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WINNIPEG -- Close to 13,000 people in Manitoba were out of their homes Thursday due to wildfires, but hundreds were finding space in hotels rather than in congregate shelters, the province said.
WINNIPEG -- About 100 residents, including horn honkers, sign-wavers and dog walkers, descended upon a famed Winnipeg intersection Friday to legally cross the street in more than four decades.
WINNIPEG -- A man on a skateboard -- whether he knew it or not -- became the first person to legally cross a landmark intersection in Winnipeg as it reopened to pedestrians more than four decades after it closed.
WINNIPEG -- A landmark intersection in Winnipeg is set to reopen today to pedestrians more than four decades after it closed.
WINNIPEG -- Some wildfire evacuees staying at a shelter in northern Manitoba may be moved elsewhere as more communities return home and the government closes temporary evacuation centres.
Winnipeg hotels were opening up Monday to evacuees who fled their homes due to raging wildfires, while to the west in Saskatchewan thousands more were ordered to flee.
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says hotels in Winnipeg are opening up to thousands of evacuees who have fled their homes due to raging wildfires.
WINNIPEG -- Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says the province is declaring a state of emergency in Whiteshell Provincial Park due to wildfires.
WINNIPEG -- The Manitoba government says it has moved dozens of people living in encampments into homes over the past three months as part its long-term strategy to reduce homelessness.
WINNIPEG -- Manitoba's premier is congratulating Prime Minister Mark Carney and his Liberal party for their election victory.
WINNIPEG -- Trechelle Bunn has had a whirlwind month.
WINNIPEG -- The Manitoba government expects new designs of a long-promised flood prevention project will be completed later this year after the province asked the federal government to pause environmental assessments to address concerns from local First Nations.
WINNIPEG -- A First Nations-led project to redevelop the historic Hudson's Bay Co. building in downtown Winnipeg to advance reconciliation has doubled in cost nearly three years after it started.
WINNIPEG -- A second set of remains found in a Winnipeg-area landfill have been identified as belonging to a slain First Nations woman who was murdered in 2022 by a convicted serial killer.
WINNIPEG -- A second set of remains found in a Winnipeg-area landfill have been identified as Marcedes Myran, who died at the hands of a serial killer in 2022, RCMP said Monday.
WINNIPEG -- The group representing Manitoba doctors is renewing calls to eliminate sick notes as they pay a burden on a health-care system already overworked by a shortage of family doctors.
WINNIPEG -- The interim leader of Manitoba's Progressive Conservatives apologized Wednesday to the families of two slain First Nations women after refusing to search a landfill for their remains and touting the decision in a provincial election campaign ad.
WINNIPEG -- The interim leader of Manitoba's Progressive Conservatives apologized Wednesday to the families of two slain First Nations women after refusing to search a landfill for their remains.
WINNIPEG -- The interim leader of Manitoba's Progressive Conservatives has apologized to the families of two slain First Nations women for declining to search a landfill for their remains.
WINNIPEG -- When Elle Harris got a phone call about potential human remains found at the landfill where searchers are trying to find her mother and another slain First Nations woman, she was overcome with a sinking feeling.
WINNIPEG -- Manitoba's latest plan to reduce homelessness has seen the project's first person moved from an encampment into housing, says an adviser.
WINNIPEG -- Potential human remains were discovered Wednesday at a landfill north of Winnipeg where search teams have been working to find two slain First Nations women.
WINNIPEG -- The Manitoba government says potential human remains have been discovered at a landfill where search teams have been working to find two slain First Nations women.
WINNIPEG -- The Manitoba government says more than 200,000 people have requested plastic health cards since online applications opened last month.
WINNIPEG -- A new Manitoba law restricting protests near clinics and hospitals where abortions are performed is to take effect Saturday.
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADS -- Leaders from First Nations communities in Manitoba have voted in a new head of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs.
WINNIPEG -- First Nations leaders are to choose a new head for the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs after the sudden death of Cathy Merrick last year.
WINNIPEG -- The Manitoba government says its expecting to post a deficit of $1.3 billion for the fiscal year.
WINNIPEG -- Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says excavation and sifting have started in a section of a landfill believed to hold the remains of two slain First Nations women.
WINNIPEG -- Manitoba's NDP government has laid out its plans for the coming year in its second throne speech since taking office.
WINNIPEG -- Manitoba's government is set to lay out its plans in a throne speech today, marking a new session at the legislature.
WINNIPEG -- Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew has shuffled his cabinet, adding three fresh faces and creating an Innovation and New Technology department.
WINNIPEG -- A public memorial honouring former judge, senator and chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into residential schools, Murray Sinclair, is set to take place in Winnipeg on Sunday.
WINNIPEG -- A public memorial honouring former judge, senator and chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into residential schools, Murray Sinclair, is set to take place in Winnipeg on Sunday.
WINNIPEG -- A public memorial honouring Murray Sinclair is set to take place in Winnipeg on Sunday.
WINNIPEG -- Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says the effort to find the remains of two slain First Nations women in a landfill is on track and excavation in the target area is set to start in December.
WINNIPEG -- The Manitoba government and an advocacy group representing First Nations have started the process of hiring workers to help search a landfill for the remains of two victims of a serial killer.
WINNIPEG -- The Manitoba government is extending the provincial fuel-tax holiday until the end of the year.
From cellphone "hotels" to patchwork policies to recalibrating lesson plans, teachers and schools across Canada are learning to navigate a classroom without cellphones.
WINNIPEG -- Law groups across Canada are denouncing the Manitoba NDP's ouster of a backbencher over his ties to the lawyer representing convicted sex offender Peter Nygard, while more caucus members are speaking out in support of the move.
WINNIPEG -- Manitoba's ethics commissioner has found an NDP cabinet minister was in the wrong when he failed to disclose he had a business contract with the government, but he is not recommending a penalty.
WINNIPEG -- Manitoba's NDP says a booted backbencher's ties to the lawyer representing convicted sex offender Peter Nygard was the last straw after a year of disrespectful behaviour.
WINNIPEG -- Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew is standing by his government's decision to turf backbencher and defence lawyer Mark Wasyliw from caucus because a partner at the firm he works at represented convicted sex offender Peter Nygard.
WINNIPEG -- Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew is standing by his government's decision to turf backbencher and defence lawyer Mark Wasyliw from caucus because a partner at his firm represented convicted sex offender Peter Nygard.
WINNIPEG -- The Manitoba government is looking at ways to increase monitoring and surveillance of garbage trucks and landfills following the slayings of four Indigenous women whose remains were dumped in trash bins.
WINNIPEG -- Manitoba, now the only western Canadian province without an overarching cellphone ban in school classrooms, says an update is coming.
WINNIPEG -- When Elroy Fontaine thinks about his older sister, Tina Fontaine, his mind takes him to a park in Winnipeg's Point Douglas neighbourhood.
WINNIPEG -- Members of a northern First Nation looking to get prescriptions refilled, blood work done or access to other basic health-care services are often being turned away because of a nursing shortage in the community.
WINNIPEG -- About a dozen trained workers will begin searching this fall through mounds of material deposited at a Winnipeg-area landfill for the remains of two slain First Nations women, the Manitoba government announced Thursday.
DAUPHIN, Man. -- Mourners, dignitaries and first responders flocked to a western Manitoba park on Saturday afternoon for the unveiling of a monument commemorating the victims and survivors of a deadly bus crash that took place one year ago.
WINNIPEG -- Donna Bartlett says she was overcome with emotion when standing earlier this week at the landfill where her granddaughter's remains were dumped more than two years ago.