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[allthecanadianpolitics]

A First Nation in Manitoba said it has discovered "indication of human remains" on the site of a former residential school. Opaskwayak Cree Nation announced Friday that after three days of searching, they had found unmarked burials at the former grounds of MacKay Residential School, located 11 kilometres northwest of The Pas. The community said human remains detection dogs were involved in the search and indicated "six areas of interest" that may have more than one unmarked burial.

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[lifemod17]

The strumming in Angel Of Small Death And The Codeine Scene is so hypnotizing actually

Winnipeg || 08 / 20 / 2024

[newsfromstolenland]

Cathy Merrick, the first woman to become grand chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, is being remembered as a "remarkable leader" and a "true matriarch," as tributes poured in from leaders across Canada after her sudden death on Friday.

Merrick was speaking to media about a court case outside the law courts building in Winnipeg early Friday afternoon when she collapsed. She was given CPR before being rushed away in an ambulance.

Merrick, 62, is survived by her husband, Todd, three children and eight grandchildren, a friend confirmed to CBC.

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[airborneranger63]

Manitoba Miku

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Protesters blocking the Brady Road landfill in south Winnipeg say their resolve is even stronger after a man shovelled a truckload of soil and debris onto an MMIWG mural near the blockade Sunday.

The blockade went up last week after the province refused to fund a search of Prairie Green landfill north of Winnipeg for the remains of two Indigenous women. The city ordered those blocking the roadway to vacate by noon Monday.

"Screw it. Who cares what they have to say? Who cares what they want? I'm not going to take no for an answer anymore," said Cambria Harris, whose mother's remains are believed to be at another landfill outside the city.

She said Camp Morgan — which has been at the Brady Road landfill since December— originally erected the blockade to "send a message," not to entirely block the landfill, which has two entrances.

But after the man's act on Sunday, she and others issued a call on social media for more "warriors" to join those on site, who said they're ready to keep rallying for change.

Harris said she wasn't at the blockade Sunday when the man in a black pickup truck dumped soil on the mural, but she saw the video of it happen, which she posted on social media.

In the video, the man is seen shovelling soil and debris from the back of his truck onto the mural, while telling protesters to "Take care of your own people." After someone responds [“we are, you fucking dumbass”], he asks, "Then why are they dead?"

Harris questions how he got past the security on site.

"Why are you so angry to feel like you have to take that extreme of a measure of a hate crime?" she asked.

"You don't realize that you're talking to an entire group of people who have been pulverized their entire life through systemic oppression."

"I'm outraged. I'm enraged. I'm infuriated," said supporter Melissa Morrisseau, who said she was at the landfill Sunday to help give a voice to missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and their families.

"I'm here till the very end," she said.

Florance Smith was also there to take a stand with the families.

"They need to dig for our women," Smith said. "They just think that we belong in the garbage."

Harris said she believes the province's decision to not support a landfill search shows that the government doesn't care, and she now feels she's been disrespected by all three levels of government. She said it shouldn't have come to measures like the letter sent by the city, telling protesters to shut down the blockade.

"I've never ever understood it, why this kind of trauma is our fault," Harris said.

The mural, a red dress with the words "for our sisters" written on the skirt, was painted on the entrance road to the landfill, Ethan Boyer Way.

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But after they realized the soil the man dumped contained cedar wood chippings, supporters decided to put them to use by sweeping the woodchips in a circle around the mural, she said.

"Cedar's our protection medicine, and we decided that we were going to include it into our art piece and circle her in protection," Bousquet said.

"We turned an ugly into a beautiful here. That's what our people are known for doing."

For Bousquet, it shows how resilient her community is.

"No matter what you throw on us … we're always going to create something beautiful," she said.

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Fort Whyte Interpretive Center (1983) in Winnipeg, Canada, by Carl R. Nelson Jr. & Moody More and Partners

[upstairsdownstairsandinbetween]

Antoine Samuel Predock, FAIA (June 24, 1936 – March 2, 2024)

Mr Predock was an American architect based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was the principal of Antoine Predock Architect PC, the studio he founded in 1967.

Mr Predock first gained national attention with the La Luz community in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The first national design competition he won was held by the Nelson Fine Arts Center at Arizona State University.

Mr Predock's work includes the Turtle Creek House, built in 1993 for bird enthusiasts along a prehistoric trail in Texas, the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, and a new ballpark for the San Diego Padres, the Petco Park. He also worked on international sites such as the National Palace Museum Southern Branch in Southern Taiwan and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

[wack-wizard]

Winnipeg miku! She likes to avoid downtown, watch the bombers fail another year and (threaten) to stab ppl! Isn’t she just lovely

[mostlysignssomeportents]

That is some straight up fuckin' DEVILRY right there.

Mrs. Desmond was fined for defrauding the Federal Government of one cent, the difference in the Amusement tax on an upstairs ticket of two cents and a downstairs ticket of three cents.

[oldshowbiz]

February - March 1920.

The Marx Brothers toured Western Canada with Jack Benny (then known as Ben K. Benny).

They played the Orpheum vaudeville circuit together: Winnipeg, Calgary, Victoria, and Vancouver.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

WINNIPEG - Official numbers have been released for the Manitoba byelection that saw the NDP take over a historically Progressive Conservative seat.

Elections Manitoba says Carla Compton ended up beating Tory candidate Lawrence Pinsky in Winnipeg's Tuxedo constituency by 602 votes.

It's the first time the NDP has won the seat since its creation in 1981.

The seat was left vacant after former premier and Progressive Conservative party leader Heather Stefanson announced her resignation earlier this year. [...]

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[jasper-dixon]

More pics of Bob on the set of Nobody 2 in Winnipeg.

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[motelpearl]

CATS at Rainbow Stage, Winnipeg Manitoba, 2011

I wanted to post these bc I saw this production as a kid & loved it & figured the cats fans on here might like to see some pics from the brochure

(sorry for the quality of the pictures but some of them just arent great quality even in the pamphlet also earlier versions of this post dont have all the photos)

[weirdbird74]

AAAAEUEUEUAEIUAIUIIIIIIEIEIEAAUAUUUAUUAUAUUEIEIIIAGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Manitoba will be introducing universal birth control coverage this fall.

The government announced Thursday it will cover prescription birth control starting Oct. 1, 2024.

“Prescription birth control is a right, not a luxury," Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara said in a news release. "Money should never be a barrier to accessing reproductive health-care."

The province said the Manitoba Pharmacare Program will cover the full cost of roughly 60 commonly used birth control methods, including the pill and intrauterine devices. Prescriptions are available at walk-in clinics, hospitals or at regular doctor offices.

Free birth control was announced in the provincial budget earlier this year. Asagwara said the new plan could save someone as much as $10,000 over their lifetime if they're paying $25 a month for oral hormonal pills.

Those who don't have coverage from another provincial or federal program can present their health card at a pharmacy to obtain free coverage.