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‘It’s a great
sense of joy’
NELLIE MCCLUNG in reflecting on the legacy of her
Suff ragette’s grandmother, none other than
Nellie McClung, a suffragette
granddaughter who led the way for Manitoba
women to be the first in the
refl ects on her
country to win the right to vote
family’s legacy in 1916.
“It’s a once-in-a-lifetime event.
For me, I’m full of pride,” Mc-
Manitoba Stephanie Clung said of the centennial
Taylor anniversary.
Metro | Winnipeg “It’s a great sense of joy.”
celebrates
McClung spent the day speak-
Marcia McClung remembers ing to various crowds about her
civil rights her grandmother as a writer, grandmother’s life, and the
holed up in their strides she took
milestone family’s British towards political
Columbia home, equality.
scribbling out her She always had so “It’s very sig-
metroNEWS novels longhand nificant that
much going on.
on white fools- Manitoba is
caps of paper. Marcia McClung really celebrat-
“I loved to go ing what was a
there because she always had landmark decision 100 years
Former prime minister Kim Campbell poses with a fan at the so much going on,” a now adult ago. We’re never going to see
Canadian Museum for Human Rights on Wednesday after giving a McClung recalls. it again.”
speech about the importance of women in politics. COURTESY CMHR othOenr CFarnidaadyia, nssh aen jdo Minaendi tmobaannys More coverage on page 4
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GOSSIP 11
Your essential daily news Barbie’s got three new bodies — curvy, tall and petite. Business
Councillor gets clear MANITOBA
ELECTION 2016
Leaders planning to
on city snow removal
splurge — but where?
Both the leader of Manitoba’s The government also recom-
Progressive Conservative mitted to the core infrastruc-
PILOT PROJECT Party and the Premier have ture program from 2013 by
Uber-style app been critical of one another’s three years, extending it beyond
infrastructure spending claims 2020 and raising the total to
may give small and promises leading up to the $10 billion.
41st provincial election, but That means nearly $1.5 bil-
contractors a
for now, neither has differen- lion is to be spent in each of
shot: Wyatt tiated much. the last three years.
When announcing his party’s In talking about where infra-
plan, Brian Pallister called Greg
Braeden Selinger’s NDP government’s
Jones spending “short-sighted and $5.5 billion
Metro | Winnipeg politically driven,” and Selinger
called the PC pledge of $1 bil-
A motion forwarded through lion in annual infrastructure
Winnipeg city council to the spending “big talk, no action.” The NDP’s core
infrastructure plan
committee level this week Though the details of Pal-
committed to $5.5 billion
proposes opening Winnipeg’s lister’s plan are yet to come over five years.
snow clearing operations up out, spending, as he put it, “at
to small contractors through least $1 billion,” doesn’t out-
an Uber-style app. spend the sitting government. structure money will go, Pal-
“The app could be set up The NDP’s core infrastruc- lister said a PC government
where you have individuals ture plan, launched in 2013, would ensure “economic re-
sign up who would qualify, committed to $5.5 billion over turn,” and criticized the NDP
have a certain type of equip- five years. government for “building pro-
ment, a certain insurance… In the first year, a short con- jects where votes are needed
and start plowing city streets,” struction season prevented the rather than where a road is
said Coun. Russ Wyatt. government from reaching the required.”
“If you have an individual $1 billion mark, but that was But a look at recent spending
with a truck-plow or small followed up by spending $1.037 shows the NDP invested nearly
Bobcat they could do the same A city committee will debate the merit of creating a snow clearing app. METRO FILE billion in 2014-15 — a pace $700 million in provincial high-
job (as current loaders), and that has been maintained to ways in 2014-15, with the bulk
probably quicker and more Wyatt’s motion is going be- equal roughly the same total of it going to trade corridors.
