area (St. Onge). My Caron ancestors from Batoche fought in the North West Resistance alongside Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont. My fifth-great-uncle Jean Caron Sr. fought alongside his sons at the age of 52; his house still stands in Batoche to this day, where thousands of Métis make pilgrimages every year to remember the events of 1885. 

What do you know about Louis Riel?

I can only read his words and imagine what guidance he would have provided had he lived longer than 41 years. Or imagine myself in his place as he walked to the gallows on November 16th, 1885. As a child when I visited Manitoba my grandpa and my kokum would take me to visit his grave, just as they did with my mother, who named me ‘Riel’.

We are inextricably linked through time and across our homelands. What’s in a name? Unasked for? Not yet earned? I do not yet know who I am to my people but I carry an important name and the trickster’s spirit, and with these comes the responsibility of understanding and revealing cultural and societal truths (Stimson).

I am still growing into my name

Today I am a mouthpiece

An interpreter of the past

What do you know about the trial of Louis Riel?

July 31st, 1885, Riel gives his final speech. Historical weather data shows that it was a hot day in Regina. Cooler than the days before but still hot with the swelter of the plains. He spoke long, in English, not the language of his birth.

“The day of my birth I was helpless and my mother took care of me although she was not able to do it alone; there was someone to help her to take care of me and I lived. Today, although a man, I am as helpless before this court, in the Dominion of Canada and in this world, as I was helpless on the knees of my mother the day of my birth. The Northwest is also my mother; it is my mother country and although my mother country is sick and confirmed in a certain way, there are some from Lower Canada who came to help her to take care of me during her sickness and I am sure that my mother country will not kill me more than my mother did forty years ago when I came into the world, because a mother is always a mother, and even if I have my faults, if she can see I am true, she will be full of love for me.”

“When I came into the Northwest in July, the 1st of July 1884, I found the Indians suffering. I found the half-breeds eating the rotten pork of the Hudson Bay Company and getting sick and weak every day. Although a half-breed, and having no pretension to help the whites, I also paid attention to them. [...] We have made petitions, I have made petitions with others to the Canadian government asking to relieve the condition of this country.”

“We have taken time; we have tried to unite all classes, even may speak, all parties.”

“During my life I have aimed at practical results. I have writings, and after my death I hope that my spirit will bring practical results.”

“When we sent petitions to the Government, they used to answer us by sending police [...] There are papers which the Crown has in its hands, and which show that demoralisation exists among the police, if you will allow me to say it in the court, as I have said it in writing.”

“If I am blessed without measure I can see something into the future, we all see into the future more or less.”

“The only things I would like to call your attention to before you retire to deliberate are: 

1st That the House of Commons, Senate and Ministers of the Dominion, and who make laws for this land and govern it, are no representation whatever of the people of the North-West.

2nd That the North-West Council generated by the Federal Government has the great defect of its parent.

3rd The number of members elected for the Council by the people make it only a sham representative legislature and no representative government at all.”

“I have never had any pay. It has always been my hope to have a fair living one day. It will be for you to pronounce - if you say I was right, you can conscientiously acquit me, as I hope through the help of God you will. You will console those who have been fifteen years around me only partaking in my sufferings. What you will do in justice to me, in justice to my family, in justice to my friends, in justice to the North-West, will be rendered a hundred times to you in this world, and to use a sacred expression, life everlasting in the other.”

What do you know about Louis Riel?

I have done this walk in my mind so many times that I have lost count. Historical accounts of the day note that it was a chill, clear, autumn morning. The prairies stretched out, silver frost bathed in sunlight. He faced it all and was brave until the end. Despite reports of it being destroyed, former premier of Manitoba Duff Roblin and his family, and the RCMP gloat over the supposed fragments of the rope that hanged the traitor, and I wonder how long the rope would be if you lined up every single scrap of twine rumoured to be the noose that killed Riel?

Does it make you feel less guilty to call him a founding father? Canadians are only able to remember him through his murder and not through his words that can still animate his presence. Written words and objects once owned are ghosts, extensions of our bodies and spirits. When I read his letters and journals I see the urgency in his penmanship, and I think about the sweat and invisible oils of his skin becoming a part of each page as he wrote and wrote and wrote. I wonder where each journal travelled with him during his exile, and why he chose each book. There is one with an illustration of a guardian angel watching over two children, and I wonder if he thought of himself as one of them being shepherded through life by his ancestors. 

Canadians argue about whether or not Riel should have been hanged instead of talking about what he had believed and said and accomplished, and what he wanted to do with the rest of his life had it not been cut short. 

No one talks about his dreams or his fears, and he did not live long enough to answer the question of if he would have wanted to be revered as the first premier of Manitoba. Or, in response would he ask for clean water for all, to stop the sweeps, and starlight tours? Would he ask for the Winnipeg police to search the landfills for our murdered women instead of brutalizing and killing us? Would he call for an end to all colonialism and genocide? Or would he simply ask for a place to smudge and be in peace for a while?

When we send petitions to the government they still answer us by sending the police, before turning around and calling Louis Riel a founding father (Riel).

