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Today’s must-read
A Winnipeg high school has become the latest target of antisemitic graffiti, days after a nearby synagogue was defaced with similar imagery that police are treating as a hate crime.
In a letter sent to parents Tuesday, Winnipeg School Division superintendent Matt Henderson said he was informed that a swastika had been scrawled at Kelvin High School.
“This hate crime is not acceptable or tolerated on Winnipeg School Division property, or anywhere in our school community,” Henderson wrote. “We are all extremely concerned and upset by this cowardly act.”
Few details were provided to parents about when or where the graffiti appeared. Henderson said the Winnipeg Police Service’s major crimes unit has been notified. Scott Billeck has the story.
Kelvin High School is the latest Winnipeg location to be targeted with antisemitic graffiti. (Mike Deal / Free Press)
On the bright side
Banaise-Kwe Henry is battling homesickness so she can return to the southern shores of Lake Huron to help raise her nephew and his peers in Anishinaabemowin.
“Anishinaabe people, in general, we talk a lot about seven generations forward and seven generations back and so, when I think about my language learning, I take time to reflect.”
Henry’s reflections and aspirations — she wants to open a kindergarten- to-Grade 12 immersion school in her community — have landed her in a history- making cohort at the University of Winnipeg.
U of W welcomed 17 students this week to start building a new degree program that will immerse participants in their second language. Maggie Macintosh has more here.
Aandeg Muldrew is the co-ordinator for the Anishinaabemowin Language Program at the U of W. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On this date
On Jan. 7, 1954: The Winnipeg Free Press reported U.S. president Dwight Eisenhower said in a state of the union address that his country’s defence plans were geared to the use of atomic weapons if they were needed “to preserve our freedom.” In Moscow, the Soviet Union announced it was ready to begin nuclear talks with the U.S. in Washington. Manitoba engineers planned to build a reinforced concrete bridge over a flat piece of prairie near Headlingley to accommodate the Trans-Canada Highway, and then divert the nearby river under it after it was completed. Search our archives for more here.
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