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Hello everyone,
Welcome to seasonal depression week, by which I mean the week the lack of sun, and the snow, and the barely leaving my apartment seems to have kicked off my annual winter malaise. However this week finds you, in the lead-up to the holidays, I hope you’re hanging in OK.
Now, let’s look back on the week that was.
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Chris Kitching had a beautiful tribute to Tyree Cayer, the young man who was killed at the Millennium Library. I appreciated the love and honesty with which those who knew Cayer told his story. (The library, by the way, is still closed, as city council discusses security plans.)
On the weekend, Morgan Harris’s relatives and their supporters temporarily blocked access to two landfills, as they continue to call for a search for the remains of Harris and Marcedes Myran, as well as those of other Indigenous victims who might be there, including Tanya Nepinak.
Recently, Winnipeg Police Chief Danny Smyth met with First Nation leaders and Harris’s relatives; I was grateful to hear that Long Plain Chief Kyra Wilson believes the meeting “de-escalated the situation.” The families deserve to feel supported and heard. They are going through more than enough.
Elsewhere around the news: this respiratory virus season is still a tsunami. In two grades of one school division, more kids are chronically absent than have regular attendance. The province’s top doc, Dr. Brent Roussin, isn’t inclined to go back to giving us daily updates, though.
Meanwhile, the Winnipeg Ice just got fined an eye-watering $500,000 for not having made progress on a new arena, which puts a strange question mark over the future of the WHL’s best team.
Finally: in November, we lost one of the Anishinaabe language’s most renowned teachers, translators and champions. If there is anything we as a community take away from Roger Roulette’s passing, it should be that the time to invest in Indigenous languages is now. Right now.
Until next week,
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