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Today’s must-read
The city says sewage spills have little effect on pollution in Lake Winnipeg and the blame for any water-quality issues falls on the provincial and federal governments, which have not provided the necessary funds to upgrade the sewer system.
That’s the argument the City of Winnipeg advanced in a statement of defence filed in Manitoba Court of King’s Bench last week against a $4.8-billion lawsuit filed last year by eight Manitoba First Nations. Three additional First Nations have since become joined the legal action that also names the provincial and federal governments as defendants.
The First Nations — Black River, Berens River, Brokenhead Ojibway, Hollow Water, Kinonjeoshtegon, Misipawistik Cree, Sagkeeng Anicinabe and Poplar River — launched the suit a year ago. Bloodvein, Dauphin River and Fisher River Cree First Nations have since been added. Kevin Rollason has the story.
In a statement of defence filed in Manitoba Court of King’s Bench last week against a $4.8-billion lawsuit filed last year by eight Manitoba First Nations, the city says the blame for any water-quality issues falls on the provincial and federal governments. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
On the bright side
Nancy Johnson remembers the uncertainty she felt when she and four friends embarked on something new two decades ago.
Johnson, Carol Cribbs, Bernice Lanouette, Grace Nunn and Mabel Pratt opened Just Like New to You thrift shop at the beginning of May in 2005. They were former nurses and members of the White Cross Guild, and their goal was to raise funds for the Health Sciences Centre.
“I think we were all pretty nervous we might not be able to make the goal,” Johnson recalls. “I can’t remember when we started to feel more confident that we maybe knew what we were doing.” Aaron Epp has more here.
Mabel Pratt (from left), Carol Cribbs and Nancy Johnson are three of the five original former nurses who founded Just Like New to You in 2005. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On this date
On May 5, 1922: The Manitoba Free Press reported in Ottawa, the government narrowly won a vote to appoint a parliamentary committee to investigate transportation costs on the railways, with particular regard to the Crow’s Nest Pass agreement of 1897. In Vancouver, the Hudson’s Bay Company was preparing to start a new venture shipping a wide variety of goods to Siberia. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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