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News December 8, 2021

City project explores alternative citizen crisis response

The City of Winnipeg, Winnipeg Police Service (WPS) and Shared Health’s Crisis Response Centre (CRC) announced a pilot project aimed at supporting people experiencing mental health crises in a Nov. 29 PRESS RELEASE. The Alternative Response to Citizens in Crisis (ARCC) pilot project aims to help stabilize people in crisis and support individuals in chronic crisis. The ARCC will provide mental health resources to stabilize its users in the moment and assist them in managing their mental health in the long term.

Comment February 19, 2020

Winnipeg law enforcement in desperate need of reform

It seems police in Winnipeg are in the news more and more lately, and not in a positive light.

Editorial January 26, 2020

Wet’suwet’en strife continues Canada’s racist history

Last week, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) set up an armed checkpoint controlling access to Unist’ot’en — a camp of Wet’suwet’en Nation land defenders resisting the construction of a natural gas pipeline through traditional territories.

Comment November 7, 2019

Manitoba Liquor Mart robberies fuelled by institutionalized neglect of meth crisis

The meth epidemic in Manitoba is a complex and costly problem to solve. This issue has caused a ripple of side effects within our communities.

News October 13, 2018

U of M associate prof arrested on child pornography charges

A U of M associate professor and child psychologist has been arrested and charged with possession of child pornography. Gary Shady, 72, was arrested in…

Comment July 14, 2015

Peace, bound

We are all entitled to support whom we choose and to give voice to that choice. To listen to our conscience and act upon the things it tells us about the world. If we do so without violence, there can be no case for the use of government force against us. In a free and just society, the use of government power to punish individuals for speaking their beliefs, no matter how unpopular, is oppression.