Humans, On Rights Stuart Murray

More than 50 years after passing the passing of the Official Languages Act, 1969, Canada’s official languages face new challenges. Despite a 50 percent increase in bilingualism since 1969 and a record number of youth who are studying French as a second language, the growth rate of Canada’s official-language minority communities is slower than overall population growth. Fact. There are one million Francophones outside of Quebec.The French language remains in a vulnerable position nationally and provincially. Remember in 1976 when Georges Forest received a parking ticket written in English only in the Francophone community of St. Boniface? And the Supreme Court of Canada desion?Daniel Boucher, the executive director of the Société de la francophone manitobaine (SFM) certainly does. Daniel Boucher has been leading French rights in Manitoba for the past four decades. Interesting to note that during those four decades he has outdistanced seven Manitoba premiers and six Canadian prime ministers. Boucher will be stepping on August 30, 2024. His legacy will live on for many decades to come.Some of the major advancements under Daniel Boucher’s leadership:The rights of linguistic minorities to control their own education.The Charlottetown Accord, bilingual licence plates to name but a few Services:The City of Winnipeg, a bilingual Winnipeg logo and taglineWelcoming Francophones from Europe and Africa lead to the creation of Accueil francophoneEconomy: Creation of SFM’s Réseau Communautaire, involved in the Association of Bilingual Municipalities in Manitoba and CDEM


Daniel Boucher was a collaborator with a strong unifying spirit. For those and many other characters of passion and strength, Daniel Boucher has made Manitoba a more inclusive a more bilingual and therefore a most relevant province for all Manitobans. Félicitations pour le travail bien fait!!

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Adult Film Maker; Human Rights Advocate Kate Sinclaire has been making body- and sex-positive adult film and photography in Winnipeg since 2008.

Her kind presence and dedication to showcasing people for who they are has changed the lives of countless people that have either collaborated with her or simply have been able to enjoy her work.

Kate not only creates art that inspires and empowers, but also bridges the gap between those that think pornography is inherently negative and those that feel it is a positive part of adult sexuality — speaking on porn literacy, performer safety, sex worker rights, and more.

Her philanthropic site, Cherrystems.com, has financially supported numerous shelters, drop in programs, individuals, and community groups right here in Winnipeg.

Kate’s films, as Ciné Sinclaire, have a dedication to representation of a myriad of body types, interests, sexualities, and narratives. Her future only brings more opportunity for education and dialogue and she focuses on filmmaking and community education.

Website: https://www.Cherrystems.com

Twitter: @MsKateSinclaire

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Diane Roussin is an Anishinaabe ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᒃ community leader passionately committed to the pursuit of mino bimaadiziwin(the good life) for all families and children. Her in-depth knowledge of Indigenous issues and solutions flow directly from her strong sense of identity and worldview. She is a proud member of Skownan First Nation in Agowidiiwinan Treaty 2 Territory.Diane is currently the Project Director of The Winnipeg Boldness Project, an ambitious social innovation initiative seeking to create large scale systems change for children and families in the Point Douglas neighbourhood.

Working tirelessly, primarily in Winnipeg’s inner city, for initiatives that promote Indigenous People’s values, world views and ways of knowing, being, doing and feeling, she has led many projects and organizations including as Executive Director of the Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre, as Co-Director of Community Education Development Association, and as Coordinator of The Centennial Neighbourhood Project. She is adept at leading collaborative processes that involve numerous cross-sector partners and stakeholders.Diane serves on the Board of Directors of Animikii Indigenous Technology, the Winnipeg Foundation and the Winnipeg Art Gallery. She is a member of the Indigenous Advisory Council at the Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies and Chair of the Indigenous Innovation Initiative Council.Diane presented at TEDx Winnipeg in June 2018 on the topic of Indigenous social innovation and in January 2018, was awarded the Governor General’s Meritorious Service Medal for Outstanding Indigenous Leadership. She is a recipient of the Manitoba Women Trailblazers Award by the Nellie McClung Foundation.

Diane holds both Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Social Work Degrees. Diane Roussin is an Anishinaabe ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᒃ community leader passionately committed to the pursuit of mino bimaadiziwin (the good life) for all families and children. Her in-depth knowledge of Indigenous issues and solutions flow directly from her strong sense of identity and worldview. She is a proud member of Skownan First Nation in Agowidiiwinan Treaty 2 Territory.

