Wednesday’s warmth record-setting
Several Manitoba communities set temperature records on Wednesday and amazingly they were highs — not lows. Danielle Desjardins, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, said Dominion City,...
Province seizes three million illegal cigarettes from one suspect
Provincial tax investigators made Manitoba’s largest seizure of illegal cigarettes from a single person in a sting dubbed Project Shrek, leading to charges against six suspects....
Tories agree to NDP’s non-binding election proposal
MANITOBA lawmakers unanimously endorsed a motion to confirm the next election will take place Oct. 3, 2023. The non-binding proposal brought forward by NDP house leader...
Online booking program links clients, home care workers
A Winnipeg man with quadriplegia — trapped in bed all day or in his wheelchair overnight several times in recent months when home care was cancelled...
Manitoba government plans to stick to set election date of October 2023
WINNIPEG – Manitoba Justice Minister Kelvin Goertzen says the Progressive Conservative government is not planning to call an early election. Goertzen, who is also the Tory...
City ready for its closeup
The two-dozen strong Manitoba film industry contingent that blitzed Los Angeles this week established a strong beachhead with the film industry there and officials believe they...
Protesters seek affordable housing protection
A United Church group attended a protest Wednesday outside the office of Families Minister Rochelle Squires to back up demands from Lions Place residents the province...
Nursing college English test ‘smells like white supremacy’
A Tataskewayak Cree Nation nurse, who is desperate to work in Manitoba, has been barred from practising after failing an English exam that advocates argue is...
Niigaan and the Lone Ranger podcast rides for first time
Opinion First off, if you don’t like the name of the podcast, it’s Niigaan’s fault. True story: it was award-winning columnist and noted academic Niigaan Sinclair...
Justice minister denounces partygoers’ aggression toward Mounties
Manitoba’s justice minister decried the violent response to RCMP officers who broke up an out-of-control house party in East St. Paul, citing it as an example...