Manitoba NDP lays out plans to freeze hydro rates, commission bison statue
WINNIPEG -- Manitoba's NDP government has laid out its plans for the coming year in its second throne speech since...
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Manitoba New Democrats to lay out legislative agenda in throne speech
WINNIPEG -- Manitoba's government is set to lay out its plans in a throne speech today, marking a new session...
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew shuffles cabinet, creates technology portfolio
WINNIPEG -- Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew has shuffled his cabinet, adding three fresh faces and creating an Innovation and New...
Memorial in Winnipeg on Sunday for judge, senator, TRC chair Murray Sinclair
WINNIPEG -- A public memorial honouring former judge, senator and chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into residential schools...
Memorial set for Sunday in Winnipeg for judge, senator, TRC chair Murray Sinclair
WINNIPEG -- A public memorial honouring former judge, senator and chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into residential schools...
Memorial to take place in Winnipeg for judge, senator, TRC chair Murray Sinclair
WINNIPEG -- A public memorial honouring Murray Sinclair is set to take place in Winnipeg on Sunday.
Search of Manitoba landfill for remains of slain First Nations women on track: Kinew
WINNIPEG -- Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says the effort to find the remains of two slain First Nations women in...
Manitoba, First Nations group start recruiting workers to search landfill for remains
WINNIPEG -- The Manitoba government and an advocacy group representing First Nations have started the process of hiring workers to...
Manitoba government extending gas tax holiday until end of the year
WINNIPEG -- The Manitoba government is extending the provincial fuel-tax holiday until the end of the year.
Caddies and paper bags: Schools figuring out new world of cellphone bans
From cellphone "hotels" to patchwork policies to recalibrating lesson plans, teachers and schools across Canada are learning to navigate a...
Law organizations call for Manitoba NDP to reinstate turfed backbencher
WINNIPEG -- Law groups across Canada are denouncing the Manitoba NDP's ouster of a backbencher over his ties to the...
Manitoba cabinet minister 'inadvertently' violated rules: ethics commissioner
WINNIPEG -- Manitoba's ethics commissioner has found an NDP cabinet minister was in the wrong when he failed to disclose...
Manitoba NDP caucus chair says turfed backbencher was disrespectful, deceitful
WINNIPEG -- Manitoba's NDP says a booted backbencher's ties to the lawyer representing convicted sex offender Peter Nygard was the...
Manitoba premier defends decision to boot MLA, denies bullying claim
WINNIPEG -- Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew is standing by his government's decision to turf backbencher and defence lawyer Mark Wasyliw...
Manitoba premier defends decision to boot MLA, denies bullying claims
WINNIPEG -- Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew is standing by his government's decision to turf backbencher and defence lawyer Mark Wasyliw...
Manitoba to look at GPS options at landfills following slayings of 4 Indigenous women
WINNIPEG -- The Manitoba government is looking at ways to increase monitoring and surveillance of garbage trucks and landfills following...
Manitoba to provide update on cellphones in school following Saskatchewan's ban
WINNIPEG -- Manitoba, now the only western Canadian province without an overarching cellphone ban in school classrooms, says an update...
'Not forgotten': Family, advocates reflect 10 years after death of Tina Fontaine
WINNIPEG -- When Elroy Fontaine thinks about his older sister, Tina Fontaine, his mind takes him to a park in...
Manitoba First Nation says members lack health care due to nursing shortage
WINNIPEG -- Members of a northern First Nation looking to get prescriptions refilled, blood work done or access to other...
'We're going to try:' Manitoba outlines search plan for slain First Nations women
WINNIPEG -- About a dozen trained workers will begin searching this fall through mounds of material deposited at a Winnipeg-area...
'Reminder of the people:' Monument unveiled honouring victims of Manitoba crash
DAUPHIN, Man. -- Mourners, dignitaries and first responders flocked to a western Manitoba park on Saturday afternoon for the unveiling...
Family of victim of admitted serial killer reflects on plan to search landfill
WINNIPEG -- Donna Bartlett says she was overcome with emotion when standing earlier this week at the landfill where her...