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CBC
4 days ago
- Politics
- CBC
Mining opponents demonstrate as Brokenhead Ojibway Nation votes on Sio Silica partnership
About 50 members of Brokenhead Ojibway Nation and their supporters gathered alongside Manitoba's Highway 59 on Friday morning to demonstrate against a band referendum on a prospective partnership with sand mining company Sio Silica. Band members are voting at the Private Thomas Chief Memorial Centre on Friday to approve or disapprove an offer by the Alberta mining company to share five per cent of the profits from its proposal to drill thousands of wells in southeastern Manitoba — outside Brokenhead's reserve lands — for silica sand. Sio Silica has previously said the band is being consulted because it is the closest First Nation to the wells the company intends to drill across a broad swath of land in the province. The company estimates the band eventually could receive up to $20 million a year from the deal, if the province grants Sio Silica an environmental licence. Manitoba's NDP government denied an initial licence application in 2024, citing uncertainty about the effect of sand mining on the quality of a drinking-water aquifer as well as concerns about potential collapses underground. Band members have been able to vote online in the referendum since Aug. 1. Friday was the only day where in-person voting took place — in the same hall where band members could obtain treaty payments and attend a health exposition during Treaty Days, the community's annual gathering. Brokenhead resident Taylor Galvin, a Sio Silica opponent who organized Friday's demonstration, took issue with the short notice for the referendum and the fact it's taking place during Treaty Days. "They sent out ballots on a Friday afternoon on a long weekend. They're forcing us to vote in something so detrimental during a time of celebration," Galvin said in an address. Brokenhead Chief Gordon Bluesky declined an interview request. In a statement posted Thursday on the band's website, the chief and his council said the vote was scheduled at a time when most members were available and gathered in community "to ensure maximum participation and transparency." The band council members said in the statement they are not taking a position on the referendum and are simply seeking a mandate from band members before they engage in further talks with Sio Silica. "This is why we are holding a referendum — to allow all eligible community members to have their say and determine the direction collectively," the band's council said in the online statement.
CTV News
23-06-2025
- CTV News
Mounties search for tips in Victoria Beach killings
An area in Victoria Beach, Man., is blocked off by police tape as officers investigate a double homicide on June 20, 2025. (Harrison Shin/CTV News Winnipeg) Mounties have yet to confirm the identity of a suspect in the deadly shootings that left two people dead in Victoria Beach, Man. late last week. In an update released Monday afternoon, the RCMP said investigators are still looking for information related to a white truck seen fleeing the area south on Highway 59. The bodies of a 29-year-old Winnipeg man and a 41-year-old Victoria Beach woman were found at a property on Hampton Road around 2 a.m. on Friday. Victoria Beach A map shows the location of Victoria Beach, Man. (CTV News Winnipeg) Police reiterated Monday that investigators continue to believe this was a targeted shooting and the risk to the community remains low. Since the shooting, the RCMP said investigators have spoken to the property owner and have canvassed the area for witnesses, surveillance camera footage, or any other evidence that could be of help. Anyone with information is asked to call RCMP at (204) 367-8728 or make an anonymous tip to Crime Stoppers online or by calling 1-800-222-8477.
CBC
20-06-2025
- CBC
Killer at large after Victoria Beach double homicide: Manitoba RCMP
Two people are dead and the killer is on the run after a double homicide in Manitoba cottage country, RCMP say. Police received reports of gunshots on Hampton Road in Victoria Beach, about 100 kilometres north of Winnipeg, around 2 a.m. on Friday, they said. Officers found a dead Winnipeg man, 29, and Victoria Beach woman, 41. Police believe the killer took off from the scene in a white truck and travelled down Highway 59 before officers arrived. The shooting doesn't appear to be random, RCMP said. Police know the incident will worry people in the small community on the east shore of Lake Winnipeg. "We want to reassure residents, as well as cottagers who may be heading up to that area this weekend, that these murders appear to be targeted, and at this time, we believe risk to public safety is low," RCMP Sgt. Evan Willcock with Manitoba RCMP major crime services said in a news release Friday morning.
CBC
02-06-2025
- General
- CBC
Man, 39, dead after vehicle jumps median, hits light pole in East St. Paul
A man is dead and another was airlifted to hospital after a vehicle jumped a median and crashed into a light pole just north of Winnipeg on Saturday afternoon. The crash happened on Highway 59 at Birds Hill Road in the rural municipality of East St. Paul, just north of Winnipeg, RCMP said in a news release Monday. Mounties received a report about a southbound vehicle driving erratically on the highway around 5 p.m. on Saturday. At the turn in the road at the intersection, the vehicle jumped over the median and crashed into a light pole, police said. Two people who were travelling in the vehicle were extracted, RCMP said. A 39-year-old passenger, a man from Winnipeg, died at the scene of the crash, police said. The driver, a 31-year-old man from Winnipeg, was airlifted to hospital in critical but stable condition. The crash remains under investigation, police said.
