Deaf Father Charged With Killing His Daughter

Deaf father charged with murder in stabbing of 3-year-old daughter.

WINNIPEG -- Frank Nausigimana, 28, allegedly abducted the girl from her mother at knifepoint before the stabbing.

A Winnipeg man has been charged with first-degree murder after allegedly abducting his three-year-old daughter and stabbing her to death Wednesday morning.

Police have charged Frank Nausigimana, 28, with first-degree murder. He is in custody.

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In a news release Thursday, Winnipeg police said it was believed that the estranged father abducted his daughter from her mother at knifepoint in her car in the Robertson neighbourhood before 9:30 a.m. Wednesday.

Soon after, officers received a tip and found the man and a vehicle in the area of Jefferson Avenue and King Edward Street.

Police said they found the girl inside, suffering from stab wounds. She was rushed to hospital in critical condition and pronounced dead.

"I can't imagine the grief and the pain family members are experiencing," Const. Jay Murray said at a Thursday news conference. "It's unbelievably horrific."

Murray said emergency personnel provided first aid and did everything they could, and that staff involved were shaken by the experience.

According to Murray, it was a matter of minutes from the time the initial call came in to when police believe the child was fatally injured.

"All this unfolded in an incredibly tight timeframe," he said, suggesting there was no time to issue an Amber Alert.

The mother and father split up soon after their daughter's birth, Murray said, and there hadn't been contact between them in recent months.

Nausigimana and the girl's mother were formerly longtime friends and each a member of Calvary Temple of the Deaf Followship in Winnipeg -- Read more at Deaf Church Reeling In The Wake of Homicide.

Murray declined to provide details when asked if there was a no-contact order in place against the man.

Asked about the broader context of homicides involving young children in Winnipeg in recent years, Murray said there had been several separate homicides of young children in the last year alone, with the deaths of two three-month-olds and a two and a half year old.

In October 2019, he said a three-year-old was stabbed and died in hospital the following month.

"That's another incident a lot of people are going to draw some comparisons with."

The circumstances of the girl's death will be equally shattering to the city's tight-knit ASL & Deaf community in Winnipeg.

SOURCE - CBC News

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Deaf Church Reeling In The Wake of Homicide

Members of Winnipeg Deaf Fellowship Church reeling in the wake of 3-year-old daughter's killing.

WINNIPEG -- 'It’s horrific. It’s awful,' Calvary Temple's Bruce Martin says.

Members of Winnipeg's Calvary Temple are devastated after learning this week the daughter of a longtime member was brutally killed, allegedly by the hands of her father - another longtime congregant.

Read more: Deaf Father Charged With Killing His Daughter

"I just couldn't believe this had happened," lead pastor Bruce Martin said Friday of the killing of the three-year-old on Wednesday. "It was so sad, oh my."

Winnipeg police have charged Frank Nausigimana, 28, with first-degree murder of his daughter, Jemimah, after he allegedly abducted her from her mother at knifepoint and killed her inside a car not long after.

Frank Nausigimana's Criminal History: Winnipeg Deaf Man Accused of Murdering Daughter Lacked Remorse For Assaulting Girl's Mother: Court Report

Nausigimana and the girl's mother were formerly longtime friends and each a member of Calvary Temple of the Deaf Followship.

While Martin isn't the pastor of that sub-ministry of the church, he said the person who is "loved them so much and is finding it so difficult."

He expects the entire congregation of the downtown Christian church will feel the same way.

"This little family were loved by a community of believers," he told CBC. "So right now for them it's the old, 'what did we miss? Why weren't we there? Why couldn't we help them? What went wrong?" he said.

"And there are no answers."

Jemimah's mother and Nausigimana had a major falling out after she became pregnant in 2017.

Court documents show Nausigimana assaulted her in the course of trying to force her to abort the unborn child. The woman applied for a protection order which prevented Nausigimana from attending the church when she was there.

She later told court she'd forgiven him and moved to have the order revoked, but tensions between them appeared to flare earlier this year after Nausigimana applied for joint custody of the girl, which she was opposed to. He alleged she'd cut off his access to her in early January.

Martin said he wasn't aware of the details of what was going on but said people in the church community knew there was conflict. He said the circumstances of the girl's death will be equally shattering to the city's tight-knit ASL & Deaf community.

"This will be devastating because they are so caring for each other and so connected to each other and they know each other so well. It's horrific. It's awful," he said.

