Red River Volunteers Learning About Remains
Volunteers from a group that's been searching the Red River in Winnipeg for human remains are getting training from a forensic anthropologist.
Emily Holland, an assistant professor in the Anthropology Department at Brandon University, led a three-hour workshop yesterday afternoon for members of Drag the Red.
The group's volunteers had the opportunity during the workshop to compare human and animal remains.
The volunteers are in their second year of looking for clues in unsolved cases of missing and murdered indigenous women.
Harper In Germany For G7 Summit
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is in G7 summit meetings today with the prospect of being drawn into discussions about climate change -- something he has been criticized for ignoring.
Germany, with the firm backing of neighbour France, is linking climate change to global security following a report prepared for G7 foreign ministers in April.
The report says climate change will aggravate already fragile situations and may contribute to social upheaval and even violent conflict.
That characterization has some observers wondering whether it might make climate change more appealing to Harper -- who puts a lot of emphasis on security issues.
Also at the summit leaders are giving time to discuss the crisis in Ukraine.
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Mulcair Offers More Gas Tax Money To Cities
NDP Leader Tom Mulcair has told the Federation of Canadian Municipalities convention in Edmonton that an NDP government would give municipalities an extra $1.5-billion each year for roads, bridges and other infrastructure by the end of its first term.
Mulcair is promising Canada's cities an extra penny from the existing gas tax.
Mulcair says successive Liberal and Conservative governments have made empty promises and failed to make a dent in what he called "Canada's infrastructure deficit.''
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MB Senator Responds To Auditor-General
A Manitoba senator says trips she took that were flagged by the auditor general all met the guidelines in the Senate travel policy.
Janis Johnson has responded to auditor-general Michael Ferguson's audit of Senate expenses in a post to her website.
Johnson says the auditor acknowledges that Senate business took place on the trips in question, but she says the auditor felt the trips were more for personal reasons than for parliamentary business.
Johnson says the genesis for all of the trips was parliamentary business and that personal affairs were only added to the trips after that.
She says the Senate Travel Policy actually provides for the blending of personal business with parliamentary business.
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Ronnie Gilbert
Iconic folk singer Ronnie Gilbert has died.
She was 88.
Gilbert was a member of the influential 1950s quartet The Weavers, who led a folk revival with their singles "Goodnight Irene,'' "Wimoweh,'' and "If I Had A Hammer.''
