Now that she’s got one book under her belt, deMeulles says she may try
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Officers from the Nelson House RCMP, RCMP Major Crime Services, RCMP Search and Rescue and the RCMP Underwater Recovery Team will be in the Nelson House area Sept. 5-10 to continue their investigation.
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DeMeulles said she wrote Whispers in the Wind: Stories from the for
“I miss the shoreline, I miss the rock, I miss the polar bears even though they’re very dangerous and I really miss the Hudson Bay,” she says. “When I go back home, standing on the Hudson Bay looking out on the bay, it just gives you an incredible sense. You feel so
Police say a 20-year-old woman was walking into the mall around 1:40 p.m. that day when a man approached her, touched her without her consent, and fled.
very dangerous thing to do. Being on a plane full of fuel
“I just sort of thought, tory, this stuff that’s in my head, it’s going to be gone if I don’t write it down,” she ing to get it if I don’t do it ways wanted my mom to do. My mom’s an elder and she’s an artist, she’s got so cause she always tells her stories at Parks Canada in Churchill and I’ve always hounded her, ‘Please, just put it on tape, I will write it for you because your story is going to be lost,’ and she’s never done it and I thought,
“I have another book in me,” she says. “It’s a darker al growth and struggles. Maybe in the next five years it’s something I’ll focus on doing.”
Anyone with information about Linklater’s disappear ance can call Nelson House RCMP at 204-484-2837 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-8477. Tips can also be submitted anonymously online at www.manitobacrimestoppers.com.ThompsonRCMPare
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to write things that you have to figure out. It’s pretty clear
swallow when people say that Churchill residents should just find somewhere your loved ones and your history is gone?’”
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Addictions Foundation of Manitoba northern director Gisele deMeulles has written a book about her experiences growing up, mostly in Churchill.
Rico Cody Linklater, 22, was reported missing last Oct. 23 but police now say they believe someone killed him.
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Video surveillance captured images of the man, who is described as 5’7” tall with a medium build, short black or dark brown hair, a moustache and glasses.
Manitoba RCMP’s Underwater Recovery team will be in the Nelson House area Sept. 5-10 to assist the investigation of what police believe to be the death of Rico Linklater.
RCMP said Sept. 6 that they now believe a Nisicha wayasihk Cree Nation man reported missing last October was the victim of a homicide.
looking for a man who sexually assaulted a woman walking into the Westwood Mall on June 24.
Because of that, deMeulles finds it hard to
Thompson RCMP are asking the public to help them iden tify this man, who is alleged to have sexually assaulted a 20-year-old woman at Westwood Mall on June 24.
For all the harsh weather and the dangers of polar bears, deMeulles said if it had been viable she would
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a very strong skill in my writing and confidence in my writing. I write very clear and that’s it. It’s there. Some people say it’s kind of blunt or direct. I don’t tend
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RCMP now believe Rico Linklater of Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation, who was reported missing last Oct. 23, was the victim of a homicide.
There may be some help coming to combat the spread of COVID and the severity of COVID cases in NCN, and in other First Nations communities across the province, as the province announced Sept. 2 that some adults in Manitoba, including all Indigenous adults, will be able to get a COVID-19 bivalent booster shot later this month.
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The bivalent vaccine, which targets both the ori ginal strain of the corona
the biggest thing I’ve heard is leadership has to have a voice, somebody who can speak or articulate desires and aspirations,” he said.
“We’re all having prob lems in terms of the com munities, in terms of alco hol and drugs and it has impacted all of our insti
residents to use the same caution that all Manitobans were asked to use earlier on during the pandemic, before provincial restrictions were lifted.
leaders.
“I have full confidence in his ability to lead,” said Chief Evan Yassie of Sayisi Dene First Nation, while Chief Darryl Wastesicoot of York Factory First Na tion said the new grand chief can get results and is willing to kick down a few doors if he has to.
tutions,” said Tataskweyak Cree Nation Chief Doreen Spence. “I really feel that we have to push for our mental health services. We need infrastructure, we need programming.”
Having a grand chief who is in regular communi cation with each of the First Nations and knows their challenges and goals will be a benefit when dealing with governments, Wastesi coot said.
getting tested or reporting their positive test result to publicLeadershealth.”in the remote and isolated community of NCN, located more than 850 kilometres north of Winni peg, said strict “mitigation plans” are now in effect, de spite the fact that all provin cial COVID restrictions and vaccine requirements were dropped by the province back in March.
“Mitigation plans must be followed,” Moody said.
Along with Indigenous adults, the province said the first priority group for the COVID-19 bivalent booster will also include all health-care workers, all adults aged 65 and up, and people with certain medic al conditions, or who live in personal care homes and other group settings.
— Dave Baxter is a Lo cal Journalism Initiative reporter who works out of the Winnipeg Sun. The Lo cal Journalism Initiative is funded by the government of Canada.
Newly elected Keewatin Tribal Council Grand Chief Walter Wastesicoot listens to drummers performing an honour song after having been sworn into office on Sept. 1 in Thompson.
Chief Simon Denechezhe of Northlands Denesuline First Nation said dealing with crime related to the sale and use of drugs is made more difficult by limited resources.
“Over 120 new cases have been reported over the past week, and we can safely as sume the positive cases are higher, as not everyone is
Issues affecting North ern Manitoba First Nations were also brought up.
“Over the last little while
“The pandemic is not over,” Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation Chief Marcel Moody warned the com munity’s approximately 3,000 on-reserve residents in a recent media release.
The chiefs in attendance took turns roleWastesicootcongratulatingonhisnewandexpressingtheir
in a pipe ceremony outside the Royal Canadian Legion in Thompson after the re sults were announced, then took the oath of office on the second day of KTC’s special chiefs assembly.
“I’m talking about the vi sion, those things we can do today to begin address ing the issues that you face day-to-day,” said Wastesi coot, stressing his ability and willingness to work with anyone, including those who may not agree with him.
While the end of provin cial pandemic restrictions in Manitoba can make it seem like we have moved beyond COVID-19, strict restrictions remain in place in one northern community, while leaders say the virus continues to spread, and cases continue to spike.
said. “Always wear a mask around people, physical dis tance, limit contacts, sani tize, wash your hands fre quently, get vaccinated and get tested if you have any flu or cold like symptoms or have had contact with any one who tested positive.”
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Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation is asking all of its on-reserve members to abide by COVID-19 precautions with 120 new cases having been reported in the community over a recent one-week period.
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In his speech to the as sembled chiefs and coun cillors prior to votes being cast, Wastesicoot touched on issues that affect many of their 11 First Nations, including the need for all-weather roads and said his intention was to help them achieve long-term goals that will alleviate the everyday issues they face as their communities’
“We’ve got to help one another,” Neepin said.
Keewatin Tribal Council chooses Walter Wastesicoot as its new grand chief
“We all must quickly go back to following all of the fundamentals,” Moody
KTC CEO George Neepin said it was about a year ago that chiefs ex pressed a wish for KTC to be more prominent and that the new grand chief’s ability to help them achieve their goals would depend on unity and communication.
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The community’s hous ing office is now closed to the public, while testing requirements at checkstops will be mandatory, and all residents must wear masks in Theworkplaces.community said they will also have quarantine re
“We lack police protec tion,” he said. “Our safe ty officers are not wellequipped and they don’t have the resources. There’s so many issues.”
virus and the Omicron vari ant, was approved by Health Canada this week, and the province says appointments for the first eligible adults are expected to open up by the middle of September.
Keewatin Tribal Coun cil member First Nations chose a grand chief for the first time in several years Sept. 1, voting for Walter Wastesicoot of York Fac tory First Nation to be the organizations’s elected representative.Wastesicoot earned the most votes from the chiefs and councillors of the 11 member First Nations who were eligible to cast ballots, finishing ahead of Duke Beardy and Joe Hyslop.Thenew leader took part
strictions in place for any one that tests positive for COVID.“Ifyou test positive you must isolate for at least five days, and then wear a mask for an additional 10 days,” MoodyMoodysaid.is now asking
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Sheldon Affleck’s last day as CEO was Aug. 31, the Winnipeg Free Press reported Sept. 1, the day that Micheal Woelcke, who used to be in charge of Via Rail’s rural routes, includ ing Winnipeg to Churchill, took over.
