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A woman serving a life sentence for second-degree murder escaped a minimum-security healing lodge in Winnipeg late Monday night, then turned herself in roughly 14 hours later. Correctional Service Canada (CSC) says Joyce Kringuk turned herself in to Winnipeg police shortly before noon Tuesday. Staff saw the 42-year-old Kringuk fleeing the Eagle Womenâs Lodge on […]
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Canadian oil and gas companies are expected to increase spending in 2023, but analysts say it will be another year of modest growth and not a return to boom times.
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Extreme weather that much of the country has seen over the past week appears to have impacted the supply of donated blood.
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Manitoba’s Opposition NDP leader says he would not reduce funding for police if his party wins the upcoming provincial election. Wab Kinew is rejecting accusations from the governing Progressive Conservatives that he is soft on crime and in favour of defunding police. Premier Heather Stefanson made the accusation in a recent state of the province […]
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Over the last 24 hours, firefighters were called to three different incidents, including a fire in a West Broadway apartment building that displaced five residents.
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James Hanna was kind to animals and children. He was big on hugs and loved to travel. His family says he was excited about his future, but that was stolen by a stray bullet fired from an Edmonton police officer’s gun. The 59-year-old was in his basement suite watching television when he was killed in […]
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A woman serving a life sentence for second-degree murder in the death of her spouse escaped a minimum security facility in Winnipeg on Boxing Day by walking out the back door.
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Manitoba's Opposition NDP leader says he would not reduce funding for police if his party wins the upcoming provincial election.
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WINNIPEG â Manitoba's Opposition NDP leader says he would not reduce funding for police if his party wins the upcoming provincial election.
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An airline passenger advocate is aiming to potentially sue on behalf of those who were stuck on airport tarmacs for hours.
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Stacey Waldner was woken up by a series of loud noises around 3 a.m. Christmas morning. She looked out her window and saw police outside the hotel across the street, and thought a fight had broken out at the bar. Instead, one of Gladstone's heritage buildings was on fire.
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There is this scene in the 2005 finale of the HBO show Six Feet Under that I think about often (spoiler: I am going to say something about it — if you haven’t watched the series and it’s on the to-watch list, maybe don’t read on).
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Winnipeg’s new mayor says helping the city’s most vulnerable residents escape extreme cold and, ultimately, find stable housing are among his most urgent priorities for 2023.
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Viviana Goldenberg remembers what it was like emigrating from Buenos Aires nearly 20 years ago.
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High levels of student and staff absenteeism are prompting school trustees to revisit mask-wearing as they consider ways to reduce respiratory virus transmission in K-12 buildings.
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Amid a call to declare it a heritage structure, the West Kildonan Library will be assessed to determine how to it can be updated to meet modern standards.
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Chronic wasting disease was detected in Manitoba deer last year. As hunting season gets underway, hunters, biologists and the province are scrambling to prevent the deadly disease from becoming endemic.
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Kitchen North is co-owned by Michael Birch, an Oji-Cree man from Garden Hill First Nation. He says his business is about getting isolated communities a slice of quality pizza.
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Experts and advocates say the history of femicide in Mexico can be attributed to cultural machismo, gender inequality and domestic violence.
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Jaroslav Chmelar and Matous Mensik scored 33 seconds apart during a five-minute power play as Czech Republic stunned Canada 5-2 in the opener for both countries at the world junior men's hockey championship Monday.
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Rain, shine or — in Monday’s case — freezing cold, you can catch Junel Malapad hitting the pavement for a good cause.
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Joanne Fontaine heard an alarm go off inside her downtown Winnipeg apartment around 2 a.m. on Christmas morning, but she thought nothing of it. A second alarm went off closer to 4 a.m., and that's when Fontaine had an inkling that something was awry.
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After a deadly rollover bus in B.C. on Christmas Eve, a transportation expert is insisting bus travel is safer than driving in a car.
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For the seventh year, Junel Malapad is continuing his tradition of running an ultramarathon on Boxing Day in support of Siloam Mission.
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Environment Canada has declared a snowfall warning for parts of west central Manitoba for Monday evening.
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The founder of the Air Passenger Rights group, says travellers stranded by cancellations should pay for whatever it takes to get home, including flights, and keep careful records and receipts of their expenses.
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Thousands of Canadians who have been without power since last week's fierce winter storms spent Boxing day in the cold and dark while strong winds and high tides on the West Coast prompted a flood warning.
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Harry Bond is blunt in his assessment of the RCMP's role on the night his mother and father died in the Nova Scotia mass shooting -- and of the force's potential to reform in the future.
