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TRAGIC SHOOTING:
LOCAL LEADERS STEPPING UP
Indigenous officials promise action, support in wake of shocking murders in La Loche, Sask.
a school shooting in northern murder. of northern Saskatchewan in can best provide support.” “My granddaughter attends
Elisha
Saskatchewan. “No one anticipates this kind the past and I met and shared Across Canada, other lead- that school and is one of the
Dacey
Grand Chief Derek Nepinak of tragedy to unfold in any of stories with many wonderful ers expressed sympathy and fortunate ones who survived.
Metro | Winnipeg of the Assembly of Manitoba our communities and as such, people from the Dene territory shock for the predominantly I can only imagine the grief
Chiefs said the community this tragedy creates shock and in northern Saskatchewan. Métis community of La Loche. of the families of the victims.”
Manitoba’s indigenous lead- was shocked by the shooting, difficulty amongst all of us “Over the coming days, I will “It is unbelievable that a kill- Chartier said he was head-
ers promised action and sup- which has seen a 17-year-old who have friends and families be contacting the leadership of ing on this scale can occur in ing to the community to offer
port over the weekend after boy charged with four counts throughout our northern com- the Meadow Lake Tribal Coun- one of our communities,” said his support and condolences.
four people were killed and of first-degree murder and munities,” said Nepinak. cil, FSIN Chief Bobby Cameron President Clement Chartier of
many others wounded during seven counts of attempted “I have been in the territory and others to discuss how we the Métis National Council. More coverage, metroNEWS
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Your essential daily news “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?” World
SARGENT AVENUE Father pleads for
Shooting sends one
person to hospital
info in son’s assault
incident at the club. On Feb.
Elisha
14, 2015, several people were
Dacey
stabbed and a police chase
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ensued to catch the suspects.
Police said then a fight POLICE
One person is in hospital broke out after an employ- Teen thrown in
in critical condition after a ee asked a group of people
shooting at a nightclub on to leave. dumpster isn’t
Sargent Avenue early Satur- Instead, one of the sus-
talking much,
day morning. pects produced a weapon and
A man suffering from gun- stabbed the employee. When says parent
shot wounds was taken to his co-workers tried to help,
hospital at about 3:30 a.m. they were also stabbed and
said a source with knowledge assaulted. Braeden
of the incident. Meanwhile, a woman stole
Jones
Police later determined the keys to a black Dodge Charger
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club was where the shooting and drove it up to the club so
had taken place. the suspects could get away.
Police confirmed a man However, one of the four was The father of a boy who was al-
was shot on Saturday and said left behind and arrested at legedly assaulted and thrown in
Sunday they were notified by the scene. a North End dumpster is asking
hospital staff after the man Police chased the stolen for someone to come forward
was dropped off. vehicle until it crashed on with information about the
The investigation by the Portage Avenue near the Emp- traumatic event.
homicide unit continues, said ress Street underpass. “Somebody must have seen
Const. Eric Hofley. Four people from Ontario something,” John Morisette
This isn’t the first violent were charged in the crime. said.
His son, Jean-Micheal, 13, was
discovered in a dumpster on
Jan. 7 after having been trapped
in there for hours.
Police said the boy was walk- John Morisette stands near the dumpster where his son was assaulted and thrown inside.
ing alone when two adults BRAEDEN JONES/METRO
grabbed him from behind
and shoved him into the gar- helped Jean-Micheal “heard that live in this area, let’s make
bage bin. somebody yell something which it safe again,” he said, encour-
Jean-Micheal has intellectual was pertaining to the whole Just step forward, aging people to relay informa-
disabilities, and has been un- incident,” but police haven’t tion even anonymously.
that’s all I’m
able to recount much about had contact with that person. “At least call and say you saw
what happened. “This is somebody we are asking, so that something, and describe what
“He doesn’t talk about it, guessing from the neighbour- justice can be done you saw, that’s a step forward in
and I don’t blame him,” Mori- hood here,” Kanaski said, add- taking back our community….
