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November 13, 2024
All charges stayed on 2nd day of trial against Manitoba priest accused of sexually assaulting girl
Update comes day after testimony from girl who made allegations against Arul Savari WARNING: This article may affect those who have experienced sexual violence or know someone affected by it. CBC News: A Manitoba priest accused of sexually assaulting a now-nine-year-old girl in Little Grand Rapids First Nation last year has had all charges against...
November 12, 2024
Court hears from 9-year-old girl who says she was sexually assaulted by Manitoba priest last year
‘Father Arul. He did something gross to me,’ girl says in video statement played in court WARNING: This article may affect those who have experienced sexual violence or know someone affected by it. CBC News: A now nine-year-old girl who says she was sexually assaulted by a priest last year in Little Grand Rapids First...
October 10, 2024
Opaskwayak Cree Nation files suit over 2019 toxic fluid leak
NationTalk: The Free Press – A Manitoba First Nation has launched a $10-million lawsuit against the paper mill in The Pas after a massive amount of toxic fluid leaked into the river where its residents fish, in 2019. Opaskwayak Cree Nation has filed a claim against Canadian Kraft Paper and the federal and provincial governments...
September 5, 2024
AMC Stands with First Nations Children as Historic $530 Million Settlement Case Begins
NationTalk: Treaty One Territory, Manitoba – The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) stands united with First Nations families and children as the final court proceedings commence on September 5, 2024, in the Children’s Special Allowance (CSA) class action lawsuit. This significant legal battle addresses the wrongful diversion of funds meant to support First Nations children...
August 28, 2024
“‘Shattered” doesn’t explain how I feel’: Sentencing for serial killer hears from families of murdered women
Sentencing hearing in Winnipeg court hears about horrific impact of Jeremy Skibicki’s crimes WARNING: This story contains details about violence against Indigenous women. CBC News: For some, it’s the sight of a garbage truck on the street that can suddenly bring them back to the worst day of their lives; for others, something as ordinary...
August 26, 2024
Manitoba Métis leader wins battle over fishing ticket as charge is stayed
APTN News: The Canadian Press – The Crown has stayed proceedings against Manitoba Métis Federation President David Chartrand, who was given a ticket alleging he was fishing without a licence. Chartrand was given the ticket on a lake near the northern community of Cranberry Portage on June 30 and was accused of angling outside of...
August 9, 2024
Dakota Tipi First Nation sues The Forks, governments, for financial compensation and ownership of land
Dakota Tipi First Nation didn’t agree to surrender rights of the land at any time, lawsuit alleges First Peoples Law Report: CBC News – Dakota Tipi First Nation is suing The Forks and three levels of government in the hopes of reinstating ownership of the land and financial compensation tied to the use and management...
July 22, 2024
Winnipeg serial killer knew what he was doing was wrong, judge says
Nearly 200-page written decision sheds more light on why Jeremy Skibicki convicted earlier this month WARNING: This story contains distressing details. CBC News: Serial killer Jeremy Skibicki knew what he was doing was wrong, a judge said in a lengthy decision outlining why he convicted the Winnipeg man in the murders of four vulnerable Indigenous...
July 21, 2024
Flooding caused by failed muskrat management project in 1940s destroyed Manitoba First Nation’s lands: lawsuit
Kinonjeoshtegon First Nation accuses provincial government of turning much of its lands to ‘unusable muskeg’ CBC Indigenous: A First Nation along the western shores of Lake Winnipeg is suing the provincial government after it alleges flooding caused by a dam over 80 years ago “effectively confiscated” a chunk of its land. Kinonjeoshtegon First Nation accuses...
July 16, 2024
A white supremacist confirms what Indigenous inquiries have been trying to tell us for years
In finding Jeremy Skibicki guilty, Chief Justice Glenn Joyal dismissed the evidence put forward by the defence as ‘fabricated’ and said the Crown had proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Skibicki understood the planned and deliberate killings were legally and morally wrong. Toronto Star: Last week in Winnipeg they were dancing in the streets when...
