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BROOK JONES/FREE PRESS Fisher River Cree Nation Chief David Crate talks about the development of a First Nations Healing Centre which will include 13 transitional homes for women and their children who have been victims of violence during a media conference Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. Fisher River Cree Nation is redeveloping the 110-year-old Rubin Block at 270 Marley Ave. in Winnipeg, Man., with funding from the federal government's Affordable Housing Fund. Also pictured alongside Crate are Fisher River Cree Nation councillors Darrell Thaddeus (left) and Hillary Murdock (right) and Federal Housing Minister Nathaniel Erskine-Smith (far back).