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“I’m not a quitter. I see things through. But I didn’t have the option,”Affleck said.Churchill Mayor Mike Spence, one of the board members for Arctic Gate way, the group of Indigen ous and northern com munities that owns and operates the railway, told the Free Press that Affleck had been offered a differ ent role and that the board wanted someone to oversee the shift from focusing on repairs, which should be
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railway’s headquarters in The Pas that they were sub jected to racist behaviour by other employees and prevented from moving on to better-paid jobs with the company.Spence did not tell the Free Press what the report said, but Affleck argued that, given the amount of public money the company
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The port recently re ceived and sent out its biggest freight shipment in five years — 44 carloads of supplies bound for Nunavut — the Free Press reported.
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complete by late 2023 or early 2024, to developing new business for the rail way and port.
Affleck had been CEO since March 2021 and told the Free Press that he wasn’t leaving by choice.
The new CEO has been given a month to study a report by former Opask wayak Cree Nation chief and former Arctic Gateway board member Christian Sinclair into allegations by Indigenous staff at the
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after the railway had sat idle for more than a year, as OmniTax was unwilling or unable to repair damage caused by spring flooding the previous year.
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document, at all, because there shouldn’t be anything to Inhide.”addition to the $60 million the federal gov ernment said it would give the railway in August, it also funded operations and the purchase of the rail way from former owner OmniTrax by committing over $100 million in 2018,
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“The racism report was actually favourable to management. but actual ly did recommend board changes,”Affleck told the Free Press , suggesting that was why the news paper couldn’t obtain a copy. “I don’t know why it wouldn’t be a public
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many of the people opposed to the plan are the regular critics of council who attend meetings and ask their elected officials questions week after week, their opinions may not be enough to dissuade the majority from forging ahead, especially since the number of people who care about this one way or another doesn’t even reach doubleWhetherdigits.or not the number of councillors or school board trustees should be reduced is not the sort of question for which there is a right or wrong answer. On the pro side of keeping the current numbers, the option that all but one of the school board members opted for, is the argument that it spreads the
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At any rate, ;et’s hope that incumbent and aspiring Thomp son politicians throw their names into the ring before Sept. 20 and that their plat forms have some ac tual measurable out comes that voters can look back at in 2026 to judge how successful they were at achieving them. Though Thomp son has had around 40 per cent of eligible voters cast ballots in the last few municipal elections, which is ac tually better than the national average for local contests, it’s still not a great participa tion rate. We certainly don’t need voters’ lack of enthusiasm trickling down (or is it up?) to afflict potential candi dates as well.
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workload around and allows for greater diversity of viewpoints, though Ryan Land was mostly correct in saying that, in terms of class and ethnicity, the trustees aren’t really a microcosm of the School District of Mystery Lake’s population as a whole. If you’ve been to many school board meetings (and apart from members of the media, well, you haven’t), you would know that they don’t often feature nearly as much debate or division as city council meetings, at least not over the past couple of years. But they’ve made their decision and it appears there will be seven school board trustees at least untilOne2022.ofthe arguments
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that one in four people in this world have TB? March 24 is World TB day, raising awareness and providing an opportunity to mobilize funds towards TB elimination. I am glad to see Canada as a top donor to the global fund to fight tuberculosis. I hope that this commitment continues in the future so that we can meet our goal to stop TB.
have to be somewhere. Also, the timing of the municipal election, which takes place on Oct. 26 this year, and of the deadline to register, about five weeks pri or to the election date, means that candidates are likely busy doing summer stuff for the first couple of months once they can start to register at the end of June (mayoral candi dates can do so start ing in May). Also, they are probably aware that voters are also busy enjoying the summer throughout July and August and that con ventional political wis dom holds that people aren’t interested in pol itics during the sum mer, which is why you plan your campaign for then only if you’re an
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for reducing members, whether they belong to the school board or council, is that it will save money. The amount is not large overall – about $20,000 in councillors’ salaries per year plus approximately half that amount, on average, for annual travel and expenses. For the city, which has a budget of around $30 million, that represents probably less than a drop in the proverbial bucket, though it is about a fifth of the overall cost of the mayor and council.Critics of the proposed reduction say that it will prevent “new blood” from being elected and, theoretically, reduce the diversity of opinions, but that would only be true if
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mer councillor Luke Robinson, who served one term on council from 2010 to 2014 before being defeated by Mayor Dennis Fenske in the race to become head of council last time that Thompsonites went to the polls about three-and-half years ago – was in favour of reducing the numbers, with the other seven opposed. Although council hasn’t yet voted on second reading of that bylaw, the next stage towards it becoming official, there’s at least a better than even chance that it will be approved. As watchers of council will have noticed, the proposals that make it to the council floor have a tendency to be approved by at least two-thirds of its members and, given that
In essence, candi dates might be doing voters, and themselves, (not to mention media providing election coverage) a favour by declaring themselves as candidates earlier and completing some of the registration process before the clock really starts ticking, so that they have a chance to get their message out at a time of relative peace. Who knows? Maybe getting the cam paign going while the field is still relative ly uncrowded might even be some kind of an advantage?
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oth of Thompson’s local elected bodies have considered proposals to reduce the number of representatives comprising them and one of them made a choice March 13 not to shrink its numbers, as school board trustees voted 6-1 against a resolution by trustee Ryan Land (the only vote in support) to reduce the number of trustees from seven to five.One night earlier, slightly more than a half-dozen Thompsonites showed up to voice their opinion on a proposed bylaw that would see council shrink from eight councillors to six, not including the mayor. Only one of that handful of people with an opinion – for-
that one in four people in this world have TB? March 24 is World TB day, raising awareness and providing an opportunity to mobilize funds towards TB elimination. I am glad to see Canada as a top donor to the global fund to fight tuberculosis. I hope that this commitment continues in the future so that we can meet our goal to stop TB.
for reducing members, whether they belong to the school board or council, is that it will save money. The amount is not large overall – about $20,000 in councillors’ salaries per year plus approximately half that amount, on average, for annual travel and expenses. For the city, which has a budget of around $30 million, that represents probably less than a drop in the proverbial bucket, though it is about a fifth of the overall cost of the mayor and council.Critics of the proposed reduction say that it will prevent “new blood” from being elected and, theoretically, reduce the diversity of opinions, but that would only be true if
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he fact that, with less than two weeks to go until the Sept. 20 deadline for mayor al, council and school board candidates to register, there are only enough candidates to fill a quarter of the 16 available spots — one mayor, eight council lors and seven school board trustees — is, while hopefully not an actual problem, at least somewhat problematic. There are reasons that so few candidates have completed their regis trations so far. For one, Thompson is often kind of a last-minute place, where people know it only takes 10 minutes to drive across town, so they only start get ting ready to head out 12 minutes before they
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many of the people opposed to the plan are the regular critics of council who attend meetings and ask their elected officials questions week after week, their opinions may not be enough to dissuade the majority from forging ahead, especially since the number of people who care about this one way or another doesn’t even reach doubleWhetherdigits.or not the number of councillors or school board trustees should be reduced is not the sort of question for which there is a right or wrong answer. On the pro side of keeping the current numbers, the option that all but one of the school board members opted for, is the argument that it spreads the
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for reducing members, whether they belong to the school board or council, is that it will save money. The amount is not large overall – about $20,000 in councillors’ salaries per year plus approximately half that amount, on average, for annual travel and expenses. For the city, which has a budget of around $30 million, that represents probably less than a drop in the proverbial bucket, though it is about a fifth of the overall cost of the mayor and council.Critics of the proposed reduction say that it will prevent “new blood” from being elected and, theoretically, reduce the diversity of opinions, but that would only be true if
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mer councillor Luke Robinson, who served one term on council from 2010 to 2014 before being defeated by Mayor Dennis Fenske in the race to become head of council last time that Thompsonites went to the polls about three-and-half years ago – was in favour of reducing the numbers, with the other seven opposed. Although council hasn’t yet voted on second reading of that bylaw, the next stage towards it becoming official, there’s at least a better than even chance that it will be approved. As watchers of council will have noticed, the proposals that make it to the council floor have a tendency to be approved by at least two-thirds of its members and, given that
is a highly contagious disease, Each year, TB claims the lives people worldwide. TB is not only a World countries, but also here in higher prevalence in the north. vaccination, disease prevention Additionally, some TB bacteria the years, giving rise to forms resistant TB, which means treatment complicated and accompanied by severe one in four people in this world is World TB day, raising awarean opportunity to mobilize funds elimination. I am glad to see Canada as global fund to fight tuberculosis. commitment continues in the future our goal to stop TB.
