News briefs for Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Duelling protests on LGBTTQ+ education on legislature grounds

10:39 AM

Dozens of protesters rallying against LGBTTQ+ education in public schools on the Manitoba Legislative Building grounds were met with hundreds of counter-protesters on Wednesday morning.

The rally, organized as part of “1MillionMarch4Children” protests across the country that the group says are “against gender ideology in schools,” was met with many more pro-LGBTTQ+ and transgender counter-protesters.

The two groups have been chanting back and forth, waving protest placards.

Some 1MillionMarch4Children protesters were set to walk from city hall to the intersection of Portage and Main and then back to city hall. Others were set to march from The Forks to York Avenue and south on Main Street, and then west on Broadway to the grounds of the Manitoba Legislative Building, the Winnipeg Police Service tweeted at 11:12 a.m.

“Marches could cause temporary street closures and slow traffic downtown,” the tweet stated. “Plan accordingly.”

Several hundred of the marching protestors arrived at the legislature grounds by 11:30 a.m. and gathered on the west lawn to chant.

Human remains found in field outside Killarney

2:52 PM

Excavation workers removing gravel from a rural field west of Killarney discovered human remains on Tuesday afternoon, RCMP say.

Mounties from the local detachment were called to the field, off of Highway 3 and Road 105 W about 10 kilometres west of Killarney, at about 4:30 p.m.

Workers told RCMP they had found the remains while excavating gravel. RCMP investigators, along with forensics specialists and an anthropology team, were searching the area on Wednesday.

RCMP say the identity of the remains is not yet known.