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Nearly 2½ years into enforcement of public health orders around the COVID-19 pandemic, the Manitoba government has handed out $8.6 million worth of fines but collected just a wee fraction of that.
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Some of Manitoba’s most vehement opponents of COVID-19 public health orders or vaccine mandates are running for council or school board seats in the Oct. 26 municipal elections.
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Some of Manitoba’s most vehement opponents of COVID-19 public health orders or vaccine mandates are running for council or school board seats in the Oct. 26 municipal elections.
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It appears newly minted Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is willing to add a little water to his wine. After months of criss-crossing the country peddling conspiracy theories and fuelling anti-Liberal rage with juvenile slogans and deranged claims about Canadians losing control of their lives, Poilievre is showing signs of moderation.
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An influx of eager bivalent-booster bookers headed online or phoned local pharmacies first thing Thursday to secure their latest dose of COVID-19 vaccine, but it’s not top priority for many newly eligible Manitobans.
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Mayor Brian Bowman completed his final city council meeting on Thursday while offering no hints about his next job.
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The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority has announced a plan to take some of the pressure off the city’s overwhelmed hospital emergency rooms and urgent care centres.
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Scott Gillingham wants to chip away at City of Winnipeg expenses by taking a close look at its fleet of vehicles.
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A Manitoba man was handed an 11-year sentence on Thursday for killing and then concealing the body of 44-year-old Gloria Gladue.
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Winnipeg police are searching for a suspect after a senior was assaulted during a carjacking on a residential street in Norwood East.
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Vivian Ketchum sees the city workers pull up to the burned-out husks that used to be homes on William Avenue and walks over from the bus stop across the street to give them a piece of her mind.
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The owner of an Osborne Village convenience store will rebuild following a tragic fire, after city council cleared a key financial obstacle in her way.
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The experiences of residential school survivors are woven together with First Nations, Inuit and Metis teachings and traditional art forms that were stripped from students in the design of a new commemorative coin unveiled at a special ceremony Thursday. The Royal Canadian Mint teamed up with the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, Indigenous artists […]
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More than three dozen people rallied Thursday for Brandon's Grandmother's Walk Protecting Sacred Lives organized by the Westman Team Against Sexual Exploitation. Exploitation is defined as the exchange of sex or sexual acts for money, drugs, shelter, food or other basic human rights.
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Manitoba RCMP say a passenger in a vehicle that nearly struck a group of children outside the St. Andrews Community Centre got out and pointed a gun at a witness Wednesday night.
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To reduce wait times at urgent care and emergency care centres, the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority is expanding hours at five walk-in clinics.
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WINNIPEG — Angela Klassen Janeczko calls out to a young woman sitting behind a building in downtown Winnipeg to see if she needs any water or food.
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The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority is expanding the hours of all five Walk-In Connected Care Clinics to ease wait times at the city's emergency and urgent care departments.
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A man accused of 10 break-ins and other property crimes involving garages, homes and a camper trailer in Winnipeg's Daniel McIntyre neighbourhood was arrested earlier this week, police say.
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A special coin-sized keepsake has been minted in Winnipeg to honour residential school survivors and victims, and ensure Canadians never forget the intergenerational impacts of the schools.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has agreed to let a cabinet order enforcing mandatory COVID-19 vaccination requirements at the Canadian border expire on September 30, two senior government sources confirmed with The Canadian Press. The news was corroborated by the sources, who spoke to The Canadian Press on the condition they not be named because they […]
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A 72-year-old woman was punched and then dragged out of her car before it was stolen on Wednesday afternoon.
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A 40-year-old man from Winnipeg has been charged in connection to various break and enters between July and September. Thanks to tips and evidence collected police were able to identify the suspect believed to be responsible and on Tuesday, they were able to take him into custody. The 40-year-old is facing 20 charges relating to […]
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The federal government has decided to drop the vaccination requirement for people entering Canada, end random COVID-19 testing at airports and make the use of the ArriveCan app optional by the end of this month, a senior government source told CBC News.