Canada cannot answer these questions for him by giving him that title posthumously, only sit with the discomfort of blood-soaked hands, and wonder how different things would have been had that sacred fire not been snuffed out in 1885.

I cannot answer these questions for him either

And I am still growing into our name.

Works Cited

Riel, Louis. Excerpts from his final statement in court on trial, July 31st, 1885

Stimson, Adrian, “Buffalo Boy: Then and Now.” Fuse Magazine, vol. 32, no. 2, 2009, pp. 18-25. 

St-Onge, Nicole J.M. “The Dissolution of a Métis Community: Pointe à Grouette, 1860–1885.” Studies in Political Economy 18.1 (1985): 149–172. Web. 

[canadachronicles]

Murray Sinclair: "It really is Manitoba's true act of reconciliation."

Wab Kinew was sworn in as Manitoba's 25th --and Canada's first First Nation-- Premier. A sign of hope, and a joyous occasion.

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"BRACKEN GIVES VIEWS OF GOVT. ON MINE STRIKE," Winnipeg Tribune. July 10, 1934. Page 3. ---- Satisfied Majority of the Flin Flon Employes Did Not Vote For Strike ---- The government has undertaken to see that law and order are maintained in Flin Flon and the police will be removed only when it is apparent there is no further need for them, Premier Bracken said to- day in commenting on the northern strike situation.

During the past week the premier has received literally hundreds of wires and letters making demands on the government, mostly calling for removal of the police. Forty of them came in this morning's mail, all worded the same, and signed by individuals, who classed themselves members of the Workers' Defence league.

Reason for Journey| The premier said his journey to Flin Flon was not to try and force a settlement, but to see what the men were asking.

After inquiry, he stated he was satisfied that the majority of the employes never voted for the strike, and that a very considerable majority wanted to return to work. If an organized minority were preventing them by intimidation, he considered this situation should not be permitted.

"We told officials of the company if they were prepared to open, and the men wanted to go back to work, we would see they were protected and that law and order would be maintained. We learned that more than half the company's employes never belonged to a Mine Workers' union. Neither was it satisfactorily established that a vote ever was taken to strike.

Only to Keep Order "The government's whole purpose in sending the police north in the first place was to keep order. That responsibility we shall not avoid in future. The police will be removed as soon as it is apparent there is no need for their services, and not until then. We know they will not be required very long."

A Communist parade was planned, Monday afternoon, to the Canadian National depot to meet the premier on his return from The Pas. It was cancelled when it was learned he was coming back by aeroplane and postponed until this afternoon.

This morning, word was sent to the premier's office that there would be a parade to the legislative buildings today.

[she-is-ovarit]

More voices are joining the increasing calls to search the Prairie Green Landfill for the bodies of two Indigenous women believed to be buried there. Members of the Union of Taxation Employees marched in solidarity with the families, friends, and allies of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. The union, representing more than 35,000 Canada Revenue Agency employees across the country, is holding a national convention in Winnipeg this week. On Thursday afternoon, members joined dozens of others from the community in a march from the Fairmont Hotel to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. More voices are joining the increasing calls to search the Prairie Green Landfill for the bodies of two Indigenous women believed to be buried there. Members of the Union of Taxation Employees marched in solidarity with the families, friends, and allies of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. The union, representing more than 35,000 Canada Revenue Agency employees across the country, is holding a national convention in Winnipeg this week. On Thursday afternoon, members joined dozens of others from the community in a march from the Fairmont Hotel to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. "We decided to come here to strongly condemn the inaction of the City of Winnipeg, the police department, the Province of Manitoba, and the federal government," said Marc Brière, president of the Union of Taxation Employees. "Their refusal to search the Prairie Green Landfill is totally unacceptable." Brière spoke in front of a large crowd at the museum, with more people joining the chorus of voices asking for the landfill to be searched. "I'm asking you, if it would be three white women, if it were three white privileged males like myself, would they be searching the landfill?" he asked the crowd. "I think the chances would be greater." The remains of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran are believed to be in the landfill. Myran's sister Jordan was among the family members who spoke at the rally. "I'd like to thank everyone who showed up today," she said. "And everyone that has showed up time and time again, for every protest and rally that we've put on." Brière said the entire Union of Taxation Employees supports the search. "We are here with you. We ask the municipality of Winnipeg, the police department, especially the premier of Manitoba…to get going and search the landfill," he said. "And the federal government to put the money on the table, to help out and get this done."

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Manitoba’s NDP premiere tried to persuade John and Yoko to settle in his province.

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from DeSmog Blog:

Earlier this year a far-right group called Canada Proud began running Facebook ads to its more than 534,000 followers attacking the climate change technology favored by conservative leaders as well as the country’s largest oil and gas producers. 

“Carbon capture is billed as a green technology that stops carbon from entering the atmosphere,” the ad explains. “But is it really good for the environment? As it turns out, not really.” The technology, Canada Proud claimed, “can poison groundwater, it can put carcinogens in the soil and even has a record of causing earthquakes.” 

