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Winnipeg's Portage Place to soon 'breathe again' as purchase poised to close
A drawing of a planned revitalization of the Portage Place shopping centre in downtown Winnipeg is shown in this slide provided by True North Real Estate Development on Friday, May 12, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-True North Real Estate Development **MANDATORY CREDIT**
Lawsuit settlement, collective agreements and Hydro losses drove up Manitoba deficit, documents show
<p>New documents show the Manitoba government posted a deficit of just under $2 billion -- the largest non-pandemic deficit in the province's history in the fiscal year that ended in March. Manitoba Finance Minister Adrien Sala delivers the provincial budget in the Manitoba Legislature in Winnipeg, Tuesday, April 2, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods</p>
Manitoba government says it’s on track to hiring 1,000 new health-care workers
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew speaks during the media availability at the 2024 Western Premiers’ Conference in Whitehorse, Monday, June 10, 2024. Manitoba's government says it will encourage the development of renewable energy in the province while acknowledging fossil fuels aren't going away any time soon. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Crystal Schick
Fighting the phantom: For First Nations, diabetes takes a devastating, oft-preventable toll
James Gott, 75, is photographed in his Winnipeg, Manitoba apartment on Sept 13, 2024. Originally from Sapotaweyak Cree Nation (approximately 400 kms northwest of Winnipeg), Gott’s left leg was amputated 18 years ago due to complications from diabetes and his right leg was amputated three years later. Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail. *** SCANNED BLACK AND WHITE FILM IMAGE ***
Manitoba rolls out new age requirements for breast cancer screening
The Manitoba government is expected to lower the age for breast cancer screenings beginning next year. In this May 22, 2015 photo, A woman receives a mammogram at the University of Michigan Cancer Center in Ann Arbor, Mich. on May 22, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Kimberly P. Mitchell/Detroit Free Press via AP, File
Winnipeg's Portage Place to soon 'breathe again' as purchase poised to close
A drawing of a planned revitalization of the Portage Place shopping centre in downtown Winnipeg is shown in this slide provided by True North Real Estate Development on Friday, May 12, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-True North Real Estate Development **MANDATORY CREDIT**
Lawsuit settlement, collective agreements and Hydro losses drove up Manitoba deficit, documents show
<p>New documents show the Manitoba government posted a deficit of just under $2 billion -- the largest non-pandemic deficit in the province's history in the fiscal year that ended in March. Manitoba Finance Minister Adrien Sala delivers the provincial budget in the Manitoba Legislature in Winnipeg, Tuesday, April 2, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods</p>
Manitoba government says it’s on track to hiring 1,000 new health-care workers
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew speaks during the media availability at the 2024 Western Premiers’ Conference in Whitehorse, Monday, June 10, 2024. Manitoba's government says it will encourage the development of renewable energy in the province while acknowledging fossil fuels aren't going away any time soon. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Crystal Schick
Fighting the phantom: For First Nations, diabetes takes a devastating, oft-preventable toll
James Gott, 75, is photographed in his Winnipeg, Manitoba apartment on Sept 13, 2024. Originally from Sapotaweyak Cree Nation (approximately 400 kms northwest of Winnipeg), Gott’s left leg was amputated 18 years ago due to complications from diabetes and his right leg was amputated three years later. Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail. *** SCANNED BLACK AND WHITE FILM IMAGE ***
Manitoba rolls out new age requirements for breast cancer screening
The Manitoba government is expected to lower the age for breast cancer screenings beginning next year. In this May 22, 2015 photo, A woman receives a mammogram at the University of Michigan Cancer Center in Ann Arbor, Mich. on May 22, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Kimberly P. Mitchell/Detroit Free Press via AP, File
Missing six-year-old boy in Manitoba found dead, RCMP say
Search groups look for six-year-old boy missing from Manitoba First Nation
Search groups continue to look for a six-year-old boy who was last seen Wednesday morning on a remote First Nation in northeastern Manitoba.The Manitoba flag flies in Ottawa on Monday, November 1, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Law organizations call for Manitoba NDP to reinstate turfed backbencher
NDP finance critic Mark Wasyliw speaks during question period in the Manitoba legislature on Wed., April 7, 2021. Law groups across Canada are denouncing the Manitoba NDP's decision to oust a backbencher and defence lawyer over his ties to the lawyer representing convicted sex offender Peter Nygard, while more caucus members are speaking out in support of the move.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Kevin King - POOL
Lawsuit by Manitoba chiefs urges Lake Winnipeg be legally defined as a person
Netley Creek and The Red River enter Lake Winnipeg just north of Winnipeg, Sunday, May 15, 2022. A Manitoba court is being asked to declare Lake Winnipeg a person with Constitutional rights to life, liberty and security of person. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods/POOL
Manitoba cabinet minister ‘inadvertently’ violated rules, ethics commissioner finds
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew looks on as Ian Bushie, Minister of Municipal and Northern Relations, and Minister of Indigenous Economic Development is sworn-in by Lt. Gov. Anita Neville at a Premier and cabinet swearing-in ceremony in Winnipeg, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. Manitoba's ethics commissioner has found a NDP cabinet minister was in the wrong when he failed to disclose he had a business contract with the government, but is ultimately not recommending a penalty. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods
Manitoba premier defends decision to boot MLA, denies bullying claims
NDP finance critic Mark Wasyliw speaks during question period in the Manitoba Legislature on Wed., April 7, 2021. Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew is standing by his government's decision to remove Wasyliw from caucus. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Kevin King
