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In 2021, Shared Health and the Winnipeg Police Service (WPS) announced the Alternative Response to Citizens in Crisis (ARCC) pilot project, which saw mental health clinicians and plainclothes officers attend to mental health crises. The goal was to decrease the use of emergency services for those types of calls, and …

More than 20 per cent of Manitoban children live in poverty, according to a new report, but stakeholders and opposition leaders argue the province has the resources to combat this. The report, called Poverty, the Pandemic and the Province, shows Manitoba’s child poverty rate is 20.68 per cent, more than …

Steven Antle slides and steps his way down uneven terrain into a riverside homeless encampment, his boots crunching their way through the snow. “Good morning, sir. How we doing?” he calls out. It’s so cold Antle’s breath hangs in the air. The site sits largely empty, aside from two men …

Outgoing Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson says the city did not have the police resources it needed to handle last winter’s anti-COVID-19 restriction protests — and it wanted swifter help from other levels of government. Watson was testifying before the Public Order Emergency Commission on Tuesday. The inquiry is looking into whether the federal government’s …

One of Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s new cabinet ministers faces a September court date over charges that he violated the province’s Endangered Species Act during his time as mayor of a cottage country town, CBC News has learned. Graydon Smith, appointed Friday as minister of natural resources and forestry, was …