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The ultimate firefighter competition at the World Police and Fire Games
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Winnipeg police give update on landfill blockade
Winnipeg police will provide an update on the dismantling of a blockade outside the Brady Road Landfill at 11:05 a.m.
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Partnering with several local organizations, it serves as a mobile farmers’ market to supply fresh, affordable and local produce to people in Winnipeg neighbourhoods where it’s difficult to access.
The Veggie Van buys fresh local vegetables and fruit from co-op members, who are small scale farmers in Manitoba, at prices that they set to sustain their small businesses. They then approach larger local businesses, city councillors, organizations, and individuals to donate and sponsor the Veggie Van.
Those donations are used to subsidize the produce so when the van makes weekly stops, it can distribute local farm fresh vegetables with a pay-what-you-can model.
CBC’s Jim Agapito went to check it out. Watch to learn more.
First Nations leaders respond to Manitoba premier’s decision not to fund landfill search
First Nations leaders and other officials speak at a news conference in response to Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson’s decision not to help pay to search a Winnipeg-area landfill for the remains of two women.
CBC Manitoba will live stream it on our website, here on Facebook and CBC Gem.
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WARNING: This story contains distressing details.
Protesters blocking the Brady Road landfill south of Winnipeg say their resolve is even stronger after a man shovelled a truckload of soil and debris onto an MMIWG mural near the blockade Sunday.
Cambria Harris said she wasn't at the blockade Sunday when the man in a black pickup truck dumped soil on the mural, but she saw the video of it happen, which she posted on social media.
In the video, the man is seen shovelling soil and debris from the back of his truck onto the mural, while telling protesters to "Take care of your own people." After someone responds, he asks, "Then why are they dead?"
"Why are you so angry to feel like you have to take that extreme of a measure of a hate crime?" she asked.
On Monday, dozens of people outside Winnipeg's Brady Road landfill have built barricades and are signalling their unwillingness to leave, despite a noon deadline from the city to vacate the area and the possibility of legal action.
Harris, whose mother's remains are believed to be in the Prairie Green landfill north of Winnipeg, is one of the people who called for the blockade to be erected and for others to join the demonstration at the Brady Road landfill.
It's important for them to maintain a presence at the city-run Brady Road facility in south Winnipeg, after Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson indicated her government wouldn't financially support a search of Prairie Green because of the hazards to people involved, Harris said.
Harris's aunt, Melissa Robinson, said what's happening is not acceptable.
"We're talking about our women laying in landfills. You don't put a dollar on that — absolutely not. I don't care if it costs $200 million, $300 million, they need to go and get them. I'm not going to have my nieces go sit at a landfill to visit their mom for the rest of eternity. It's wrong."
CBC has closed commenting on this story as it deals with sensitive content from MMIWG survivors and loved ones.
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Manitoba premier responds to questions about why province won’t fund landfill search for remains
Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson took questions from reporters on Thursday about her government’s decision not to help pay to search a Winnipeg-area landfill for the remains of two First Nations women.