sette said. ing that other than the poten- for my son. “Just step forward, that’s all
But police think someone in tial witness, police have no John Morisette I’m asking, so that justice can
the community saw something, leads and no suspect descrip- be done for my son.”
and both they and Morisette tion. took place have been told to Anyone with information
are urging that person to talk. In the meantime, Morisette buddy-up and not walk alone. can contact investigators at
Winnipeg Police Sgt. Rob said kids in the area around “We need to step up, this is 204-986-2848 or CrimeStoppers
Police at the scene of a shooting Saturday morning. METRO Kanaski said the people who Flora Avenue where the assault our kids that play in our area, at 204-786-8477.
4 Monday, January 25, 2016 Winnipeg
City will check those pets
KINDNESS
Winnipeg hotel donates
beds, mattresses and
sofas to Syrian refugees
A hotel that is being
ANIMALS renovated and converted
Officials to $250 into a luxury apartment
building is giving 34
spot check suites worth of bed
frames, mattresses and
owners over
If dogs and/or cats haven’t sofas to newly-arrived
licensing been properly registered, Syrian refugees.
pet owners face a $250 John Saad, general
fine. manager of Place Louis
City officials in Winnipeg are Riel Suite Hotel, says
conducting a different kind of that they could have
641
spot check — or maybe it’s a easily sold the items to
kitty check, if you have a cat. another hotel chain.
Either way, animal services But he says it is a
officers are knocking on doors great way to “repurpose”
in the city to make sure people In 2014 the city handed the furniture and it gives
out a total of 641 tickets to
have licensed their pets. owners for not licensing Syrian refugees a head
If their dogs or cats haven’t their animals. start as they begin their
been properly registered, it’s a new lives in Canada.
$250 ticket. Ahmad Jameel, a
St. James resident Kyla Ron- $160K refugee, said through a
standt said as a pet owner, it translator that they are
seems a little like overkill. very thankful for any
“I get it, but I’d rather they Do Rover and Princess have their pet licence? Winnipeggers might get a knock on the door from help offered and called
take the money they’re making Animal Services to check that they’re registered. ELISHA DACEY/METRO The 641 tickets the city the gesture an “amazing”
and use it to find people who are doled in 2014 were worth and “wonderful” show of
abusing animals or letting their I’d rather they take the money chunk” of the population that more than $160,000. kindness.
cats roam,” said Ronstandt, 38, would never license their pets. But Saad says there is
they’re making and use it to find
who owns a golden retriever and He says it’s the same as with nothing amazing about
a cat, both licensed. people who are abusing animals. speeding — if police didn’t en- revenue for the city. the donation and it was
“Or use the money to help Kyla Ronstandt force the rules on the roads, Gordon says anyone wonder- just “a natural thought
those animals they rescue find people would speed all the time. ing if their pet’s licence is expired process.”
homes or spaying or getting Animal Services boss Leland are part of the job. The city handed out 641 of or how to get one can call 311. THE CANADIAN PRESS/CTV
them fixed. Seems like a waste Gordon says people might not He says without enforcement, the tickets in 2014, bringing THE CANADIAN PRESS, WITH FILES FROM WINNIPEG
of time.” like it but these types of checks he thinks there would be “a in more than $160,000 in ELISHA DACEY/METRO
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REVITALIZATION of office space and on-site park- highrise and mixed-use de-
Work begins ing and is meant to be part of velopments feels like a new
the revitalization efforts at beginning, and we’re proud
on Osborne the city’s busiest intersection. that our redevelopment of the
“We’re pleased that Osborne Osborne and Pembina corner
Place office
Place will meet and exceed the is validating and kick-starting
building goals outlined by the City of this plan.”
