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CBC
05-05-2025
- CBC
St. Theresa Point to honour Ashlee Shingoose, other area MMIWGs
St. Theresa Point First Nation in northeastern Manitoba is holding its first Red Dress Day event on Monday, as the community mourns one of its own. In March, Ashlee Shingoose of was identified as the previously unknown victim of a Winnipeg serial killer. She'd been given the name Buffalo Woman, or Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe, by Indigenous community members.
CBC
28-03-2025
- CBC
Ashlee Shingoose's father wishes her daughter continue to be known as Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe
Indigenous community members named Shingoose 'Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe' or Buffalo Woman, when Winnipeg police couldn't identify her after she was murdered by a Winnipeg serial killer in 2022.
Yahoo
26-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
In the news today: Carney, Poilievre in Quebec, vacation homes prices on the rise
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Liberals and Conservatives shifting to Quebec Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and Liberal Leader Mark Carney are shifting their campaigns to Quebec. Poilievre, who held a rally in Hamilton on Tuesday night with an estimated crowd of about 4,500 people, is expected at a news conference in Montmagny, Que., around noon and at a rally in Quebec City in the evening. Carney, who spent the first few days of the campaign in Atlantic Canada, will be in Ontario today, scheduled for an announcement and a facility tour in Windsor, a facility tour in London and a rally in Kitchener. The Liberal leader is then set to travel back east, telling reporters Tuesday morning that he would be in Quebec in two days. N.S. legislature made moves to consolidate power With the Nova Scotia legislature expected to adjourn late today, a political scientist says the winter sitting was marked by government moves aimed at increasing cabinet's authority and shrinking the legislature's ability to provide oversight. Tom Urbaniak, a professor at the University of Cape Breton, says the government's multiple omnibus bills paint the picture of a government working to consolidate its power after winning a sweeping majority last fall. The Progressive Conservative government's activity has been 'about passing legislation to enable more discretion and provide more authority to the executive, to the centre of power essentially,' Urbaniak said in an interview. He said some examples of this are laws that allow the government to fire non-unionized civil servants without cause, that give the government more control over Nova Scotia universities and that eliminate the requirement for an annual report on emergency room closures. Judge urges public inquiry on Alberta prison death A judge is calling for a public inquiry into an Edmonton inmate's death, saying it's the only way to get to the bottom of three guards' actions that day amid concerns they were running a prison 'fight club.' 'A public inquiry may allow the commissioner to pierce the veil of prosecutorial discretion and garner information as to why Alberta Prosecution Services chose not to lay any charges (against the guards),' Justice Donna Groves said in her fatality report dated Jan. 31. 'If, after careful investigation, it is determined that (Correction Services of Canada) employees were involved in misconduct that led to (Mason) Montgrand's death, then I am confident that appropriate measures will be taken.' Groves was tasked with reviewing the circumstances around Montgrand's death and making recommendations on how to prevent similar tragedies. Police to give update on Buffalo Woman probe Winnipeg police are to provide an update today on an investigation into the death of an unidentified woman who was slain by convicted serial killer Jeremy Skibicki. Police have provided few details about the young Indigenous victim, who was given the name Buffalo Woman by a group of Indigenous grandmothers. Skibicki's murder trial heard he met the woman sometime in March 2022 outside a homeless shelter and brought her back to his place before killing her. Police have released photographs of a reversible Baby Phat branded jacket that belonged to Buffalo Woman in the hopes that it could help identify her. The trial last year heard DNA found on a cuff on the jacket is the only evidence police have pointing to her identity. Vacation home prices likely to rise: Royal LePage While fewer Canadians may be looking to buy a vacation home in some regions compared with years past, a new report says prices are expected to increase in 2025 as demand still outpaces supply across most markets. The report released Wednesday by Royal LePage forecasts the median price of a single-family home in Canada's so-called recreational regions to rise four per cent year-over-year to $652,808. The national increase reflects expected price boosts in each provincial market, led by an eight per cent appreciation in Atlantic Canada to a median price of $498,852, and a 7.5 per cent increase in Quebec to $457,198. Alberta remains the priciest province to own a recreational home, with Royal LePage forecasting a two per cent bump in the median price of a single-family property to nearly $1.3 million, followed by B.C. at $951,762 — also a two per cent increase. Trump claim about B.C. river treaty 'not accurate' British Columbia Energy Minister Adrian Dix says U.S. President Donald Trump's claims about Canada supplying water through the Columbia River Treaty are "not accurate," and the U.S. can manage the water that flows over the border "however they see fit." Dix says there has been speculation about how the treaty could potentially be used as a "bargaining chip" in the trade war with the U.S., but with a 10-year termination provision, he notes that "Canadian action to terminate the treaty would have little effect on the current dispute." Dix says there have been long-standing cross-border efforts to modernize the treaty, and though it's not unusual for new American administrations to review international processes, he says the treaty modernization process comes amid "vicious anti-Canadian attacks" by the Trump administration. --- This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 26, 2025 The Canadian Press
CBC
23-03-2025
- CBC
Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs will push to search landfill for Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe: grand chief