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$1,500 was donated to the family of another Deerwood student
• Deerwood: Rachel Mc Donald’s Grade 2 class held a freezie sale. $204.10 in sales was do nated to the Nanatowi ho Wikamik Thompson Homeless Shelter.
• Deerwood: Caroline Voyer’s Grade 8 class collected 16 bags of garbage from the tree line that surrounds their school. With the school’s central loca tion in town, the treeline tends to act as a filter for much of the city’s wind swept litter.
• RDPC Robyn Foley’s Grade 12 English lan guage arts class held a bake sale. $240.05 was donated to the homeless shelter.
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• RDPC: Amanda Stillie’s history of western civil ization class collected an astounding amount of food items for the Thompson Seniors Re source Council Inc., which distributed them in food hampers.
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Peter Frigo is the Thomp son Kin Club’s centennial project chairperson.
Just as the “Milk for Britain Campaign” started as an idea to help others, participating classes were asked to identify a com munity need that they can support and, within a time limit of six weeks, complete a class project that would help that charitable cause. To this end, the Thompson Kin Club is proud to high light the many amazing community projects that were completed this spring by the following classes of Deerwood ad RDPC.
• Deerwood: Jackie Lafreniere’s Grade 4 class held a bake sale. $777 from sales was do nated to the Thompson Humane Society and Northern Manitoba Paws in Need.
The Thompson Kin Club would like to thank the equality and social justice committee of the Thompson Teachers’ Association for providing seed money to initiate many of these pro jects. The 13-minute “Milk for Britain” documentary can be viewed on YouTube through the Kin Canada channel.
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• Deerwood: Focusing on child cancer awareness, Sarah Schroeder’s Grade 7 class used the unique artwork of a classmate to imprint on merchan dise that was available for sale to the public.
With students thinking about the upcoming school year, there are special mo ments etched in Thomp son’s communal memory that should not be forgot ten or overlooked when re flecting upon the many fine learning achievements of the previous year. Of note, the Thompson Kin Club is proud to highlight its amaz ing experience this spring in engaging with students throughout grades 2 to 12 at Deerwood School and R.D. ParkerBackCollegiate.in2020, the Thompson chapter of Kin Canada created lesson plans to educate Deerwood and RDPC students about Kin Canada’s “Milk for Brit ain Campaign,” Canada’s largest civilian fundraising effort of its time that oc curred from 1942-1948. Kin Canada fundraised close to $3 million to purchase and ship 50 million quarts of powdered milk overseas to prevent starvation among thousands of English chil dren during World War II. Thompson Kin Club started the lesson with a 13-minute graphic novel style educa tional documentary, fol lowed by a live presenta tion from a World War II survivor.Originally from Birming ham, England, 83 year-old Alette “Ali” Eason of Win nipeg immigrated to Canada with her husband in 1964. Birmingham, among many other British cities outside of London, suffered repeat ed air bombings throughout World War II by the evil Nazi regime. Ali shared many enthralling accounts of how it was to survive these bombing raids as a
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Four men from Easterville are wanted by police in connection with an assault that left another man with serious askedpects’tionbreakingsaultaggravatederousnipeg.lievedEasterville,ter20-year-oldEricKlyne,27-year-oldMitchellintheleaving.extensivesaultingearlierenteredterminedjuries.non-life-threateningtreatmentvilleing24-year-olda.m.wereChemawawininjuries.RCMPalertedaround11March11thatamanwasbe-takentotheEaster-nursingstationforofseriousbutin-Investigationde-thatfourmenthevictim’shomethatmorning,as-himandcausingdamagebeforePoliceareaskingforpublic’sassistancefinding29-year-oldHowardLedoux,StevenShane26-year-oldShawnUmphervilleandNathanWal-Umpherville,allfromwhoarebe-tohavefledtoWin-Thefourfacenum-chargesincludingassault,as-withaweaponandandentering.Anyonewithinforma-onanyofthesus-whereaboutsistocallChemawawin
young schoolgirl. Recalling a variety of moments that were vivid and sometimes frightful, Ali also shared how she had to drink the milk that was provided for thousands of English children like her by Can adians. At the end of Ali’s presentation, Deerwood and RDPC students were then presented with their Kin Canada Challenge.
All projects were stu dent-driven and facilitated by their homeroom teach ers. As a result, the dynamic energy and committed pas sion of students from these schools have truly made Thompson a better place for all, embodying the Kin motto of “serving the com munity’s greatest need.”
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Originally from Birmingham, England, 83 year-old Ali Eason was in Thompson this past spring to share her life experiences growing up while her city was constantly bombarded during World War II.
His mother told CBC in 2015 that he had schizo phrenia and had checked himself into a hospital in Ontario for treatment prior to departing for Manitoba and
Following her recent trip to Thompson, during which she spoke with someone who she believes knows exactly what happened to Shawn, Melinda says she’s done as much for her brother as she can, apart from just keeping his missing status in the public eye.
happened to her brother.
his activities and possible whereabouts.Hissister says she has spoken to people Shawn was hanging around with just before he went missing and that she believes they either have information about or may have been involved in an altercation with her broth er, who had been in another fight a few days prior to that with another man staying at the homeless shelter.
“As of right now, there’s nothing I can do,” she said.
the disappearance that don’t make sense to them and are worried,” he says. “These are trickyManitobacases.”Crime Stoppers, which covers all of the prov ince outside of Winnipeg and Brandon, has a number of missing persons on their website who come from or went missing in Northern Manitoba, dating back to as long ago as 1974. In at least two of these cases, RCMP be lieve that the missing person has been the victim of a homi cide. Police announced Sept. 6 that they now consider Rico Linklater, who was reported missing from Nisichawayas ihk Cree Nation last October, to have been the victim of a homicide and officers from their Major Crimes Services, Search and Rescue unit and Underwater Recovery Team are currently investigating in the area around Nelson House. Tammy Nattaway, who went missing from Gar den Hill First Nation in July 2020, is also believed to have been killed, police say.
stayed and worked in Lynn Lake for several months be fore coming to Thompson.
Yvon Shawn Guignard last spoke to family mem bers in late November 2015, within a few days of arriving in Thompson and no more than a few days before he was reported missing. It was re ported at the time that Shawn Guignard had last been seen on Nov. 28 at the Thomp son General Hospital, but his sister says that information was incorrect and that he was actually last seen near the Thompson Homeless Shelter, where he had been staying, around 6:45 a.m. that day. His truck was found in the possession of someone he knew in Thompson and his wallet was at the home less shelter, as he had given it to staff there to keep safe, Melinda Guignard says.
that he had stopped taking hisWithinmedication.about a month
“It just seems like no body’s really acknowledging the fact that a crime has taken place and somebody’s getting away with that crime,” she said. “And I don’t like that.”
“Cold cases are very dif ficult, when you’re talking years later, to develop new leads on unless you have new forensic technology,” Arntfield said.
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Melinda Guignard, who recently made a trip to Thompson and Churchill in order to speak with people who knew her brother during the brief time he was in the city, says she believes that there are somewho know more about her brother’s disappearance than they’ve admitted to.
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brother came to Manitoba be cause he wanted to work in a mine.Theamount of time that has passed since Shawn Guignard’s disappearance is an issue when it comes to figuring out exactly what happened, as it is in all socalled “cold cases,” said professor and author Michael Arntfield, a former London, Ont. police officer whose most recent book is called How to Solve a Cold Case
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Melinda said her brother was not violent or dangerous when he had not been tak ing his medication, though he was sometimes paranoid, and that he could be “naive” and“He“gullible.”mighthave befriended the wrong person,” she said, noting that she also found it strange that he would have given away his truck, which he used for work. “Why would he give his truck away? He was using that to make a living.”