It’s the idea of services in the
efficiently.” fore the committee on infra- in 2015-16. BRAEDEN JONES/METRO
Like Uber drivers, the free- community for the community. structure renewal and public
lancing plow operators would Coun. Russ Wyatt works. PLANNING ECONOMIC RETURN
register, be subject to inspec- It advises that there be a
tions, and make money clear- pilot project in the 2016-17
ing Winnipeg’s “streets, side- simplicity,” but in his mind guy was,” he said. “It’s the winter season to test the con- Selinger said strategic and especially important
walks” and “back lanes where turning it back to community idea of services in the com- cept, and “in the event the investment around given the low dollar.
existing larger private con- members is a throwback that munity for the community, pilot project is successful, places like Centreport, Pallister said the
tractors offer services.” could lead to better service. and then the money is stay- that the city begin to expand and “getting goods to PC part will share
Wyatt said the contract- “At one time, when the ing in the community rather the app services into other market” is about the more details on its
ors that normally hold these smaller communities existed than concentrating and going areas…” same economic return infrastructure plan closer
contracts are convenient, be- in Winnipeg, people knew into the pockets of big con- “I hope the (committee) em- his counterpart promises, to this spring’s election.
cause “bureaucrats like the who their local snow clearing tractors.” braces this idea,” Wyatt said.
4 Weekend, January 29-31, 2016 Winnipeg
Trailblazers honoured CURRENCY
McClung
should be
SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT on bills:
AWARDS
Women who
PC leader
secured rights
The day wrapped up
100 years ago with a gala evening
hosted by the Nellie Manitoba’s Progressive Conserva-
commemorated McClung Foundation and tive leader wants suffragette Nel-
the presentation of the lie McClung to be given a promin-
inaugural Nellie Awards. ent spot on a Canadian banknote.
Shel The Nellies recognize The Queen is the only woman
Zolkewich Manitoba women currently featured on a bill.
For Metro | Winnipeg who have followed in Brian Pallister says in a letter
McClung’s footsteps to the Bank of Canada governor
through their work in that McClung should be recog-
One hundred years ago, Manitoba social justice, women’s nized for her role in the enfran-
women fought to became the rights and human rights. chisement of women.
first in Canada to win the right McClung fought tirelessly
to vote. It was an effort spear- for women’s suffrage and was
headed by a trailblazer named some people have to go through also one of the Famous Five —
Nellie McClung. It’s a concept this,” said Graydon upon hearing a group who won a landmark
that Bailey Graydon, a Grade Siddiqui’s story. “To hear how her court ruling which recognized
10 student at Seven Oaks Met neighbours treated her and the women as persons.
School, finds hard to wrap her names they used was just awful.” The five women were featured
head around. Graydon said she went into on the $50 bill at one time, but
“My mom has always talks to the day hoping to find out more were replaced by an icebreaker
me about how important it is Students pose in front of a green screen at the Manitoba Museum Thursday, where their likeness about the issues that affect in 2011.
to share my opinion, and also would be digitally added to a backdrop from 100 years ago. CMHR/HANDOUT women and minorities. Women deserve a spot on Can-
to hear the opinions of others, “What I learned from today is adian currency, Pallister wrote.
to bounce ideas around and to Students spent time at The Governor of Manitoba. Former spiritual counsellor, educator and that no matter where you come “This would be a visible and
be proud of what I stand for. It’s Manitoba Museum’s Nice Prime Minister Kim Campbell, social activist as well as the execu- from or what you are wearing, important expression of the role
really hard to believe that at one Women Don’t Want the Vote Manitoba MLA Myrna Driedger, tive director of Islamic Social you should be proud of who you women have played in Canada’s
point, women couldn’t do that,” exhibit then moved to the Can- writer Jodie Layne, Clare MacKay Services Association Inc. Canada. are,” she said. life and history,” he said.
said Graydon, who attended a adian Museum for Human Rights of The Forks and Gail Asper were She talked with students about “You should always share your Thursday was the 100th an-
special day of programming to where they were treated to a among the other women leaders the racism she’s encountered opinion because it’s really an im- niversary of Manitoba granting
mark the anniversary of women keynote address by The Honour- who shared their stories. throughout her life. portant thing to do for so many women the right to vote.