Winnipeg’s Corydon-Osborne Osborne Place is the first
area plan,” said Adrian Schulz, of a two-phase plan for the
Construction has begun on a CEO of Imperial Properties, the site. Phase 2 will see a 10- to
new six-storey office building property-management com- 12-storey residential building
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CHARGES
CRIME Date: W
Police seek tips after
Mountie dragged by car
during investigation Time: 7:30p
1920 buggy stolen
A Mountie received s
minor injuries after
Cost: Free
being dragged by a
fleeing vehicle during an in Shoal Lake, between Dec. 19
Braeden
investigation of a single- and Jan. 6,” Cyrenne said, noting
Jones Place: Bonnie & Jo
vehicle crash. the property owners had been
The crash happened on Metro | Winnipeg away during that time. Canadian Muse
Wednesday morning on “When they came back they
the Trans-Canada Highway Manitoba RCMP are seeking saw they had been broken into.” 85 Israel Asper W
just east of Carberry, Man. the public’s assistance in solv- The antique tricycles are from
RCMP said they found ing the case of a stolen horse- the 1940s.
the female driver to be drawn buggy. “So they are pretty unique Live-stream available
in possession of a minor The police tweeted out that items that were stolen, so that’s
quantity of drugs and drug a literal “old school robbery” why we (tweeted),” Cyrenne said. and droitsdelapersonnne
paraphernalia. The vehicle had taken place and that the The RCMP encourage mem-
was towed back to the buggy as well as antique tricycles bers of the public to contact the
detachment, and a further were stolen. Hamiota detachment at 204-764-
investigation determined Spokesman Robert Cyrenne 2732, “if you have any info — or
she had provided false ID. said the missing buggy is be- happen to see a couple antique
RCMP said that when lieved to be from 1927. tricycles pulling a buggy down
the woman realized this, “It was stolen from a property the road.”
she stepped on the gas
and ended up dragging
an officer as he tried to
disengage the ignition,
stopping only when she
drove into a snowbank.
Caley Elizabeth Steele,
27, of Lac du Bonnet
has been charged with
assaulting a police officer,
among other charges.
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Seen this buggy? RCMP are looking for it. CONTRIBUTED
6 Monday, January 25, 2016 Winnipeg
Work together to shake Women
beseech
racist tag, mayor urges leaders
At one point in Friday’s proceed-
ings, a woman walked to the
front of the room after the open-
DIVERSITY FORUM Other commitments included ing prayer and began pleading to
Inclusivity installing a commemorative the crowd and officials, saying
sign to honour school survivors she is a Somali mother new to
event held on at the site of a former residen- Canada who had her children
tial school on Academy Road apprehended.
anniversary of
as well as an extension of the “What they say is not true;
Maclean’s item city’s private refugee sponsor- we suffer, and our children are
ship assurance program. suffering here,” she said, re-
The infamous magazine peating that she thought Can-
Stephanie article published a year ago ada stood for “humanity.”
chronicled numerous instances Bowman agreed to meet with
Taylor
of violence and racism experi- the woman. Minutes later she
Metro | Winnipeg
enced by indigenous people in and a family member were led
our city. Since then, Bowman by police chief Devon Clunis
In an event held at city hall said, he has noticed a “shift and others to a private room
Friday, marking the one-year in tone.” at the back.
anniversary of when Maclean’s “If we had just simply tried “Let’s take a minute to think
magazine labelled Winnipeg to attack a headline that was about that lady and her family
the most racist city in Canada, really intended to grab atten- and what she is experiencing and
Mayor Brian Bowman made a tion, I don’t think we would acknowledge the validly of the
string of promises to work with be here today. I don’t think we concern that she has raised for
indigenous peoples toward di- would have had the change on us, because they are an example
versity and greater inclusion. the ground that we’re seeing.” of what this day is all about,”
Such commitments includ- Friday’s event was filled with speaker Justice Murray Sinclair
ed development of an urban numerous indigenous speak- said afterward.
indigenous accord and imple- ers and community leaders Later a second woman raised
mentation of the Truth and Rec- who extolled the city’s fight Above, from left: Wab her hand, saying she wanted to
onciliation Commission recom- against racism, underlining Kinew, chairman of the talk about embracing diversity.