A Red Seal welder who first showed signs of schizo phrenia in his late teens, Shawn Guignard was 34 years old at the time he went missing and Melinda says her
Sister of man who went missing in Thompson seven years ago suspects that a crime occurred
“Since the get-go, there’s been an outstanding amount of evidence that strongly suggests a crime,” Melinda Guignard told the Thomp son Citizen in a late August phone call, shortly after hav ing returned from Thomp son, where she wore a shirt with her brother’s photo on it while talking to homeless people about Shawn.
Around the time of his dis appearance, Shawn Guignard had phoned his father to say that he was urgently in need of $40. He had been in Mani toba since June 2015, having
of Shawn Guiginard’s dis appearance, Manitoba RCMP issued a second plea for information, saying that they had exhausted all investigative avenues into
Melinda Guignard be lieves her brother falls into that same category and hopes that police are following up on information she has ob tained and provided to them.
The RCMP’s last public re lease of information regard ing Shawn Guignard came about a year after he went missing. There is also in formation about his missing status on the Manitoba Crime Stoppers web page.
Though the vast majority of people who are reported to police as missing show up or are found very quickly, Arntfield says, it is important to use the right tactics if there is evidence of possible foul play.“When it becomes suspi cious, it needs to start being investigated as a probable homicide until proven other wise,”heUnfortunately,said. while many municipal or regional po lice forces in Ontario have dedicated missing persons units, that is not the case with all police departments everywhere.“Oftenin contract poli cing scenarios, it’s a general crime detective who’s also investigating burglaries and such,” said Arntfield, adding that what family or friends consider suspicious and what police consider evidence of a possible crime are not always the“That’ssame. the plight of a lot of families that feel as though they know the individual best and they see characteristics or circumstances surrounding
It has been nearly seven years since
An Ontario woman whose brother went missing from Thompson nearly seven years ago says she believes his disappearance may be the result of a crime that has managed to go undetected.
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Another member of the greeting party was AFN Manitoba regional chief Cindy ofyourisSheintomuchpossiblehasFirstanadaandingandwantday,”hardathlete,“TrinaWoodhouse.isatremendousandshehastrainedtobewheresheistoWoodhousesaid.“ItocongratulateTrinaTeamCanadaforbringhomesomanymedalsforrepresentingCaninthisway.TrinaisamazingrolemodelforNationsyouthanddemonstratedwhatiswhenyouputsoeffortandpassionsomethingyoulove.hasshownthatnothingimpossibleifyoufollowdreams.Weareproudyouandyourteam”ManitobaKeewatinowi
Okimakanak Grand Chief Garrison Settee, a PCN member himself, also of fered his congratulations to “WeRoss.are so very proud of one of our own being a successful athlete on the world stage,” Settee said. “Congratulations to Pimicikamak Cree Nation member Trina Ross on your accomplishments as part of Team Canada. You have made us proud. You show that when someone puts their mind to it, they can accomplish anything.” or Text 204-773-6797
Thompson Citizen photo courtesy of Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak Pimicikamak Cree Nation councillors Shirley Robin son, left, and Lee Thomson, right, were at the Winni peg airport Sept. 6 to greet Trina Ross, a member of the Northern Manitoba First Na tion, upon her return home from the dragon boat world championships in the Czech Republic, where she won eight medals alongside her teammates.
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Representatives of her First Nation and of the Assembly of First Nations were at the Winnipeg air port Sept. 6 to welcome Trina Ross of Pimicikamak Cree Nation back to Can ada after an impressive showing with her team at the dragon boat world championships.Ross,theonly female In digenous member of Team Canada at the 2022 ICF Dragon Boat World Cham pionships in the Czech Republic, helped the team capture three gold med als, one silver medas and four bronze medals while competing in the masters 40, co-ed and women’s categories.Uponher arrival in Win nipeg, Ross was presented with flowers and gifts and wrapped in a star blanket based on the PCN flag.
“Trina Ross has worked tirelessly to achieve her lifelong dream and I know she won’t stop here! I know Trina as she lives down the road from me in Pimi cikamak Cree Nation,” said Robinson. “Being part of Team Canada and bringing home all these medals is an amazing accomplish ment. I had butterflies when I saw her coming down the escalator at the airport this morning. We are all so extremely proud and Trina should also be proud because she is the only Indigenous woman who represented us as part of Team Canada. To see our own nation’s flag hoisted in the Czech Republic is something else!”
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“As the chief of Pimi cikamak Cree Nation, I extend my gratitude to Trina Ross for her hard work. She has made us all so proud today,” said Chief David Monias. “I want to thank Trina because she is serving as a role model for everyone in Pimicikamak and in all First Nations. Trina, you will inspire so many people to follow in your footsteps. Keep up the good work and I look forward to witnessing your continued success.”
The Canada Workers Benefit is a refundable tax credit specifically designed to help individ uals and families who are working and earning a low income.Considering the CWB alone, and no further tax credits that a person may be eligible for, Friesen says that the worker mak ing $11.95 per hour today would be eligible for a federal tax reduction of $1,124 at the end of the year. In 2023, when the minimum wage reaches $15 per hour, that same worker’s CWB credit will drop to $177.
“Costsalone.of everything will go up, making it more difficult for every one as a whole,” he says. “Those … [who are] mak ing a fair wage presently will be forced to have in creased costs that won’t be reflected [through] wage increases for may,thisbenefit.furtherupnow,tonewEssentially,ourselves.’hesays,theratesmaylookgoodlow-incomeearnersbutoncetheydrivethecostoflivingevennoonewilltrulyAswell,hesuggests,politicalmaneuverinfact,encouragepeopletotakeadropinwage.“I’veseenmanyworkersleavemyfieldduetostress,overwork,andothersimilarissuesasoflate,”Rocchioadds.“Adrastically[reduced]wagegapwillmakemanymorepeoplecontemplateleavingforjobswithlessresponsibility[eventhoughitmeans]asmallwageloss.Andhonestly,itmakesmequestionmyworthinmyfieldaswell.”Atminimum,Rocchiowouldlovetoseetheprovincialgovernmentworktowardsfairnessateverywagelevel.Priortothepandemic,Rocchiosays,thePallistergovernmentforcedamergingofunionsforalllower-tieredhealthcareworkerssuchashimself.Sincethattime,workers’wageshavebeenfrozenandnegotiationsdelayed.TheWRHA,Rocchiosays,hasbeenwithoutacontractsinceApril2018.
Less than month from now, minimum wage earn ers will be better equipped to start closing the gap between their monthly earnings and their ever-in creasing cost of living. As of Oct. 1, minimum wage in Manitoba is set to rise from $11.95 to $13.50 per hour.This increase will mean an approximate $250 per month in extra gross pay for full-time employees. But it’s only the first in a series of rate hikes that the province plans to legislate over the next year.
“An individual earning $50,000 in employment income in Manitoba would save over $1,000 in in come taxes if they lived in Saskatchewan instead,” the statement reads. “To further break this down, Manitoba has the third lowest Basic Personal Amount (BPA) in Canada, behind only Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador.”TheBPA is the amount of taxable income a wage earner is allowed to earn before the government applies income taxes. Workers making a taxable income that’s less than the BPA pay no income tax. Workers receiving a higher taxable income than the BPA pay taxes on their gross taxable income minus the BPA.
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like to send a huge thank you to the community partners for making our summer family events a huge success. Your contributions made each event bigger and better for our families!Thank you to: Manitoba Métis Federation Ma-Mow-We-Tak Friendship Centre Thompson RCMP Police Community Relations McDonald’s N C Crossroad Lanes PolarFuturesLaundry Thank you to the families who attended the events! SEE YOU IN SEPTEMBER!
For 2022, Manitoba’s BPA is set at $10,145. For comparison, Saskatch ewan’s BPA is $16,615. This means that employed residents of Saskatchewan are able to make almost $6,500 more in income before it becomes taxable. Living wage arguments
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“I think that [covering the cost of a minimum wage increase] should be a combined effort,” Hagidiakow says. “The government does have to contribute and make things like getting grants a little easier for small busi ness. Lessening the burden somewhere would really beAshelpful.”forMulvena, she’s also among many business owners who have really struggled to find enough employees as of late. And she’s not as convinced as Stefanson that paying higher wages will change that.“I feel a lot of people have gone away from wanting to work in this industry over the past few years, since COVID,” Mulvena concludes.
