The president of the Manitoba Métis Federation (MMF) will ask Pope Francis to bless the grave of Louis Riel during a papal visit to Canada expected in late July.David Chartrand, president of the Manitoba Métis Federation (centre), attends mass at the Basilica Papale di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. (Kat Patenaude/Supplied)WARNING: This story contains distressing…
On a day when Heather Stefanson sought to turn the page on the deadliest COVID-19 outbreak at a Manitoba personal care home, a new COVID-19 outbreak at a different personal care home forced the premier to scramble.If there’s a COVID-19 outbreak at a personal care home in Manitoba, the province is no longer saying how many people have been infected.…
A Manitoba hockey player has been suspended after a weekend game in which he appeared to make a racist gesture against a visiting team from Waywayseecappo First Nation.A Dauphin Kings player, left, makes an apparent bow-and-arrow gesture during a weekend game against the Wolverines from Waywayseecappo First Nation. (Twitter)A Manitoba hockey player has been suspended after a weekend…
Students at several schools across Manitoba walked out of their classrooms Monday morning to protest the lack of safety measures to protect them against COVID-19 as they return to in-person learning. Students Erika Lengsadach (right) and Taylor McGillis (left), followed by others, take part in walkout at Gordon Bell High School Monday morning calling for more…
Manitoba is asking the federal government for intensive care unit nurses to help with the fourth wave of COVID-19, as a lack of critical care beds causes massive system backlogs.As of Monday morning, there were 102 patients in Manitoba critical care units, up nearly 17 per cent from just a week ago, a spokesperson from Shared…
Xplornet said it’s ready to start work immediately Thousands of Manitoba residents will soon be connected to reliable internet services thanks to…
When a bike was stolen from Merril Pauls’s Winnipeg garage in October of 2020, he reported it stolen to police, in the hopes that someday it would somehow be retrieved. He just didn’t think it would resurface three provinces over.Bike thefts in Vancouver have plunged 40 per cent since 2015, though the city still has…
Manitoba’s police watchdog says it will investigate a 2019 incident in which an RCMP officer held his knee on the neck of a man being arrested, who cried out “I can’t breathe” repeatedly as he lay helpless for more than four minutes.This still from a video taken by Nathan Lasuik’s father shows an RCMP officer placing…
Another rural municipality in Manitoba has declared a state of agricultural disaster — the second community in less than a week following a season of relentless heat, record-breaking temperatures and drought.Fields across Manitoba are looking much like this — dry, barren and not very productive. (Tyson Koschik/CBC)Another rural municipality in Manitoba has declared a state of…
Manitoba is closing classrooms in its two largest cities as the province’s top doctor says more needs to be done to slow community spread of COVID-19 and “break these transmission chains.”