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The man "became unresponsive" during an encounter with Winnipeg police and later died in hospital, says Winnipeg police Chief Danny Smyth.
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She’s known as the Asian pop princess of Winnipeg. And now drag queen Ruby Chopstix has become the first-ever drag artist to receive an arts residency in Canada. “It was pretty surreal. I still am coming from that high,” said Ruby, also known as Alex Nguyen. “Everything was just like this amalgamation of good energy […]
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A former member of the Ottawa Senators and Canada’s world junior hockey team has turned himself into police in London, Ont., in connection with the alleged sexual assault of a woman in 2018. Alex Formenton walked into the police headquarters Sunday morning accompanied by his attorneys. Formenton is allegedly among five players from Canada’s 2018 […]
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CBC spoke to wrestlers and members of Winnipeg Pro Wrestling as the streaming service slammed into the live events this week, putting up billions of dollars to become the exclusive home of Monday Night Raw in the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom and Latin America among other territories starting January, 2025. Monday Night Raw is the flagship show for World Wrestling Entertainment and produced more than 1,000 episodes since its debut in 1993
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A member of a team supporting a Canadian-Palestinian man documenting humanitarian efforts during the Israel-Hamas war says loved ones have lost contact with the citizen journalist in Gaza. Zaheera Soomar says Mansour Shouman was last heard from last Sunday. Her contacts overseas told Soomar on Monday and Tuesday that Shouman was seen at the Nasser […]
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A fire that Winnipeg paramedics believe was caused by a candle left three cats dead inside a St. Boniface home.
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A significant court clerk shortage has been causing delays in parts of the province for months, but those delays are starting to be felt in Winnipeg — and they're having an impact on the administration of justice.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — With their purple, gold and green colors and toy babies hidden inside, king cakes are staples of Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans, but apparently they’re also valuable enough to steal — at least this time of year during the Carnival season. A thief stole seven king cakes — about as […]
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At a bustling college campus west of Toronto, several students had been thinking about recently announced changes to the international student program that brought them to the post-secondary institution. Some were sympathizing with friends back home whose dreams of studying in Canada were suddenly in jeopardy as Ottawa has moved to cap the number of […]
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WINNIPEG -- A house fire in St. Boniface on Saturday afternoon claimed the lives of multiple felines.
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Darian Brown says youth need events like Winterfest because it is an opportunity to show off their skills on the ice or in the powwow arena. Winterfest— a four-day event hosted by Sioux Valley Dakota Nation — is an annual tradition in Brandon celebrating Indigenous culture and youth sports.
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Isaac Annoh, a Grade 10 student at Sisler High School, aims for another gold in shot put at the 2024 Legion National Youth Track and Field Championships in summer. In the meantime, the 16-year-old tries to balance the stress of competition with academia. Art helps him.
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A Manitoba man is calling for the end of a long-standing policy after he got an increase in his disability payments from the federal government — only to have the provincial government reduce his benefits by the same amount.
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France’s interior ministry on Sunday ordered a large deployment of security forces around Paris as angry farmers threatened to head toward the capital, hours after climate activists hurled soup at the glass protecting the “Mona Lisa” painting at the Louvre Museum. French farmers are putting pressure on the government to respond to their demands for […]
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OTTAWA — Canada’s first provincial First Nations premier singled out Ed Broadbent as a beacon of civility in politics Sunday as generations of political leaders gathered to bid a final goodbye to the left-leaning luminary. Wab Kinew, elected just last year as Manitoba’s new NDP premier, acknowledged a stark reality: that the former federal New […]
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Israel said “significant gaps” remain after cease-fire talks on Sunday with the United States, Qatar and Egypt but called them constructive and said they would continue in the week ahead, a tentative sign of progress on a potential agreement that could see Israel pause military operations against Hamas in exchange for the release of remaining […]
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WINNIPEG — Auston Matthews credited hard work and consistency for scoring his NHL-leading 40th goal of the season and reaching a special milestone in the Toronto Maple Leafs’ 4-2 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Saturday.