The bottom line, Friesen
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On April 1, 2023, min imum wage will climb to $14.15 per hour. And by Oct.1, 2023, it will jump to approximately $15 per hour.Premier Heather Stefan son made the announce ment in mid-August, call ing the phased-in approach as a means to narrow the divide between Mani toba’s minimum wage and that of every other prov
As the MCC has en treated the province on behalf of business owners, the Manitoba office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has been building their own case, which would see even further increases to the minimum wage.
“The living wage is de signed so young adults are not discouraged from having children and older workers have some extra income as they age,” the report
Basedadds.on current infla tion rates, the report con cludes that a minimum wage of $18.34 per hour is what’s needed for a Winnipeg wage earner to actually get by.
may be eligible if you fit into one of the following categories:
Add to this a reduction in all the other tax credits that a lower income per son may be eligible for, and it’s clear to him who will come out the winner in this situation.
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balance between having a competitive minimum wage and recognizing that employers faced ser ious economic challenges through the COVID-19 pandemic, and that they continue to deal with the financial aftermath of operating restrictions and labor shortages,” says Elisabeth Saftiuk, MCC vice-president of policy and government relations.
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“It is imperative that governments consid er offsetting the cost to business,” reads an MCC press release. “Minimum wage is one part of the affordability discussion, but we cannot have that discussion without con sidering Manitoba’s taxa tion framework, which is [also] falling behind our provincial and territorial neighbours.”According to the MCC, Manitobans are not only known for having the low est minimum wage. At the same time, we boast the highest income tax rates compared to Ontario, Sas katchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia.
“We want [our employ ees] to be living a good life,” Hagidiakow says. “My heart feels happy for them because they all deserve as much as they canForget.”Hagidiakow, though, about 50 per cent of her employees earn more than
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As an advocate for Manitoba business owners, MCC encouraged the provincial government to consider a complete tax review in their efforts to help ease the burden for businesses, too.
Manitoba Chamber of Commerce responds Shortly after Stefan son’s announcement, the Manitoba Chamber of Commerce acknowledged that there was indeed a need for a minimum wage increase due to rising cost pressures.Evenso, they said, there’s a lot to be considered.“Thereneeds to be a
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says, is that at $15 per hour most of the CWB will be lost to these employees. Because of that, $15 per hour will actually come closer to $13.35 an hour when all is said and done.
Both Niverville restau rant owners agree that government assistance for small businesses would be greatlyHagidiakowappreciated.says, for her business, it would be as simple as making the Canada Summer Jobs grant more accessible.
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The Canada Summer Job grant is a federal gov ernment initiative which assists small businesses by providing wage sub sidies during the summer months.Unfortunately, Hagidia kow says the grant is fairly restrictive, requiring her to ensure that her em ployees work at least 30 hours per week. None of her young staff were pre pared to put in the hours or give up their evenings and weekends to make the grant work.
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“The real winner here is the federal government,” says Friesen. “We have a lot of credits for poor people that are reduced as their income increases … I call that a tax, in a way.”
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“We know that to attract and retain new workers and immigrants in Mani toba, wages need to be competitive with other provinces,” she said at a newsAccordingconference.tothe Retail Council of Canada, even at $13.50 per hour Mani toba will only barely slide past Saskatchewan, which will be going to $13 per hour as of Oct. 1. This will bump Manitoba from low est spot to second-lowest in the country, at least until October 2024, when Saskatchewan plans to join Manitoba at the $15 mark.
In late August, the CCPA released a report ad vocating for low-earning Manitobans to be guaran teed a “living wage” in stead of what the CCPA deems the “poverty wage”
minimum wage. To keep things equitable for all of her employees, she says she feels the need to raise everyone’s wage in order to maintain the wage gap between new trainees, trained employees, and managers. So while the government’s legislation was intended to address only those at the bottom of the pay scale, in many businesses like hers it will have a farther-reaching effect.“Like any business, there is only so much you can pay someone to ensure your business continues to operate,” explains Mul vena. “There is little to no room for error operating a restaurant right now. With the uncontrollable food costs, and now this, it will be very tough for businesses in the next few years as we are all still trying to recover from the last two years.”
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that the province recently introduced.“Apoverty minimum wage is bad public policy, as families who work for low wages must sacrifice necessities to make ends meet, leading to chron ic stress and long-term health issues,” the CCPA report says.
Henry Friesen of Blue River Group is a chartered professional accountant and financial consultant in FriesenNiverville.says it’s diffi cult for the average person to understand just how a wage increase will affect them until income tax time comesCanada,around.hesays, has tax laws that are quite favour able for those earning very low incomes. The feder al government provides numerous tax credits for low-income earners, such as rent assistance and fi nancial relief on the cost of pharmaceuticals, to name only a few.
Closing the wage gap
Restaurateurs weigh in The Niverville Citizen reached out to a number of local restauranteurs who rely heavily on minimum wageNivervilleworkers.Chicken Chef owner Laura Mulvena and Niverville DQ owner Nik ki Hagidiakow agree that they are glad to see their hard-working employees earn more income.
ince in the country.
At the end of the day, Friesen agrees that busi nesses will suffer not just the costs of the increased hourly wages. The higher wage also impacts the an nual cost of statutory holi days, vacation pay, work ers compensation benefits, and the business owner’s portion of Employment In come and Canada Pension Plan for each employee.
Pasquale Rocchio of Niverville is a healthcare aide with the Winnipeg Regional Health Author ity. For the most part, Rocchio says, the $22 per hour he makes with his level of training isn’t out of line. But he sees big problems with how the significant rate hikes will affect him if businesses are expected to bear this cost
The report says that a living wage takes into consideration the amount of income that a family of four, with two full-time working adults, would need to bring home in order to cover their most basic needs of housing, transportation, and food. It should also be sufficient to allow for the healthy so cial, civic, and cultural de velopment of the children.
In that interview, she said decisions to escalate care are "at the discretion of the nursing staff.”
A provincial spokes person said the partnership with the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy aims to produce insights that can be used across the K-12 sys tem “to inform planning in the context of COVID-19 recovery.”
Before it began, she was as healthy and happy as she had been in years: her Type 1 diabetes was under con trol, she was active in her community of Fort Simp son, and she enjoyed spend ing time with her partner, Bruce.Within weeks, pain in her spine reached an unbearable intensity. She had difficulty sleeping and even getting out of Christinebed. Hartman, a neighbour, met Christie through a Facebook market place deal in September last year. They struck up an easy friendship over swapped clothes and appliances.
implement a basic medical triage ... and I think in a lot of places, that eats up a lot of your resources and a lot of your time. And what happens is that preventative care and public health go by the"Thiswayside.iswhy there’s a huge syphilis outbreak in the N.W.T. This is why can cer rates are out of control. Because no one’s taking the time to do proper preventa tive care, regular screen ings, running the proper diagnostic tests.”
in behaviour problems, she noted.The pediatrician wel comes new research on the ongoing effects of public health orders on children and youth. Hanna said she hopes she will have the opportunity to weigh in viaInsurvey.thefall of 2020, not long after regular in-person classes resumed across the province for the first time since COVID-19 was de tected on the Prairies, the Manitoba Teachers’ Society polled its members. More than 800 teachers partici pated in a study on the state of their schools.
“She was always a very happy, friendly person. And then in the middle of Nov ember, I ran into her in the store and even though she had her mask on, I could see in her eyes that something wasn’t right," Hartman said.
“I don’t know how this went on for seven months,” she said. “When you hear her talking, when you ac tually see her … I almost have to try and swallow it, and be strong, because it makes me want to cry to see someone suffering like that.”Hartman, too, has her own story of treatment in Fort Simpson. After falling down the stairs at home, she had a purple and black hip and was in a lot of pain.
“We do have the abil ity to call physicians. But there isn’t a rule about when you have to call and, if you don’t have the right train ing, sometimes you’re not even sure about what kind of situation warrants taking that step. We need a better system in place.”
