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A year after a family of four from India froze to death while trying to walk to the United States from Manitoba, the agency tasked with patrolling the border says others have not been deterred from attempting the same treacherous journey.
Š 2023. This article One Year After Death of Indian Migrants at Border, U.S. Still Sees Illegal Crossings appeared first on ChrisD.ca - Winnipeg News.
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A Winnipeg neighbourhood was blanketed in smoke as fire consumed a vacant 2½-storey house in the city's North End Wednesday night.
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In today’s Big Story podcast, many consider Canada as a promised land for immigrants from all over the world. That’s because Canada literally needs immigrants and or refugees of any kind to survive. Though, as much as we love the image, that it’s this, kind of, safe haven of some kind, the land occupiers are […]
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The third season of a video series highlighting live performances and original new music by First Nation, Métis and Inuit artists will première on Facebook and YouTube on Jan. 20.
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In the wake of new national guidance recommending Canadians consider limiting alcohol consumption to two drinks per week, local outlets say Winnipeggers have already changed their habits.
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Unsafe Spaces is a CBC Manitoba Creator Network video series by local filmmaker Sidney Phommarath. In Part 3, we meet Cheyanne McKay, 23, who says affordable safe housing is hard to find in Winnipeg, particularly for women and people who have aged out of the foster care system.
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Peter Nygard is asking the Manitoba Court of Appeal to quash an order made by Canadaâs justice minister to surrender the former fashion executive to the United States to face criminal charges there, once his Canadian trials are complete.
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The Manitoba government didn't lose money when it quietly abandoned plans to buy COVID-19 vaccines developed by a Canadian company.
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If Russian troops launch a renewed attack on Ukraine from the north, chances are the first opposition they'll run into is a Ukrainian soldier fighting them off in an armoured vehicle donated by Canada.
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This week alone, Sunwing has cut half of its remaining winter flights from Saskatoon and all winter flights out of Regina, leaving many plans upside down once again.
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As Feisal Somji, the CEO of Sio Silica, mounts a charm campaign in advance of next month’s scheduled Clean Environment Commission hearings on Sio’s proposed silica extraction and processing facility east of Winnipeg — which included a full page ad in this paper — a massive new potential partner was introduced this week.
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Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson has hired her third chief of staff in 15 months and she didn't have to look far to find someone to fill the role.Â
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Vivian Ketchum's mind is on her late mother this week after their home First Nation in northwestern Ontario confirmed evidence of 170 "plausible burials" at the former site of a local residential school.Â
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When does a controversy reach the level of a scandal?
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A truck driver who killed a young girl and a motorcyclist when his speeding tractor-trailer slammed into a line of vehicles in a Manitoba highway construction zone has been sentenced to five years in prison.
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The Hudson’s Bay Company will soon paint St. Vital Centre red — Zellers red.
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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, whose empathetic handling of the nation’s worst mass-shooting and health-driven response to the coronavirus pandemic led her to become an international icon but who faced mounting criticism at home, said Thursday she was leaving office. Fighting back tears, Ardern told reporters in Napier that Feb. 7 will be her […]
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) â Elon Musk was depicted Wednesday as either a liar who callously jeopardized the savings of âregular people” or a well-intentioned visionary as attorneys delivered opening statements at a trial focused on a Tesla buyout that never happened. Lawyers on opposing sides drew the starkly different portraits of Musk for a nine-person […]
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Seniors living in a downtown Winnipeg personal care home can shower, bath and flush their toilets again.
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The man who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the “horrific death” of a vulnerable woman in Thompson has been sentenced to life in prison.
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It's a busy time at a massive snow maze south of Winnipeg. The maze in St. Adolphe, Man., was recognized as the largest one on the planet by the Guinness Book of World Records in 2019. As they get ready to open for a new season, Angie Masse, owner and operator, shows CBC's Fiona Odlum last minute preparations.
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The prairie provinces have been enjoying a relatively warm winter so far, with continued above-normal temperatures. However, that is all about to change, with a Mars-like polar vortex making its way to Canada. The polar vortex, drifting over Siberia, in Northern Russia, has generated the coldest temperature of the year, eclipsing -62ÂşC on January 14th. […]
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Greg and Karen McCreary appreciate the pleasantness of people at Winnipeg's Nestaweya River Trail, which opened to its maximum distance for the winter on Wednesday. The six-plus-kilometre trail stretches across the Red and Assiniboine rivers.
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Itâs something you never want to see as a business owner: A person breaking through the front door of your shop at 4 a.m., but for one Winnipeg business owner, thatâs a situation theyâve been in three times since the middle of December. âFor me, it was really hard to walk in here that third […]
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The Millennium Library will fully reopen Monday with enhanced safety measures including police on the ground, more security staff and a metal detector, after closing last month in response to the slaying of a 28-year-old man.
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The City of Winnipeg says it will bring back airport-style metal detectors at the entrance of the downtown Millennium Library on an interim basis, and the building will open back up to the public on Monday.
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WINNIPEG -- The Millennium Library will reopen next week with interim security measures following a fatal stabbing in December.
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A 46-year-old man has been charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of a 68-year-old man who was found Saturday morning at a home in Skownan First Nation, RCMP say.
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The news comes a day after Sunwing slashed its remaining winter flights out of Regina and weeks after it cancelled all flights out of Saskatchewan from Dec. 29, 2022, to Feb. 3.
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The Manitoba government announced it's spending $150,000 to support a Winnipeg employment program that helps people who face barriers when looking for jobs find gainful work and help make the downtown core more liveable.
