Tag Archives: Manitoba

Despite promises to make changes to child-care fees, advocates say Manitoba is slow to enact those pledges. Under a Canada-Manitoba agreement announced in 2021, a 50 per cent reduction in average parent fees was promised by the end of 2022, with an average of $10 per day by 2025-2026 for …

Residents at a not-for-profit downtown Winnipeg seniors housing complex say they’re worried about what’s going to happen if a tentative plan to sell the building to a private out-of-province buyer goes through. Residents at Lions Place learned from a letter slipped under their doors late last week about an agreement …

As a busy harvest winds down at Corcelettes Estate Winery in B.C.’s Similkameen Valley, owner Charlie Baessler is amazed at this year’s crop. “Volume is up. Quality is up. So it’s one for the books for us,” he said, cradling a bunch of grapes still growing on the vine late in the season. …

A gap in Manitoba’s reporting system means the majority of nursing homes in the province cannot monitor how many residents are being given antipsychotic drugs without a diagnosis. Nearly one quarter of residents in Winnipeg’s 38 care homes are being given these powerful medications without a shown clinical need, a …

The trial of an RCMP officer accused of assaulting a man outside a Thompson, Man., hotel bar opened on Monday with a witness saying the first arriving officer was agitated by police regularly being called to the same establishment.  “He just said, ‘Why is there no … security here?’ He said, …

A charter plane from Pakistan, carrying more than 300 refugees from Afghanistan, landed in Winnipeg on Friday morning. The flight is part of the Government of Canada’s commitment to resettle 40,000 Afghan people in Canada. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada told CBC News that nearly 17,600 Afghans and their family members have …

The chief of a remote Manitoba First Nation believes a recent shooting could have been prevented if RCMP were more responsive to a recent uptick in crime in the community, including arresting a man allegedly involved in the shooting who was previously wanted by Mounties. On Sunday, two men and two teenage boys were airlifted …

When Anastasia Fyk finished high school and left her family’s farm, she never imagined she’d live there again. But after eight years abroad, concerns about climate change drew her back to western Manitoba and her family’s land northwest of Dauphin, with the goal of finding a more sustainable way to …

Jesse Lavoie wanted to sell Manitoba-grown cannabis in his home province, but first he had to ship it away.  Working with seven local companies to produce not-for-profit joints to help fund a legal challenge to the province’s pot laws, he soon found the process to be needlessly complex and expensive, taking a …

The head of the Manitoba Marathon doesn’t regret starting a race her team soon cancelled because of the unforgiving temperatures, but she admits race officials could have done a better job communicating the closure.  Once the race was officially called off roughly 75 minutes after it began on Sunday, Rachel Munday, the …