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The Liberal government is on track to miss its on-reserve housing target by decades, if not more than a century, two New Democrat MPs say.
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Paul Jerrard, a Winnipeg-born former NHL defenceman who was one of the few Black assistant coaches during his three stints in the league over the past two decades, has died, the University of Omaha announced Thursday. He was 57.
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WINNIPEG -- The province is closing the last of its COVID-19 and seasonal flu immunization clinics.
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U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh was named executive director of the NHL Players’ Association on Thursday, putting an experienced union leader and the former Boston mayor in charge at a time of growing revenues in hockey and with collective bargaining talks a few years away. The NHLPA said its executive board with representatives from […]
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A memorial is being put together for the fisherfolk who lost their lives in Lake Winnipeg.
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A national research group, led by researchers at the University of Manitoba , has shown that polar bears share the position of top predator in the coastal Arctic marine ecosystem. The predator sharing that top spot is a bottom feeder. CBC Weather Specialist Fiona Odlum had the chance to take a deeper look into this intricate food web.
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Eric De Schepper kisses his 62-year-old wife Katherine Ellis as she lays in bed in their Winnipeg home. Ellis has been battling stage 4 pancreatic cancer since November. Schepper has been forced to care for his terminally ill wife alone, after promised regular home care visits never came. “We are supposed to be giving her […]
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A convicted fraudster, whom the RCMP investigated as part of the probe into the death of an Indian family at the Canada-U.S. border last year, pleaded guilty to human smuggling charges in Washington state this week.
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Nearly a year after Bruce Willis’ family announced that he would step away from acting after being diagnosed with aphasia, his family says his “condition has progressed.” In a statement posted Thursday, the 67-year-old actor’s family said Willis has a more specific diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia. “While this is painful, it is a relief to […]
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Manitoba's Progressive Conservative government says a new round of cheques intended to mitigate the high cost of living are almost in the mail.
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Festival du Voyageur organizers are ready to throw open the Fort Gibraltar doors to the first full-scale event in three years due to the upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Fourteen different Manitoba communities, including two First Nations, will have new child-care facilities built in less than a year, creating more than one thousand new spaces.
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As the Bank of Canada monitors the economy’s response to higher interest rates, governor Tiff Macklem says it is still overheated and the labour market is too tight. The governor’s comments come after Statistics Canada’s most recent labour force survey revealed the economy added 150,000 jobs last month as the unemployment rate hovers around record-lows. […]
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U.S. safety regulators have pressured Tesla into recalling nearly 363,000 vehicles with its “Full Self-Driving” system because it misbehaves around intersections and doesn’t always follow speed limits. The recall, part of part of a larger investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration into Tesla’s automated driving systems, is the most serious action taken yet […]
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Kerri Einarson's foursome can join some elite company in curling's history books with a fourth straight win at this year's national championship, starting Friday in Kamloops, B.C.
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Sandy Hopkins, the CEO of Habitat for Humanity Manitoba, will be retiring this summer after leading it for 17 years.
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A new Angus Reid survey finds "tip-flation" is increasingly becoming an issue, with many saying they're being asked to tip more often.
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The justice ministers of Manitoba and Saskatchewan are calling for a meeting with their federal, provincial and territorial counterparts on bail reform.
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The manufacturer of Mifegymiso is blaming supply chain issues for a pending shortage of the product — just months after another shortage of the drug forced some patients to get surgical abortions instead.
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The Trudeau government is proposing to create an arms-length commission to review applications over miscarriages of justice.
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Canada's preeminent UFO researcher has seen an uptick in reported sightings of unidentified flying objects in recent days suggesting more Canadians are turning their eyes to the sky after U.S. fighter jets shot down three objects over the weekend.
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Justice Minister David Lametti is introducing legislation to create a commission independent of government tasked with reviewing miscarriage of justice claims.
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Canada's preeminent ufologist has seen an uptick in reported sightings of unidentified flying objects in recent days suggesting more Canadians are turning their eyes to the sky after U.S. fighter jets shot down three separate objects over the weekend.
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The justice ministers of Manitoba and Saskatchewan are calling for a meeting with their federal, provincial and territorial counterparts on bail reform. Manitoba Justice Minister Kelvin Goertzen says changes are needed to prevent people being victimized by offenders who should be behind bars. Earlier this year, the premiers called on the federal government to establish […]
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When Zellers relaunches in Canada this spring, there won’t be an in-store restaurant but now we know what food will be offered at their so-called Diner on Wheels.
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Amphibex icebreakers will head onto the Red River north of Winnipeg next week to begin the work of preventing ice jams and related flooding during the spring thaw.
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Manitoba will soon begin its annual ice-cutting program on the Red River to reduce the potential for ice jams this spring.
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In today’s Big Story podcast, the situation in Haiti, especially in and around the capital Port-au-Prince, has deteriorated in recent months. In some areas gang violence and poverty is rampant, while food, water and fuel have become scarce. While many point to the assassination of former-president Jovenel Moïse as the catalyst for the current crisis, […]
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To further celebrate Winnipeg being a winter city, the Osborne Village BIZ is making things interesting with the Beer Can Olympics.
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The union that represents Manitoba government employees says it predicted there would be delays administering justice in remote communities before the province started contracting a private company to fly in court parties.
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Mary Burton knows it's critical to support parents after their kids are taken by the child welfare system. She also knows how few supports there are for parents in that situation, and how many are left completely alone to figure out what happens next.