July 11, 2024
Judgment in unusual trial of admitted Winnipeg serial killer coming Thursday
Lawyers for Jeremy Skibicki argued he should be found not criminally responsible for killing 4 women in 2022 WARNING: This story contains distressing details. CBC News: The fate of a Winnipeg man who has confessed to killing four women but denies criminal responsibility will be decided Thursday after an unusual trial for the admitted serial killer. ...
July 9, 2024
Judge in murder trial weighs motivations of admitted Winnipeg serial killer
Jeremy Skibicki confessed to killing (left to right) Rebecca Contois, Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran and Buffalo Woman in the spring of 2022. Photo illustration: APTN News This story contains information from a murder trial. Please read with care. APTN News: The Canadian Press – judge is expected to decide this week whether a man who...
July 2, 2024
3rd Pinaymootang First Nation man’s conviction overturned in 1973 Winnipeg murder in light of new evidence
Evidence suggests ‘miscarriage of justice’ in Clarence Woodhouse’s conviction, federal justice minister says CBC News: A new trial has been ordered for a third First Nations man convicted for the murder of a Winnipeg man 50 years ago. Clarence Woodhouse, now in his early 70s, was one of three men and members of Pinaymootang First...
June 2, 2024
How Jeremy Skibicki’s ‘unusual’ defence compares to other serial killer cases
Skibicki’s lawyers plan to argue he was suffering from a mental disorder when he killed 4 women in 2022 WARNING: This story contains distressing details. CBC News: Admitted Winnipeg serial killer Jeremy Skibicki’s plan to argue he’s not criminally responsible in the deaths of four women due to a mental disorder strikes several experts as...
May 28, 2024
Two more First Nations sue three levels of government for treating Red, Assiniboine rivers ‘as part of the sewage system’
Posted: 5:27 PM CDT Monday, May. 27, 2024 Last Modified: 1:25 PM CDT Tuesday, May. 28, 2024 First Peoples Law Report: The Free Press – Two Manitoba First Nations have added their names to a list of Indigenous communities suing the City of Winnipeg, the province and the federal government, claiming $1 billion in damages for sewage...
May 14, 2024
Judge orders psychiatric assessment of admitted serial killer
Crown’s forensic psychiatrist to interview Jeremy Skibicki. Warning: This story contains disturbing details. Please read with care. A Winnipeg judge has ordered a self-confessed serial killer to undergo a psychiatric assessment at the request of the Crown prosecutor. Manitoba Chief Justice Glenn Joyal overruled the objection of Jeremy Skibicki’s defence lawyer Leonard Tailleur Tuesday to...
May 10, 2024
Women’s remains believed to have spent 2 weeks in same Winnipeg dumpster before going to landfill, trial hears
Surveillance video revealed Jeremy Skibicki disposing of bodies in numerous garbage bins Caitlyn Gowriluk · CBC News · Posted: May 10, 2024 1:40 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago WARNING: This story contains distressing details. CBC News: When police learned a woman’s remains were discovered in a Winnipeg garbage bin nearly two years ago, they had no...
May 9, 2024
Police find DNA of another 12 women at self-confessed killer’s apartment in Winnipeg
DNA belonging to Ashlee Shingoose was found in Jeremy Skibicki’s apartment. She has been missing since 2022. Photo: Winnipeg police. Warning: This story contains disturbing details. Please read with care. APTN News: The Winnipeg Police Service confirmed the DNA of four Indigenous women inside the home of their self-confessed killer, a court heard Thursday, along...
May 8, 2024
Court, family hears how Indigenous women were murdered in Winnipeg
Defence claims Jeremy Skibicki has borderline personality disorder and PTSD Warning: This article contains content that may be disturbing to readers. Discretion is advised. APTN News: Serial killer Jeremy Skibicki calmly took detectives through the last minutes of his victims’ lives on a video played in a Winnipeg courtroom Wednesday. The seven-hour conversation-turned-confession shows a...
May 8, 2024
Mother of Tim McLean talks about his murder and use of not criminally responsible defence in court
Carol de Delley says she tried to change it after son’s killer found not criminally responsible due to mental illness. Tim McLean was murdered on a Greyhound bus in 2008. He stabbed, beheaded and cannibalized. Photo: APTN file. APTN News: When her son was decapitated, Carol de Delley thought it was the worst thing that...
