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The federal government has ordered a financial audit into transactions and activities at a landmark Indigenous languages office after receiving anonymous complaints. Canadian Heritage didn't elaborate on the allegations against the Office of the Commissioner of Indigenous Languages, an arm's-length office set up five years ago after it was recommended by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
WINNIPEG -- Manitoba has declared a public health emergency over HIV rates that it says are three times higher than the rest of Canada.
WINNIPEG -- The Manitoba government is sounding the alarm over rising HIV rates, as the province continues to document new cases of the virus at levels more than three times higher than the rest of Canada.
WINNIPEG -- Manitoba says it has officially decommissioned the search site at a Winnipeg-area landfill where the remains of two slain First Nations women were found last year.
WINNIPEG -- Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says tech companies that don't comply with the province's plan to ban children from using social media and artificial intelligence chatbots may face billion-dollar fines.
WINNIPEG -- Manitoba's education minister says the government may first turn to schools to ban children from using social media accounts and artificial intelligence chatbots.
WINNIPEG -- Winnipeg city council is to vote on what to do with a member charged with drugging and sexually assaulting a man he met on social media.
WINNIPEG -- The Manitoba government says it's likely a First Nation at risk of severe flooding will be evacuated, and the province is calling on public servants to help.
WINNIPEG -- Premier Wab Kinew says Manitobans will be consulted on whether they should continue changing their clocks twice a year.
WINNIPEG -- A registered nurse who wrongly administered fentanyl, nearly killing a patient, and asked a doctor to approve the move after the fact has been stripped of her licence by Manitoba's nursing regulator.
WINNIPEG -- A post-secondary institute in Manitoba is winding down operations, with the provincial government blaming a federal cap on international student visas as the reason for the closure.
WINNIPEG -- The union representing respiratory therapists in Manitoba says staffing vacancies at some Winnipeg hospitals have reached dangerous levels.
WINNIPEG -- The Canadian Red Cross says some evacuees from a northern Manitoba First Nation rocked by a severe water crisis won't be displaced for a second time in as many weeks, as the community's chief called on the province to do more to ensure they get priority in hotels.
PIMICIKAMAK CREE NATION, MAN. -- Politicians flew Wednesday to get a look at a northern Manitoba First Nation scrambling to clean up and fix up after a frozen water catastrophe buckled floors, swamped homes in sewage and forced thousands out.
PIMICIKAMAK CREE NATION, MAN. -- Federal, provincial and Indigenous leaders are meeting with the chief of a beleaguered First Nation crippled by a frozen water system due to a days-long power outage.
CROSS LAKE -- Federal, provincial and Indigenous leaders are expected to travel today to a beleaguered Manitoba First Nation that has been crippled by a frozen water system due to a days-long power outage.
WINNIPEG -- The Manitoba government is donating $2.6 million to charities after selling off American-made liquor pulled from shelves earlier this year.
WINNIPEG -- The mayor of Manitoba's capital city is pushing forward to create a fourth emergency response service that would respond to mental health crises.
WINNIPEG -- Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says he's reaching out to the prime minister about the justice system after learning a man who killed two Indigenous women is being released from prison.
WINNIPEG -- Some municipalities in Manitoba are renewing calls for the province to make legislative changes to reduce the role police play in responding to crises as rural and northern communities deal with staffing challenges with law enforcement and an increase in mental health calls.
WINNIPEG -- A facility the Manitoba government is spearheading to detain people who are intoxicated on methamphetamines and other long-lasting drugs for up to three days is slated to begin accepting people by the end of the month.
WINNIPEG -- Some Indigenous leaders in Manitoba say there is still time for the federal government to amend Tuesday's budget in order to get First Nations input and get money where it's needed.
WINNIPEG -- Former Manitoba premier Heather Stefanson has paid an $18,000 fine for violating the province's conflict of interest law in pushing for a mining project.
WINNIPEG -- The federal government has ordered an appeal into the conviction of a First Nations man -- 14 years after his death -- in the killing of a restaurant worker in Winnipeg.
WINNIPEG -- Dozens of people from a small northern Manitoba town are heading home for the first time since wildfires forced them out two months ago.
WINNIPEG -- A First Nation in Manitoba is taking the province to court in an attempt to put a halt to moose harvesting in its territory, saying it infringes on the community's right to hunt for food and for social and ceremonial purposes due to dwindling population numbers.
WINNIPEG -- Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says Manitoba has scored an economic win even though the Port of Churchill expansion isn't one of the first infrastructure projects being considered for fast-track approval under new federal legislation.
WINNIPEG -- First Nations chiefs voted down a resolution at their national assembly on Thursday that opponents said would have amounted to an endorsement of the federal government's major projects legislation.
WINNIPEG -- First Nations chiefs today voted down a resolution that would have called on Ottawa to include First Nations infrastructure ventures in its national push to fast-track major projects.
WINNIPEG -- The countrywide push for major projects won't happen without First Nations at the table, the Assembly of First Nations warned government and industry Wednesday as its annual summer gathering began in Winnipeg.
WINNIPEG -- The countrywide push for major projects won't happen without First Nations at the table, the Assembly of First Nations warned government and industry Wednesday, as its annual summer gathering began in Winnipeg.
WINNIPEG -- The Assembly of First Nations' annual general assembly kicked off Wednesday with a strong message to government and industry that the countrywide push for major projects won't happen without First Nations at the table.
WINNIPEG -- The federal government's major projects legislation, closing the infrastructure gap on First Nations, and federal budget expectations are expected to be discussed at this week's annual meeting of the Assembly of First Nations.
WINNIPEG -- Some trappers are expecting "catastrophic losses" to their food and financial security this year, as Canada's second-worst wildfire season on record sent swaths of remote boreal forest up in flames.
WINNIPEG -- Two Indigenous groups in Manitoba have agreed to work together on major infrastructure and development projects.
WINNIPEG -- The Manitoba government says it has settled a lawsuit with the family of a woman who died during the COVID-19 pandemic while in the process of being transferred out of province due to a shortage of hospital beds.
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.