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City of Winnipeg did too little to search landfill for women, families say in human rights complaint
The families of two First Nations women whose remains are believed to have been deposited in landfills in the Winnipeg area have filed a human rights complaint against the city, saying not enough was done to find their loved ones.
Migrants 'nothing but dollar signs' to accused human smugglers, U.S. prosecutors say in closing arguments
Jurors in the Minnesota trial of two alleged human smugglers arrested after a family from India froze to death while trying to walk across the Manitoba-U.S. border in 2022 were given three very different stories to weigh during closing arguments on Thursday.
'I was very scared,' migrant who survived crossing border in blizzard says at human smuggling trial
A 23-year-old Indian national now working as a cashier at a doughnut shop in Chicago as he awaits the conclusion of his immigration case told a human smuggling trial Wednesday he still remembers the harrowing journey he made across the Manitoba-U.S. border during a blinding snowstorm almost three years ago — and the family who never made it to the other side.
Family called for help before freezing to death near Manitoba-U.S. border in 2022, smuggler testifies
As a family of four from India struggled through a brutal snowstorm that would eventually take their lives near the Manitoba-U.S. border almost three years ago, they called one of the people who had sent them there to ask for help, the Minnesota trial of two alleged human smugglers heard Tuesday.
Alleged human smugglers motivated by money in case where family died crossing Manitoba-U.S. border: prosecutor
Prosecutors say the case boils down to one thing: two men putting profit above people's lives in a human smuggling scheme that led to the deaths of a family from India in 2022.
Trial begins Monday for 2 men accused of human smuggling after family's deaths at Manitoba-U.S. border
A long-awaited trial in Minnesota is scheduled to begin Monday with jury selection for two men accused of helping smuggle people across the U.S.-Canada border, including four members of an Indian family who froze to death in Manitoba as they tried to make it across in blizzard conditions.
All charges stayed on 2nd day of trial against Manitoba priest accused of sexually assaulting girl
A Manitoba priest accused of sexually assaulting a now-nine-year-old girl in Little Grand Rapids First Nation last year has had all charges against him stayed, a day after the girl at the centre of the case testified against him.
Court hears from 9-year-old girl who says she was sexually assaulted by Manitoba priest last year
A now nine-year-old girl who says she was sexually assaulted by a priest last year in Little Grand Rapids First Nation told court on Tuesday she remembers feeling scared as the priest allegedly walked her to his bedroom inside the church that day.
Man sentenced to 15 years for 'entirely preventable' fatal 2022 Christmas Day apartment fire in Winnipeg
A cognitively challenged man who admitted to starting an apartment fire that killed two people on Christmas morning almost two years ago broke down crying in the prisoner’s box Monday as the victims’ families told him through tears of their own how his actions changed their lives forever.
Man sentenced to 3 years for sexually assaulting woman he picked up on highway, assaulting teenage girl
A man who sexually assaulted a woman he picked up on the side of the road in northern Manitoba last year and assaulted a teenage girl years earlier has been sentenced to three years in prison, minus the time he's already served.