May 6, 2024
Trial of Winnipeg man who admits to killing 4 women to be heard by judge alone
Jeremy Skibicki asks to be found not criminally responsible in the deaths CBC News: The jury trial of a man accused of killing four women in Winnipeg will now instead be heard by a judge alone, a change that comes after Jeremy Skibicki’s lawyers said he admits to killing the women but will ask to be found...
May 1, 2024
Manitoba First Nations seek billions in damages over Winnipeg sewage spill
Massive February spill into Red River caused signifcant harms for downstream communities: lawsuit CBC News: Eight Manitoba First Nations have filed a lawsuit against the City of Winnipeg, as well as the provincial and federal governments, seeking billions of dollars in compensation for a massive sewage spill earlier this year. A pipe in south Winnipeg burst...
April 24, 2024
Peguis First Nation launches $1B flood damages lawsuit against feds, province and 2 municipalities
First Nation, forcibly displaced in 1907, claims government failed to provide safe place to live CBC News: Peguis First Nation has filed a $1-billion flood-damages lawsuit against the federal government, the provincial government and two municipalities located upstream of the Ojibway and Cree community in Manitoba’s northern Interlake. In a statement of claim filed before...
March 28, 2024
Canada, Manitoba point fingers at each other in response to off-reserve child welfare lawsuit
The Canadian flag flies at the Manitoba legislature in WInnipeg. Photo: Jared Delorme/APTN. APTN News: A class-action lawsuit filed by two First Nations women in Manitoba on behalf of off-reserve survivors of the child welfare system is heading to court with each of the defendants blaming the other. Both Canada and Manitoba are asking for...
March 25, 2024
Manitoba to pay $530-million in settlement over children’s allowance
The Globe and Mail: The Canadian Press – The Manitoba government has agreed to pay $530 million to settle class-action lawsuits over child welfare benefit payments. The proposed settlement, which still requires court approval, follows a 2022 court ruling that found the province was wrong to claw back hundreds of millions of dollars in federal...
March 13, 2024
B.C. judge warns of ‘tsunami’ of Indigenous identity fraud cases
Baptist pastor charged with possessing child pornography claimed Métis status based on great-great-grandparent WARNING: This story contains details of child sexual exploitation and pornography. CBC News: After he was charged with possessing child pornography, Nathan Allen Joseph Legault discovered a figure from his past he hoped might help with his future. The Prince Rupert, B.C., man...
December 6, 2023
Manitoba Hydro dams caused decades of harm to Mathias Colomb Cree Nation, lawsuit alleges
Damages inflicted by 2 Laurie River hydro dams ‘happen every day,’ lawyer alleges First Peoples Law Report: CBC News: A northern Manitoba First Nation is suing the province and Manitoba Hydro over two dams it says have been damaging their lands and violating their treaty rights for more than 50 years. Mathias Colomb Cree Nation...
November 8, 2023
What do we know about Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe? Details still scarce as her alleged killer is in court
‘It’s tragic that her family … hasn’t found their loved one,’ MMIWG advocate says CBC Indigenous: Just steps away from the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, red dresses blow in the wind. They serve as a symbol of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada, including the four police allege were killed by...
October 24, 2023
Make a decision on the MNO’s historic communities, judge tells Métis National Council
“We have certainly the better side of the litigation and it’s unfortunate that that the MNC had to, without the need to, bring these grievances in the form of litigation…” — Rahool Agarwal, legal counsel for the Manitoba Métis Federation At right is the Métis National Council President Cassidy Caron, and at left is David...
July 14, 2023
Defiant protesters burn injunction after Manitoba judge orders landfill blockade to come down
Police liaison asked protesters if they would leave after injunction came into effect CBC News: Protesters at Winnipeg’s Brady Road landfill remained defiant Friday night, ignoring a judge’s order to stop blocking the main road into the facility and burning a copy of the injunction he issued earlier in the day. The main entrance to...
