Scooby the arson dog ready to sniff out suspicious fires in Winnipeg
Winnipeg's firefighting service has been battling a surge in suspicious blazes but thinks it "nose" how to get an edge in those investigations.
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Winnipeg's firefighting service has been battling a surge in suspicious blazes but thinks it "nose" how to get an edge in those investigations.
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Canada and Manitoba are partnering to launch an alert system that would inform the public when an Indigenous woman or girl goes missing, they announced Friday in Winnipeg, ahead of a national day to mark the crisis.
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The City of Winnipeg is reducing the speeds on four city streets as part of the seasonal bike route program.
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OTTAWA — Canada and Manitoba are partnering to launch an alert system that would inform the public when an Indigenous woman or girl goes missing, they announced Friday in Winnipeg, ahead of a national day to mark the crisis. The long-awaited Red Dress Alert system is a bid to prevent deaths and increase safe reunions […]
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A pro-Palestinian encampment is set for the University of Manitoba next week, as a wave of protests at campuses across Canada and the U.S. reaches Winnipeg.
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The classic “Hockey Night in Canada” theme song resounded through a St. John’s, N.L., church Friday where friends, family and colleagues gathered to remember Bob Cole, the legendary sportscaster who brought some of the sport’s most important games to living rooms across the country. Ron MacLean and former NHL goalie Glenn Healy, who both worked […]
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The Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service has welcomed an arson-detection K9 into its ranks to help investigate fires.
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One of the organizers of a month-long boycott of Loblaw-owned stores says she met with the grocer’s president and CEO Per Bank on Thursday afternoon. Emily Johnson, who started the Reddit page that led to the boycott, said she shared shoppers’ concerns and questions with Bank, a European retail executive who took on the top […]
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Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Services says one person is in hospital following a fire at an apartment complex. WPFS says fire crews responded to a report of a fire at a four-story apartment building around 10:30 p.m. Thursday. When crews arrived, smoke could be scene from from the building, and they began to fight the fire […]
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Three people have been arrested and charged with first-degree murder in relation to the killing of a Surrey Sikh leader in 2023.
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Rick Bowness of the Winnipeg Jets, Rick Tocchet of the Vancouver Canucks and Andrew Brunette of the Nashville Predators are the finalists for this season's Jack Adams Award.
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Canadian police have arrested members of an alleged hit squad investigators believe was tasked by the government of India with killing prominent Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in B.C. last June, CBC News has learned.
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Canadian singer-songwriter Jim Cuddy is returning to Winnipeg in the fall as part of a coast-to-coast tour.
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Rick Tocchet of the Vancouver Canucks, Rick Bowness of the Winnipeg Jets, and Andrew Brunette of the Nashville Predators are the finalists for the Jack Adams Award, the NHL announced on Friday. Tocchet, 60, led the Canucks to a Pacific Division title with a 50-23-9 record this season. Vancouver saw a 26-point difference in the standings from last season and […]
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TD Bank Group could be hit with more severe penalties than previously expected, says a banking analyst after a report that the investigation it faces in the U.S. is tied to laundering illicit fentanyl profits. National Bank analyst Gabriel Dechaine said in a note that the worst-case scenario of the multiple U.S. investigations TD faces […]
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A judge has ruled the trial of Jeremy Skibicki, a Winnipeg man accused of killing four women in 2022, will still be heard by a jury.
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WINNIPEG — Disbelief seemed to be the overriding emotion among the Winnipeg Jets after their early exit from the NHL playoffs.
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The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are planning to host a Canada Day celebration at Princess Auto Stadium with live music and fireworks.
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A girl reported missing from Long Plain First Nation in southern Manitoba this week has been found, police say.
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In today’s The Big Story podcast, it remains to be seen if policing in the Greater Toronto Area will really change, but a tipping point certainly seems to be at hand. First, a total exoneration for a man charged with first-degree murder in the death of a Toronto police officer — a trial that many […]
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There’s no shortage of teams from Manitoba competing at highly touted international competition in Orlando, Fla.
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A former Mountie is suing the Manitoba government for at least $2 million in damages, claiming the province's police watchdog laid criminal charges against him because he spoke up about how the RCMP deals with sex crimes and sexual harassment complaints.
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Referrals from a social services information hub in Winnipeg’s flagship downtown library branch surged in the first three months of this year, according to a new report.
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Justina Di Stasio is focused on a critical next two months before she competes in the Paris Olympics, hoping to take home gold.
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WINNIPEG — A judge has decided the upcoming trial of a man accused of killing four women in Winnipeg will still be heard by a jury, after the defence argued it should be heard instead by a judge alone. Lawyers for Jeremy Skibicki told court this week that going ahead with the jury would infringe […]
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Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Services says the only way it can meet the city's budget target for the department this year is to cut overtime — even if it warns that will impact fire response.
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The City of Winnipeg is allowing a homeowner in a semi-rural Charleswood neighbourhood to keep an oversized garage that was built without taking out any permits.
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A popular coffee chain is closing its location in Winnipeg's Osborne Village next week. Customers and the local BIZ say staff told them it's because of safety concerns in the area.
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The Perimeter Highway at the intersection of Wenzel Road has reopened after a motor vehicle crash, the province says.
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Manitoba's police watchdog says it won't recommend charges against Winnipeg police officers after a man died following his arrest last summer.