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Winnipeg police are looking for a suspect after a woman was assaulted and carjacked in the Norwood East area Wednesday afternoon.
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Winnipeg police's Major Crimes Unit is asking for the public for help in a robbery and assault investigation from July.
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Four Winnipeg mayoral candidates made promises on Thursday, including pledges to reduce vehicle costs, prioritize low-carbon infrastructure and freeze the police budget.
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The province is dedicating $100,000 to a five-day education event at the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.
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The province is awarding 14 projects $1.5 million in grants from the Conservation and Climate Fund.
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Winnipeg police have arrested and charged three people following a homicide in the Parc La Salle area this summer.
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Eastern Canada is being warned to brace for impact as Hurricane Fiona continues to make its way north — expected to make landfall this weekend. The Canadian Hurricane Centre is predicting the now Category 4 storm will be a severe weather event for Atlantic Canada and Eastern Quebec. David Neil, a meteorologist in Newfoundland with […]
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Manitoba reported more severe outcomes from COVID-19 in its latest update, and added six more deaths to its pandemic total.
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Three people accused in the shooting death of a St. Norbert man in July were arrested and charged with second-degree murder earlier this week, Winnipeg police say.
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WINNIPEG -- Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson's approval rating remains at the bottom of the pack among her provincial counterparts.
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Steinbach RCMP have charged a man after a 75-year-old jail guard at the local detachment was assaulted by a prisoner.
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In recent years many conservative politicians have catered to the more extreme parts of their base to get elected, only to find that once in power they are obliged to continue to serve them. In the CPC leadership race, Pierre Poilievre managed to peel support away from would-be PPC voters and others on the fringe. […]
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Public health authorities are reducing barriers to encourage Manitobans to get boosted with the new Moderna bivalent COVID-19 vaccine that targets the Omicron variant, but not everyone is ready for the shots.
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Indigenous leaders believe their financial investments in Winnipeg's downtown could revitalize the area while a commercial real estate agent thinks remodeling office space is key to getting a post-pandemic workforce into the area.
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After two years of throwing everything from spoiled food to coffee grounds to used paper towels and tissues into a green bin for curbside pickup, thousands of Winnipeggers will start throwing them into the garbage again.
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Even if Vladimir Putin manages to get Ukrainians in occupied provinces to vote at gunpoint for annexation by Russia, Russia's tactical position appears to outside experts to be remarkably weak — and threats of nuclear retaliation don't seem to be spooking anyone.
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Inflation is finally cooling, but that only means the rate by which prices are growing will slow. What you pay for goods and services will continue to rise, but hopefully at a more manageable level
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The federal government launched a long-awaited review on Thursday of how legalizing marijuana has affected the health of Canadians, the domestic cannabis industry and the black market. The Liberals lifted a century-long prohibition on the recreational use and sale of cannabis in October 2018, with the provision that they review the law three years after […]
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Winnipeg again has the largest urban Indigenous population of any city across the country, according to the latest from Statistics Canada.
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A St. James resident whose car was stolen out of her driveway this summer. A woman from Weston whose concerns about arson reached a new level when a vacant home on her street burned down, and several animals were found dead inside it. A police officer who works at a North End unit that has seized 13 firearms since the week began.
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A Winnipeg partnership is allowing the removal of gang tattoos for free, helping former gang members move away from their ties to crime. Writer and advocate Ryan Beardy is a leader with the Gang Action Interagency Network in Winnipeg – or GAIN – which helps people leave gang life and support them through the transition. […]
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A shortage of paramedics pulled another Winnipeg ambulance out of service Wednesday, as officials continue to warn of chronic staffing problems among first responders resulting in millions in municipal over-expenditures.