securing the right to vote. able Janice C. Filmon, Lieutenant Shahina Siddiqui is a speaker, “It makes me feel very sad that reasons.” THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Winnipeg Weekend, January 29-31, 2016 5
Emergency room layout under review
BRIAN SINCLAIR a 34-hour wait. subject of an inquest, which The province is advertising tee, was waiting for care at never asked if he was wait-
Family of man Some are saying this is not made 63 recommendations for a consultant to examine Winnipeg’s Health Sciences ing for care.
enough, however. aimed primarily at policy the feasibility of those in 10 Centre and died of a treatable Rigor mortis had set in by
who died in ER The family of Brian Sin- reviews at the Winnipeg hospitals across Manitoba. bladder infection caused by the time Sinclair was discov-
clair, who died in a Winni- Regional Health Authority. “We hope to identify any a blocked catheter. ered dead.
says it’s still
peg emergency room in 2008, One of these recommenda- specific, technical or physic- Although Sinclair spoke to Vilko Zbogar, lawyer for
not enough says that changing the con- tions involves looking at the al issues that are related to a triage aide when he first the Sinclair family, says the
figuration of the province’s layout of emergency rooms to those recommendations,” arrived in the ER, he was inquest found that people
emergency rooms won’t ad- make sure that people wait- said Norman Blackie, execu- never formally entered into didn’t have trouble seeing
Manitoba is looking at reno- dress the reason why the ing are visible to the triage tive director of the capital the hospital’s system. Sinclair but made stereotyp-
vating the layout of 10 emer- 45-year-old died without desk. planning branch of Mani- He languished for hours, ical assumptions about why
gency rooms after the death treatment. Another suggests a “pre- toba Health. growing sicker and vomit- he was there.
of an indigenous man during Sinclair’s death was the triage” area for patients. Sinclair, a double ampu- ing several times, but was THE CANADIAN PRESS
ELECTION
Liberals vow to snip
the PST on haircuts
Braeden salon services,” Bokhari said.
Making up for that lost tax
Jones
revenue will come in a “fully
Metro | Winnipeg costed out plan” the Liberals
will release after the election
Manitoba residents could be sav- writ drops.
ing on salon services if the Liberal Bokhari said the party is eye-
party is elected to form govern- ing other tax cuts, but this one
ment this spring. is something she had “heard a
Leader Rana Bokhari an- lot of complaints about.”
nounced Thursday that her party “I’m a woman,” she said. “For
would remove the PST from hair- those that are paying for it, it
cuts, hair colours, manicures means a lot.”
and other salon service costing
more than $50, a tax she says
“directly affects women dispro-
portionately.” Women in this
The tax was introduced in
province are
2012 on services greater than
$50. paying $7 million
Since then, the tax generates out of their pockets
$7 million annually in PST rev-
enue. for salon services.
“Right now, females, women Rana Bokhari,
in this province, are paying $7
Liberal leader
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6 Weekend, January 29-31, 2016 Winnipeg
The true power of Pride OUTDOOR DINING
RAW to
cook up
a storm
CELEBRATION
‘Be authentic’
the theme for Good news for those who
missed out on the chance to
2016 as festival
buy tickets for Winnipeg’s an-
gears up again nual outdoor pop-up restaurant,
typically set up on the Red Riv-
er, but which due to uncoopera-
Shel tive temperatures earlier this
Zolkevich season, stayed on land.
For Metro | Winnipeg The restaurant, along with
Parks Canada and tourism com-
Be real, be true, be outspoken, be pany Frontiers North Adven-
a person who affects change. It’s tures, partnered to create RAW:
just a small part of the message churchill, which runs in — you
highlighted in the theme — be guessed it, Churchill, Manitoba
authentic — for the 2016 Pride — from March 10 to 12.