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A new city report is warning fewer equipment and firefighters could be used for overtime in order to find the $3 million in savings budget 2024 is asking the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service to achieve. According to the city, a minimum of 167 full-time equivalent (FTEs) workers per shift are needed to operate all their […]
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VANCOUVER — Retailer London Drugs says it's rebuilding its data infrastructure with the help of leading third-party experts to bring its operations safely back online after a cybersecurity incident that has shut down stores for five days.
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A recent incident in the 2400 block of Pembina Highway where a 16-year-old was hit by a train and taken to hospital in critical condition brought back numerous memories for one Winnipeg man and he says locomotives should be doing more to alert drivers and pedestrians as they travel through the city. On Sunday, police […]
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The Manitoba government says it wants to hear first-hand why residents in Swan River are fed up with crime.
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Connor Hellebuyck might have looked at times during Winnipeg's first-round NHL playoff series like he was collecting pucks for the Colorado Avalanche, but the Jets goalie sees it differently.
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Peguis First Nation has been fighting to get flood mitigation measures and better housing for years, but some say nothing has changed, begging the question as to why First Nation communities, like Peguis, are repeatedly ignored. Peguis First Nation has endured persistent flooding over the years, resulting in damage to infrastructure and housing. After years […]
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Red dresses are typically used to honour and remember missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, but a high school in Selkirk, Man., is bringing awareness in a different way.
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An early morning fire Thursday in Winnipeg's St. John's neighbourhood is being blamed on a vape pen battery overheating.
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London Drugs says its phone lines are working again, days after being taken offline in response to a cybersecurity incident, while Canada Post offices inside its stores are also up and running again.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government is planning to create a new agent of Parliament to oversee modern treaty implementation.
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It appears London Drugs operations are slowly coming back online, though it remains unclear when stores in western Canada will reopen.
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Loblaw’s new chief executive, as well as chairman Galen Weston, pushed back on what they called “misguided criticism” of the grocer as a push to boycott the company gains steam online. President and CEO Per Bank said at the grocer’s annual meeting that there’s a lot of misinformation online about Loblaw, and said the company […]
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Canada’s latest greenhouse-gas emissions report shows the country making progress toward meeting its next target in 2030, but there is still a very long way to go. The 2022 report published today shows that across the board, Canada added 708 million tonnes of greenhouse gases that year. That is 53 million tonnes lower than in […]
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The Winnipeg Sea Bears have partnered with 680 CJOB to broadcast select games during the 2024 CEBL season, starting May 22.
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An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant— the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild, scientists reported Thursday. Scientists observed Rakus pluck and chew up leaves of a medicinal plant used by people throughout Southeast Asia to treat […]
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Canada’s financial intelligence agency says it has levied a $9.2-million penalty against The Toronto-Dominion Bank for non-compliance with money laundering and terrorist financing measures as the bank also faces compliance investigations in the U.S. The penalty by the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada follows on a $7.5-million fine against RBC and a […]
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Winnipeg residents are being invited to take a peek at the final design of the St. James Civic Centre expansion project.
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In today’s The Big Story podcast, former U.S. president, Donald Trump, is facing criminal charges, a historical first. It’s been two weeks since the trial began, and the former president has been complaining about the temperature in the courtroom — when he isn’t appearing to fall asleep. Andrew Rice is a features writer with New […]
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A woman accusing former New Democrat MP Romeo Saganash of sexual assault has filed a civil suit, saying she never wanted prosecutors to divert his criminal charge to a restorative justice program.
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Hamas on Thursday was considering the latest proposal for a cease-fire with Israel that the United States and other mediators hope will avert an Israeli attack on the Gaza town of Rafah. But chances for the deal are entangled with the question of whether Israel can accept an end to the war without reaching its […]
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Winnipeg Transit is poised to award a $9-million contract to an Alberta company that will design and build a means of using methanol to generate hydrogen to fuel new zero-emission buses.
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A public service report at city hall is recommending changes to how drivers can make turns at Assiniboine Avenue and Main Street in downtown Winnipeg this summer.
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Representatives of convicted sex offender and disgraced fashion mogul Peter Nygard recently served one of his accusers with a lawsuit in Manitoba. Nygard was charged with sexually assaulting April Telek and a month later, he sued her for defamation.
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Police are investigating after a Winnipeg grocery store supervisor allegedly punched a woman accused of shoplifting on Sunday, in what one eyewitness believes is a case of racial profiling.
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CBC's Emily Brass talks to Stephen Borys of the Winnipeg Art Gallery about the exhibition on now at Mayberry Fine Art's gallery at 212 McDermot Ave. The WAG is selling some paintings from its collection, valued at around $500,000 to $700,000, as part of an auction of 40 pieces taking place in Toronto at the of the month.
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Winnipeg police say 14 people have been charged in connection to a inter-provincial drug trafficking investigation. WPS says in May 2023, a large-scale investigation began after it was believed millions of dollars worth of illicit drugs were being trafficking into Winnipeg from Toronto. Police say the drugs were believed to have been shipped by couriers, […]
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Eight Manitoba First Nations have filed a lawsuit against the City of Winnipeg, provincial and federal governments, seeking billions of dollars in compensation for a massive sewage spill earlier this year.
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