Martin said he planned to address the matter in his Sunday sermon. He encouraged anyone who is struggling to reach out to get help.

"It happened because we live in a fallen world. People aren't perfect. Mental health is an issue and sometimes people make really bad choices," he said.

"Life is not always fair but there's always tomorrow," he said.

SOURCE - CBC News

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Deafness In Biblical - I Cannot Hear

The Biblical of Deafness "I Cannot Hear" by John Conrad Ruppel.

The Bible verses about "Deafness."

John Ruppel of Winnipeg attended the Full Gospel Church in Steinbach until he became a founding member of Calvary Temple of the Deaf Followship. He faithfully attended for 39 years. He wrote within a passionate about "I Cannot Hear" before he passed away in 2016 at age 77. He shares the song to you all with his love.

"I Cannot Hear"

Now in this life, I cannot hear. One day I will for Jesus cares.

I cannot hear the birds that sing, I cannot hear the bells that ring, I've never heard a baby cry, or heard the thunder in the sky.

Sometimes I'm lonely and I cry, I have to brush tears from my eye.

For in this life I cannot hear, One day I will for Jesus cares.

I thank my God that He saved me. I may be Deaf but I've been set free.

I have God's word in Heaven I will be, With Him for all enernity.

There I will praise the Lord and sing, There I will hear the bells that ring,

My Deafness gone forever more, I will sing with Him, my Lord adore, I will sing with Angels and happy be,

With Christ my Lord through eternity, For in this life, I cannot hear,

One day I will, for Jesus cares!

By John Conrad Ruppel.

The Deaf Will Hear, The Mute Will Speak:

They brought to Him one who was Deaf and spoke with difficulty, and they implored Him to lay His hand on him. Jesus took him aside from the crowd, by himself, and put His fingers into his ears, and after spitting, He touched his tongue with the saliva; and looking up to heaven with a deep sigh, He said to him, "Ephphatha!" that is, "Be opened!" And his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was removed, and he began speaking plainly. And He gave them orders not to tell anyone; but the more He ordered them, the more widely they continued to proclaim it. They were utterly astonished, saying, "He has done all things well; He makes even the Deaf to hear and the mute to speak." Mark 7:32-37.

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Canada Deaf Games Winnipeg 2018

Deaf Sports News: Winnipeg hosting 2018 Canada Deaf Games.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- The country’s top Deaf and Hard of Hearing athletes are in Winnipeg as the city plays host to the 2018 Canada Deaf Games Feb. 21-24.

Five sports are featured at the event, including basketball, bowling, curling, ice hockey, and volleyball.

Action began Wednesday morning and goes until Saturday and features around 175 athletes.

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“We want people to know that Deaf people can definitely be involved in high-level sports competition,” Ross Lavallee, a member of one of two Manitoba Deaf curling teams at the event, said.

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Lavallee, along with teammates John Gesner, Shawn Demianyk and Kayle Miller won the 2017 World Deaf Curling Championship in Sochi, Russia.

The winning men’s and women’s curling teams will represent Canada at the 2019 Deaflympics, while the hockey competition will be used to scout players for Team Canada at the Deaflympics.

Former Winnipeg Jets player Jim Kyte is taking part in the five-team hockey tournament along with eight members of his family.

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A full list of locations and game times can be found at the Canadian Deaf Sports Association’s website.

SOURCE - Global News

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First Deaf Canadian Iron Worker With Certificate

Winnipeg iron worker receives red seal certificate in Canada.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- Jonathon Anderson is a qualified tradesman. At 26 years of age, he's the first Deaf Canadian iron worker with a red seal certificate.

The national designation lets qualified tradespeople use their skills anywhere in the country, something Anderson said he’s very proud of.

“I'm very happy to be doing what I am doing,” Anderson explained using American Sign Language. “I love my job."

Anderson was diagnosed as Deaf shortly after his first birthday, when his parents noticed he was sleeping through loud noises.

His parents said he never let his hearing impairment get in the way of what he wanted to do.

“He learned to adapt, he couldn't hear but he always had his way of communicating," his mother Bertha Anderson said.

Growing up in Winnipeg, Anderson attended the Manitoba School for the Deaf and St.James Collegiate.

According to his mother, Anderson played hockey and football with the help of an interpreter and by finding unique ways to communicate with his teammates.

“The coaches would often write on the white board to help with the communication,” she said.

Anderson attended Red River College where he earned his iron working qualifications.

Last spring he took his red seal examination and passed.

On Sunday family, friends and mentors gathered at Union Centre to celebrate Anderson’s achievement.

Throughout his career Anderson has worked across the country, but his most significant job was at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.

It’s the building he is most proud to have helped build.

"My parents will say my son helped build that building and my sons will say daddy worked there," he explained.

Anderson has also worked on many other buildings in the city, including the RBC Convention Centre Winnipeg, University of Manitoba and True North Square.

He hopes what he has accomplished will inspire youth who also live with a hearing impairment to chase their dreams.

"I want to show people that Deaf people can work with people who are not Deaf," Anderson said.

“You can succeed and prove them wrong if they say you can’t, show them that you can."

SOURCE - CTV News

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Deaf 'Faced 'Disrespect' During Traffic Stops

Deaf Canadian drivers faced with disbelief, disrespect during Winnipeg traffic stops due to communication barriers.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- Two young Winnipeggers are urging Winnipeg Police Service to be more professional when dealing with people who are Deaf after both experienced officers who didn't believe them and refused to try to communicate with them at traffic stops.

Dana Zimmer and Jenna Irwin both experienced incredulous officers who didn't initially believe they were Deaf during traffic stops.

"It's happened a few times. I'm not a bad driver but it has happened a few times, and sometimes my interactions with police are very cordial – very simple, I'll get a ticket and that's it, but every once in a while it's just a little bit different," said Zimmer.

Zimmer remembers a time a few years ago when she was pulled over, and the officer started talking to her after she rolled down her window.

"Of course they'll be talking, that's natural, that's what they would normally do, and I gestured that I'm a Deaf individual and I use sign language," she said. "They just kind of gave me this look like they didn't believe me. They didn't actually think I was a Deaf person so they just kept talking to me as if I could understand them."

Zimmer said she tried again to communicate that she was Deaf, but the officer seemed frustrated.

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"I felt that I needed to prove myself as a Deaf individual, and I didn't know how I was going to do that other than saying that I was Deaf. I felt that they just didn't believe me," she said.

Zimmer said the officer motioned for her to get a pen and paper, which she didn't have handy, so he went to his car and came back with a ticket.

She said the ticket had to do with a new rule she wasn't aware of.

"When someone says they're Deaf, they need to be able to interact with them in an appropriate way," said Zimmer. "You're going to be interacting with different people in the community, and it needs to always be professional."

Irwin has experienced the same thing. She says it usually takes several gestures and requests to have officers believe she is Deaf. "I think the first and second time they try to talk, and they think I'm lying, and then I'm like, 'No, I can't understand you,'" she said.

She recently had an experience on her way home from work where she tried to use a pen and paper to communicate with an officer, but he refused. He went back to his cruiser car and she waited 45 minutes for another officer to show up who knew some sign language.

She says the officer could've communicated to her he was calling someone who knew sign, but he refused to use a pen and paper to communicate.

"I think sometimes the police officers just don't want to take the time or make the effort to communicate with us," she said. I think we all want to be treated equally. We want to feel as though we're the same as everybody else, and communication is very important. Eye contact is very important. I'm not too sure why they would assume we should be treated any differently just because we're Deaf."

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Deaf-Blind Housing Project In Winnipeg, Canada

Deaf-Blind housing project will be first of its kind in Manitoba, Canada.



WINNIPEG -- 10 suites at Gas Station Arts Centre redevelopment will be designed for Deaf-Blind people. Winnipeg will soon be one of the first cities in Canada to have specialized housing designed for people who are both Deaf and Blind.

Bonnie Heath, executive director of the Resource Centre for Manitobans who are Deaf-Blind, has put down payments on 10 suites in the residential portion of the new Gas Station Arts Centre, which is slated for the corner of River Avenue and Osborne Street.

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"We're very excited," Heath said, adding that the need for this kind of housing is great.

"The Deaf-Blind individuals that I'm in contact with in their own homes right now feel isolated and unsafe."

She added, "You have a combination of you can't see and you can't hear; you don't know who's coming into your place. You don't know, for example, one of my Deaf-Blind friends said she wouldn't even know the toilet was running over until the water was at her ankles in the dining room."

Heath works with dozens of Manitobans who are Deaf-Blind - people with a combination of no vision or low vision and hearing that rely on interpreters to communicate.

The apartments will not only bring members of the Deaf-Blind community under one roof, the apartments will be designed with them and for them for safer and easier living, said Heath.

"Sharp edges, you know, things that we take for granted when we can see, getting around corners - those types of things will be avoided."

Winnipeg-based architect Steve Cohlmeyer, whose resume includes The Forks, will tackle the project, which he acknowledges will be a first for him.

"At the level of problem-solving, I think it's really exciting - and exciting because there's a whole service aspect and a kind of integration of a whole group I was unaware of when I first got the call," he said.

Some of the features Cohlmeyer is considering is a tactile approach to design - for example, surfaces that will distinguish between rooms.

"For people who have no sight and zero hearing, we'll certainly want to explore the kinds of things you can help feel your way through a space," he said, adding that for people with partial sight, high-contrast spaces may be important.

"Exaggerated colour difference or dark and light contrast will be a helpful thing to have," he said. "So you can see where a door cabinet is against a light floor as opposed to all-white cabinets and all-white floors."

In the coming months, Cohlmeyer will visit Deaf-Blind clients to "watch how they live" to source his design solutions. He said he is also travelling to Toronto and the United States to visit existing Deaf-Blind housing to learn what works well and what doesn't.

"Even when you're well-acquainted with an environment you can still bump into things, so we want to be watching and learning as much as we can about how we facilitate movement and operation of equipment within the unit itself and how they can move again between the unit and even elevators and an outdoor terrace."

SOURCE - CBC News

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Study on Sarcasm and American Sign Language

Deaf News: University of Manitoba researchers study how people who are Deaf understand sarcasm.

WINNIPEG -- Researcher Nicole Hiebert studying how sarcasm is conveyed and understood among Deaf, Hard of Hearing. Researchers at the University of Manitoba are looking for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Manitobans to participate in a new study covering uncharted territory discovering how people who use American Sign Language convey sarcasm.

It's the first time researchers have looked at how adults who use sign language communicate and understand sarcasm. For those in the community, it's no secret.

Watch on CBC News with Subtitles

"There isn't a lot of research. We certainly know [sarcasm is] prevalent in sign language usage, but there is not that research that actually provides evidence how sarcasm is relayed," said Rick Zimmer, who co-ordinates the ASL interpretation program at Winnipeg's Red River College.

Zimmer is Deaf, as is his wife, Kyra and son Cody. Kyra and Zimmer are both instructors at RRC, and Zimmer said sarcasm is a part of his instruction teaching hearing interpreters how to understand and convey sarcasm between people who use ASL and the Hearing community.

"I do it by demonstrating sarcasm and in that way they see it and learn it," he said. "Whether or not interpreters are actually capable of using it and conveying sarcasm themselves is another question."

That's where the U of M's Nicole Hiebert comes in.

"I've just been really fascinated and passionate about signing for my entire life pretty much," she said. "I've had a deaf friend since I was really young."

Now, she's melding her experiences in the Deaf Studies program with the research of Melanie Glenwright, an associate professor who specializes in sarcasm and sarcasm comprehension for the U of M's psychology department.

The study is going to look at the cues within the Deaf community for understanding and comprehending sarcasm... Read The Full Story.

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Deaf Canadian's Gallaudet Dream

Winnipeg family faces $200K bill to send Deaf son to the US university.

WINNIPEG -- Manitoba family appeals to province to help fund Deaf students to go to only Deaf university in world.

A Manitoba family is calling on the provincial government to better fund schooling for Deaf students after they incurred thousands of dollars of debt for just one year of university for their son.

Last year, 18-year-old Cody Zimmer left his home in Winnipeg to attend Gallaudet University in Washington D.C., the world's only university exclusively for Deaf students.

"My vision of what it might be like was completely obliterated  - it was so much more than what I expected," said Cody. "I made so many friends so quickly. I was involved in sports and soccer. It was just such a quick year because it was so exciting. It felt like a blink and it was done."

But his education came with a hefty price tag. One year of undergraduate study cost his family $56,000 (including tuition, dorm fees and health insurance.)

And financial assistance was limited; Cody's application and appeal to have the full cost covered were denied by the province. Instead, he got about $10,000.

"They would support him in going [to Gallaudet], however, they'll only pay at the level of what tuition would be at the University of Manitoba," said Rick Zimmer, Cody's father.

The province used to fund the cost of Deaf students attending Gallaudet completely, but they've since reduced the amount of money students can apply for and instead encourage them to go to a Manitoba school and use interpreters.

Officials with the Manitoba government said the province runs a $1.9-million-a-year program called marketAbilities, "that provides the same amount of funding to a student pursuing training out of province as would be available to the student if they chose to study in Manitoba. Courses that have no equivalent in Manitoba may be fully funded."... CBC News with Closed Captioning.

Why fundraising campaign? - April 14, 1997 Cody Zimmer was born and from that moment I knew he was bound for greatness. You see Cody is Deaf and he comes from a long line of Deaf family members and I knew from the moment we found out he was Deaf that he was going to change the world.

Cody and his family have spent countless hours advocating for basic human rights that Deaf people are denied. It is now time for Cody to pursue his dream of going to university. Cody wanted to go to a university where everyone shares his culture and language. Unfortunately there is only one university in the world that provides this opporunity That university is Gallaudet and it is located in Washington D.C. Read more: Cody's Gallaudet Dream - gofundme.com

Cody Zimmer's fundraising website:
http://www.gofundme.com/w5nz8g8

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Deaf Canadian Curling Champion Dies

Deaf Manitoba curler, Clifford Beaulieu, 42, sent to hospital after being discovered outside by Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- The family of a Manitoba man who died after spending the night outdoors is devastated and still has questions about what led him into the cold.

Clifford Beaulieu, 42, was spending time with some friends at a home in the Rural Municipality of St. Francis Xavier, Manitoba. Feb. 4. He left and never returned.

"I know he froze from the elements and that, but why let him leave the house like that, and not, you know, check on him, see where he went?" said Martin Beaulieu, Clifford's brother.

Beaulieu was sent to hospital after being found outdoors by police the next day. He died in hospital.

Martin said the group had been drinking and that Clifford left the house after an argument broke out.

"They told me that he was intoxicated when he left the house, but he was also angry at them and when he left, he just, like, he walked away angry," said Martin. "Still, no matter what, you don't let a person walk out in the cold like that."

Beaulieu was part of a Canada’s National Deaf Curling team. The team will compete in the 2015 Winter Deaflympics in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia - March 28 to April 5, 2015.

SOURCE - CBC News

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Winnipeg Most Racist City In Canada: Maclean's

Welcome to Winnipeg, where Canada's racism problem is at its worst.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- Maclean's magazine has labelled Winnipeg the most racist city in Canada.

How the death of Tina Fontaine has finally forced it to face its festering race problem, by associate editor Nancy Macdonald published the magazine, "Welcome to Winnipeg, Canada: Where Canada's racism problem is at its worst" into public and the Canadians and Winnipeggers find out quite shocked that Winnipeg is Canada's most racist city.

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The Aboriginal community of Deaf and Hard of Hearing does feel the same manner as aboriginal people as well. There appears "Deaf" on the article which Tina Fountine's former boyfriend, who is Deaf, quote: "Her boyfriend was Deaf; the pair communicated by texting." Maclean's.

Winnipeg's racism problem is at its worst - Nancy Macdonald:

“Oh Goddd how long are aboriginal people going to use what happened as a crutch to suck more money out of Canadians?” Winnipeg teacher Brad Badiuk wrote on Facebook last month. “They have contributed NOTHING to the development of Canada. Just standing with their hand out. Get to work, tear the treaties and shut the FK up already. Why am I on the hook for their cultural support?”

Another day in Winnipeg, another hateful screed against the city’s growing indigenous population. This one from a teacher (now on paid administrative leave) at Kelvin High School, long considered among the city’s progressive schools - alma mater to just about every Winipegger of note, from Marshall McLuhan to Izzy Asper, Fred Penner and Neil Young.

Badiuk’s comments came to light the day Rinelle Harper - the shy 16-year-old indigenous girl left for dead in the city’s Assiniboine River after a brutal sexual assault - spoke publicly for the first time after her recovery. She called for an inquiry to help explain why so many indigenous girls and women are being murdered in Winnipeg, and elsewhere in Canada.

Badiuk’s comments came while the city was still reeling from the murder of Tina Fontaine, a 15-year-old child from the Sagkeeng First Nation who was wrapped in plastic and tossed into the Red River after being sexually exploited in the city’s core.

They came after Nunavummiuq musician Tanya Tagaq, last year’s Polaris Music Prize winner, who complained that while out to lunch in downtown Winnipeg where she was performing with the city’s ballet this fall, “a man started following me calling me a ‘sexy little Indian’ and asking to fuck.”

They came the very week an inquest issued its findings in the death of Brian Sinclair, an indigenous 45-year-old who died from an entirely treatable infection after being ignored for 34 hours in a city ER.

They came in the wake of a civic election dominated by race relations after a racist rant by a frontrunner’s wife went viral: “I’m really tired of getting harassed by the drunken native guys” downtown, Gord Steeves’s wife, Lori, wrote on Facebook. “We all donate enough money to keep their sorry asses on welfare, so shut the fuck up and don’t ask me for another handout!” The former city councillor and long-serving, centrist politician didn’t bother apologizing. He lost, but not because of this.

For decades, the friendly Prairie city has been known for its smiling, lefty premiers, pacifist, Mennonite writers and a love affair with the Jets. Licence plates here bear the tag “Friendly Manitoba.” But events of last fall served to expose a darker reality. The Manitoba capital is deeply divided along ethnic lines. It manifestly does not provide equal opportunity for Aboriginals. And it is quickly becoming known for the subhuman treatment of its First Nations citizens, who suffer daily indignities and appalling violence. Winnipeg is arguably becoming Canada’s most racist city...

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There is the shadow of racism will rightly continue to hang over Winnipeg.

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Deaf homeless man touched by Winnipeggers' generosity.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- A Deaf, homeless man working hard to find a job in Winnipeg has been moved by the generosity of Winnipeggers.

Kevin Adams, 38, was randomly handing out his resume in a McPhillips Street parking lot last week, hoping someone could help him find a job.

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That's when he met Jennifer Martens and her husband. The couple took his resume and posted it on Facebook to spread the word. In just hours, it prompted dozens of comments and thousands of shares.

"I am so proud to be a Winnipegger, knowing that people have openly embraced this man and want to help him get back on his feet. It just warms my heart," Jennifer Martens said.

While the Facebook posting resulted in a few job offers, it turns out that Adams' own efforts paid off. He found a job as a painter and starts Tuesday.

Now Adams is composing a letter to thank Winnipeggers for reaching out to him...

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Manitoba Deaf Athletes To Get More Sign Language Help

Deaf Sports News: Province to spend up to $40K a year for interpreters following human rights complaint.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- The father of a Deaf athlete from Winnipeg says he is pleased to hear Manitoba will now be providing interpreters to help other deaf players communicate.

The Manitoba government will set aside up to $40,000 a year to help Deaf children participating in amateur sport communicate with their teammates, coaches and game officials, following a human rights complaint.

Two parents of Deaf children initially approached the Manitoba Human Rights Commission complaining that lack of money for sign language services made it harder for some Deaf children to participate in sports.

The parents said the lack of interpretive services meant their children couldn't participate fully in sports, develop leadership skills and have the same advantages as their peers.

One of the complainants, Rick Zimmer, says his son, Cody, wanted to play soccer but couldn't because there was no interpreter available for him and other Deaf players... Read The Full Story.

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Manitoba Swimmer At Deaflympics

Manitoba's Thomas Osborn, The Kelvin High School student will represent Canada at the 2013 Deaflympics.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- Thomas Osborn lives in three worlds. Deaf, hearing and underwater. It's in the water world he is reaching heights never imagined by him or his family when his hearing, on a continuous decline since birth, completely disappeared at age 10.

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The Kelvin High School student will represent Canada at the 2013 Deaflympics July 26-Aug. 4 in Sofia, Bulgaria. He's one of just six swimmers on Team Canada for the international multi-sport games, which is sanctioned by the International Committeee of Sports of the Deaf. (Deaf athletes are not eligible for the Paralympics so this is their Olympics.)

"There's a running joke with athletes who swim is that the pool is a second home," said Thomas, a member of the Manitoba Marlins Swim Club. "Our group spends over 25 hours (per week) training. Swimming has given me a lot of achievements, I'm proud of that, and I am hoping to achieve even more."

The youngest child and only son of Carolynn and DeWayne Osborn, Thomas will compete in five events at the Deaflympics the 400-, 200-, 100- and 50-metre freestyle events and the 200-m individual medley.

"It's amazing to me, for him to get to the level he is at in swimming, given what he's had to overcome," DeWayne said.

"We're very proud of all the things he's accomplished," Carolynn said. "You don't always get what you want in life. You play the hand you were dealt. So that's the hand we've been dealt, that's the hand he's been dealt, and I think he's played it remarkably well."

A friendly, polite, confident young man, with an easy smile, Thomas turned 17 on Sunday, the day he left for Bulgaria... Read The Full Story.

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