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Athletes in Winnipeg braved the icy, slushy conditions on Saturday for a unique duathlon event at The Forks. Race Director Jen Shapka says 1JustCity’s annual Beat The Cold event has racers celebrating the season, even when warm temperatures mean it’s not the race they’re used to. “Winnipeggers are very hardy …

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Nurses in Saskatoon are set to rally on Monday in response to what they say is a crumbling health-care system across the province. “The planned rally is in response to inadequate action on dangerous overcrowding, unsafe conditions for patients in emergency departments, …

Ontario has granted its pharmacists more prescribing powers. The provincial government announced Sunday it was adding six conditions to the list of those that pharmacists can diagnose and treat, effective immediately, bringing the total to 19. “Pharmacist prescribing has been a huge success in our province. In less than one …

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Manitoba racing fans were out of luck Tuesday night, as Assiniboia Downs cancelled its events due to lingering poor air quality. The Downs, located just west of Winnipeg, said in the interest of both the horses and the riders, it was forced to …

Descrease article font size Increase article font size A heat warning remains in place for a large part of southern Ontario with “extremely hot” conditions expected on Friday, though a cold front is expected to bring relief later in the day. The heat warning covers areas including Barrie, the GTA, …

Inmates at a Halifax-area jail say their rights have been violated by months-long rolling lockdowns, as correctional officers refuse work because of dangerous conditions in the provincial detention centre. A series of complaints recently brought before the Nova Scotia Supreme Court tell a similar story: inmates locked in their cells …

The community of Carberry, Man. has been rocked after 15 people were killed and 10 hospitalized when a semi-truck and a passenger bus collided on Thursday. It happened at the highway’s intersection with Highway 5 near the town of Carberry, and residents are saying the road conditions there are unacceptable. …

Burned out and fed up with working conditions they say are unfair, Ontario’s coroners are pushing to be allowed to unionize – despite their first raise in more than a decade and a law preventing them from doing so. The Ontario Coroners Association says coroners are frustrated with a new …

A proposed settlement has been reached in two class action lawsuits against the province over conditions at London’s Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre, and allegations that thousands of inmates were deprived of their Charter rights while at the troubled provincial jail. Under the proposed settlement, still subject to approval by a judge, …

The Ontario Provincial Police say they are searching for a federal offender who allegedly breached his statutory release conditions. The OPP’s repeat offender parole enforcement squad said a Canada-wide warrant has been issued for 24-year-old Jasean King. He is known to frequent the Windsor, Oshawa, and the Greater Toronto Area, …