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Dr. Dick Smith pauses to think about how many patients he has.
‘A true hero'
Doctor who worked through AIDS crisis retiring after remarkable career
Dr. Dick Smith is in his 52nd year of practising medicine. He's announced his retirement from Our Own Health Centre, which specializes in LGBT health in Winnipeg.
Smith, who started practising in Manitoba in the early days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, is a gay doctor and activist who's had a huge impact on the health of gay men in this province.
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Austin Grabish • CBC News • Posted Mar 19, 2019
Lake St. Martin community member Edee O'Meara with Angus Richard, an elder who never left the reserve even after an evacuation order came down in 2011. This May marks six years since the community flooded. Those that were evacuated have never returned home. (Austin Grabish/CBC)
Death toll in flooded-out Manitoba First Nation hits 92 as evacuees wait to return home
Many residents died from illnesses the community believes are related to stress and lifestyle changes
Diane Sinclair wants to give her daughter a proper resting place, but it's a wish that seems impossible for the Lake St. Martin mother.
"It's like a sponge," says Sinclair of the saturated earth where her daughter is buried without a headstone in a cemetery in what's left of Lake St. Martin.
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Austin Grabish • CBC News • Posted April 17, 2017
Kemlin Nembhard says she and a group of friends were denied service in a Manitoba restaurant about 15 years ago. 'If you have been subject to that sort of behaviour before, you know deep in your gut when something like that's happening,' she says. (Austin Grabish/CBC)
Refused service, looked over for a job, profiled in a store: Black Manitobans recount experiences of racism
Growing up, Kemlin Nembhard was one of just two black kids in her school. She remembers elementary school in Winnipeg distinctly. "People were pretty awful, children were awful.… You know, name-calling, bullying. Stuff like that," she said.
"I would make sure I would get on the bus first because otherwise, I would never be able to find a seat.… People wouldn't let me sit beside them."
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Austin Grabish • CBC News • Posted Jun 05, 2020
911 call from asylum seeker who nearly froze to death
A 911 call made by a Somali refugee claimant who nearly froze to death in a brutal Manitoba winter provides rare insight into the extraordinary measures asylum seekers take to get into Canada.
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Austin Grabish • CBC News • Posted Jun 17, 2019
Man tortured in Chechnya for being gay finds refuge in Canada
A 27-year-old who was tortured in Chechnya for being gay is sharing his story to inspire others from his community whose lives are still in danger.
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Austin Grabish • CBC News • Posted Sep 17, 2019