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Auston Matthews scored his NHL-leading 40th goal of the season and recorded his 600th career point as the Toronto Maple Leafs won a third straight game with a 4-2 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Saturday. It was Winnipeg's third straight loss.
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Femi Ajiboye was among dozens of people that gathered Saturday at the Winnipeg railway station, the starting point for a rally in support of Afolabi Opaso, a 19-year-old international student at the University of Manitoba who was fatally shot by police on New Year's Eve.
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More than 100 people gathered at Union Station downtown Saturday to demand justice for the university student from Nigeria fatally shot by Winnipeg police on New Year’s Eve. Afolabi Opaso, 19, was allegedly experiencing a mental-health crisis when he was killed on Dec. 31, 2023. BACKGROUND: 19-year-old armed with knives fatally shot by police near […]
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Winnipeg police say a matter that drew several officers to the Exchange District Saturday afternoon has concluded. Police said “several police resources” were at McDermot Avenue and Arthur Street shortly after 1 p.m. for an investigation. Drivers and pedestrians were asked to avoid the area. In a post on X at 2 p.m., Winnipeg police […]
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Malveaux was a member of the Stampeders' Grey Cup championship squad in 2001 and played an important role in that year's West final victory over Edmonton with a pair of interceptions.
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An emergency demolition is planned for an industrial building that partially collapsed after a fire downtown Saturday morning. Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service says crews were called to the single-storey commercial building on Logan Avenue near Princess Steet around 6:50 a.m. Heavy smoke and flames were coming from the building when crews arrived. The fire was […]
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A 38-year-old man is facing a manslaughter charge following the death of Kyriakos Vogiatzakis, 51, the owner of the Winnipeg restaurant Cork & Flame, on Wednesday.
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Police have charged a 38-year-old man with manslaughter in connection with the death of a Winnipeg restaurant owner. Kyriakos Vogiatzakis, the owner of Cork and Flame on Portage Avenue in Kirkfield, died Wednesday after what police are describing as a physical altercation that turned fatal. Winnipeg Police Service investigators believe Vogiatzakis and the suspect “had […]
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Winnipeg police have laid charges against a suspect in the death of a St. James restaurant owner on Wednesday.
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A chill on freedom of speech is deepening the pain Muslims in Canada are already feeling over the ongoing tragedy in the Gaza Strip, says Canada’s special representative on combating Islamophobia. “There is a lot of silencing,” Amira Elghawaby said in an interview with The Canadian Press. “Many members of Canada’s Muslim, Arab and Palestinian […]
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Canada’s antisemitism envoy said Saturday’s annual day to mark the atrocities committed against Jewish people during the Second World War is more important and more poignant this year amid what she described as a rampant surge in anti-Jewish sentiment sparked by the latest war in the Middle East. “This year’s commemoration has a particularly sombre […]
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An industrial building in central Winnipeg will be demolished after it was badly damaged by fire early Saturday morning.
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Some Winnipeg residents will begin receiving phone calls asking their opinions on the Winnipeg Police Service, crime and public safety.
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A B.C. Supreme Court judge has overturned a landmark human rights tribunal decision awarding $150,000 to a woman who claimed she was discriminated against by Canada's longest-serving Indigenous child-care agency.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday pushed back after an International Court of Justice ruling to limit death and destruction in the military’s Gaza offensive, declaring that “we decide and act according to what is required for our security” and vowing to press on until complete victory. Witnesses said three Palestinians were killed earlier […]
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Xierra Cansino started doing animation at age 14. Three years later, in 2022, a 23-second animation she created called Sucker went viral, amassing 8.2 million views. Today she has 901,000 followers on YouTube and is pursuing a career in animation.
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Facing an uncertain future after a decade of being fenced off and abandoned, Winnipeg's 95-year-old Alexander Docks are a remnant of a lost era in the city's history.
