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INSIDE Arts and Life C1 Business B5 Classifieds D7 Comics C5 Diversions C6-7 Horoscope C4 Jumble C6 Miss Lonelyhearts C4 Obituaries D6 Opinion A6-7 Sports D1 Television C4 Weather B8 READER SERVICE ● GENERAL INQUIRIES 204-697-7000 CIRCULATION INQUIRIES MISSING OR INCOMPLETE PAPER? Call or email before 10 a.m. weekdays or 11 a.m. Saturday City: 204-697-7001 Outside Winnipeg: 1-800-542-8900 press 1 6:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. Monday-Friday.; 7 a.m. - noon Saturday; Closed Sunday TO SUBSCRIBE: 204-697-7001 Out of Winnipeg: 1-800-542-8900 The Free Press receives support from the Local Journalism Initiative funded by the Government of Canada The province also launched cross-claims against the City of Winnipeg and the Attorney General of Canada, saying if a court does order the province to pay damages, the city and federal government should be responsible for paying it instead. James Lockyer, a lawyer for the two men and director of Innocence Canada, said the statement of defence is not what Woodhouse or Anderson wanted to hear. “It’s frustrating … the finger pointing,” Lockyer said Wednesday. “They are just looking for compensation and that’s it. It would be nice if everyone could get together and sort out what’s appropriate.” Restaurant worker Ting Fong Chan was stabbed to death in Winnipeg in 1973. Woodhouse and Anderson, along with brothers Clarence and Russell Woodhouse — all from Pinaymootang First Nation — were convict- ed and given life sentences in 1974. Anderson received parole in 1987 and Woodhouse in 1990. Russell died in 2011, while Clarence served 12 years in prison before being paroled in 1987. During a 2023 hearing, where Woodhouse and Anderson were acquitted, Michele Jules, Manito- ba Prosecution Service executive director, said their confessions had been “entirely manufac- tured by police detectives.” In October, Clarence walked out of court an innocent man for the first time in half a century after Manitoba Court of King’s Bench Chief Jus- tice Glenn Joyal issued an acquittal for him. The court had been told the case involving all four men included systemic racism, police brutality and false and forced confessions. Justice Minister Matt Wiebe said both he and Premier Wab Kinew have apologized to all four men for the miscarriage of justice. “We will never be able to give back the past that was robbed of these individuals and others in a similar situation, but we can take steps to move forward in a way that attempts to do right,” Wiebe said in a statement. “Manitoba is actively pursuing settlement dis- cussions with the plaintiffs in the hopes of quick- ly reaching a resolution to right this wrong.” Lockyer said Clarence “will likely be joining in the civil case” with the other two men. Lockyer said the estate of Russell is not eligible to join the lawsuit because he remains convicted in the slaying. “We haven’t got his conviction quashed by the minister yet,” said the lawyer. “We are still hop- ing that will happen, but it hasn’t happened yet. Russell still stands convicted of manslaughter. There’s nothing we can do in his case until we’ve quashed the conviction.” Last year, both the city and the federal gov- ernment filed statements of defence with both denying legal liability for the miscarriages of justice. kevin.rollason@freepress.mb.ca Earlier this month, city spokesperson Adam Campbell said officials were “aware of this situa- tion and are currently investigating it.” Ten days later, after the Free Press asked why no action had been taken despite multiple reports from residents and a city councillor, Campbell said the city was “continuing to investigate the situation.” No further details were provided. The landlord said he asked bylaw enforcement to provide him with some kind of order that he could use to convince the tenant to move the camper, but never received one. He’s not sure how he’s supposed to move the camper without one. “I’ll have all bark, no bite, because what am I going to do?” he said. “I don’t have anybody that can throw this thing off of there. So I can threaten them all I want. Who’s going to move it?” He stressed that typically, bylaw officers have been a helpful resource and he questions why this situation is allowed to continue. “What can I do if bylaw (officers) can’t do anything?” Public works committee chair Coun. Janice Lukes said that while she wasn’t familiar with the case, she isn’t surprised to hear there had been a long delay in addressing it. “We can barely keep up with the amount of complaints that come in,” she said. According to Lukes (Waverley West), the bylaw enforcement branch receives around 16,000 service requests a year that result in more than 30,000 inspections, and issues 8,000 orders and in excess of 3,000 tickets annually. If people are living in the camper, it complicates the issue beyond simple enforcement, she said. “Honestly, I can see them probably turning a blind eye to it because they’d sooner have them live in a trailer than on the riverbank,” she said. malak.abas@freepress.mb.ca “We’ll make sure that it’s fair across the coun- try, but nothing can be off the table if the U.S. continues to choose to move forward with these punishing tariffs on both Canadians and Ameri- cans,” Trudeau said. He also opened the door to providing federal bailouts for industries or regions that are affect- ed by tariffs. “We’ve made the commitment to do everything we can, and I know everyone around the table has agreed to, if their region is less impacted, they’ll do what they can to help out regions that are more impacted,” he said. Canada is the top supplier of foreign oil to the U.S. and accounts for about one-fifth of its oil supply. Energy Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, who was in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, said initial retaliatory tariffs will be targeted. “If we have to do more we will look at other things, but the idea of tariffing energy will prob- ably be one of the last things,” he said. Trudeau and the premiers said they plan to continue making the case to the Trump adminis- tration that tariffs will hurt American business- es and industry, too. “The question that we ask ourselves first and foremost is, if the new administration chooses to bring in tariffs, what is it that we can do that result