Chiefs seek pause in Crown land rental auction
BRANDON — Garton’s Auction Services, the Dauphin-based company hired by the province to run Crown land rental sales, has not been told to pause upcoming auctions,...
New laws, incentives needed to foster employee ownership
Glenda MacPhail, a book project specialist at Friesens Corp. in Altona, was one of about 550 employees at the sprawling printing operation who got a share...
Abusive father, husband gets break on sentence
A Winnipeg man who held his wife and children as virtual hostages during a violent, two-year reign of terror has had his prison sentence reduced by...
Museums exhibit solidarity with Black History Month programming
Black History Month has not gone unnoticed by Winnipeg’s major museums. The Manitoba Museum, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and the Winnipeg Art Gallery are...
MMF card to be accepted ID for liquor, cannabis purchases
The provincial government is introducing legislation to allow Métis people to use their Manitoba Métis Federation citizenship cards as identification when purchasing liquor, cannabis and gaming...
Leadership selection changes should be at top of provincial Tories’ to-do list
Opinion Candice Bergen’s resignation Wednesday as the Conservative MP for Portage-Lisgar was a friendly reminder to Manitoba’s Progressive Conservative party that it may want to change...
Developer tweaks plan for homes near Red
Six homes are on track to get built in the Cloutier Drive neighbourhood, despite initial concerns about risk of flooding from the nearby Red River. At...
Province to supply private company’s in-home tests to reduce backlog in diagnosing sleep disorders
With more than 8,000 Manitobans waiting for a sleep disorder diagnosis, the provincial government is teaming up with a private company to supply in-home sleep tests....
Resident critically injured in Sargent Avenue apartment fire
One person is in critical condition after being injured in one of a trio of fires that broke out in about a three-hour period Tuesday morning....
China pushes back on air-travel test requirements, but Canadian firms not worried
OTTAWA – The Chinese government is unhappy that Canada and other countries are creating new COVID-19 restrictions for people flying from China, but business groups say...