Winnipeg Festival. “We’re so excited to
“Be someone who lives each bring the award-winning
day unapologetically,” said Jona- RAW:almond experience from
than Niemczak, president of a frozen Winnipeg river to the
Pride Winnipeg. frozen shores of the Hudson
Since 1987, Pride Winnipeg Parade-goers celebrate in vibrant style during last year’s raucous Pride Winnipeg Festival parade. METRO FILE Bay,” restaurant co-founder
has hosted an annual festival Joe Kalturnyk said in a news
to provide an opportunity for have tens of thousands of people 27 to June 5. of the event have been extended release issued Thursday.
gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans- celebrating.” Pride Winnipeg Festival kicks for this year. Guests will arrive to the site
gender persons and their allies to In 2014, 52 floats were part off with a rainbow flag-raising “Year over year we’re seeing by travelling in a tundra buggy
celebrate their culture, heritage of the parade. In 2015, that It really shows how at City Hall followed by various larger crowds at The Forks and to travel across the ice-packed
and diversity. number jumped to over 80. much acceptance community events starting May to accommodate the demand Churchill River to the Prince
“We started off with a few “It really shows how much 27. A two-day free outdoor con- we are increasing our operating of Wales Fort National Historic
there is in this
hundred folks marching down acceptance there is in this com- cert series happens June 4 and hours,” explained Niemczak. grounds. They will then dine in-
Broadway Avenue,” said Niem- munity, and for that, we are community. 5 at The Forks with performing “This increase will see all Pride side the walls, and have a post-
czak of the parade, a highlight truly thankful,” Niemczak added. artists, vendors, a beer tent and Day weekend services extended dinner rendezvous to watch the
Jonathan Niemczak
of the festival. “Now we literally This year’s festival runs May children’s entertainment. Hours right until 8:00 p.m.” northern lights as a finale.
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8 Weekend, January 29-31, 2016 Winnipeg
Sports f ilm fest kicks of f
VACANCY
City reviewing climate
change co-ordinator job
It seems the city may
be on the lookout for a
CINEMA new climate change co-
Event is for ordinator.
We really look for The term position was
more than just previously held by Sean
films that you can’t
Madden, but wrapped
fanatics, say
see anywhere else up last fall, and has since
organizers and that really tell remained vacant.
As was the case when
that compelling reported by media
Shel story. last September, a city
spokesperson recently
Zolkevich Russell Field confirmed that nearly five
For Metro | Winnipeg months later, the job still
documentary about a teenage remains under review.
Stories about the Winnipeg Ab- Hawaiian girl’s pursuit of world Alissa Clark wrote
original Mixed Curling League, a championships in two sports. in an email to Metro
professional female Lucha Libre A film in the evening reveals that the city has filled
wrestler and a team of six-year what drifts through the minds the environmental co-
old skateboard fanatics come to of runners as they pound the ordinator position, and
life on a screen made of snow at pavement. that council can expect to
The Forks during the Canadian The feature film is Being receive an update report
Sport Film Festival (CSFF) this Bruno Banani, about the first on the 2015 corporate
weekend. and only luger from Tonga who climate change action plan
The two-day event kicks off made his way to the winter in the coming months.
Friday with a free event at the Being Bruno Banani tells the story of the first and only luger from the South Pacific island of Olympics. “Climate change is an
Great West Life Snow Lounge at Tonga and his appearance at the winter Olympics. It’s part of the Canadian Sport Film Festival “If we were solely driven by issue that is extremely
The Forks. Six short films are this weekend. CONTRIBUTED commercial appeal, we would important,” Coun. Jenny
on the agenda, which begins never feature a film like Being Gerbasi said.
at 6 p.m. This is the fifth year for the us. We do things that are unique That day includes an after- Bruno Banani,” Field said. “But The city said on
“This festival isn’t solely for Winnipeg component of the to being here, like having it in noon screening of a short called we really look for films that you Thursday the position is
the sports fanatic,” said Rus- festival. A Toronto festival has winter and offering an outdoor The Magic Shoes, about a nine- can’t see anywhere else and that not up for elimination,
sell Field, executive director of been running for eight years. component.” year-old Iranian boy and his really tell that compelling story.” but the job description is
the CSFF. “You simply have to “We occasionally do satellite The festival moves to the Cen- new sneakers. Ticket information is avail- what’s being looked at.
be a fan of compelling human events at other cities,” Field said. tre Culturel Franco-Manitobain It’s followed by the Manitoba able at: http://sportfilmfesti- STEPHANIE TAYLOR/METRO
stories.” “Winnipeg is a nice model for for Saturday. premiere of Running Girl, a val.ca.