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The number of people who identify as Indigenous in Canada now sits at 1.8 million, growing twice as fast as the non-Indigenous population, according to the latest Canadian census data. Between 2016 and 2021, the Indigenous population grew 9.4 per cent, now making up five per cent of Canada’s total population. BACKGROUND: Indigenous kids make […]
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About a dozen municipalities in Manitoba will not hold council elections in October due to an absence of challengers, sparking concerns about public interest and a toxic climate in politics.
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About a dozen municipalities in Manitoba will not hold council elections in October due to an absence of challengers, sparking concerns about public interest and a toxic climate in politics.
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Not even $800,000 of the whopping $8.5 million in COVID-19 fines has been collected in Manitoba, despite the Tory government promising it would make rule-breakers pay.
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Not even $800,000 of the whopping $8.5 million in COVID-19 fines has been collected in Manitoba, despite the Tory government promising it would make rule-breakers pay.
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An exhausted, disillusioned family doctor who has practised in a southeastern Manitoba community for more than five years is packing up and heading to Winnipeg before the end of the year.
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More people have entered the competition to earn a seat on Manitoba’s largest school board this year than they have in at least 25 years.
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When Winnipeg’s Catherine Wreford-Ledlow was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour in 2013, doctors gave her anywhere between two and six years to live. So when, nearly a decade later, Wreford-Ledlow and her best friend Craig Ramsay finished first in the Amazing Race Canada – a feat of strength and endurance spread across several weeks […]
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On Tuesday, Winnipeg-born Catherine Wreford — who was diagnosed in 2013 with a malignant brain tumour — and Craig Ramsay were declared winners of the latest edition of the reality show Amazing Race Canada.
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A former CBC broadcaster and the past leader of an organization that represents dozens of northern First Nations is taking a second run at the top position with the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs this fall.
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Sheila North, a Winnipeg TV anchor and former Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak grand chief, has announced her candidacy to become the grand chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs.
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Mayoral candidate Kevin Klein is promising, if elected, to create a $2-million infrastructure plan to prioritize Winnipeg road and sewer projects — with the goal of removing politics from such decisions.
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Manitoba’s justice minister is hoping the Criminal Code can be updated related to bear spray. Kelvin Goertzen wants Section 84 of the Criminal Code to include bear spray that is modified for use on people as a prohibited weapon. The justice minister also wants to make it more difficult for someone who uses bear pray […]
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Manitoba’s justice minister is lobbying the federal government to amend the Criminal Code to make it harder for criminals who use bear pepper spray in assaults to receive bail.
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Construction has begun on an expansion of a health facility in Manitoba’s Interlake region. The province says renovations at the Selkirk Regional Health Centre will allow for an increase in its in-patient capacity, and will allow the site to provide more services. The expansion is to make room for thirty acute care in-patient beds and […]
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An Indigenous community in northern Manitoba is set to begin its search for any unmarked graves on the grounds of two former residential school sites.
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Winnipeg police and Manitoba RCMP are looking for an unmarked police vehicle that was stolen on Tuesday morning.
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An Indigenous community in northern Manitoba is set to begin its search for any unmarked graves on the grounds of two former residential school sites. Norway House Cree Nation is working with engineering firm Stantec to conduct the search. Chief Larson Anderson says in a release that it is necessary to proceed with the project […]
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The City of Winnipeg is no longer a "gold standard" employer as it struggles to retain and recruit key civic employees due to low wages, a new report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says.
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Manitoba is expanding access for COVID-19 bivalent boosters. Anyone aged 18 and over in the province is now eligible and can start booking appointments Thursday. Moderna’s bivalent vaccine specifically targets the original strain of COVID-19 and the Omicron variant. It was approved by Health Canada earlier this month. The province says it is launching an […]
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Construction is underway to expand acute care inpatient capacity at the Selkirk Regional Health Centre.
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As NHL training camps open this week, here's a quick catchup on the major off-season moves made by the seven Canadian clubs.
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