opinion
Justin Trudeau partakes in that great Canadian tradition: refusing to quit as PM
Andrew Coyne
Liberals lose Montreal riding to Bloc, NDP holds on to Winnipeg stronghold
Bloc Quebecois candidate Louis-Philippe Sauve greets supporters as he arrives at the party's byelection night party for the riding of LaSalle-Emard-Verdun on Tuesday, Sept.17 in Montreal.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi
NDP wins Winnipeg by-election as results in Montreal show tight three-way race
NDP candidate Leila Dance (middle) celebrates as she is elected a member of Parliament representing Winnipeg’s Elmwood-Transcona riding at the NDP celebration party in Winnipeg, Monday, September 16, 2024.THE CANADIAN PRESS/David Lipnowski
Manitoba NDP removes backbencher from caucus over Peter Nygard link
Mark Wasyliw speaks during question period in the Manitoba legislature on Wed., April 7, 2021. Wasyliw, a backbencher with Manitoba's NDP government, has been removed from caucus.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Kevin King - POOL
Looking for the next mystery bestseller? This crime bookstore can solve the case
Michael Bumsted, who owns the independent bookstore Whodunit Mystery Bookstore with his mother Wendy, places a pin in Europe where his most recent foreign sale happened in their store Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024 in Winnipeg. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods
NDP face tight race in Winnipeg by-election as they try to fend off emboldened Conservatives
Federal election signs in the Winnipeg riding of Elmwood-Transcona on September 10, 2024. Shannon VanRaes/The Globe and Mail
This Indigenous ballet is making its way to ‘the Mecca of dance’ in New York City
Cameron Fraser-Monroe, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s choreographer in residence and the creative force behind T’?l - The Wild Man of the Woods, on April 17, 2024. Shannon VanRaes/The Globe and Mail
Manitoba Grand Chief Cathy Merrick lies in state in provincial legislature
Belongings of Grand Chief Cathy Merrick are carried into a ceremony at the Legislature in Winnipeg on Wednesday, September 11, 2024.THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods
Manitoba grand chief’s death marked with ceremonies, mourners attend legislature
Cathy Merrick, Grand Chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, speaks to media in Winnipeg, Friday, Feb.10, 2023. Family members, community leaders and dignitaries were on hand to pay tribute to Grand Chief Cathy Merrick, of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, who died last Friday.THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods
Most of Canada predicted to have a warmer-than-normal fall, The Weather Network says
People float in the Madawaska River in Renfrew County, Ont., on July 8, 2024. The Weather Network predicts that Canadians will see a slow transition into autumn as temperatures in most regions are expected to be above normal in the coming weeks. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Greg Selinger, former Manitoba premier, is honoured with legislature portrait
Former Manitoba premier Greg Selinger, right, poses for a photo with a supporter, next to a portrait of Selinger unveiled at the Manitoba legislature in Winnipeg on Tuesday, September 10, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Steve Lambert
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Canadian art galleries to explore new ideas from their own vaults
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Canada’s school food program is taking shape, slowly
André Picard
Manitoba grand chief to lie in state at provincial legislature, premier says following her sudden death
<p>Grand Chief of Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) Cathy Merrick speaks to supporters as they gather at a rally for provincial funding to search two landfills for the bodies of Mercedes Myron and Morgan Harris and other missing people at the Manitoba Legislature in Winnipeg, Wednesday, June 14, 2023. Merrick of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs will lie in state at the provincial legislature following her sudden death. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods</p>
Cathy Merrick, Manitoba First Nations Grand Chief, dies after collapsing outside courthouse
Cathy Merrick , Grand Chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, speaks to media in Winnipeg on February 10, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods
Manitoba Grand Chief Cathy Merrick dies after collapsing outside court
Cathy Merrick, grand chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, speaks to media in Winnipeg on Feb. 10, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods
Half-billion dollar settlement approved for former kids in care in Manitoba
People enter the Law Courts in Winnipeg on Monday, Feb. 5, 2018. A judge has approved a settlement for three class-action lawsuits, worth $530 million, over child benefit payments that were clawed back by the Manitoba government. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods
Judge finds Manitoba jail guard not guilty in death of inmate
The flag of Manitoba flies on Monday, Nov. 1, 2021 in Ottawa. A Manitoba judge is expected to deliver his verdict today in the case of a senior corrections officer charged in the death of a First Nations inmate. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld</p>
Car drives through police protest in Winnipeg, driver confronted
A man is seen on top of a car that drove through a protest in Winnipeg on Wednesday Sept. 4, 2024. Protesters called for accountability after a police car struck and killed a woman near a homeless encampment on Monday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Steve Lambert
Cummings, Bachman reach settlement over the Guess Who name with former bandmates
<p>Randy Bachman, left, and Burton Cummings perform during a Canada's Walk of Fame fundraising event in Toronto on Thursday, July, 18, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov</p>
Manitoba to look at GPS options at landfills after killings of four Indigenous women
Aerial view of the Prairie Green landfill, where bodies of murdered women are reportedly buried, in Stony Mountain, Manitoba, Canada, on April 28, 2024. A mountain of windswept garbage. Beneath it, bodies. For years, the remains of Indigenous women discarded by suspected serial killer Jeremy Skibick, have languished in Prairie Green. Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran were raped, killed, dismembered and thrown out with the trash in Winnipeg, with police saying they believe their remains are buried deep inside the landfill. (Photo by Sebastien ST-JEAN / AFP) (Photo by SEBASTIEN ST-JEAN/AFP via Getty Images)