Winnipeg Weekend, January 29-31, 2016 9
Wyatt irked by proposal
TRANSIT CORRIDOR City staff’s hard-nosed recent willing to pay the city $5.6 mil- a “precedent” to be expected
City’s plans for negotiations with CN Rail of- lion towards the rebuilding of by other railways when future
ficials have raised the ire of the Jubilee Underpass, part of projects, such as the Waverley
cost-sharing some councillors. the transit corridor, and $7.5 Underpass, are discussed.
Coun. Russ Wyatt said he million for the Plessis project. “When it comes to dealing
with CN Rail
was concerned about the terms But in the event rail lines with the railways and any large
come under fire of proposed cost-sharing agree- were moved, the city would multinational (we should) be
ments between the city and CN be obliged to pay $280,000 and there protecting the interest
Rail in regards to the Plessis $375,000 annually until 2035 of the taxpayers of the city,”
Underpass project and second- for the underpass reconstruc- Wyatt said.
Stephanie phase rapid transit expansion. tion and Plessis, respectively. He had tabled a motion that
Taylor An administrative report Wyatt warned he was told by would disallow the city from
tabled during a recent coun- city staff this deal was made in inking repayment deals with
Metro | Winnipeg cil meeting states CN Rail was the “eleventh hour,” which set CN Rail, but it was defeated 12-4. City negotiations with CN Rail are causing concern. METRO FILE
PRIVACY
Apology after fresh
theft of documents
The Winnipeg Regional Health a nurse’s car. Real Cloutier, the
Authority is issuing a second health authority’s chief operat-
apology in as many days after ing officer, doesn’t think the
another security breach. thefts are related.
On Jan. 17, a bag belonging “We apologize to the clients
to a home-care worker was who’ve had their information
stolen from her vehicle in the stolen. It’s unfortunate and
Point Douglas area. The bag we will identify ways we can
contained personal health in- improve and hopefully reduce
formation for 25 patients. that risk.” Cloutier noted nurs-
On Tuesday, the WRHA es and home-care workers are
issued an apology after a bag supposed to carry this type of
containing heath information information with them at all
for 67 patients was stolen from times. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Good times keep rolling
SUPPORT
School rallies to support
nine-year-old who lost leg
Classmates of a nine-year-
old boy in Selkirk, Man.,
EVENTS are rallying to help the
CAUSE
Ball-hockey youngster and his family
cope with an infection that
tourney redux Revenue from the cost him a leg.
tournament will help It started as a simple
offers beer and
finance “streetscape scrape on the knee for
outdoor stage enhancements” in the David Stevenson but turned
village, including new into an infection called
benches, a mini pocket saphylococcus aureus.
Braeden park at the bell tower He was flown to Edmon-
Jones and 55 new bike racks, ton for specialized care last
Metro | Winnipeg which will be installed this fall, but his family was told
summer. doctors would have to am-
The Osborne Village BIZ direc- putate David’s left leg below
tor Stephanie Meilleur says last the knee.
year’s Osborne Village Winter the beer garden hosted outside David’s parents still have
Classic ball-hockey tournament Jekyll and Hyde’s Freehouse on to drive him from Selkirk
was so successful, they just had Stradbrook Avenue. to Winnipeg for weekly ap-
to do it again. Two rinks on the west side of pointments, and the cost of
The second instalment of Osborne Street will play host to the gas for the 68-kilometre
what she hopes to maintain 25 registered teams, and others round trip is starting to take
as an annual event takes place still have the chance to register. a toll on the large family.
this Saturday. It’s building on The good-old Canadian street- So his friends at Robert
the success of last year with “a hockey event and live music Smith School decided to
large beer garden and all-day will run from noon until 6 p.m. stage a bake sale. Staff and
(outdoor) entertainment stage.” “We invite everyone from the parents chipped in another
Meilleur said the event, community to come on out and $1,000.
which she thinks of as a “win- enjoy the beer garden, put in a “I can’t thank them
ter edition of Canada Day,” will team (and) play some hockey,” enough for everything
occupy two parking lots, with Meilleur said. that they’re doing,” said
father Daniel Stevenson.
We invite everyone from the “I’m happy that my son has
community to come on out and friends like this.”
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