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The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are bidding to host the Canadian Football League Grey Cup championship in either 2024 or 2025, and the Manitoba government is offering up to $5.5 million to help the bid.
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Violent crime continues to escalate in Winnipeg and is one of the major issues candidates vying to become the city’s 44th Mayor are facing. Winnipeg has seen an increase in young offenders charged, including a spree of attacks here at The Forks over the summer and the homicide count is nearing the gruesome record of […]
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WINNIPEG — The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are bidding to host the Canadian Football League Grey Cup championship in either 2024 or 2025, and the Manitoba government is offering up to $5.5 million to help the bid.
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A wave of resignations has left Grace Hospital’s intensive care unit “chronically short,” with one nurse for every three patients, according to the Manitoba Nurses Union.
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The number of COVID-19 infections in Manitoba remains high, with an estimated 10,000 people contracting the novel coronavirus every day amid waning booster immunity, new research suggests.
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The number of COVID-19 infections in Manitoba remains high, with an estimated 10,000 people contracting the novel coronavirus every day amid waning booster immunity, new research suggests.
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Manitobans stopped taking school boards for granted when the Tories proposed to dismantle them, but the upcoming municipal election will provide insight into whether interest can outlast the backlash to Bill 64.
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A chicken in every pot or a shovel full of asphalt in every pot hole is great political fodder at the door during election campaigns. However, unless candidates can tell voters how they plan to pay for campaign promises, they aren’t worth the paper they’re written on.
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The Manitoba government plans to impose stiffer penalties on motorists who ignore warning signs and drive on closed roads. Transportation Minister Doyle Piwniuk says the province is responding to a call from the RCMP, who have had to deal with motorists who drive around barricades and get caught in flooded roadways. A bill before the […]
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A Liberal bill to restrict the use of non-disclosure agreements in cases of discrimination or harassment has survived second reading in the Manitoba legislature.
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Mayoral candidate Shaun Loney would raise property taxes by 3.7 per cent next year, then work to introduce a “retooled impact fee” and a 25-cent daily charge on parking spaces in the future.
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A bill to set the Progressive Conservative government’s marquee education property tax rebate program in law and to carry out its latest budget was introduced Tuesday.
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A proposed driveway for a new, multi-use development off a major Manitoba highway received a green light from Transportation Minister Doyle Piwniuk, despite departmental warnings the access road will lead to more collisions.
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Before the first snowflakes fall in Manitoba, the government introduced a new bill which would see people slapped with a fine if they ignore highway closures due to bad weather conditions, flooding or construction.
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Robert-Falcon Ouellette and Idris Adelakun released their housing plans on Tuesday.
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Mayoral candidate Robert-Falcon Ouellette promises to create 1,340 housing units to help tackle the homelessness crisis.
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WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government plans to impose stiffer penalties on motorists who ignore warning signs and drive on closed roads.
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Rising grocery prices caused by inflation is resulting in skyrocketing demand on Manitoba food banks.
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A Canadian flight crew who have been detained in the Dominican Republic for the last six months are set to face a court hearing that could send them back to prison. The charter flight crew with Pivot Airlines was set to leave on Punta Cana on April when there was an indication in the cockpit […]
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Winnipeg mayoral candidate Shaun Loney unveiled his property-tax target for 2023 and chastised two of his rivals for being deceptive or evasive about what they intend to do with tax hikes.
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Lansbury died Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles, according to a statement from her three children. She died five days shy of her 97th birthday.
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It's unclear whether an overhaul of Hockey Canada's boardroom and management will be a significant enough change to address corporate concerns.
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WINNIPEG -- The Manitoba Opera has received a $1.75 million contribution towards its The Power of Voice Endowment Campaign.
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A Winnipeg woman who won gold at a world powerlifting championship over the weekend says she started strength training later in life as a way to keep up with her grandchildren.
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The Manitoba government says it will push for new measures to fight crimes committed with weapons at a meeting of Canada’s justice ministers this week in Nova Scotia. Manitoba Justice Minister Kelvin Goertzen wants the federal government to make it harder for people to get bail if they are accused of using a knife while […]
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Here is the second part of the deals of the week from the Kenaston location in Winnipeg. Make sure to check out the first part of the deals of the week from Costco.
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Here is the first part of the deals of the week from the Kenaston location in Winnipeg. Deals are mostly the same from store to store, just some variety due to stock or seasonal items. Anything ending in .97 is ... Read More »
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A tentative agreement has been reached between the city and the union representing city workers. The City of Winnipeg issued a statement Tuesday evening confirming the matter, after both parties provided conflicting information earlier in the day. BACKGROUND: Winnipeg nearing first general municipal workers strike since 1919 “The City will not be releasing details of […]
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The Canadian government is earmarking money for the Manitoba Métis Federation to tackle the overrepresentation of Red River Métis in the province's justice system.
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Jets general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff didn't make any blockbuster moves in the off-season like many other NHL clubs, relying instead on new head coach Rick Bowness motivating players to reach their potential.
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King Charles III will be crowned at Westminster Abbey on May 6 in a ceremony that will embrace the past but look to the modern world after the 70-year reign of the late Queen Elizabeth II.
