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Today’s must-read
Federal Public Safety Minister David McGuinty and Premier Wab Kinew used the Canada-U.S. border as a backdrop Tuesday to tout the creation of a “fentanyl czar,” who will work with the U.S. to curb drug trafficking.
The two leaders were in Emerson to sell the new position as a way to boost border safety, one day after U.S. President Donald Trump postponed 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian goods, for at least a month.
“The interpretation of today is Canadians should know we have a very strong border, and we’re making it stronger,” McGuinty said.
McGuinty, Kinew and Terry Duguid, the federal cabinet minister for Prairies Economic Development Canada, spoke to members of law enforcement agencies at the event, including the Canadian Border Services Agency, RCMP, Manitoba Conservation and Manitoba First Nations Police Service. Scott Billeck reports.
Federal Public Safety Minister David McGuinty (right), with Premier Wab Kinew (left) and Terry Duguid, the federal cabinet minister for Prairies Economic Development Canada, talks to the media after meeting with law enforcement officers. (Mike Deal / Free Press)
On the bright side
Rhonda Chartrand credits Manitobah with supporting her development as an artist. The 31-year-old Anicinabe artist from Sagkeeng First Nation learned how to make mukluks, moccasins and gauntlets through the Storyboot School, which the company (formerly called Manitobah Mukluks) founded in 2013.
The school brings Indigenous artists together with students from across Canada for free courses that teach traditional Indigenous arts. Chartrand took her first course in 2018, and is among the school’s 1,759 graduates. She’s since become a skilled artisan whose work is sold via Manitobah’s website. Aaron Epp has more here.
A beaded gauntlet, created by Rhonda Chartrand, one many works of Indigenous artists for sale at Manitobah. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On this date
On Feb. 5, 1960: The Winnipeg Free Press reported premier Duff Roblin tabled estimates in the legislature showing the government’s oeperating expenses were up 12.5 per cent to a record $95,382,970; increased costs of education, health and debt charges were factors. MLAs would receive their first pay increase since 1954. In Ottawa, the federal government looked to cut defence speding by six per cent, or $100 million. Warsaw Pact countries supported Soviet premier Nikita Kruschev’s position on Germany ahead of a May conference with Western powers, including the possibility of signing a seaprate peace treaty with East Germany, and a non-aggression pact with the North Atlantic alliance. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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