mendations that directly relate that much work still needs to mayor’s indigenous advis- “They say friendly Manitoba;
to cities — such as making it be done, particularly in the ory circle, Justice Murray it’s not,” the woman said from
mandatory for all civic employ- areas of education and child Sinclair and Mayor Brian the microphone after being in-
ees to receive training on the and family services. Bowman take part at vited to the front.
legacy of residential schools. Friday’s event, held on the She went on to say authority
“The message that I wanted one-year anniversary figures, such as managers, need
to provide today is we’re going of the infamous Maclean’s more diversity education, then
to do our part, but each Win- We’re going to magazine article. applauded Bowman’s efforts to
nipegger needs to do their part do our part, but be more inclusive and welcome
so we can do a better job as At right: two of the women refugees. Bowman later said the
each Winnipegger
a community,” Bowman told pictured here interrupted interruptions were a political
media afterward. needs to do their Friday’s event on separate first for him.
The mayor vowed to visit part so we can do occasions, sharing stories “People feel like they have
every high school in the city that demonstrated feelings no voice, and if that compels
a better job as a
over the next two years to of injustice and exclusion. someone to come here, that’s
speak on the importance of community. STEPHANIE TAYLOR/METRO OK. That is OK.”
diversity and civic engagement. STEPHANIE TAYLOR/METRO
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8 Monday, January 25, 2016 Winnipeg
A century since women’s suffrage
HISTORY have been running a strategy
Bold, shrewd group that planned elections,
because she was the plotter of
crusaders won the whole thing,” said Linda
McDowell, a retired history I thought in 100
Manitobans
teacher and expert on women’s years we’d be
the right first suffrage. further along.
Businesswoman Martha Jane
Hample, who would go on to Myrna Driedger
“We were young and vig- become a member of the prov-
orous and full of ambition. incial legislature, helped bank- Manitoba legislature is com-
We would rewrite our his- roll the activities of the league. posed of women lawmakers. Of
tory. We would copy no Social media and viral videos the 14 MPs from the province,
other country. We would be didn’t exist, of course, but in three are women.
ourselves, and proud of it.” 1914 the women created major “I thought in 100 years we’d
— Nellie McClung buzz with a provocative play be further along than we are,
It was the kind of savvy pol- at the Walker Theatre in Win- whether it’s women in politics,
itical strategy that politicians nipeg. Their mock Parliament women on boards, women run-
and lobbyists attempt to craft parodied the intransigence of ning big companies,” lamented
today: stitch together a coali- Manitoba Premier Rodmond Myrna Driedger, founder of the
tion of supporters from diverse Roblin and imagined a paral- Nellie McClung Foundation and
communities, secure financial lel world where women were a Conservative member of the
backers, mount a successful ad in power. Manitoba legislature.
campaign and earn some posi- “Politics unsettles men, and Still, Driedger said she’s felt
tive media coverage. unsettled men means unsettled in recent years that there is a
A group of women in Mani- Hunter Boon, left, and Cedey Kehler view documents related to a 1916 amendment to the bills, broken furniture, broken new energy among women in
toba used it to win the right Manitoba Elections Act at the Manitoba Archives on Saturday. JOHN WOODS/THE CANADIAN PRESS vows and divorce.... Man’s place Canada. Earlier this month, 600
to vote a century ago. is on the farm,” McClung told women gathered in Winnipeg
The province was the first was complex. There were Members of the Political meetings and articles in the the crowd, playing the role of at a business networking event
place in Canada to bring in people who supported tem- Equality League, which in- papers. They had paid organ- Roblin. called SHE Day.
women’s suffrage, on Jan. 28, perance. There were many cluded such notable members izers and launched a major Roblin’s government fell the “We are taking more charge
1916. That triggered a wave journalists — members of as Nellie McClung, Cora Hind publicity blitz at the Winnipeg following year amid scandal, of ensuring that we can be
of changes — first in Western the Canadian Women’s Press and Lillian Beynon Thomas, Stampede in 1913. and the new Liberal govern- leaders, and inspiring lead-
Canada and finally at the fed- Club. Some unions supported as well as male supporters, “I’ve always said that if (Bey- ment finally extended the vote ers, and inspiring the women
eral level in 1919. women’s suffrage, as did helped recruit and rally those non Thomas) had been run- to women in 1916. who come after us,” she said.
