Crews douse house fires in West End, North Point Douglas amid frigid conditions
Winnipeg fire crews were busy extinguishing two fires — one in the West End and one in North Point Douglas — on Sunday in the middle of an extreme cold warning.
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Winnipeg fire crews were busy extinguishing two fires — one in the West End and one in North Point Douglas — on Sunday in the middle of an extreme cold warning.
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Rick Bowness of the Winnipeg Jets and Rick Tocchet of the Vancouver Canucks will join Boston's Jim Montgomery and Peter Laviolette of the New York Rangers as head coaches at the NHL all-star game in Toronto.
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Winnipeg Jets head coach Rick Bowness and Vancouver Canucks head coach Rick Tocchet will be two of the four head coaches at the 2024 NHL All-Star Game in Toronto, the NHL announced Sunday. The other two coaches will be Jim Montgomery of the Boston Bruins and Peter Laviolette of the New York Rangers. This is […]
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The celebration of Filipino culture at the Winnipeg Jets game Saturday – a mix of dance, music, food and tradition – was stirring for members of the community. The Jets hosted their second annual Filipino Heritage Night during their game against the Philadelphia Flyers. Thousands in attendance at Canada Life Centre cheered on the team […]
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Joyce Randolph, a veteran stage and television actress whose role as the savvy Trixie Norton on “The Honeymooners” provided the perfect foil to her dimwitted TV husband, has died. She was 99. Randolph died of natural causes Saturday night at her home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, her son Randolph Charles told The […]
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INDIANOLA, Iowa (AP) — Marc Smiarowski hunched over to fight off the minus 18-degree Fahrenheit (minus 28 degrees Celsius) chill on Sunday, waiting for the doors to open for Donald Trump’s midday rally at a small college outside Des Moines. But as the weak winter sun hung low in the sky, a sense of bitterness […]
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The Winnipeg Jets have announced Rick Bowness has been selected to serve as one of the four head coaches at the upcoming 2024 NHL All-Star Game.
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Health professionals are growing increasingly concerned health-care delays are leading to more patient deaths as wait times in Winnipeg emergency rooms continue to soar.
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Much of Canada spent Saturday either shivering in record-setting frigid temperatures or digging out of a messy winter storm as weather warnings remained in place from the West Coast to the Maritimes.
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An anti-tank missile fired from Lebanon hit a home in northern Israel on Sunday, killing two civilians and renewing concerns about the risk of a second front erupting in the Israel-Hamas war. The deadly strike near the border came on the 100th day of the conflict between Israel and Hamas that has killed nearly 24,000 Palestinians, devastated […]
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Squished in the back seat of a ride share, Nelly Furtado was dreaming up her comeback single. It was Valentine’s Day last year and the “Promiscuous” hitmaker was en route to a Philadelphia recording studio with a carload of friends and collaborators. That’s when one of them pulled out his laptop. Australian dance producer Dom […]
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Eleven years ago, the recipe for the McCain Deep’n Delicious cake — a decades-old Canadian classic — changed. To many Canadians, the removal of beef gelatin from the cake’s components may have gone unnoticed. But for Muslim shoppers used to checking the ingredients of food products, it was cause for celebration. “It went kind of […]
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Economists are forecasting Canada’s inflation rate likely ticked up last month, but that isn’t expected to set off alarm bells as long as underlying price pressures ease. Statistics Canada is scheduled to release its December consumer price index report on Tuesday, offering a look at the overall inflation rate for 2023. Forecasters are expecting December’s […]
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Charity Fleury cried out between sobs in a Manitoba courtroom last month as she described the "unimaginable horror" of her 10-month-old daughter's murder by a man Fleury trusted to care for the infant.
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A volcano erupted in southwestern Iceland Sunday for the second time in less than a month, sending semi-molten rock toward a nearby settlement. The eruption just before 8 a.m. came after a swarm of earthquakes near the town of Grindavik, the Icelandic Meteorological Office said. The community was evacuated overnight. A crack opened near homes […]
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Frigid temperatures continued to grip British Columbia and the Prairies on Sunday as high winds and wintry conditions make their way across Canada’s eastern provinces. Environment Canada says arctic air will continue to generate wind chill temperatures of between – 40 and – 50 C in some parts of B.C., including Peace River and Prince […]
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Samuel Ersson made 35 saves and Cam Atkinson snapped a 26-game scoring drought with a two-goal performance that propelled the Philadelphia Flyers to a 2-0 victory over the league-leading Winnipeg Jets on Saturday.
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WINNIPEG — Samuel Ersson made 35 saves and Cam Atkinson snapped a 26-game scoring drought with a two-goal performance that propelled the Philadelphia Flyers to a 2-0 victory over the league-leading Winnipeg Jets on Saturday.
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Most of Manitoba, including the City of Winnipeg, is now under an extreme cold warning, according to Environment Canada.
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A search continued in frigid temperatures Saturday for a Winnipeg woman who hasn't been seen since last summer.
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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is recalling various yogurt and parfait bowls that contain Quaker granola previously recalled due to possible salmonella contamination. The recall involves more than 30 types of yogurt or parfait bowls sold at Loblaw, Metro and Sobeys grocery stores across Canada. The food inspection agency says no illnesses associated with those […]
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The world's reaction to the landmark case that was heard Thursday and Friday at the International Court of Justice in The Hague shows a predictable global split when it comes to the inextricable, 75-year-old problem of Israel and the Palestinians. Sunday marks 100 days of their bloodiest ever conflict.
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Winnipeg police say they are investigating after a crash at Keewatin Street and Notre Dame Avenue.