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Officials in Ukraine said Russia has provided no credible evidence to back its claims that their own forces shot down a military transport plane carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war who were to be swapped for Russian POWs. The Ukrainian agency that deals with prisoner exchanges said late Friday that Russian officials had “with great delay” […]
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Patients hate having to ask for them. Doctors don't like writing them. And, increasingly, health-care providers are taking a stand against them.
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Rates of invasive, potentially deadly strep A infections were quietly rising in Canada pre-pandemic. Then, in 2023, the country hit a new record. Scientists suspect a complex set of factors could be fuelling the rise of this fearsome bacterial infection.
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A new cap on international student study permits has sparked panic and uncertainty on Canadian campuses. With fall 2024 admissions already in process, students, advocates, school administrators and experts are bracing for tumultuous times ahead.
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Gad Partok was 10 years old in 1942 when Nazis stormed his street in the coastal Tunisian town of Nabeul. He saw them going door to door, hauling out his neighbors, shooting them and burning down their homes. Like so many Jews who moved to Israel after the war, Partok believed Israel would be a […]
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A group of survivors of Nazi death camps marked the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp during World War II in a modest ceremony Saturday in southern Poland. About 20 survivors from various camps set up by Nazi Germany around Europe laid wreaths and flowers and lit candles at the Death Wall […]
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Residents in the Spence neighbourhood are putting pressure on the City of Winnipeg to clean up long-derelict properties, like the pile of debris on Sherbrook Street left after an apartment block burned down nearly two years ago.
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Katarina Ziervogel, a deaf actor from Sagkeeng First Nation, discusses her role in the Marvel miniseries Echo, which premiered earlier this month on the Disney+ streaming service. Ziervogel plays the role of Taloa, the mother of the deaf lead character Maya Lopez, whose alter ego is the titular superhero, Echo.
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A break-in at a Manitoba Child and Family Services office in Winnipeg early Friday may result in a breach of clients privacy, the province says.
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A 14-year-old girl last seen leaving her home in a Dauphin earlier this week has been reported missing, Manitoba RCMP say.
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A Winnipeg activist wants swift and immediate action on a problematic hotel in the city. Saying as conversations around hotel training and hotel safety emerge following a violent incident captured on video at the Marlborough Hotel, she says a hotel in the Manwin, must also be put under the spotlight, calling the conditions “more than dangerous.” “This building […]
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Calls continue to grow for the Manitoba government to ban the usage of replacement workers in a strike and make the process of joining a union easier. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released a new report Friday calling for measures they say will make the playing field easier for workers when it comes to […]
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The proposed search of a Winnipeg-area landfill for the remains of two slain First Nations women could cost $90 million — about half the projected maximum in an earlier estimate — although searchers could face a "very high risk" from asbestos, a new report says.
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WINNIPEG — The proposed search of a Winnipeg-area landfill for the remains of two slain First Nations women could cost $90 million — about half the projected maximum in an earlier estimate — although searchers could face a "very high risk" from asbestos, a new report says.
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The proposed search of a Winnipeg-area landfill for the remains of two slain First Nations women could cost $90 million — about half the projected maximum in an earlier estimate — although searchers could face a “very high risk” from asbestos, a new report says. The operational planning report is a detailed followup to a […]
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Winners of the annual warming huts contest at The Forks are finally seeing their vision come to life.
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An external review of Manitoba’s Crown-owned auto insurance corporation has found instability, confusion over responsibilities and a high ratio of managers. The review by consulting firm Ernst and Young says Manitoba public Insurance has a relatively high number of managerial layers, and 30 per cent of management roles have three or fewer people reporting to them directly. […]
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Some people in Winnipeg's food and hospitality community say the recent death of a restaurant owner after an altercation at his business is indicative of a larger problem.
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An external review of Manitoba's Crown-owned auto insurance corporation has found instability, confusion over responsibilities and a high ratio of managers.
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Two women are facing charges after a shooting in the community of Oxford House.
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