Manitoba

Firth House was a designated Provincial Heritage Site.

Jordan Charlie, a 24-year-old Inuk, was the fourth person police have shot and killed in Winnipeg this year — but he's the only one whose race is publicly known, and that's a problem, a criminologist says.

Kevin Walby says the Winnipeg Police Service should track and publicly release data about race in all police use-of-force interactions.

"It's the bare minimum any police service can do," said Walby, a criminology professor at the University of Winnipeg.

While some Canadian police services collect and publish data on racial identities when they use force, Winnipeg police neither tracks nor shares such data. Critics say this damages trust with racialized communities and hinders oversight.

Joe Thiessen, superintendent and CEO of the division, which manages public schools in Steinbach, Niverville, Landmark, and the rural municipality of Hanover, said the EAs have to be let go due to a funding shortfall related to changes in the application process for Jordan's Principle programming.

All 93 EAs being laid off were specifically working with Indigenous kids, Thiessen told CBC Manitoba Up To Speed guest host Emily Brass on Thursday.

He blames the situation on miscommunication from the province. Recently, the funding model shifted from a provincial one to a federal one, which the Hanover division was not aware of.