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WINNIPEG -- A new program will employ at-risk community members to clean up and maintain downtown Winnipeg.
Š 2023. This article Clean Slate Program an Opportunity for At-Risk Winnipeggers appeared first on ChrisD.ca - Winnipeg News.
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Southern Manitobans can expect freezing drizzle to continue from late Wednesday morning into the evening, according to a weather advisory from Environment Canada.
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Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion in October and the company is on the hook for about $1 billion a year in interest payments from the deal.
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Ann Thomas Callahan, one of the first Indigenous nurses in Manitoba and a much-loved Cree elder, died Monday at the age of 87.
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The sex assault trial of a Manitoba doctor has been cut short for a third straight day â and won't resume now until Friday â as a dispute over missing evidence drags on.
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A woman who had been missing since early December has been found after her family hired a private investigator to help find her.
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More than two dozen The Bay locations across Canada will soon be home to Zellers stores, as the retailer has announced more details of its plan to resurrect the defunct discount brand both online and in physical stores.
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WINNIPEG -- Zellers, a former discount Canadian retailer, has revealed the first 25 Canadian locations for its comeback.
Š 2023. This article Zellers Chooses First Winnipeg Location for Relaunch appeared first on ChrisD.ca - Winnipeg News.
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The Winnipeg Jets will sport jerseys with a logo inspired by various South Asian designs as part of a new heritage night next month.
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In today’s Big Story podcast, it’s known as Chronic wasting disease, and it has been around for more than a decade. In recent years, however, it has spread across Canadian Prairies, and animals, at an alarming rate. In some places, up to 80 per cent of deer populations tested may be infected. The illness makes […]
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Comedian Whitney Cummings is bringing her style of wit to Winnipeg in the spring.
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Defence Minister Anita Anand used a visit to Ukraine on Wednesday to announce that Canada is sending another 200 armoured vehicles to help with the embattled country’s defence against Russian invaders. Yet even as Anand unveiled the latest contribution, the announcement was largely overshadowed by questions about whether Canada and its allies would acquiesce to […]
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A now-former Winnipeg police officer who was charged with fraud over $5,000 after receiving long-term disability payments while running a private business was granted an absolute discharge Monday.
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A new highly-transmissible strain of COVID-19 appears to be taking off in Canada and is prompting fears that another pandemic wave is around the corner. The World Health Organization has called the Omicron variant known as ‘Kraken,’ or XBB.1.5, the most transmissible subvariant yet. New data released by Public Health Ontario projects Kraken will be […]
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Aaron Goss is an amateur cicerone or beer taster. He's tried 242 different kinds of non-alcoholic beers. He has some of his favourites you might want to try.
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Family, volunteers and leadership from Thunder Gott's home community of Sapotaweyak Cree Nation continue to search for the missing 28-year-old man three weeks on, ramping up efforts Wednesday with a helicopter search.
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A subsidy designed to help some Manitoba businesses lift their salaries to reach the higher minimum wage has hardly been utilized.
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Ukraine’s interior minister died Wednesday in a helicopter crash near the capital that killed at least another 14 people, including other officials and three children, authorities said. Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyi, who oversaw Ukraine’s police and emergency services, is the most senior official to die since Russia invaded nearly 11 months ago. His death, along […]
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A French nun who was believed to be the worldâs oldest person has died a few weeks before her 119th birthday, the spokesperson for her nursing home in southern France said Wednesday. Lucile Randon, known as Sister AndrĂŠ, was born in the town of Ales, southern France, on Feb. 11, 1904. She was also one […]
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BRANDON — Seeking to strengthen Manitoba’s agricultural industry, the province is investing $10 million in the development of Assiniboine Community College’s Prairie Innovation Centre for Sustainable Agriculture.
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A Winnipeg woman has returned from Mexico after her husband was killed at the resort they were staying at following an altercation with another guest.
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Trailing 1-0, the Montreal Canadiens scored four unanswered goals to grab a 4-1 win over the Central Division-leading Winnipeg Jets on Tuesday night.
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Three-quarters of Manitoba’s public school divisions are receiving fewer operating dollars today than they were a decade ago, when those figures are adjusted for inflation over time.
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Three-quarters of Manitoba’s public school divisions are receiving fewer operating dollars today than they were a decade ago, when those figures are adjusted for inflation over time.
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About 40 per cent of those who seek treatment at Winnipeg hospital emergency departments or urgent care centres could receive care elsewhere.
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A Winnipeg widow is demanding justice after her husband was killed at a Mexican resort during the couple’s honeymoon.
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A Winnipeg widow is demanding justice after her husband was killed at a Mexican resort during the couple’s honeymoon.
Jesse Ropos, 36, died early Friday morning in a lobby at the Catalonia Yucatan Beach hotel in Puerto Aventuras, a gated community on Mexicoâs Caribbean coast.
His wife Stacey said two resort employees restrained Jesse and put him in a choke hold after a fight.
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The federal government is chipping in to help restore the health of the Lake Winnipeg watershed, providing nearly $1.6 million to support projects aimed at reducing nutrient loads in the lake basin.
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Seniors living in a downtown long-term care home have been without running water since the weekend.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said this week that his government is looking at a letter from the premiers asking Ottawa to do more to reform the system.
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With the original window for reopening the Millennium Library by mid-January passed, City of Winnipeg officials now say they hope the facility will return to regular service by the end of the month.
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A group studying the feasibility of searching active Winnipeg area landfills for the human remains expects to complete its investigation before spring.
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