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Mainstreet Equity Corp. took ownership of Lions Place effective Feb.15, according to two letters sent to residents Wednesday. The company purchased the building from Lions Housing Centres which has previously said it can no longer afford to run the 287-unit high-rise.
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The creators of the community safety host program say recent events, including the fatal stabbing at the Millennium Library last year, have driven increased demand for the service.
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Winnipeg police are looking for 28-year-old Christian Grant Patchinose in connection to a fatal collision, nearly a year later. The Winnipeg Police Service (WPS) have issued a warrant for Patchinose relating to an incident on May 30, 2022, when officers attempted to stop an SUV in the Deer Lodge neighbourhood. Police say the driver fled […]
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A parliamentary committee has made 23 recommendations to improve Canada’s assisted-dying regime. Members of the committee held 36 meetings, heard from nearly 150 witnesses and reviewed more than 350 briefs on the medically assisted dying program. It is recommending the Liberal government improve access to palliative care and boost financial support for people with disabilities. […]
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We hear more and more about it every day, artificial intelligence. Now educators are looking at the potential challenges AI writing bots might have in the classroom. “If we don’t address this properly in the classroom, we’ll have a lot of problems in our hand as educators within K to 12 settings in public and […]
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One person was taken to hospital, and two dogs are receiving medical care at the Animal Services Agency following one of two house fires in Winnipeg on Wednesday.
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Canadian officials are now considering the chance the two flying objects shot down over the Yukon and Lake Huron may never be found.
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Canadian children living with the least are in the North and on the Prairies, according to an annual report outlining child poverty rates across the country. The report, called “Poverty, the Pandemic, and the Province,” shows Manitoba’s child poverty rate is the highest at 20.68 per cent. Sid Frankel, a member of Campaign 2000, the […]
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A cold warning for Northern Winnipeg communities.
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A southern Manitoba woman who was stranded overnight in a community centre after more than a dozen highways closed wonders why Environment Canada didn't issue any weather advisories during Tuesday night's storm.
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An audit commissioned by the federal government has found that Hockey Canada did not use public funds to settle sexual assault cases or pay for related legal fees. Sport Minister Pascale St-Onge called for the audit in June after media reported that Hockey Canada had settled a $3.55 million sexual assault lawsuit. She requested the […]
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RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki has announced her retirement, effective March 17. Lucki’s term as Commissioner was due to expire and while there were indications she wanted to continue on, the Trudeau government was apparently not interested in extending her term. “This was not an easy decision as I love the RCMP and have loved being […]
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RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki has announced her retirement and will step down from the top job next month.
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Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre said the flying object the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) shot down Saturday is believed to have been a balloon, and the remote area where the debris landed is making recovery efforts difficult.
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Members of the Incredibows fiddling group at École Seven Oaks Middle School in Winnipeg are getting ready for their first-ever performance at Festival du Voyageur. CBC's Jim Agapito speaks with teacher Gisaya Gahungu and students Aljay Bastilan and Nathan Sanderson at their final rehearsal before the show.
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Raquel Welch, an international sex symbol, throughout the 1960s and ’70s, has died. She was 82.
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Two not-so-bright alleged criminals returned to a Winnipeg hotel on Tuesday to retrieve a handgun from a room they had been staying in.
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Uber Technologies Inc. is introducing a new feature in Canada today that gives riders and drivers the ability to record audio of their trips.
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Winnipeg police have made an arrest in a random machete attack that left a 52-year-old man was life-altering injuries last week.
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A man has been charged for a random machete attack in Winnipeg that left a 52-year-old man with injuries police say are likely life-altering.
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The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) says home sales posted their worst start to the year since 2009 in January.
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One week after the Turkey-Syria earthquake that killed about 40,000 people, the rescue and rehabilitation efforts continue.
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The federal Mental Health and Addictions minister says Canadians deserve to know how much alcohol is in a standard-sized drink.
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A 45-year-old woman and 16-year-old boy are dead after their vehicle crashed head-on with an SUV in western Manitoba.
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Two people were killed Tuesday in a two-vehicle crash on Highway 16 just east of Neepawa.
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The Winnipeg Goldeyes have re-signed Canadian right-handed pitcher Landen Bourassa, while also coming to terms with outfielder Najee Gaskins.
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Winnipeg police are looking for a man they say was driving an SUV that crashed into a tree, killing a woman in the Deer Lodge neighbourhood last May.
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ANTAKYA, Turkey (AP) — The earthquakes that killed more than 39,000 people in southern Turkey and northern Syria produced more grieving and suffering along with extraordinary rescues and appeals for aid. Here’s a look at key developments Wednesday from the aftermath of the earthquakes: DEFYING ODDS AFTER NINE DAYS A woman and her two children […]
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In today’s Big Story, it started with a suspected Chinese spy balloon, shot down by the American military off the coast of South Carolina after being tracked floating over the continent for at least four days. Since then, three more as-yet-unidentified objects have been blown out of the sky, one near the coast of Alaska, […]
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The Manitoba Opera is celebrating its 50th season anniversary with a special concert and ChrisD.ca wants to send you there!
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Dina Pugliese is saying goodbye to Breakfast Television (BT) after over 16 years serving as co-host. Her last appearance on the longest running morning show will be on Friday, Feb. 24. “I have decided it is my time to step down and leave the show. I’ll tell you this didn’t happen overnight, this has been […]
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