The Manitoba movement powerful farmers’ groups. disparate voices with speeches, ning things today, she would Today, 29 per cent of the THE CANADIAN PRESS
Canada Monday, January 25, 2016 9
‘We must stop and listen’ SASKATCHEWAN
Premier
seeks aid
from U.S.
LA LOCHE
THE VICTIMS
Leaders need
to be heard to Adam Woods, 35, who Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall
began teaching at the says his province is in touch with
stop violence:
school in September, officials in the United States for
Victim’s family and teacher’s aide Marie help rebuilding after a school
Janvier, 21, died after shooting.
they were shot at the Wall said the U.S. Ambassador
The family of a teacher who school. to Canada, Bruce Heyman, called
was among four people killed Brothers Drayden Fon- him Friday after four people
in shootings in northern Sas- taine, 13, and Dayne Fon- were killed at the school and
katchewan says the country taine, 17, were discovered in a nearby home in La Loche.
must listen to the community by the RCMP in a home not He noted that, “quite tragic-
for the kind of change that is far away. ally, the United States has more
needed to prevent similar tra- experience.”
gedies from happening again. “He offered that perhaps
The family of Adam Woods healing and support and try those communities where these
said what happened in this to find ways for our young types of events have occurred in
tiny community gives the people to have more hope.” the past in his country ... they
country an “opportunity to The 17-year-old boy, who might be able to provide some
examine ourselves and hope- can’t be named under the counsel, some support, some
fully, come out better and Youth Criminal Justice Act, ideas around approaches for
stronger as a community and is charged with four counts the days ahead.”
a nation. We feel sadness and of first-degree murder, seven Wall said he has asked his
remorse but rarely do we use Residents of La Loche, Sask., say a prayer in front of a makeshift memorial at La Loche Community counts of attempted murder deputy minister to “canvass
that to fuel change.” School on Sunday. JASON FRANSON/THE CANADIAN PRESS and unauthorized possession that option with our Amer-
In a statement, the family of a firearm. He is scheduled ican friends to find out per-
says the leaders of the village leaders and members of the peal Sunday for the commun- boy charged in the shoot- to make his first appearance haps what has worked better
need to be heard to prevent community know what types ity to find hope for its young ings to offer support in this Monday in Meadow Lake maybe than some other things.”
similar losses in the future. of support and changes are people at a service that he “nightmare experience that provincial court. There have been many mass
“Rather than looking for needed. Our responsibility estimated 250 attended at they’re going through and Saskatchewan RCMP say shootings at American schools in
someone to blame, or coming as a nation is to listen and the Church of Our Lady of trying to offer them the sup- that during an eight-minute recent years, most notably one at
up with outsider opinions of respond to create lasting sys- the Visitation. port of the community.” period in the La Loche Com- Sandy Hook Elementary School
reasons why this occurred, temic change.” Archbishop Murray Chat- “We’re not blaming them. munity school on Friday after- in Newtown, Conn., that killed
we must stop and listen to The archbishop of Keewa- lain met with the family Sat- ... It’s just, this has happened noon, nine people were shot. 20 children and 6 staff in 2012.
the voices of La Loche. The tin-Le Pas also made an ap- urday night of a 17-year-old and now how do we bring THE CANADIAN PRESS THE CANADIAN PRESS
LEGISLATION
Federal government to repeal contentious section of Bill C-59
Michael sign of improved labour re- “To this end, this govern- government the power to by- The Liberals had commit- of Canada.
lations between the federal ment intends to make the pass collective bargaining and ted to bargaining in good “It’s really important be-
Woods
government and public sector repeal of C-59 one of their unilaterally impose a new dis- faith with public sector cause you can’t negotiate
Metro | Ottawa unions with both sides soon first orders of business.” ability and sick leave regime. unions, but had not specif- with a pre-supposed notion
returning to the bargaining Section 20 of the law, Public sector unions de- ically committed to repealing of where you’re going to end
Repealing Conservative table, one union head says. which the then-Conserv- cried the move as unconsti- Section 20. up,” she added.