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Heather Stefanson has announced she will step down as leader of the Manitoba Progressive Conservatives on Monday.
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Manitoba’s police watchdog is investigating the Thursday arrest of a man wanted on a Canada-wide warrant, who suffered a broken left arm and other injuries, the Independent Investigation Unit says.
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A woman was taken to hospital in unstable condition after being shot on Furby Street Thursday night, but has since been upgraded to stable condition, Winnipeg police say.
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It began with an art studio so small and ill-equipped that printmakers opened windows to the Arctic winter to ventilate toxic chemicals. Now, it’s an internationally known wellspring of imagery and imagination that graces the walls and tabletops of Canadians and art-lovers around the world — as well as a business that offers Inuit everything […]
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Manitoba Progressive Conservatives are set to meet this afternoon to hammer out rules for the party’s upcoming leadership race. Leader Heather Stefanson announced after losing the Oct. 3 election that she would step down, but has not yet set a date. The Tories are looking to avoid a repeat of their last leadership race in […]
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Manitoba RCMP have charged a man after they say he rammed a stolen pickup truck into their vehicles in Steinbach.
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The Manitoba Vexillological Association doing an unofficial — and extremely short — online survey of Manitobans' thoughts on the nearly 60-year-old provincial flag and whether it's time for a redesign.
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Andre Katzenellenbogen, 31, died after a fight in Brandon last June. A man was arrested and charged with manslaughter, but the charge was stayed in December. Katzenellenbogen's mother says that's left her with unanswered questions about his death.
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More than 30 Palestinians, including young children, were killed in Israeli bombardments overnight into Saturday in the Gaza Strip, officials said, while a new U.S. strike against Iran-backed rebels in Yemen heightened fears that the Israel-Hamas war could escalate into a regional conflict. Fears of a wider conflagration have been palpable since the start of […]
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Canadian emergency rooms are overflowing while an array of respiratory illnesses — COVID-19 included — keep circulating. And it's happening against a backdrop of behind-the-scenes backlogs that turn front-line ERs into dangerous choke points.
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A gay employee of Global Affairs Canada posted in China, who travelled to the U.S. for the birth of his child through surrogacy, will have those expenses covered after a tribunal ruling. The public service labour board ruled in August it would be discriminatory if Ottawa does not compensate travel expenses for any diplomat in […]
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It has become a daily ritual. Every morning, before she’s even out of her pajamas, Rachel Goldberg-Polin tears a piece of masking tape off the roll, grabs a marking pen and in thick black strokes writes down the number of days her son, Hersh, has been held hostage by Hamas militants. Then she sticks the […]
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Friends of Afolabi Stephen Opaso called for more mental health supports for international students at a vigil Friday night to honour the 19-year-old student who was fatally shot by police on New Year's Eve.
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The province of Manitoba and the union representing its 11,500 civil servants have reached a tentative agreement for a four-year contract, MGEU said Friday.
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As a wave of extreme cold hits Winnipeg this week, homeless shelters in the city are scrambling to make space to keep people warm.
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The City of Brandon just released a proposed budget for 2024 that would require an extra $5.3 million — meaning residents could face a 10 per cent tax increase this year.
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Indoor pickleball courts are growing in popularity as more people are looking to play the sport year-round. “It’s exhausting but it’s good exercise for an old guy like me,” said Luciano Armenti. Armenti’s tennis partner of over 20 years Gary Choloski finally convinced him to try the sport. “I’ve been trying to get him out […]
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Holy Family Home in Winnipeg holds a retirement party for Ruger, who has been the home's unofficial therapy dog for the last eight years. Colleen Morrison, Ruger's owner and Holy Family's recreation facilitator, talks about the 14-year-old's work with residents.
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CBC's Emily Brass talks with Coun. Janice Lukes and Derek Hanley, vice-president of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1505, about the need to recruit and retain staff at Winnipeg Transit, which has a shortage of 155 drivers.
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WINNIPEG -- A man broke several bones after diving headfirst from a second-storey window in an attempt to escape Winnipeg police on Thursday.
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The snow is here to stay, but its late arrival could see the City of Winnipeg’s 2023 snow-clearing budget spared, as the man leading the charge says November and December delivered a bit of a break when it comes to the white stuff. “Those months, we’re obviously better financially, but the exact impact, that’s being […]
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CBC News Science and Climate Specialist Darius Mahdavi explains the global climatic systems that are causing such a cold snap in British Columbia and the Prairies.
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Pierre Poilievre used a cold blustery day in Winnipeg to argue the temperature isn't the only reason the cost of heating a home is rising.
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The Manitoba NDP's caucus chair is filing two ethics complaints over allegations the former provincial government tried to ram through approval of an Alberta mining company's sand-drilling proposal, days after the Progressive Conservatives lost the Oct. 3 provincial election.
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Gen. Wayne Eyre is planning to retire as Canada’s chief of the defence staff this summer, he said in a statement to military members Friday. Eyre took on the role in an acting capacity in February 2021, when the Canadian Armed Forces was dealing with sexual misconduct scandals involving several senior leaders. He was officially […]
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Winnipeg police say three teens were robbed on their way to school Thursday in the Elmwood area.
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Winnipeg police say a woman is in hospital after being shot along Furby Street Thursday evening. WPS responded to Furby Street near Westminster Avenue around 6:50 p.m., after receiving a report of a shooting. When officers arrived, they found a 48-year-old woman suffering from a gunshot wound, and officers began providing medical assistance. The woman […]
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The time has come to clear residential neighbourhoods of ice and snow, the City of Winnipeg says.
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