A matching sum will be spent on a partnership with the University of Mani toba’s health policy hub to
“When you’re under staffed, you’re going to
In the North, treatable cancers such as colorectal, prostrate and breast cancer can be fatal due to limited testing. Cure rates for colo rectal cancer are almost 90 per cent when detected ear ly but drop to 12 per cent if detected in its later stages.
Ahead of the 2022-23 academic year, the Mani toba government has set aside funds to undertake two new special research projects.Atotal of $250,000 has been earmarked for a sur vey of grades 6 to 10 learn ers’ “health and well-being, social environments and health behaviours.”
Measuring COVID’s toll on young psyches
The painful search for a diagnosis in small N.W.T. communities
Dr. Marni Hanna saw the toll excessive screen time was taking on her pa tients long before the virus arrived.“Butit got much worse when they had to depend on their screens to communi cate with each other and do school work — and that has led to concerns from parents about disrupted sleep and these kids being addicted to their screens,” the president of the Mani toba Pediatric Society said.
“But she gave me some Tylenol 3s and said, 'If it still hurts in six weeks, come back.' And I was like, 'Are you kidding me? What about an X-ray?'"
Despite repeated visits to Fort Simpson's health centre, Horesay says never received an answer to what was causing her pain — only more medication.
Nine out of 10 re spondents said students were having difficulty readapting to school routines.“Kidsreally need struc ture, even older kids, even high school students — never mind Grade 1 and 2 kids. They need structure, they need routines and when they go to school every day, that’s where kids thrive,” said Nathan Martindale, vice-president of the union which repre sents upwards of 16,600 educators.Martindale said teachers know best when it comes to tackling learning loss, but they must be supported in doing so. The union con tinues to advocate for the province to develop “an adequate and sustainable
For months, Horesay’s condition deteriorated. She began to lose weight, dropping from 120 lbs to 80. She and her partner, Bruce Dowdeswell, say they repeatedly asked for Horesay to be moved to a larger hospital in Edmonton or “WithoutYellowknife.a diagnosis, they didn’t want to send her in because they didn’t know what was wrong,” Dow deswell said, recounting his understanding of conversa tions at the health centre. “I thought that was complete ly backwards. Like, if you don’t know what it is, you send her to a bigger hospital didn'tworthdoesn’torencedthinkthatbottomtoat"orwaspainmentforlay,experienceworkforgottenMonthssaysaid,immediately.”Attimes,DowdeswellhehadtocarryHoretoherappointments.passed.“Idon’tknowifit’sjustorthatthepapergetslost,"hesaid.Dowdeswellsayshehadofasimilardewaitingthreemonthsanultrasoundappointafterexperiencinginhisabdomen.“Turnsout,thereferralneversentin,"hesaid,atleast,neverreceivedtheotherend.SoIhadstartalloveragainattheofthepile.There’samillionthingscangowrong,andIChristie’sexperithemallatonepointanother.Godforbidshehavesixmonths'ofcancerthatshehavetohaveinher
(funding) model” for K-12 education, he said.
Education department officials and research part ners can expect to learn about a spike in anxiety disorders, insomnia and weight gain among the student population when they probe the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on teenager health.
layed, he added.
“It’s really benefited kids to be back at school, back doing their sports and extracurricular activities and being able to hang out with friends,” she said.
Hanna echoed concerns about youth “not necessar ily getting the help they need,” due to increasingly high demand for in-school and private assessments.
The results show 62 per cent of respondents found it difficult to re-establish connection and community in their classrooms, 67 per cent disclosed being chal lenged in addressing stu dent emotional and social
ing“Whymade.are nurses being put in these positions in the first place?" the former nurse"Whenasked.you’re a nurse in the North, you’re constantly having to make decisions you don’t have the adequate training to make.”
David Maguire, com munications manager for the N.W.T.'s health author ity, said nurses are given support to make those decisions.“Anyone in the system who would be making a de cision about patient move ment would have the ability to consult with a provider in another community – either a physician in a regional hub that they are connected to, or via the MedResponse system, which would allow for advice and consultation to determine the correct course of action regarding treatment and movement of a patient depending on their needs," Maguire said byButemail.the former nurse said more support is needed.
body at the end of this.”
As of late August, she’s still waiting on test results for a bone scan at a hos pital in Edmonton. While she waits, she’s taking the opportunity to visit family on the west coast with Bruce.“I’m having to rest a lot, and still in pain," she said. "But it’s nice to be some place that’s beautiful.”
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Christie Horesay first began experiencing pain in November 2021.
“I was in the health cen tre within 10 minutes but, when I got there, I was told ‘OK, well, you walked in here.’ I said to them, ‘Yeah, but that doesn’t mean any thing. I’ve had friends who have broken hips and were still able to walk.’
assess and understand the novel coronavirus’s effects on learning outcomes.
One night, Horesay broke down on her porch, telling Hartman she could no long er live like this.
“I had to go to Hay River in December three times, just for an X-Ray on my back and an ultrasound. That’s a 10-hour drive. So we’re there, we spend the night in a hotel, get a 10-minute X-ray and then turn around and come back … all for this simple procedure.”ForHoresay, the situation in Fort Simpson came to a head in June. In the clin ic, she took off her shirt, hoping the sight of her ribs would help the nurse see how emaciated she had become.“Itold her to look at me and asked, ‘Are you going to wait for me to be on my deathbed to get healthcare?’”Shewason a flight to Yellowknife's Stanton Ter ritorial Hospital the follow ingInday.May, health minister Julie Green addressed con cerns about access to care and hospital treatment in a conversation with the CBC.
Horesay is still hoping that won’t be her story. Af ter being admitted to Stan ton Territorial Hospital in late June, her condition sta bilized over several weeks and she was able to regain some weight.
But a former nurse in a mid-sized N.W.T. com munity, who asked for ano nymity to discuss a previous employer, said nurses work ing in community health centres should not take the blame when patients aren't happy about decisions be
She says the current nurs ing shortage isn’t helping.
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Alan Campbell, presi dent of the Manitoba School Boards Association, called the province’s latest announcements “good in itiatives,” but indicated what divisions really need is increased funding to hire more“Theclinicians.needsof our stu dents were far outpacing the resources that were available prior to the pan demic,” Campbell said, noting there are two men tal health support workers overseeing roughly 3,000 students in his division in theLimitedInterlake.clinician rosters mean there are lengthy wait times for assessments and the introduction of in-class support — for example, the hiring of an educational assistant in response to a formal diagnosis — is de
While pediatricians have been fielding a significant number of calls about anx iety and depression since March 2020, she indicated phone lines have quieted since the spring.
“It had gotten to the point where I was having trouble walking to the gro cery store, I was so tired,” Horesay said, describing drinking nutrition shakes to avoid having to make meals."But the worst part was just the Hartmanpain.”began emailing politicians and reporters. Nothing changed.
Hanna said significant weight gain, mental health challenges and sleeping issues, owing to late-night cellphone and computer use, which can suppress the production of melato nin and disrupt sleep, have been common concerns as of late. Poor sleep results
concerns, and 75 per cent indicated they grappled with recovery learning.
In the N.W.T., colorectal cancer is the second lead ing cause of cancer death.
“I was getting really worried because I have a family history of cancer,” said Horesay. “But they told me I probably had a slipped disc and kept giving me different prescription painkillers.”
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When the pain didn’t go away, Hartman returned and saw a different nurse.
Only five candidates for mayor, council and school board with less than two weeks left to register
potential candidates on Aug. 30, a lower turnout then there was four years ago.
“The night sky is an im portant part of our natural heritage and also our cultur al heritage, which includes Indigenous knowledge and starThestories.”designation of Spruce Woods as a darksky preserve is the result of years of hard work since the park received a provin cial designation from the society in 2018, Lauren Knowles, environmental outreach co-ordinator with the astronomical society, said in an Retrofitsinterview.havebeen done to the lighting in the park to ensure it’s up to the soci ety’s standards for dark-sky preserves, including shield ed luminaries, aiming light downward and using timers to turn lights off during the night. Park staff have also been involved in creating night sky programs, such as campfire presentations and guided tours.
Artificial light at night, she explained, can harm the environment.“It’sreallyimportant that we’re seeing these places that are committed to pro tecting the nocturnal en vironment … because light pollution doesn’t know any boundaries. It’s really im portant that everyone is do ing their part to mitigate the impacts of light pollution.”