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Canadian Military Police won't share how many of the dozens of sexual assault cases referred to civilian courts have resulted in charges.
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Six people were sent to hospital, including three in critical condition, after firefighters in Winnipeg rescued residents trapped in a burning apartment building early Christmas morning. A city news release says members of the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service responded to the six-storey building on Qu’Appelle Avenue shortly after 4 a.m. and saw heavy smoke and […]
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Dozens of volunteers gave out a huge truckload of warm clothing, blankets and food to some of Winnipeg's most vulnerable on Christmas Day to show some kindness on a cold day.
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Holiday sales rose this year as American spending remained resilient during the critical shopping season despite surging prices on everything from food to rent, according to one measure.
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Here is the second part of the deals of the week from the regent location in Winnipeg. Make sure to check out the first part of the deals of the week from Costco.
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Here are the deals from the Regent location in Winnipeg. Deals are mostly the same from store, just some variety due to stock or seasonal items. Anything ending in. 97 is a Markdown and is store specific. Make sure to ... Read More »
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Less than a month after opening, The Leaf, the long-awaited new horticultural attraction at Winnipeg's Assiniboine Park, is temporarily closed due to a water main break.
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It was a cold Christmas Day, but dozens of Bear Clan volunteers spent the day handing out warmth to Winnipeggers in need.
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In the opening decades of the 20th century, optimism for the bustling Portage strip, and the blocks lined up neatly around it, was overflowing. The City of Winnipeg was growing, booming with new European settlers and new business, signs of the wealth being extracted from the land in a young colonial country, and the promises of more wealth to come.
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Of the total of 51 homicides recorded in Winnipeg as of Dec. 24, at least 10 involved women who were Indigenous. This is what we know about them.
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After the death of his beloved aunt and uncle, Jim Agapito stopped caring about Christmas. As he struggled with his loss, he also tried to understand why his Filipino community celebrated the season as early as September.
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The Manitoba government is giving its municipal development tribunal more power to overturn land-use decisions made by Winnipeg city councillors.
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The night before Christmas and early morning hours of Christmas Day were marked with five fires across the city, including one that displaced 42 tenants and left three people hospitalized.
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The Winnipeg Free Press recently celebrated its 150th birthday by finding creative ways to stay in business and prepare for the future at a time when many local newspapers have shut down.
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Ed Stemkoski and his family knew when they were told to see an agent when picking up their boarding passes at Winnipeg’s airport Christmas morning that they were, in his words, “screwed.”
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A Christmas Day fire in the commercial heart of Gladstone, Man. has killed one person and left at least 15 others without homes in the central Manitoba town, says the mayor of the municipality of WestLake-Gladstone.
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Sunwing passengers said they've been shuffled from hotel to hotel after sleeping on floors at the airport and in lobbies.
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Winnipeg firefighters rescued several people early Christmas morning from a blaze in the 300 block of QuâAppelle Avenue.
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Four people died as a result of a bus rollover on the Okanagan Connector near Merritt Saturday evening, B.C. RCMP has confirmed.
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Six people were sent to hospital, including three in critical condition, after a Christmas-morning fire in a downtown Winnipeg walk-up threatened to trap people â including some with disabilities â inside their apartments.
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Bus loads of recent migrant families arrived from Texas near Vice President Kamala Harris' home in record-setting cold on Christmas Eve.
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King Charles III evoked memories Sunday of his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II, as he broadcast his first Christmas message as monarch in a speech that also paid tribute to the âselfless dedicationâ of Britainâs public service workers, many of whom are in a fight with the government over pay. Charles, 74, also empathized in […]
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Snow, freezing rain, high winds and rain continue to hammer large chunks of the country and are plunging Christmas Day travel plans into chaos.
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This holiday season is the first in a long time without any public health restrictions, and it has some Manitobans counting their blessings after two challenging Decembers.
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A Christmas card exchange that started as a joke in 1969 between a woman in Manitoba and her brother in B.C. has turned into a tradition that has spanned more than five decades.
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Brandon's House of Hex drag collective shares a message of kindness, creativity and inclusivity with a little bit of sass while working to grow LGBTQ-centered spaces in the southwestern Manitoba city.
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Many provinces have turned to virtual care as a way of taking pressure off their strained health-care systems, and hospitals have been able to divert patients from crowded emergency departments. But a new agreement in Ontario could mean fewer doctors will be interested in providing such services.
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A small crowd gathers outside of Portage Place Mall as Marc Sweet dishes out steaming cups of cream of potato soup. His friend, Joshua Goddard, hands a man a new winter coat, while Niki Giesbrecht wishes a woman and her child a Merry Christmas.
