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Two cats died in a Transcona house fire that also injured two firefighters. The Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service says it was called to a fire in a single-family bungalow on Macoun Place Saturday around 4:40 p.m. Crews arrived to find heavy smoke coming from the house. The blaze was declared under control shortly before 5:30 […]
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Winnipeg police have added a brief item to the description of a suspect in connection to a serious assault last month. Police had previously released a full suspect description and a composite sketch. They now believe the suspect was wearing red slip-on sandals. The Winnipeg Police Service says on April 19, a woman in her […]
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Phil Lind has long been fascinated by the Klondike Gold Rush. Now, he is translating that lifelong passion into a new book -- Tales of an Unsung Sourdough: The Extraordinary Klondike Adventures of Johnny Lind.
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Manitoba’s Crown-owned auto insurance provider has appointed a new interim president and CEO. Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI) announced Marnie Kacher would replace Eric Herbelin at the helm “effective immediately.” Kacher was most recently vice-president and COO of MPI. “In this role, she has had broad oversight of MPI’s Operations division, including all four of its […]
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WINNIPEG -- The province has appointed an interim president and CEO to Manitoba Public Insurance to take over for Eric Herbelin.
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People are trying to sort out their lives after a massive apartment fire in west Winnipeg, and others are stepping up to help.
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Eyes in the sky are becoming an increasingly important tool for boots on the ground when it comes to fighting wildfires, experts say, as data from a growing number of satellites give firefighters new tools to predict fire behaviour and analyze its consequences.
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Winnipeg's Main Street in the early 1900s was still mostly mud and prairie gumbo, crosshatched by narrow wagon wheel tracks — vestiges of a frontier past as it teetered on the cusp of becoming one of North America's most robust cities.
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A stampede by fans at a quarterfinals soccer match in the Salvadoran league has left 12 people dead and injured dozens more, officials said early Sunday. The crush happened when soccer fans pushed through one of the gates during Saturday’s game between Alianza and FAS at Monumental stadium in Cuscatlan, which is about 25 miles […]
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There’s a sense of worry that creeps up on Lisa Anderson every time her phone alerts her she is near the end of her monthly data limit. For Anderson, who is deaf, each megabyte of data is more crucial than it would be for the average hearing person who doesn’t rely on video calling applications […]
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OTTAWA — Dean Gladue says he never experienced racism until joining the RCMP. The 26-year veteran began his career with the force in 1989 as special constable, a role assigned to police First Nations reserves. It was a rank below his non-Indigenous colleagues, who were better paid. It felt like he was “a second-class citizen,” […]
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Construction will begin Tuesday at the intersection of the Trans-Canada Highway at Provincial Road 207 (Deacon’s Corner).
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HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that Russian forces weren’t occupying Bakhmut, casting doubt on Moscow’s insistence that the eastern Ukrainian city had fallen. Responding to a reporter’s question about the status of the city at the Group of Seven summit in Japan, Zelenskyy said: “Bakhmut is not occupied by the […]
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A house fire in Winnipeg on Saturday left two firefighters with minor injuries and a family's two cats dead.
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Mount Etna, Europe’s most active volcano, was erupting on Sunday, spewing ash on Catania, eastern Sicily’s largest city, and forcing a shutdown of that city’s airport. Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, or INGV, which closely monitors Etna with instrumentation on the slopes, noted that cloud cover on a rainy day was impeding views […]
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Members of Manitoba's Iranian community rallied outside the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg on Saturday to call for justice after the recent executions of three young men in their home country.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sent a forceful rebuke of Russia at the conclusion of the G7 Leaders’ Summit, which was taken over by the arrival of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who hoped to shore up more support for his country. The support of allies has been crucial to Ukraine’s survival amid a Russian invasion, and […]
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Some Canadians who have repaid a pandemic benefit they received by mistake are still seeing their tax refunds withheld by the government.
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Shua Wilmot and Raegan Zelaya, two former dorm directors at a small Christian university in western New York, acknowledge their names are unconventional, which explains why they attached gender identities to their work email signatures. Wilmot uses “he/him.” Zelaya goes by “she/her.” Their former employer, Houghton University, wanted them to drop the identifiers in line […]
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Winnipeg firefighters put out blazes at two vacant houses early Saturday morning, the city says.
