News/Canada/Manitoba (Page 12)

WARNING: This story contains distressing details. At least 18 RCMP officers spent more than seven months on an elaborate “Mr. Big” sting operation that involved getting close to the suspect in an MMIWG cold case murder through going to Canucks games and skydiving, and staging a fake crime scene. Undercover officersContinue Reading

Manitoba A Winnipeg minor hockey player was benched for his team’s season finale Saturday after his parents filed a defamation lawsuit naming a South Winnipeg Hockey Association board member as a defendant. South Winnipeg Hockey Association handed down indefinite suspension Thursday Nathan Liewicki · CBC News · Posted: Mar 16,Continue Reading

Manitoba Winnipeggers are lamenting the potential loss of a fixture in the city’s history, with several Hudson’s Bay Co. stores now potentially on the chopping block after the storied retailer was granted creditor protection. Storied department store company moving forward with restructuring after being granted creditor protection Arturo Chang · CBC News ·Continue Reading

Manitoba Walmart Canada will stop selling machetes in stores across the country, after Manitoba’s government pressured the retailer to restrict online sales. ‘They’re willing to understand the impact that these weapons are having on our streets’: justice minister Ian Froese · CBC News · Posted: Mar 13, 2025 6:00 AM EDTContinue Reading

Manitoba The sister of the man at the centre of one of Canada’s most high-profile wrongful conviction cases says she was “absolutely quite amazed” to learn last week that an independent commission being set up to examine similar cases across the country will be headquartered in her home city ofContinue Reading

Manitoba Families not being able to be at their loved ones’ side as they died was common during parts of the COVID-19 pandemic — and a policy choice one advocate says “really broke people emotionally” and that may have been approached differently in hindsight. No-visitor policies in hospitals during pandemicContinue Reading

Manitoba Cuts to the U.S. agency responsible for weather forecasting and climate science have left scientists on this side of the border concerned about the reliability of data Canada needs to predict dangerous events, conduct accurate flood forecasts and understand broader changes to the climate. Manitoba scientists concerned about loss ofContinue Reading