legislation on collective bar- “This government remains ative government enacted tutional and launched a court The government has also However, Daviau said she
gaining will be one of the committed to bargaining in last June, gives the federal challenge. said it won’t exercise the pow- hopes the government will
Liberal government’s “first good faith with Canada’s fed- ers in the legislation before repeal aspects of Bill C-4, an-
orders of business,” accord- eral public sector,” Carl Trot- It’s a step in a positive direction. repealing it. other Conservative govern-
ing to a senior Treasury Board tier, an associate assistant “It’s a step in a positive ment bill that changed rules
official. deputy minister at Treasury Debi Daviau, president of the Professional direction,” said Debi Daviau, on the right to strike, arbi-
The commitment to repeal Board, said in a Jan. 21 email Institute of Public Servants of Canada president of the Professional tration access, and rules sur-
the section of Bill C-59 is a to public service unions. Institute of Public Servants rounding essential services.
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10 Monday, January 25, 2016 World
Blizzard breaks
snowfall records
UNITED STATES the coast gradually re- urday, however, was
Single-day stored normal service. 107 the city’s record for a
The air travel pic- single day. At Wash-
highs set across ture remained com- ington’s National
plicated after 7,000 Zoo, 56.9 centimetres
east coast amid
weekend flights were The heaviest fell, beating the 53.3
hurricane winds cancelled: United Air- reported centimetres that fell
lines said limited ser- snowfall was 107 on Jan. 28, 1922.
centimetres in
vice might begin later The storm dropped
Glengary, West
Millions of Americans began dig- Sunday in New York Virginia. snow from the Gulf
ging out Sunday from a mam- City, but airports in Coast to the north-
moth blizzard that set a new the Washington D.C. eastern New England
single-day snowfall record in area were likely to remain closed states, with areas of Washington
Washington and New York City. Sunday, and other airlines began surpassing 75 centimetres. The
The hurricane-force winds and cutting Monday service. heaviest official report was 107
whiteout conditions gave way to The massive snowstorm centimetres, in Glengary, W. Va.
blinding sunshine and temper- brought both Washington, Travel conditions were
atures slightly above freezing, D.C., and New York to a stop, improving from the danger-
promising a gentle thawing-out. dumping as much as 90 centi- ously snowy, icy roads that led
The timing could not have metres of snow and stranding to crashes that killed several
been better for East Coast states: tens of thousands of travellers. people Friday and Saturday.
The heaviest snow began falling At least 18 deaths were blamed An Ohio teenager sledding
Friday evening, and tapered off on the weather, resulting from behind an all-terrain vehicle was
just before midnight Saturday. car crashes, shovelling snow and hit by a truck and killed, and
People dig out their cars in Alexandria, Va., on Sunday. Millions of Millions heeded calls to stay hypothermia. two people died of hypother-
Americans were preparing to dig themselves out Sunday after a mammoth home, enabling road crews to In New York, the storm mia in southwest Virginia. In
blizzard with hurricane-force winds and record-setting snowfall brought much clear snow and ice. dropped 68.1 centimetres in North Carolina, a man whose
of the East Coast to an icy standstill. CLIFF OWEN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS New York and Baltimore Central Park, the second-most car had veered off an icy-covered
Children slide in the snow in Central Park on Sunday in began lifting travel restrictions recorded since 1869 and just road was arrested on charges of
New York. FRANCOIS XAVIER MARIT/AFP/GETTY IMAGES and hearty souls ventured out on short of the record 68.3 centi- killing one of three men who
Charlie Katshir, 15, sleds in Siebert Park in Camp Hill, Pa., on snow-choked streets, while mass metres set in February 2006. The stopped to help.
Saturday. MARK PYNES/PENNLIVE.COM/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS transit systems up and down 67.6 centimetres that fell on Sat- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS