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The federal government paid for round-the-clock security to try keeping "pimps" out of Winnipeg evacuation hotels after wildfires displaced First Nations from eastern Manitoba for three months last year.
The Canadian Red Cross said more than 4,400 people evacuated from seven First Nations during various wildfires, to hotels in Winnipeg, Brandon and Thompson.
To read more of this story first reported by the Winnipeg Free Press, click here.
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June 3rd 2022
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