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A year after the discovery of what are believed to be 215 unmarked graves at the former Kamloops residential school, ground searches are underway at many of Manitoba's 14 residential school sites.
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More than a dozen residential school survivors from First Nations across the country plan to press Roman Catholic bishops for input on the Pope's planned stops when he visits Canada in July and the words the pontiff will use in his expected residential school apology on Canadian soil.
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An annual event in Winnipegâs Egyptian community is happening again this weekend for the first time since the pandemic.
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With Manitoba set to introduce a bill as early as Monday that could raise its minimum wage, workers in the province say itâs about time.
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The inaction â of a school district police chief and other law enforcement officers have become the center of the investigation.
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The Manitoba Motorcycle Ride for Dad returned as a single-day group ride on Saturday for the first time since the pandemic began, and once again raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for prostate cancer research.
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According to a survey conducted by the Sharing Halal campaign, one in four Canadians "do not trust people belonging to the Muslim faith group."
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A Dene filmmaker says he was “disappointed” and “close to tears” when security at the Cannes Film Festival blocked him from walking the red carpet while dressed in a pair of moccasins. Kelvin Redvers, a Vancouver producer who attended Cannes as part of a delegation of six Indigenous filmmakers, says he was refused entry to […]
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Clean-up efforts are underway in Peguis First Nation, as community members who were forced to leave their homes during the recent flood have now returned. Theyâre taking stock of the full extent of damage to their homes and property. âWater was about three feet high, it was right up to my chest,â said resident Cheryl […]
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Winnipeg firefighters battled a blaze in an empty two-storey apartment complex in the River-Osborne are early Saturday morning, which had been damaged by previous fires.
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A Winnipeg mother and her fourth grader are questioning an elementary schoolâs refusal to print yearbooks that state the 10-year-old wants to be a bartender when he grows up.
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Russia asserted Saturday that its troops and separatist fighters had captured a key railway junction in eastern Ukraine, the second small city to fall to Moscow’s forces this week as they fought to seize all of the country’s contested Donbas region. Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said the city of Lyman had been “completely […]
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Nick Arbuckle threw Edmonton's only two touchdown passes in the Elks' 30-20 exhibition win over the Blue Bombers on Friday, but he viewed it as a quarterback group victory.Â
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Neli Dubova fled her home in Odesa at the start of the Russian invasion. Now she's in Winnipeg, helping kids from her home country to navigate the Canadian educational system.
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As groceries become more and more expensive, a community centre located in a St. Vital Manitoba Housing development invited residents to come learn how to grow their own food earlier this week.
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Kelvin Redvers says he hopes the incident is a learning moment for event organizers and it helps expand the festival's idea of what counts as formal wear.Â
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Pembina Trails School Division superintendent Ted Fransen said a group of Ăcole South Pointe School students involved in a community cleanup day were doing service education when they came across the body in a field across from the school.
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After initially suggesting the wages of Manitoba's lowest-paid employees are rising on their own, Premier Heather Stefanson wants to tip the scales and improve a minimum wage that's poised to be the lowest in Canada.Â
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Parts of Manitoba will see 20 to 40 millimetres of rain over the next five days, beginning Friday night, according to the provincial hydrological forecast centre. Some localized areas could see up to 70 mm.
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Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson is hinting at an increase in the minimum wage. At a meeting of western premiers in Regina, Stefanson says Manitoba has fallen behind other provinces and is going to take steps to address that. Stefanson did not go into detail, but her Progressive Conservative government has served notice of a bill […]
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First Nations leaders in northern Manitoba have declared a state of emergency over what they say is a critical staffing shortage at nursing stations across the province.
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Staff at the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, whose leader faces allegations of sexual assault, described it as a "toxic" workplace, where bullying and belittling was widespread, according to a copy of a draft report on the organization obtained by CBC News.
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Alana Sally Green, 24, has been missing since May 7, Winnipeg police said on Friday.
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Wait times at Winnipeg emergency departments and urgent care centres are beginning to improve but there is a long road still ahead, say officials in the city's health system.
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The Winnipeg Blue Bombers released veteran receiver Jalen Saunders earlier this week after investigating an allegation of sexual assault against him. The CFL team let Saunders go Wednesday. The move came amid reports a 22-year-old woman has filed a formal complaint alleging Saunders pressed to enter her apartment and pressured her for sex before assaulting […]
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Former Manitoba Liberal leader Rana Bokhari wants to be Winnipeg's next mayor, and has joined eight other people who have so far registered their campaigns.
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A 47-year-old man is dead after his SUV and a semi-trailer truck crashed this morning.
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It took the forced isolation of the pandemic to help Lauren Toews come to the realization that she was a lesbian.Â
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The Winnipeg Blue Bombers have released receiver Jalen Saunders due to allegations of sexual assault.
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The teardown of a 110-year-old building that was destroyed by a fire earlier this year has begun.
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Canada's western premiers are meeting in Regina on Friday and they are demanding "sustainable" health-care funding from the federal government.
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The early 1990s were not always an easy time for women to climb the career ladder, but Robin Chant was doing it in full firefighter gear.
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Prosecutors and defence lawyers are expected to make their final pitch today to jurors hearing the sex assault trial of Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard. Hoggard, 37, has pleaded not guilty to two counts of sexual assault causing bodily harm and one of sexual interference, a charge that refers to the sexual touching of someone under […]
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Families of the victims of the Quebec City mosque shooter say they fear Friday’s Supreme Court ruling means the 17 children who lost a father could one day meet the killer in the streets of Quebec’s capital. Canada’s high court ruled that the killer who went on a deadly shooting spree at a Quebec City […]
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A 25-year-old man is missing after he was seen walking away from his vehicle on a closed section of highway outside the southern Manitoba town of Morris.
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The Supreme Court of Canada says Alexandre Bissonnette, who went on a deadly shooting spree at a Quebec City mosque, can apply for parole after 25 years. In its unanimous decision today, the high court declares unconstitutional a 2011 Criminal Code provision that allowed a judge, in the event of multiple murders, to impose a […]
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Alexandre Bissonnette is escorted to a van after appearing in court for the deadly shooting at a mosque on January 30, 2017 in Quebec City. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot
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Murray Sinclair was awarded the Order of Canada during a ceremony Thursday at Rideau Hall in Ottawa.
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We’ve known for a long time that mining can come with harmful byproducts, but Canada has often been slow to put this knowledge into action. And that’s a big part of how a veritable mountain of arsenic â enough to kill everyone in this country â ended up entombed in the ground on the outskirts […]
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The health authority in western Manitoba expects to be down 20 doctors by the end of the summer, as it currently struggles with finding staff at two personal care homes and to prevent ERs from closing temporarily.
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Officials say a diesel spill on a property near Lake Manitoba just over two weeks ago has been contained and there is little risk of the fuel contaminating Sandy Bay First Nation's water source, but a community official says he has concerns about the spill.
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Property owners in southeastern Manitoba and northwestern Ontario are wrestling with rising floodwaters as levels continue to rise in the swollen Winnipeg River system.
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The husband of a teacher killed in the Texas school shooting Tuesday has died. He passed away from a heart attack just two days after the tragedy.
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Hockey Canada says it has reached a settlement with a person alleging they were sexually assaulted by members of the 2017-18 national junior men’s hockey team. The organization confirmed the settlement in a statement provided to Sportsnet. TSNâs Rick Westhead was the first to report on the lawsuit and the settlement. The allegations, which have […]
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Winnipeg city council decided not to move the West Kildonan library into the Garden City Shopping Centre, and will leave it in its current space on Jefferson Avenue.
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