Spruce Woods is the 27th site to be designated under the Royal Astronomical So ciety of Canada’s Dark-Sky Sites program — and the first in Manitoba.
Chong, who have put their names forward for the eight available council seats, only one more can didate has been added to the totals from last week: Lindsay Anderson, who is running again for school board trustee.
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election. Municipality and school district em ployees may run for of fice if they take a leave of absence from their jobs. Members of the Manitoba legislature, the House of Commons or the Senate are not eligible to run, nor are judges or justices of the peace. Those pre viously convicted of an election offence or who failed to pay a fine after being convicted of other Municipal Act offences are also not eligible as candidates.
With less than two weeks to go until the deadline for municipal election candidates to register to run in the Oct. 26 election, Thompson is little closer to having a full slate to choose from then it was at the start of September.Inaddition to Colleen Smook and Les Ellsworth, who had already regis tered to run for mayor as of Aug. 31, and to Addie Colbourne and Chiew
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For Ann Stout, who sits on the board of directors for Friends of Spruce Woods, the designation feels like a pat on the back after all the work the organization has done to earn dark-sky preserve status for the park.
For Knowles, the more people who know and care about the importance of dark skies, the better, as the development of cit ies and towns to meet the needs of Canada’s grow ing population means an increase in light pollution.
The Spruce Woods Prov incial Park dark-sky pre serve will enhance visitors’ appreciation of the night sky, Bob King, chair of the astronomical society’s light pollution abatement com mittee, said in the release.
If there are fewer can didates than available positions in the council and school board elec tions, all registered can didates will automatically
Spruce Woods earns star status
The deadline to register and fulfill all require ments for nomination is Sept.Candidates20. waiting until the last minute to register is not unusual for Thompson.Atabout the same time
“We are excited to see beautiful Spruce Woods Provincial Park become the first provincial site to be designated a dark-sky preserve, which recogniz es its strong commitment to preserving nighttime ecosystems and educating visitors about light pollu tion,” he stated in a release.
In 2010, there was only one candidate registered with just under two weeks until the nomination dead line but there were 30 by the time that cutoff date arrived.Onlyabout a half-dozen people showed up to an information session for
While it seems likely, based on the past two municipal elections, that Thompson will have more than enough candidates to choose from for council and school board, what happens if it doesn’t?
Stargazers across the Prairies may soon be flock ing to Manitoba’s first-ever dark-sky preserve after Spruce Woods Provincial Park received the historic designation from the Roy al Astronomical Society of Canada.Thedesignation recog nizes the park, located 77 kilometres east of Bran don, and its dark skies as a “significant ecological and cultural resource” and is a commitment to protecting the nocturnal environment from the negative impacts of light pollution, a press release from the astro nomical society said.
“Everybody is very pas sionate about what we do out there … it’s been a long time coming,” Stout said.
The designation was celebrated last weekend at the annual Spruce Woods Star Party. On Aug. 26, the provincial government an nounced it was investing $1.1 million from the Prov incial Parks Endowment Fund to support park en hancement projects across the province, including up grades to yurts at Spruce Woods. Some of the fund ing will also go toward supporting conservation and biodiversity enhance ment projects at the park, according to a release.
“We’re a very small group but … we all work together so well with the park staff.”
win a seat. Vacancies can be filled either by the acclaimed members appointing people who meet candidate eligibility requirements or through a byelection.Torunfor either mayor, councillor or trustee, can didates must be Canadian citizens, 18 years or older as of election day and vot ers in the municipality in which they are running, which means they must have lived or owned prop erty in Thompson since April 26 for this year’s
This is just the beginning of the park’s association with the astronomical so ciety, Stout hopes.
Thompson Citizen photo by Brandon Sun/Local Journalism Initiative The edge of the Milky Way stretches above the horizon at the Spirit Sands in Spruce Woods Provincial Park.
“It’s been a few years of hard work on their part, for sure,” Knowles said.
four years ago, there were only four registered can didates, though there end ed up being 35 in all for 16 available positions — seven on the school board and nine on council, in cluding the mayor.
Jeff Wharton, Manitoba’s environment, climate and parks minister, said the designation will have a positive effect.
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Red flags to watch for, they say, are the use of threatening or aggressive language intended to intimidate. Another red flag is when the caller announces that the call recipient has won a contest or prize they never entered. Or when the caller has to ask your name or fish for details on the name of your grandchild, in the case of grandparent scams.
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department, or your credit card company, use the administrative lines provided by these compan ies to call them back and query whether the call was made from their office.
In July of this year, city police received 15 reports of similar scams within a six-day period. Total losses for those who fell victim came in at somewhere be tween $200,000 and $300,000.
Canadian fraud statistics
50 per cent calculation for inci dences and victims to date, this year’s amount should come to around $190 million.
This likely speaks to the fact that, while people are becoming more aware of the risk, scammers are becoming increasingly more savvy and convincing.
Sensing her willingness to help, the caller warned her to keep de tails of the sting operation hushhush, not disclosing anything to anyone, including family mem bers or bank staff.
The news has been rife this sum mer with stories of Manitobans be ing scammed out of hundreds, or even tens of thousands, of dollars due to phone scams. All too often, the victims are senior citizens.
is usually to trick you into reveal ing personal information or to get you to send money or gift cards.
The senior, addressed as grand ma or grandpa by the caller, is implored to keep the parents out of it to prevent further shaming for the grandchild.
“My major concern is how they were able to get into my line of credit,” said Brommell. “I didn’t even know I had a line of credit.”
“Phone scams are definitely getting pretty technical in terms of both how the scam works and how they convince you it’s true,” Friesen says. “These scams also have common themes, most rely ing on either something being too good to be true or an extreme sense of urgency.”
Finally, regardless of the legit imacy of the caller or agency, never provide personal informa tion such as a social insurance number, credit card number, bank account PIN, or other identifying information.TheCBAwebsite also provides information on what to do if you are concerned you’ve been the victim of a scan.
The Canadian Anti-Fraud Cen tre is the nation’s central online repository for information regard ing reported frauds. It is jointly managed by the RCMP, the Com petition Bureau Canada, and the Ontario Provincial Police.
The Canadian Bankers Associ ation website has a full page dedi cated to recognizing and avoiding phoneAccordingfraud. to the site, the gener al objective of the phone scammer
“It sounded very legitimate. They were very persuasive,” vic tim Dolores Brommell told the Free Press. “I thought I was help ingTheout.”ruse began when Brommell received a call from a man posing as a Royal Bank of Canada em ployee who convinced her that her assistance could be integral in helping the RCMP catch the ringleader of a con.
The CAFC similarly adds one other major red flag to watch for: “If it seems too good to be true, it is.”Simple principles to avoid being scammed, they say, are to write down the information that is being provided to you by the caller and then kindly hang up. This provides time for the call recipient to verify that the company name used is a legitimate one.
“If you think you have provided personal or financial information to a criminal, contact the organ ization involved right away. If you have provided some of your banking or credit card informa tion, contact your bank or finan cial institution immediately and they will advise you on what you should do. You can also call your local police department.”
If you’re not completely certain of the caller’s legitimacy, he says, hang up.
In this case, two Ontario women were arrested. It’s unclear whether any of the stolen funds will be recovered.
At the same time, the con artist was able to remotely take control of her computer and supply her with falsified bank statements to further convince her of the legit imacy of the claims. In so doing, the scammer managed to remove $25,000 from Brommell’s line of credit.
“We believe that these frauds are being committed by organ ized groups,” says Const. Jay Murray of the Winnipeg Police Service. “They aren’t fly-by-night operations.”Unfortunately, in the case of Brommell, the RCMP have concluded their investigation, citing that the scam likely ori ginated overseas and the phone number used by the scammer is untraceable.
According to Const. Dani Mc Kinnon of the Winnipeg Police Service’s financial crimes unit, it may also have something to do with the fact that the aging are often very kindhearted and trust ing“Weindividuals.havereceived reports of … scams, unfortunately, involving elderly victims,” McKinnon told the Winnipeg Free Press. “These fraudsters play on the good, help ful nature of average people. The victims truly believe they are helping.”Grandparent scams—or emer gency scams, as they’ve become known—involve a phone call from someone posing as a grandchild of the victim who is, oftentimes, in a state of distress and tears, plead ing for cash to bail them out of a troubling legal situation they’ve landed in.
