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ManitobaMunicipal officials in southern Manitoba are expressing concern and outrage after a disturbing display popped up on a property depicting local politicians hanging in a gallows. Display depicts municipal officials being hung from a gallowsDave Baxter \u00b7 CBC News \u00b7 Posted: Nov 02, 2025 9:26 AM EST | Last Updated: 2 hours agoListen to this articleEstimated 4 minutesA display in the rural municipality of Tach\u00e9 shows several disturbing images, including a life-sized firefighter figure wearing a \u2018For Sale\u2019 sign and a dollar-sign necklace. (CBC)WARNING: This story contains disturbing details and images depicting violence towards elected officials.Municipal officials in southern Manitoba are concerned after a disturbing display popped up on a property depicting local politicians hanging from a gallows.The Rural Municipality of Tach\u00e9 council held a meeting Saturday to discuss a display that has been set up in a yard at a home on Municipal Road 41E, in the community of Ste-Genevi\u00e8ve, located within the municipality.It shows, among other disturbing imagery, five life-sized figures being hung from what looks like a homemade gallows.Municipal officials in southern Manitoba are expressing concern after a disturbing display popped up on a property depicting local politicians hanging from a gallows. (Abdellatif Izika\/CBC)Four of the five figures have municipal ward numbers painted on them, including wards two, four, five and six. Another figure hanging in the middle is seen wearing a crown and a dollar-sign necklace.The word \u201ckarma\u201d is spelled in neon green across all five figures.Above the hanging figures the term \u201cpolitics all trick no treats\u201d is written. Another figure depicts a firefighter wearing a \u201cFor Sale\u201d sign around its neck along with a dollar-sign necklace. Rural Municipality of Tach\u00e9 Mayor Armand Poirier told CBC News on Saturday he has been told RCMP are now investigating the display. He added council is expecting to release more information Monday. The display also features several other signs with varying messages. A CBC reporter knocked on the door of the home on Saturday, but nobody answered. RCMP have not responded to requests for comment.Ivan Normandeau, the reeve of the rural municipality of La Broquerie, as well as the president of the Association of Manitoba Bilingual Municipalities said municipal officials in southern Manitoba have been expressing concern since a disturbing display appeared on a yard in the rural municipality of Tach\u00e9. (Abdellatif Izika\/CBC)Ivan Normandeau, the reeve of the rural municipality of La Broquerie, as well as the president of the Association of Manitoba Bilingual Municipalities (AMBM), said municipal officials in southern Manitoba have been expressing deep concerns since the display first appeared.\u201cAs an elected official, it\u2019s very concerning to see when people are intimidating or going after you personally, and it was so visible in somebody\u2019s yard,\u201d Normandeau said.\u201cUsually we get emails or phone calls, but never something that graphic.\u201dNormandeau said officials in rural Manitoba have been dealing with increased issues of threats toward them over the last several years. \u201cThese days with social media it\u2019s becoming worse and worse,\u201d he said. \u201cI pity the next generation with all the social media these days.\u201cIt\u2019s a lot of misinformation, and it\u2019s harmful.\u201dHe said the AMBM is now working with the Association of Manitoba Municipalities to see what the organizations can do to improve safety and decrease the amount of threats being levelled at municipal officials.Police say they are investigating a disturbing display in the yard of a home in the RM of Tach\u00e9. The display shows, among other disturbing imagery life-sized figures being hung from what looks like a homemade gallows. (Abdellatif Izika\/CBC)He\u2019s also worried that increased threats and displays like the one in Sainte-Genevi\u00e8ve may push people away from running for municipal office in Manitoba.Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew also expressed concern about the display while speaking with reporters at an unrelated event Friday, and said he is asking residents to find more civil ways to express their frustration with politicians. \u201cI don\u2019t think any of us want to see violent imagery,\u201d Kinew said.\u201cI think no matter what the issue is, no matter how fired up you are about politics or policy, we gotta keep things calm, we gotta keep it respectful.\u201dYou can find a way to articulate your objection, maybe even a personal criticism of a politician, such as myself, but we don\u2019t need to have a visual, or something that is violent.\u201dManitoba Premier Wab Kinew also expressed concern about the display while speaking with reporters at an unrelated event Friday. (Abdellatif Izika\/CBC)He added that the Minister of Municipal and Northern Relations Glen Simard has been in touch with leaders in the area to discuss the display. ABOUT THE AUTHORDave Baxter is an award-winning reporter and editor currently working for CBC Manitoba. Born and raised in Winnipeg, he has also previously reported for the Winnipeg Sun and the Winnipeg Free Press, as well as several rural Manitoba publications.With files from Morgan Knoll<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Disturbing display of hanging politicians sparks concerns in rural Manitoba ManitobaMunicipal officials in southern Manitoba are expressing concern and outrage after a disturbing display popped up on a property depicting local politicians hanging in a gallows. Display depicts municipal officials being hung from a gallowsDave Baxter \u00b7 CBC News \u00b7 Posted: Nov 02, 2025 9:26 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,127,1],"tags":[116,126],"class_list":["post-5587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-indigenous","category-manitoba","category-uncategorized","tag-indigenous","tag-manitoba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}