Diane is currently the Project Director of The Winnipeg Boldness Project, an ambitious social innovation initiative seeking to create large scale systems change for children and families in the Point Douglas neighbourhood. Working tirelessly, primarily in Winnipeg’s inner city, for initiatives that promote Indigenous People’s values, world views and ways of knowing, being, doing and feeling, she has led many projects and organizations including as Executive Director of the Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre, as Co-Director of Community Education Development Association, and as Coordinator of The Centennial Neighbourhood Project. She is adept at leading collaborative processes that involve numerous cross-sector partners and stakeholders.

Diane serves on the Board of Directors of Animikii Indigenous Technology, the Winnipeg Foundation and the Winnipeg Art Gallery. She is a member of the Indigenous Advisory Council at the Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies and Chair of the Indigenous Innovation Initiative Council. Diane presented at TEDx Winnipeg in June 2018 on the topic of Indigenous social innovation and in January 2018, was awarded the Governor General’s Meritorious Service Medal for Outstanding Indigenous Leadership. She is a recipient of the Manitoba Women Trailblazers Award by the Nellie McClung Foundation. Diane holds both Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Social Work Degrees.

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On this episode of Humans, on Rights, we talk to Kirsten Wurmann, the Program Director for the Manitoba Library Association about how libraries are feeling pressure to remove certain books from the library and because of that libraries should not be neutral spaces. Libraries need to be accountable to our community and our community is comprised of people from a myriad of backgrounds. She believes that libraries must reflect the communities that we serve, and that all of our community members should feel represented within their library collection. Therefore, Wurmann says libraries are not neutral because we do care about the community so much and that’s what guides our work.Kirsten Wurmann is passionate about human rights, about diversity, about inclusivity and accessibility. And all those values need to be reflected when someone walks into a library.With the support of the Association of Manitoba Book Publishers, the Manitoba Library Association has announced a new award called the Human Rights Book Award. This Human Rights Book Award will support and recognize Manitoba libraries hard work to uphold library values of intellectual freedom while at the same time reflecting their community’s need for inclusive and diverse library spaces. If you want to nominate someone or a library, go to www.mla.mb.ca and go to the MLA Award Nomination Form.

NOTE: THE DEADLINE FOR THE NOMINATIONAS FOR THE 2024 AWARD IS MAY1, 2024.

Wurmann has worked tirelessly as a volunteer to bring books and create a library inside provincial carceral institutions where libraries are currently not legislated. She is a Member, Prison Libraries Committee. If you want to find a way to support this program, please go to www.mla.mb.ca.X:

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As a young Black man growing up in Winnipeg Rich Thomas remembers his parents saying to him “you are living in a society where you are not the majority, and a s a young Black person, you are going to have to work twice as hard for half as much”. Those words had an enormous impact on his early years. And when we spoke on this episode of humans, on Rights Rich talked about how he took the words of his loving parents to heart.

Rich Thomas shares his personal story of running his own business, his challenges and his success and his realization that regardless of how successful his business was, he was never acknowledged or recognized as the manager….simply because of the colour of his skin. That is when Rich recognized that he needed to establish himself as a champion for diversity. He believed that if he could chart a path as a successful champion of diversity, he could chart a course and mentor other marginalized people to becoming leaders.

Today Rich Thomas is a leadership coach. Rich is the Founder and Global Chair of Jet in Colour, an employee resource group focussed on marginalized ethnic communities currently spanning Canada, the UK, Germany and the Netherlands.

As an avid collector of shoes, the large majority Nike shoes, Rich is a classic example of “just do it”.

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“We absolutely should have publicly funded prevention of pregnancy and not just publicly funded abortion.”

On this episode oh Humans, on Rights we talk with Dr. Martha Paynter, Dalhousie School of Nursing scholar, researcher, writer, nurse, activist and board chair of Wellness Within about why she wrote her book Abortion to Abolition: Reproductive Health and Justice in Canada. Dr. Paynter believes that the history of abortion decriminalization and critical advocacy efforts to improve access in Canada deserve to be better known. Ordinary people persevered to make Canada the most progressive country in the world with respect to abortion care. But while abortion access is poorly understood, so too are the persistent threats to reproductive justice in this country: sexual violence, gun violence, homophobia and transphobia, criminalization of sex work, reproductive oppression of Indigenous women and girls, privatization of fertility health services, and the racism and colonialism of policing and the prison system.

Paynter encourages Canadians to ask their health-care providers about prescribing medical abortion through pharmaceutical drugs such as Mifepristone. Through further conversations with patients on abortion care, Paynter is confident that Canadian health-care providers will grow in confidence around providing access to abortion care, ultimately allowing the topic to become more normalized in Canadian society.

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