It’s becoming more and more clear to investigators that the fraudsters aren’t individual punks hoping to score on a single scam.
What’s startling about the amount of money lost to fraud this year, though, is that it appears to be on a significant upswing from lastInyear.2021, the total dollars re ported as scammed amounted to $381 million. In keeping with the
Connie Newman is the execu tive director of the Manitoba As sociation of Seniors Centres. She says it’s time to put the stigma and shame of being scammed aside in order to spread awareness and help prevent others from becom ingForvictims.aging seniors, she says the conversation should begin with family members who have an open relationship with their aging loved one.Newman has heard of seniors who have lost their life savings, including one individual who lost $110,000. For this reason, she’s stopped accepting any calls un less she recognizes the incoming phone“Somenumber.endup in poverty,” New man told the Free Press. “If you take a retired person who loses $25,000 of their savings, it’s dev astating. This is not a senior issue. It’s a life issue we need to keep track of.”
Talking openly about fraud
According to CAFC statistics, almost 53,000 incidences of fraud were reported across the country as of July 31, 2022. These in volved just over 33,000 victims and almost $285 million lost to scammers.Thenumber of reported inci dents and victims, at that point in the year, were at about 50 per cent of the annual numbers recorded forUnfortunately,2021.
“In some variations of the scam, you’ll receive a call or a voicemail from a criminal who is posing as a government agency or member of law enforcement,” the site states.
At this point, talk to people. Call family members and friends and reveal the nature of the call. They should be able to provide an outsider’s opinion of what you’re dealing with and make recommen dations on how to proceed.
A recent report in the Free Press tells the story of a 71-yearold Lorette woman who lost more than $50,000 to a scammer before she was called in for a personal meeting with her bank.
“The message says you have an overdue balance or outstanding debt or that there is a warrant out for your arrest. In other variations of the scam, the criminal may pose as a bank employee asking you to assist them with an investigation into fraudulent activity on your bank or credit card account.”
BY BRENDA SAWATZKY LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE REPORTER, NIVERVILLE CITIZEN
Finally, when the caller requests payment of any kind by way of gift cards, bitcoin, or wire transfer, it is almost surely a scam.
In some instances, the phone is passed to a second party, who claims to be the caller’s lawyer. They, too, come off as profession al and incredibly convincing.
A Lorette victim speaks out
according to CAFC stats, the amount of money that gets recovered by police only equals one-third of what was lost.
Over the next 10 days, the fraudster instructed Brommell to purchase more than 100 prepaid credit cards and gift cards, paying for them with cash drawn from an ATM terminal. Assuring her that she’d be reimbursed, the scam mer also convinced Brommell to disclose to them the gift card numbers and PINs.
Tristan Friesen of Niverville is an IT guy with certification in cybersecurity and defence. He says that the police are often powerless when it comes to in vestigating phone scams, since the phone systems are old and phone number authentication is a bigTheproblem.costof recovering stolen money is also a deterrent, Friesen adds, as the manpower and resour ces needed for the investigation can quickly outweigh the amount that was stolen in the first place.
Never contact a caller on the number by which you received the call. If they presented themselves from a specific organization such as a government agency, your fi nancial institution, the police
The rise of senior phone scams: how to prevent being fooled
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By July 2022, though, that num ber has already been exceeded by almost $100 million.
One can only hypothesize about the reasons that seniors have be come the primary targets of these fraudsters. But it’s fairly safe for a scammer to assume that many seniors have a certain level of dis posable income sitting in a bank account that can be accessed.
Recognizing phone fraud
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In Prince Albert, the Bernice Sayese Center is encouraging people to donate supplies like paper plates, hand soap, meat, potatoes and bottled water to be delivered to JSCN to help with upcoming funerals.“Aswe are all affected, we feel we need to help,” said Dawn Sanderson Robins, who sits on the board of directors for the Bernice Sayese Center. “(These) things (will be) needed for the days ahead, and if you want to donate items they can be dropped off at the Bernice Sayese Center.”Further south, from Re gina, a group of volunteers with Warriors of Home Community Support has gone to JSCN to offer help.“We’re just here to see what kind of support we
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Other agencies and pol iticians have also prom ised help — with specific supports to come in the days, weeks and months ahead as the communities begin to bury their dead, and their urgent and longterm needs become more clear.“I’ve been in con tact (with) Chief Wally Burns to ensure that his
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“We have many of our volunteers that are grief and trauma counsellors, social workers, and follow traditional ways, and our role here is to offer those supports.”TheMétis Nation-Sas katchewan (MN-S) has said it will provide crisis and grief counselling for Métis and First Nations families in Weldon and the neighbouring com munity of Kinistino, as well as supporting efforts at “WeJSCN.will help these communities and our First Nation brothers and sisters in whatever way we can through this extremely trying time,” said MN-S president Glen McCallum.
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In the spring of 2020, a sudden surge in applica tions from school leaders prompted the council to create a wait list — the first in its history.
The Tory MLAs spoke about the importance of fuelling learners with nu tritious food so they can focus on learning rather than rumbling stomachs.
BY MAGGIE MACINTOSH LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE REPORTER, WINNIPEG FREE PRESS
“Nutrition programs are cobbled together through donations and grants, such as this one — but, at MTS, we strongly believe that they need to fund all of
these programs so that it isn’t up to an application process and every child is getting a healthy start to their school day,” he said. If there was a universal program, educators and parent council volunteers would not have to com plete the time-intensive process of gathering do nations or applying for a limited number of nutri tion grants, Martindale added.Bloomfield said the council could always use
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Union vice-president Nathan Martindale called the new money “a step in the right direction,” but indicated teachers are re porting a growing number of tired and hungry pupils.
Home economics teach er Patricia Pawluk said tiredness and behaviour challenges among stu dents can be connected to Additionalhunger. funding from the nutrition council will allow Acadia to offer more “substantial meals,” in cluding sandwiches, soups and stews — and, in turn, address the above issues, Pawluk said.
“We were stuck with a decision: do we reduce funding to all schools in order to get the new appli cants on or do we create a wait list? And that was a really tough decision for our board,” said Wendy Bloomfield, chairwoman of the council that assists in serving nearly 40,000 students on a daily basis.
Not only will all 22 schools on standby be supported now, but Bloomfield said the new
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allotment will allow the council to increase dollars for existing programs.
The Child Nutrition Council of Manitoba will be able to clear its wait list of schools so they can clear grocery store shelves and feed more hungry students this fall, owing to the province doubling annual funding for the organization.Provincial officials announced Sept. 1 an increase of $1.3 million for the council, which has provided applica tion-based grants for K-12 breakfast, lunch and snack programs since 2001. It will now receive $2.5 mil lion to subsidize healthy meals throughout the school year.
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“Many families have struggled to access healthy and affordable food throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. As children and their families prepare for the start of an other busy school year, it is vital that Manitoba chil dren have reliable access to nourishing food, not only for the academic per formances, but for optimal development and overall well-being,” Guillemard toldChildrenreporters.come to class hungry for a variety of rea sons, ranging from limited access to food at home to early drop-offs, lengthy commutes to hectic mor
ed for a universal meal program across public schools. There are more than 700 K-12 buildings.
more funding, but the latest announcement “will go a long way.”
“We did not want to say no to students that need support, but we also didn’t want to jeopardize the ex isting programs.”
nings, Ewasko said.
Funding doubled for student nutrition
The education minis ter noted research shows hunger and poor nutrition is linked to challenges with achievement and attendance.No.45of the K-12 com mission’s 75 recommen dations to better schooling in Manitoba called on the province to “improve ac cess to nutritious food” and “expand health-pro moting meal programs.”
Education Minister Wayne Ewasko and MLA Sarah Guillemard, minis ter overseeing the mental health and community wellness department, an nounced the additional funding during a news con ference in a kitchen located inside Acadia Junior High School in south Winnipeg.
The organization aims to provide its roughly 300 recipients with 20 per cent of each of their calculat ed food costs. In recent years, it has been able to foot less than 10 per cent of applicants’ bills due to rising inflation and COVID-19-related costs.