Social Sharing WARNING: This story contains details of violence against Indigenous women. The head of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs wants to see the search of a Manitoba landfill continue in hopes of finding the remains of the sole unknown victim of a Winnipeg serial killer. Grand Chief Kyra Wilson says she's grateful that the remains of two women — Marcedes Myran, 26, and Morgan Harris, 39, both originally from Long Plain First Nation — were found at the Prairie Green landfill north of Winnipeg, just months after the province started searching a targeted area. However, Wilson also wants to see an attempt to recover the remains of the unidentified women given the name Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe, or Buffalo Woman, by the community. Along with Harris, Myran and Rebecca Contois, 24, Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe was among the four Indigenous women murdered by serial killer Jeremy Skibicki in 2022. "Everyone is watching Manitoba right now with this landfill search, and now we have an opportunity to show everybody that we're not going to leave anybody behind, and so it's important that we continue on that search to find Buffalo Woman," Wilson said Wednesday. "There is a family out there that is missing a loved one, and there is no closure." WATCH | Grand Chief Kyra Wilson wants Prairie Green search to continue: AMC wants landfill search to continue in hopes of finding Buffalo Woman 3 days ago Duration 2:01 The head of The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs wants to see the search of the Prairie Green landfill continue in hopes of finding Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe, also known as Buffalo Woman. She is among the four women killed by convicted killer Jeremy Skibicki. The remains of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran, two of the other women, were discovered at Prairie Green - just months after the province started searching a targeted area. Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe has never been identified and her remains have never been found. Police have not publicly said whether they have a theory as to where her body might be, and very few details about her have been made public. Skibicki unexpectedly confessed to killing the four women when he was arrested and brought in for questioning by police in May 2022, after the partial remains of Contois were discovered in garbage bins near his North Kildonan apartment. In that police interview, he described Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe as Indigenous and in her early 20s, with dark patches on her skin, an average build and short hair. He also said she was the first woman he killed, in mid-March 2022. DNA tests on a jacket it's believed she wore were also not enough to identify the woman, court heard during Skibicki's trial last year. Skibicki said he met Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe outside of the Salvation Army shelter in Winnipeg, adding there was still snow on the ground at the time and that COVID-19 pandemic restrictions had just been lifted in Manitoba. Those restrictions were lifted on March 15, 2022. Skibicki also said he was coming down from being high on mushrooms when he got upset with the woman after she tried to steal from him. Skibicki said after killing her, he put her remains into a dumpster behind a business on Henderson Highway. He also gave police the name of a person he believed was the woman he had killed, but that person was later found alive. 'Still a lot of work to be done' On Monday, when the province confirmed Myran's remains had been found at the landfill, Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew did not answer questions on whether the search at Prairie Green would continue in an attempt to find Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe. He said a decision on the province's next steps will be made jointly between the government and the families of Harris and Myran. "There's always that desire to push the story forward, and I fully respect that," he told reporters. "But at the outset of this search, to be able to say that we would return Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran seemed like — at the very least — a really tall order." Manitoba Families Minister Nahanni Fontaine said the province's current priority is to bring Harris and Myran home from Prairie Green. "I remind folks that [it] has only been in the last couple of weeks that we have found the remains of Morgan and Marcedes, and there's still a lot of work to be done there," she said Friday. Police declined to comment on whether they have information about where the remains of Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe are, and whether they may be at Prairie Green or the city-run Brady Road landfill in Winnipeg, where some of Contois's remains were found. Gene Bowers, Winnipeg's new police chief, told CBC News on Monday that investigators are still trying to identify Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe. After police went to Prairie Green as part of their homicide investigation on June 20, 2022, the landfill stopped using two cells where Harris and Myran's remains were believed to have ended up. Dumping hasn't been allowed in that area since. 'What is our break point?' An American police chief who studied landfill searches says he was ecstatic to learn that the remains of Harris and Myran were recovered, but adds Manitoba should keep searching for Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe — if the destination of the garbage truck that picked up her remains is known. "I would encourage continuing the search, because they would have … the co-ordinates of where trash came in on a particular day," Brian Paulsen told CBC News. While police have previously said they believed they knew the cells, or areas, of the Prairie Green landfill where the remains of Harris and Myran were dumped, the trucks involved did not have GPS units on board to track their location or video cameras. The City of Winnipeg has said that while all city waste hauling contracts include a requirement for cameras and GPS systems on vehicles, there are different requirements for facilities like the privately run Prairie Green landfill. Paulsen also said the searchers are equally important as the people they're tasked to look for, and their safety must also be considered. "You've successfully found two of the three [women] without any injury — you really have to consider yourself lucky," Paulsen said. "There's just so many variables in a landfill, and in that search, and then the materials where a person could get injured." Paulsen was chief of police in Plattsmouth, Neb., in 2003 when he led the search of a landfill for the body of a four-year-old boy. The unsuccessful search was halted after 45 days. "There's always that, 'What if?'" Paulsen said. "That can really destroy you if you let it get too far." He later completed his study on landfill searches, as well as a master's thesis on the subject in the United States. He says Manitoba should outline the parameters of the Prairie Green search with Indigenous leaders and the families of Harris and Myran. "I would sit down with them and say, 'What is our break point? At what point do we say we've exhausted all avenues?'" Wilson says the AMC receives regular correspondence from community members who ask the organization to call for a search for Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe's remains. "I know that the community wants to continue looking for her, and that's what we will push for," the grand chief said. After all the uncertainty that surrounded the search for Harris and Myran, Wilson says she felt hopeful when she learned both women's remains had been found at Prairie Green. "There's also this sadness that comes with it, because it is confirmation that they have been in the landfill, and what they experienced was something that no one should experience." Support is available for anyone affected by these reports and the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous people. Immediate emotional assistance and crisis support are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week through a national hotline at 1-844-413-6649.