in the lifting of those tariffs as quickly as possible?” Trudeau said. — The Canadian Press SQUATTERS ● FROM A1 WRONGFUL ● FROM A1 CANADA ● FROM A1 Previous abuse factored into lessened sentence for slaying S AVANNAH Dueck was having a psychotic epi- sode after smoking meth and not sleeping for days when she beat her grandfather to death with a baseball bat as he lie in bed in 2022. Cornelius (Neil) Schroeder, 69, was likely asleep when his adopted granddaughter began the brutality. The attack, which Court of King’s Bench Jus- tice Sadie Bond said involved “a horrific level of brutal violence,” caused extensive injuries to his face and head, as well as bruising to his low- er abdomen and genitals. Blood was on the walls and ceiling of the master bedroom of his home on Whitby Crescent in Steinbach on July 29, 2022. Dueck, 37, had been released from jail about a week earlier. Her mother and grandmother had arranged for her to stay with Schroeder, who had been diagnosed with early stage dementia, while her grandmother went on a trip. RCMP charged her with second-degree mur- der but, Monday in a Winnipeg courtroom, Dueck pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaugh- ter. Dueck was sentenced to 10 years in prison, less time served, based on a joint recommendation from Crown prosecutor Shahzad Musaddiq and defence lawyer Leonard Tailleur. Musaddiq said Dueck has a history of sub- stance abuse and likely has mental health issues, although she hasn’t been formally diagnosed. Amanda Kroeker, Schroeder’s daughter, read an emotional statement to the court in which she expressed deep grief and the desire for justice, as well as her hope that Dueck, whom she consid- ers a little sister and a niece, will be rehabilitated from her addictions. “My repeated cries of ‘why’ still go unanswered and may forever go unanswered,” she said. She began to cry as she said Dueck’s place in her heart has never changed, adding that the Dueck she knew to be sweet, kind and gentle was not capable of such violence. Kroeker said she fears Dueck will fall back into addiction upon release from prison and move back in with her grandmother with the same deadly re- sult, so wants Dueck to attend rehab and therapy. Musaddiq told court that Dueck disclosed at Adult and Teen Challenge, a substance abuse pro- gram, that she had been abused as a child. Reading from an agreed statement of facts, the prosecutor said Dueck had told a friend her granddad had sexually assaulted her as a child. “There is no tolerance, absolutely, for vigilan- tism or the public taking matters into their own hands, it’s completely unjustified. However, the accused’s personal circumstances, Gladue fac- tors, the history of her abuse, mental health and substance addiction were all factors that led to the (sentencing) recommendation,” said Musaddiq. Musaddiq said Dueck’s mom, Joanne Thomas Dueck, who is the adopted daughter of the victim and his wife, had gone to their home on the after- noon of the killing. She found a note written by Dueck outside the front door. “‘I’m really sorry, I f—d up bad. Don’t go in upstairs bedroom, please forgive me. Don’t let (grandma) come in here,’ and lastly, ‘there were spirits testing,’ and ‘you will not want to go in there,’” said Musaddiq, reading from the note. Thomas Dueck found her daughter barricaded in the computer room. Schroeder’s bedroom door was locked. A wooden bat was in the kitchen sink. Her mother called the RCMP from outside the home and said she believed Dueck had killed Schroeder. RCMP found the baseball bat and broke into the bedroom. “The master bedroom was covered with blood, including on the walls and ceiling,” said Musad- diq. “It was obvious to the RCMP that Cornelius was dead.” Mounties arrested her and took her to the Stein- bach detachment, where she exhibited odd behav- iour that suggested she was intoxicated. They did not interview her until the next day, when she told officers she was “fighting demons” and had heard voices in her head telling her “don’t let him live,” Musaddiq told court. Thomas Dueck had noticed her daughter’s odd behaviour one day before the attack and had tried to get her to a crisis unit, but she refused to go, said Musaddiq. Dueck’s lawyer noted her previous lawyer had arranged for an assessment to determine whether Dueck was fit for trial. She was ultimately found fit, but a forensic psychiatrist found she had a his- tory of psychosis without a clear cause, though stimulant abuse is a main factor. Tailleur said she has an Indigenous background and struggled with substance abuse beginning in her teens. She then went to Adult and Teen Chal- lenge in 2012 in Brandon, but relapsed and spir- alled after the end of a long relationship in 2018. erik.pindera@freepress.mb.ca ERIK PINDERA RRC Polytech in charge of $95-M grant program RRC Polytech in Winnipeg has been put in charge of doling out $95 million under a federal grant pro- gram for research and entrepreneurial training. On Wednesday MP Terry Duguid, the minister responsible for Prairies Economic Development, announced RRC would helm one of four cross-Can- ada networks. RRC, which will lead a network of 30 colleges and universities, has been awarded $24 million. “We do this because we understand that in to- day’s global economy, innovation is our greatest currency. Countries compete not only for resour- ces, but also for their ability to generate and com- mercialize transformative ideas,” Duguid said at the announcement at RRC’s Notre Dame campus. The grants fund research and innovation in the private, public, not-for-profit and health services sectors. The other networks will be headed by Dal- housie University, Simon Fraser University and the University of Guelph. The funds RRC’s network was granted will be used to “bring more academic research ideas to reality, support Indigenous business and drive eco- nomic growth.” Funding ranges from $1 million to $10 million per year for up to five years. RRC president and CEO Fred Meier said the polytechnic has touted the role of applied research at the institution and said the school’s model is that of “deep collaboration.” “The fact that (Natural Sciences and Engineer- ing Research Council of Canada) has awarded its largest grant to a polytechnic or a college validates the work and the approach that we have taken.” nicole.buffie@freepress.mb.ca NICOLE BUFFIE ;