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Around 240 newcomers from across the globe attended the 18th annual Manito Ahbee powwow in Winnipeg on Saturday to experience and learn about Indigenous culture.
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A Winnipeg woman whose home was destroyed in a massive apartment fire says she and the others who lived in the St. James-area complex are now looking for new places to live.
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Italy’s Premier Giorgia Meloni on Sunday rejected criticism from her Canadian counterpart at the G7 Summit about her government’s stance on 2SLGBTQ+ rights.
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Police say they have shut down a Winnipeg store selling illegal magic mushrooms, and two people have been arrested on drug-trafficking charges. The mushroom dispensary in Osborne Village began its Friday with a long lineup outside. It ended with a police raid and arrests. The Winnipeg Police Service says the business on Osborne Street – […]
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The chief of a northern Manitoba First Nation is sounding the alarm and calling on government to take immediate action to address the remote community's isolation from the larger world, which he says is playing a role in its youth either taking their own lives or attempting to.
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Some Manitobans got a front-row seat to a spectacular light show Friday night, when the aurora borealis, or northern lights, were on full display in some southern parts of the province.
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HIROSHIMA, Japan — Canada and the G7 have reasserted their intention to decrease their economic dependency on China while specifically calling on the country not to conduct “interference activities.” The leaders gathered for their annual summit in Hiroshima, Japan put out a joint communiqué on Saturday that included the new language on foreign interference at […]
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Winnipeg police major crime unit investigators are actively involved in piecing together what happened to a person who was seriously assaulted early Saturday morning.
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A Manitoba employer has been prosecuted for a workplace incident that injured a worker nearly three years ago.
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A Winnipeg apartment building was destroyed by fire Friday evening, displacing up to 180 residents.
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Winnipeg police have shut down a local store that was allegedly selling illegal psilocybin (magic) mushrooms.
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The Seattle Thunderbirds beat the Winnipeg ICE 3-1 on Friday to claim the Western Hockey League title.
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The City of Winnipeg is in the midst of conducting controlled burns in natural areas.
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A few services will be shut down Monday, but here’s what you need to know about what’s open over the long weekend.
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Costco has a few extra sales for the weekend only, and in-store only
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The May long weekend has arrived and for many Manitobans, their plans will include hitting the open road with travel trailers in tow, some of which may have been upcycled or refurbished.
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With excitement building around Winnipeg's newest pro basketball team, the Sea Bears, we take a look back — way back — at the pro teams that have dribbled, alley-ooped and slam-dunked their way into our city.
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Up to 180 people were displaced and one firefighter was taken to hospital in stable condition after an apartment fire in Winnipeg’s Heritage Park neighbourhood on Friday.
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An exhibition featuring the work of five contemporary Inuit artists from across Canada opened at the Winnipeg Art Gallery on Friday.
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Hanna Sidorchenko is making a solemn trip back to Ukraine just months after leaving the war-torn country for Winnipeg after her husband was killed in battle.
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Two people were arrested after Winnipeg police raided a business claiming to be Manitoba's first magic mushroom dispensary on Friday.
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Deacon's Corner will be under construction starting Tuesday, Manitoba Transportation and Infrastructure says.
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The Winnipeg Sea Bears have officially begun their first training camp as the season tips-off in under ten days — and they aim to make a big splash. “I hope for the young players, the next generation players, the Sea Bears means a lot, and gives them something to aspire to,” said Mike Taylor, Sea […]
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Education and Early Childhood Learning Minister Wayne Ewasko announced Thursday the province has awarded a contract to Enriched Academy to pilot a suite of financial literacy courses for Manitoba students next school year.
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They’re affixed to old buildings where someone important used to live. Or they’re mounted on a rock overlooking somewhere where something once happened. Cast in bronze or lettered on a sign, they’re sometimes the only history lesson many of us ever get. And now Parks Canada wants hundreds of them changed. “The way that many […]
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Ottawa announcing the City of Winnipeg is set to receive federal funds to prevent gun crime and gang violence in the city, but advocates say the city which ranks among the nations highest in homicide rates, should be prioritized. The $4.5 million dollars from the Building Safer Communities Fund will be distributed by the city […]
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Two new CT scanners will double the capacity for patient scans at Selkirk Regional Health Centre.
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