Dozens of motorcycle enthusiasts gathered on Saturday for the fifth annual Every Child Matters Ride, honouring children who died in residential schools. “Five years ago, we uncovered 215 anomalies at the Kamloops residential school,” said Bava Dhillon. “At that time, I was approached by a few motorcycle enthusiasts — many of Sikh descent — who told […]

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The Winnipeg Jets are keeping one of their depth defencemen in town. The Jets have re-signed blue-liner Haydn Fleury to a two-year, $1.9 million contract, the team announced Saturday. Fleury, 28, logged 39 games with the Jets in his first season with the team last year, picking up seven assists on the way. He played an average of 15:56 […]

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On Thursday evening, Winnipeg police responded to the Central Park area near Qu’Appelle Avenue after a 27-year-old woman was stabbed by an acquaintance following a verbal dispute. The woman was taken to hospital in unstable condition and was later upgraded to stable, though she remains hospitalized. According to the WPS, the suspect, a 29-year-old woman, […]

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A Winnipeg woman says she’s been left terrified and traumatized after being randomly attacked and stabbed while walking home earlier this week. The victim, who goes by Tanpreet, has asked to remain partially anonymous out of fear for her safety. The incident occurred around midnight Sunday in Osborne Village. Tanpreet says she was walking home […]

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The federal government is ordering a Chinese maker of surveillance camera systems to shutter its Canadian business and leave the country over national security concerns. Industry Minister Mélanie Joly says in a post on X that the orders issued to Hikvision Canada Inc. are the result of a national security review under the Investment Canada […]

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TORONTO — A group of Hudson’s Bay’s landlords don’t want to transfer more than two dozen leases to British Columbia billionaire Ruby Liu, but the department store still has a chance to get its way. The Bay, which filed for creditor protection in March, ran a process over the last several months to find buyers […]

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The Manitoba cabinet minister responsible for services for people with disabilities is apologizing for comments she made about a sign-language interpreter. Nahanni Fontaine hosted a celebration for Indigenous women graduates Thursday in Winnipeg, and had a sign-language interpreter on stage with her during her speech. Afterward, while preparing to speak to reporters, Fontaine told one of her […]

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The Winnipeg Jets took Swedish defenceman Sascha Boumedienne with the 28th overall pick in the NHL draft Friday. The six-foot-one, 175-pound Boumedienne registered three goals and 10 assists in 40 games with Boston University last season. Winnipeg won the Presidents’ Trophy last season after posting the NHL’s best regular-season record. After a miraculous seven-game series win over the […]

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A warming climate is driving a rise in Lyme disease and the introduction of lesser-known tick-borne diseases, public health specialists say.  “Climate change in Canada is happening at a much more accelerated rate than we see in parts of the rest of the world,” said Heather Coatsworth, chief of field studies at the National Microbiology […]

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PARIS (AP) — France has struggled to kick its smoking habit. A new public health decree published Saturday aims to change that. In the coming days, smoking will be banned in all French parks and sports venues, at beaches and bus stops, in a perimeter around all schools, and anywhere children could gather in public. […]

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