March 30, 2023
Ex-priest, 93, acquitted of indecent assault at Manitoba residential school
Arthur Masse was charged last year in alleged incident at Fort Alexander dating back more than 50 years WARNING: This story contains distressing details. CBC News: A retired priest accused of assaulting a First Nations girl at a Manitoba residential school more than 50 years ago has been acquitted. Victoria McIntosh alleged she was assaulted by Arthur Masse,...
August 5, 2022
AMC Demands Full Restitution of CSA Funds Unlawfully Taken From First Nations Children in Care
NationTalk: Treaty One Territory, Manitoba – Today, the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) calls on Manitoba to make full restitution to First Nations children in care for the Children’s Special Allowances Funds unlawfully and discriminatorily taken from them. The AMC makes this call in response to the Province of Manitoba’s unilateral announcement of its creation...
August 4, 2022
Manitoba decides not to appeal court ruling on child benefit payments
CTV News Winnipeg (Canadian Press): The Manitoba government said Thursday it will not appeal a court ruling that found the province was wrong to claw back hundreds of millions of dollars in federal benefit payments to kids in child welfare. The government also appeared open to calls for it to return the money, which Indigenous...
May 19, 2022
Court rules that Manitoba Government discriminates against First Nations children in the Child Welfare System
NationTalk: The Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench ruled that the government of the province of Manitoba discriminates against First Nations children in the provincial Child and Family Services (CFS) system, and that its attempt to absolve itself of liability for holding back the federal Children Special Allowance (CSA) of over $334 million from children and...
March 17, 2022
Class Action Lawsuit for government use of Birth Alerts to apprehend Indigenous babies
Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs – Earlier this week, a class-action lawsuit was filed in Winnipeg against the province of Manitoba regarding the controversial and discriminatory practice of Birth Alerts. The basis for the claim is that Birth Alerts are unconstitutional and are a Human Rights violation. “The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) has been a...
September 8, 2021
First Nations Challenge Bill 2
The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs filed its written submissions in its challenge of the provincial Budget Implementation and Tax Statutes Amendment Act. The submissions of the AMC argue that through the BITSA, Manitoba: infringes the core jurisdiction of the superior courts and breaches section 96 of the Constitution Act, 1867 by having the province of...
December 15, 2020
First Nations challenge “Bill 2”
They filed a constitutional legal challenge against Manitoba’s “Bill 2″. “Bill 2” is Manitoba’s attempt to legalize the theft of CSA money from Indigenous children, the most vulnerable group in Manitoba. It is also Manitoba’s attempt to escape legal accountability for the theft. This is wrong,” said Harold Cochrane, legal counsel, Cochrane Saxberg LLP....
November 9, 2020
First Nations challenge “Bill 2”
The Southern Chiefs Organization and the Manitoba Métis Federation along with a group of 19 Indigenous child and family Agencies and Authorities announced their intent to file a challenge to BIll 2 “the Budget Implementation and Tax Statutes Amendment Act” that was passed on November 6, 2020....
November 6, 2020
First Nations Challenge Bill 2
Bill 2, the “Budget Implementation and Tax Statutes Amendment Act“, is passed....
October 7, 2020
First Nations Challenge Bill 2
Oct. 7, 2020 – The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, the Official Opposition Manitoba NDP and the Manitoba Liberal Party, denounce and reject Bill 2 and stand in opposition against the Provincial government’s approach to denying First Nations families and children access to justice. Section 84 of the Budget Implementation and Tax Statutes Amendment Act will retroactively...
April 14, 2020
First Nations challenge “Bill 2”
Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs – are seriously concerned about Manitoba fast tracking Bill 2, The Budget Implementation and Tax Statutes Amendment Act. If passed, the Bill will have serious implications on First Nations children in care. On March 19, 2020 the Manitoba government introduced Bill 2. The Bill is currently seeking to legalize Manitoba’s actions...
February 22, 2019
First Meeting with Indigenous Leadership Council in two years
The government of Manitoba met with the Indigenous Leadership Council (Manitoba Metis Federation, Southern Chiefs’ Organization and Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak) for first time in over two years despite a previous commitment to meet every quarter. The heads of the Indigenous Leadership Council met again with Minister of Families Heather Stefanson on Apr. 3, 2019 over...