Selinger Set To Delivery '60s Scoop Apology
Manitoba is set today to become the first province to formally apologize to aboriginal adoptees.
Premier Greg Selinger is scheduled to deliver the apology in the legislature following an honouring ceremony of victims of the so-called '60s Scoop.
Thousands of aboriginal children were taken by child-welfare agents from their homes starting in the 1960s and placed with non-aboriginal families.
Selinger has said the apology will acknowledge damage done to those who lost their culture and their families.
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Province Boosting Small Scale Food Sector Support
More support for the small scale food sector is coming from the Manitoba government.
A list of 21 recommendations were made to the province by the Small Scale Food Manitoba working group earlier this year, and Agriculture Minister Ron Kostyshyn says they've now started to act on them.
"We've assigned two staff people to work on the business development for small scale farmers and processors, and we continue to provide an education component with outstanding questions that anybody that's in an existing business that chooses to expand but also someone that may be interested in starting up a new business when we talk about small scale food processing."
Kostyshyn says these recommendations are aimed at helping both current and future entrepreneurs in the small scale food sector.
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Farmers Wrapping Up 2015 Seeding
Seeding progress across the Parkland area is essentially completed for the season.
According to this weeks provincial crop report, the odd greenfeed or reseeding still needs to occur, but Pam de Rocquigny with Manitoba Agriculture says seeding operations for the region have wrapped up.
"And of course with that... herbicide applications are also on-going now as kind of crops and weeds are advancing and definitely the nice weather that we had last week in terms of those warmer temperatures are definitely advancing crops as well."
Soil moisture levels are mostly adequate throughout the Parkland, but some regions would benefit from additional precipitation.
De Rocquigny points out the Roblin and the Swan Valley areas in particular as areas that would definitely appreciate some more rain.
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Nine Dead In Charleston Church Attack
Authorities in Charleston, South Carolina are still searching for a man who walked into a historic black church last night and opened fire, killing nine people.
The gunman is described as a white man in his 20s, and authorities are calling last night's shooting a hate crime.
Charleston Mayor Joseph Riley says the shooting during a prayer meeting at Emanuel AME Church is ``the most unspeakable and heartbreaking tragedy'' that can only be done by someone with hate in their hearts.
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US Challenging Retaliatory Trade Tariffs
The United States is challenging the math that's led the Canadian government to demand three billion dollars in punitive tariffs on American products in a potential trade war.
It's requesting arbitration to calculate an appropriate amount, as Canada moves toward tariffs in this decisive phase of a years-long battle at the World Trade Organization.
The arbitration request came at a meeting yesterday in Geneva, where Canada asked the WTO to approve the multibillion-dollar penalties in a long-running dispute over meat labelling.
Canada is in a position to retaliate after a series of rulings against an American law that requires meat sold in the U.S. to carry a label saying where it was born, raised and slaughtered.
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Anonymous Takes Credit For Federal Cyberattack
The cyber vigilante group Anonymous is taking credit for a cyberattack on on federal government websites, but Public Safety Minister Stephen Blaney says only law-enforcement will make that determination.
The ``denial-of-service'' attack shut down several federal servers yesterday and played havoc with government email.
Blaney says no personal information was compromised.
Anonymous says it staged the cyberattack to protest the Harper Conservative government's recent passage of the anti-terrorism bill and is planning a demonstration against Bill C-51 on Saturday.
