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Today’s must-read
The Winnipeg team behind a national monument recognizing the LGBT Purge were in Ottawa to celebrate its official unveiling Friday.
Thunderhead is the work of local artists Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, Liz Wreford and Peter Sampson of Public City Architecture, and knowledge keeper Albert McLeod, who served as cultural adviser for the project.
The team beat out 31 international submissions for the project, which is permanently located at 201 Wellington St. in Ottawa along the Ottawa River, in view of Parliament.
“We are a beacon internationally around the world of what democracies can do about inclusion, about human rights,” McLeod said. Nicole Buffie has the story.
The monument intentionally includes a stage element where people can take up space and be seen. (Supplied)
On the bright side
Sitting at home on a wintry day in March last year, Japneet Singh listened intently as members of grassroots advocacy organization Results Canada began their online presentation on the prevalence of tuberculosis in rural India.
Singh knew all about the reality of the disease. Before he moved to Canada in 2013 he had seen family members affected by the bacterial infection which, in its active form, can damage the lungs, spine, brain and kidneys.
“A friend of mine had told me about Results Canada and their call-to-action on tuberculosis,” Singh says. “I am really passionate about health equity, so I joined the online meeting and that is how I connected with the organization.
A grassroots non-profit organization, Results Canada’s mission is to generate the political will to end extreme poverty. AV Kitching has more here.
Japneet Singh volunteers with Results Canada, an organization that advocates to end extreme poverty. (Mike Deal / Free Press)
On this date
On Aug. 27, 1938: The Winnipeg Free Press reported a Gilbert Plains man was killed and three other occupants of the car he was in were seriously injured when the vehicle flipped and spun for 180 feet on the No. 1 Highway, about eight miles east of Portage la Prairie. In East Aurora, N.Y., record-breaking aviator Commander Frank Hawks, who had given up speed flying a year earlier, died when his plane struck a tension wire and crashed.
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