Major oil sands companies and their political allies in Alberta and Ottawa have for years pushed the opposite message — that carbon capture and storage, also known as CCS, is necessary to ensure the survival of oil and gas while also addressing climate change. 

So far the loudest attacks against carbon capture have come from environmental groups and progressive politicians which see it as an expensive false solution to climate change that furthers our dependency on oil and gas. 

But as more of these projects move forward, they’re also activating opposition from the right, creating new political divisions between establishment conservatives and groups attempting to catalyze grassroots anger towards expensive industrial megaprojects in rural areas. 

“It’s very interesting that groups like Canada Proud are seemingly mobilizing, or testing the waters to mobilize, against carbon capture and storage,” Bob Neubauer, an assistant professor in communications at the University of Manitoba who studies rightwing populism and climate change disinformation, told DeSmog. 

“Their base doesn’t appear to be full of people who are excited about a technocratic post-carbon scenario,” he added.

Dissatisfaction with the technology has been edging into the mainstream of rightwing discourse. “We might as well take tax money at gunpoint and burn it,” Canadian conservative influencer Jordan Peterson in February wrote on X to his 5.3 million followers in response to a CCS project in Wyoming. 

U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has been frequently interviewed on conservative media platforms, last year called carbon capture a “boondoggle.” Vivek Ramaswamy, who ran a failed primary campaign this year against Donald Trump for the Republican leadership, called pipelines in Iowa that can transport captured carbon to sites where it can be buried underground “the greatest violation of property rights.” 

These tensions are growing in Alberta, the heart of Canada’s oil and gas industry, where a consortium of six top oil sands companies known as the Pathways Alliance applied this spring for regulatory approval to build a $16.5 billion carbon capture and storage project. It’s been blanketing the country in ads stating that “carbon capture is an important step towards carbon neutral resource extraction.” 

Alberta’s premier Danielle Smith, who earlier this year shared a stage with Tucker Carlson and was recently interviewed on Peterson’s podcast, has announced taxpayer support of up to $5.3 billion for the plan. “Let me tell you, we are only going to strengthen the case for carbon capture, utilization and storage in the years ahead,” she said during an industry convention last year. 

Grassroots Opposition Growing

Rural northern Alberta, where the project will be built, is definitely no hotbed of environmental activism. The region is home to an anti-renewable energy group called Wind Concerns whose leader earlier told DeSmog that climate science is “ridden with fraudulent data and outright lies.”

Yet locals there have created a new group called No to CO2 Landowners Group, which has teamed up with the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation and environmental organizations to oppose the Pathways Alliance carbon capture plan. 

“Despite their claims, this is unproven technology with far-reaching implications into the future,” Amil Shapka, one of No to CO2’s representatives, has said. “With this being Canada’s largest CO2 pipeline and storage project, is our community ready for the potential health, safety and environmental risks to our water?”

The increasingly scrambled politics of carbon capture are now creating tensions at the national level in Canada. Because the federal Liberal government has proposed investment tax credits up to $10 billion to support the Pathways Alliance plan, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is now associated with a mega-project opposed by some rural Canadians. 

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Durant près de deux siècles, la Compagnie de la Baie d’Hudson (CBH) avait gouverné le nord du Québec et de l’Ontario, la totalité du Manitoba, certaines parties de la Saskatchewan et de l’Alberta et les territoires du Nord. Dans ce contexte, la CBH ne faisait aucun effort pour régir la vie des populations autochtones.

Cependant, avec la prise de contrôle par le Canada de la Terre de Rupert, qui deviendra très rapidement les Territoires du Nord‑Ouest, pour la première fois, le gouvernement va systématiquement interférer avec le mode de vie et avec les coutumes des Autochtones. Les colons affluent par milliers pour s’installer sur les terres où les Cris et les Pieds‑Noirs chassent le bison. Dans le Canada des années 1870, comme dans la plupart des pays dont le système juridique est fondé sur la common law britannique. En 1869, William McDougall, envoyé à titre de premier lieutenant‑gouverneur canadien des Territoires du Nord‑Ouest, est porteur de directives prescrivant l’organisation d’un corps de police dirigé par le capitaine D.R. Cameron. Ottawa relance l’idée d’un corps de police fédéral le Parlement adopte en mai une loi constituant un service de police de 150 recrues. En 1903, le premier poste de la Police à cheval au nord du cercle polaire arctique est établi à Fort McPherson. Le corps de police est connu sous le nom de Police royale à cheval du Nord‑Ouest, le titre royale a été ajouté en 1904. 1918 création de la GRC. En novembre, on adopte une loi fusionnant la P.R.C.N.‑O. et la Police du Dominion qui avait été constituée en 1868, en tant que service de police fédéral, pour garder les édifices gouvernementaux et appliquer les lois fédérales. Lorsque la nouvelle législation entre en vigueur le 1er février 1920, l’organisation née de cette fusion prend le nom de Gendarmerie royale du Canada (GRC) et son quartier général est transféré de Regina à Ottawa.