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News in Review - October 2019 Tina Fontaine: A Murdered Girl's Legacy
Tina Fontaine was just 15 when her body, wrapped in a duvet cover and weighed down by rocks, was pulled from Winnipeg’s Red River. A report from the Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth says in the years since her murder, not enough has changed to ensure other children in circumstances similar to Tina’s are not at risk. But Tina ...
- 2019
- 00:12:09
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- Added on: 10/17/2019
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The National Tina Fontaine report: “Not enough has changed” since teen’s death, says advocate
Tina Fontaine died in 2014. A report from the Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth says in the years since, not enough has changed to ensure other children don’t die.
- 2019
- 00:02:19
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- Added on: 03/26/2019
CBC News #Beyond94 – Aging out: First Nations youth on life after foster care
Meet a young Manitoba man who's just aged out of foster care. For Troy Bird, turning 18 wasn't nearly as happy an occasion as it is for most young adults. For him, it was terrifying. He was one of the estimated 11,000 children and youth in the care of the Manitoba child welfare system, close to 90 per cent of ...
- 2018
- 00:09:45
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- Added on: 05/18/2018
CBC Docs POV Indictment: The Crimes of Shelly Chartier
This is a riveting true story about a reclusive young woman from a small Manitoba First Nation who made international headlines. Shelly Chartier was portrayed by the media as a master manipulator who used social media to target an NBA superstar and an aspiring model. Through the sensitive and intelligent lens of Indigenous directors Lisa Jackson and Shane Belcourt, the ...
- 2017
- 00:44:10
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- Added on: 12/05/2017
CBC Short Docs Twilight Dancers
A group of Indigenous teenagers from Pimicikamak Cree Nation use square dancing to help heal from the trauma of a suicide epidemic in their remote Manitoba community.
- 2017
- 00:16:36
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- Added on: 11/27/2017
The Fifth Estate Cross Lake: "This Is Where I Live"
Last winter, five young people killed themselves in the northern Indigenous community of Cross Lake, Manitoba. In the weeks that followed 140 more attempted suicide. Cross Lake declared a state of emergency. The Fifth Estate went to Cross Lake to find out why and spent nine months there, talking to people, filming – and giving young people their own cameras to tell ...
- 2017
- 00:59:24
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- Added on: 10/26/2017