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WINNIPEG — A big smile crossed Nate Schmidt's face as he described the fresh approach and one fun surprise during a practice at Winnipeg Jets training camp.
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After weeks of speculation, Hockey Canada's chief executive officer Scott Smith and the organization's entire board has stepped down.
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Hockey Canada has announced its entire board of directors and its CEO will step aside as the organization confronts widespread criticism over how it handled an alleged group sexual assault involving members of the 2018 men's national junior team.
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The City of Winnipeg is trying to clarify a statement issued Monday by CUPE Local 500 saying it is pausing potential strike action.
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The City of Winnipeg says it has not reached a tentative deal on a new contract with its largest union.
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Blank school walls and human skin are common canvases for Métis artist Justine Proulx.
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The company says it's pausing its role as the official equipment provider to Hockey Canada's men's teams and its sponsorship of men's tournaments.
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Bauer Hockey has become the latest company to pause support for scandal-plagued Hockey Canada, an organization that continues to draw widespread criticism for its handling of an alleged group sexual assault involving members of the 2018 men's national junior team.
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Chad Silva found two homemade tapes in a donation to his record store that turned out to be a rare recording of a 1973 Neil Young concert at Hamilton's McMaster University. According to Young fan website, Sugar Mountain, it's the only recording of that concert that exists.
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A strike that could have involved thousands of City of Winnipeg workers, set to start first thing Wednesday, has been paused by the union, which says a tentative agreement has been reached. But the city says that's not actually true — there is no deal.
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MONTREAL — As provincial governments hand out one-time cash payments to help residents cope with inflation, anti-poverty advocates say the efforts are a missed opportunity to help those most in need.
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There are few things in politics more disheartening than someone winning an election because they were the only candidate.
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In today’s Big Story podcast, it’s not a crime to claim asylum in Canada. It’s a process. But that hasn’t stopped the Canadian Border Services Agency from using an agreement with several provinces to put some of these people directly into provincial jails, where they are housed with, and treated the same as, convicted criminals […]
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned Russia’s latest attacks on Ukraine as the country unleashed a lethal barrage of strikes against multiple Ukrainian cities on Monday, including downtown Kyiv where at least six people were killed. While speaking on the phone with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday, Trudeau deplored the attacks and reiterated Canada’s support […]
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Manitoba's infrastructure minister overruled the advice of his own department to approve a highway access he was warned could increase collisions.
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Scott Gillingham, one of 11 people running to become mayor of Winnipeg on Oct. 26, speaks with Information Radio host Marcy Markusa about why he wants the job.
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Robert-Falcon Ouellette, one of 11 people running to become mayor of Winnipeg on Oct. 26, speaks with Information Radio host Marcy Markusa about why he wants the job.
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Some of the people who died in the stabbing massacre on James Smith Cree Nation last month were killed because they were trying to help others, RCMP say.
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It’s just before 10 a.m. on a chilly Thursday. The sky is overcast, and there’s a hint of winter in the air. A group of about 25 people have gathered at the Comm.Unity.204 building for the twice-weekly Main Street Community Walk. On this day, I am one of those volunteers.
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HENRY Dahl isn’t sure he should be the subject of a column in the Free Press, and he doubts he has what it takes to answer a writer’s questions.
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She’d never call herself the Ms. Frizzle of nursing education, but Sufia Turner’s approach to lessons at the University of Manitoba’s College of Nursing does draw some inspiration from the cartoon teacher aboard The Magic School Bus.
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Bushra Awwad remembers feeling sad and scared when she arrived in Canada in December 2016. Born in Syria, she, her parents and four siblings were forced to move to Jordan after the war began. They were there for five years before coming to Canada.
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A group of African women in Winnipeg is helping hundreds of women and girls in Zimbabwe by tackling a potentially taboo subject — menstruation — and sending them reusable period products.
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The City of Winnipeg and the local chapter of the Canadian Union of Public Employees have reached a tentative deal as they work to avoid an impending labour strike.
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An ill newborn baby and his mother had to wait upwards of 24 hours for a medevac from Pimicikamak Cree Nation to Winnipeg last week — a lengthy delay First Nations leaders say highlights flaws across the healthcare system.
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Ukrainian newcomers were set to partake in their first Thanksgiving holiday gatherings Monday, but thoughts of warfare escalation in their homeland were also on their mind.
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Tenants of Fred Tipping Place are mourning the loss of a long-time resident who died shortly after being hit by a motorist when he was crossing Osborne Street late Sunday.
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The superintendent of the Texas school district where a gunman killed 22 people including 19 students announced his retirement Monday.
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Some of the largest organizations providing food to people who need it in Winnipeg say as inflation rises, they’re worried about what that could mean for the services they provide.
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Gienger drove the gargantuan gourd for 35 hours to see his hard work pay off at the 49th World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay, south of San Francisco.
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In one antisemitic post on Twitter, Ye said he would soon go ``death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE."
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Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service responded to five residential fires which broke out across the city from Sunday evening through Monday morning.
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