Aboriginal History The Focus Of New Education Policy
Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger says his government will ensure students in Manitoba learn the legacy of residential schools as well as the '60s Scoop.
The '60s Scoop refers to the practice in the 1960s and beyond of removing aboriginals from their families to live in non-aboriginal homes.
Selinger says his government will introduce legislation this fall for a new First Nation, Metis and Inuit education policy for teaching the history, as well as culture, traditional values, and contemporary lifestyles of aboriginals and the significance of treaties.
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Missing Autistic Boy Located Safely
An autistic teenager who went missing in Winnipeg last week after his father dropped him off at school has been found safe, but very far from home in Pickering, Ontario.
RCMP in East St. Paul say in a news release that 16-year-old Nicholas Read was located ``safe and sound'' late Saturday.
The say they won't be releasing further details out of respect for his family, but thanked the public and media for their help.
Rob and Corrine Read says their son hitched a ride with a trucker, who then called police after dropping him off in Ontario.
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P&H Elevator Demolition Goes Smoothly
The blaster in charge of the demolition of the Parrish and Heimbecker elevator in Saskatoon says the job went perfectly over the weekend.
Tristan Rakowski says elevators have to be rolled because their internal structure is too rigid to allow them to collapse inward like other buildings.
The concrete structure stood since 1910, but closed last year when the company moved operations outside the city.
Firefighters blocked off storm drains during the detonation to prevent any potential runoff from entering them, and then stood by just in case something went wrong.
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Herbicide Advise From Canola Council
The Canola Council of Canada is encouraging producers to get out in the field after they've sprayed to see how the herbicide has performed.
Angela Brackenreed of the council says at least 21 different weed species on the Canadian Prairies are resistant to a number of different herbicides.
Brackenreed says resistance to glyphosate is a huge threat to production, so it's important to manage it effectively.
Brackenreed reminds growers to always follow the label directions when using herbicides.
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Environmental Groups Advocating For Cleaning Up Great Lakes
Canada and the US are getting an earful from environmental groups about not doing enough to protect the Great Lakes from chemical pollution.
The groups cite a new report that finds a bi-national committee tasked with tackling the problem three years ago has come up with only four toxins to list as chemicals of concern.
The Canadian Environmental Law Association says governments in both countries must get serious about stopping toxins -- especially pollutants from consumer products -- from entering the Great Lakes.
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Search Broadens For Escaped Convicts
The search for two convicted killers who escaped a northern upstate New York prison more than two weeks ago is ranging far and wide as authorities check out reported sightings.
Authorities converged last night on Mountain View, a hamlet south of the Ontario-Quebec border, after reports a person was seen running from a hunting camp.
Officials say the immediate area surrounding the prison in Dannemora remains a major focus.
But hundreds of searchers have also been checking out two towns 560 kilometres away following a sighting report near the Pennsylvania border.