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The chief of a northern Manitoba First Nation fears for his communityâs safety amid a critical nursing shortage at nursing stations across the province over the holidays.
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The biblical town of Bethlehem marked a merry Christmas on Saturday, with thousands of visitors descending upon the traditional birthplace of Jesus as it rebounds from the coronavirus pandemic. Tourism is the economic lifeblood of this town in the occupied West Bank, and for the past two years, the pandemic kept international visitors away. This […]
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The family of a woman police allege was the victim of an accused serial killer in Winnipeg say they're not being adequately involved in planning around a potential search of a landfill for their loved one's remains.
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Nicolette and Tom Kovesi held up a blue and yellow poster â the colours of the Ukrainian flag â with the words âWelcome to Canada.â They were waiting for a plane filled with Ukrainian evacuees escaping the Russian invasion to touch down at Montrealâs Pierre Elliott Trudeau airport. The Kovesis said their parents fled Hungary […]
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Recalling Jesusâ birth in a stable, Pope Francis rebuked those âravenousâ for wealth and power at the expense of the vulnerable, including children, in a Christmas Eve homily decrying war, poverty and greedy consumerism. In the splendor of St. Peterâs Basilica, Francis presided over the evening Mass attended by about 7,000 faithful, including tourists and […]
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Despite frigid temperatures, the 14th annual Christmas Eve Surfing Santas festival was held at Cocoa Beach on Florida's Space Coast.
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Winnipegâs Millennium Library resumed some services Friday, nearly two full weeks after the building was fully shut down following a homicide. Four teenagers were charged and arrested in connection with the Dec. 11 fatal stabbing. A 14-year-old boy was charged with second-degree murder. Three other teens are facing manslaughter charges. Investigators believe a verbal dispute […]
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Bundles of cash. Hundreds of thousands of dollarsâ worth of drugs. And bagels. Those are just some of the factors at play in an alleged drug trafficking ring that circulated large quantities of narcotics in Manitoba. Chris Silva, one of the owners of Hudson Bagels in Winnipeg, is facing charges following a substantial police operation […]
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is asking Canadians to remind themselves how fortunate they are “to live in a country of peace.” Trudeau says in his annual Christmas address that it’s the season when life slows down and “Christmas movies, including Die Hard, are on repeat.” But he says that 2022 was a challenging year and […]
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Alex Ovechkin has made a habit of finding the net with regularity against the Winnipeg Jets, dating back to the days when they were still the Atlanta Thrashers. Ovechkin has scored more goals against this franchise than any other, 53 to be exact. So it was only natural that the Washington Capitals captain first moved […]
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Much of southern Manitoba remained under an extreme cold warning Saturday morning. Environment Canada says to expect extremely cold wind chill values near minus-40 Celsius. The agency warns there is an elevated risk of frostbite and hypothermia. It says frostbite is possible in a few minutes at that temperature. Environment Canada is also warning pet […]
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Researchers say there is a complex relationship between rising global temperatures and the likelihood of intense snowstorms across Canada.
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Parts of Ontario declare states of emergency as dangerous conditions leave travellers stranded on highways and trains. Across several provinces, hundreds of thousands of Canadians face a Christmas Eve without power.
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OTTAWA â Many Canadians will be saying "good riddance" to 2022 as it draws to a close, a new poll suggests, with more people comparing it unfavourably to 2021 than saying it was a better year.
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Sioux Valley Dakota Nation hosted its first annual Christmas dinner since 2019 this week, giving the small community a chance to come together as they navigate a series of recent tragedies.
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A comprehensive North American analysis of landfill searches for human remains suggests if you don't get started within a month of a body ending up in a landfill and commit to spending at least as long looking, the potential for recovery drops dramatically.
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The union representing Canada Post carriers claims a supervisor was transferred and given a promotion after employees raised allegations of inappropriate behaviour, including looking at nude photos at work.
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OTTAWA â Many Canadians will be saying “good riddance” to 2022 as it draws to a close, a new poll suggests, with more people comparing it unfavourably to 2021 than saying it was a better year. Polling firm Leger asked Canadians at the beginning of December what their impressions were of the past year and […]
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Residents of Riding Mountain National Park are scared about the potential for violence if a man, who was evicted and charged with firearms offences, returns with his supporters and sets up a blockade.
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You don’t have to be loud, bold or dramatic to leave a mark. Sometimes, it’s the quiet ones, the ones who don’t say much, the ones not getting the spotlight, the awards or the accolades who make a difference.
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