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At least 21 horses died after export from Canada to Japan, documents showAt least 21 horses died during or in the days after being flown from Canada for slaughter in Japan between May 2023 and June 2024, newly released access to information documents from the Japanese government show. According toContinue Reading

Theresa Bauer lives in an encampment, in a tiny tent under a bridge along the Assiniboine River.  “It’s kind of shitty,” she said, yawning after being harassed the night before in the camp. “I’d like my own place.” As a growing number of homeless encampments pop up in public spacesContinue Reading

Manitoba A new process for making ammonia is being introduced, and the end result is carbon free ammonia created without using fossil fuels. Curtis Hiebert is testing out system that gives him more control over supply of key fertilizer ingredient Mike Arsenault · CBC News · Posted: Sep 11, 2024Continue Reading

Manitoba The body of late Grand Chief Cathy Merrick will lie in state at Manitoba’s legislative building on Wednesday, a practice the province’s former chief of protocol calls a rare honour.  Wake, funeral and burial also being planned in home community of Pimicikamak Cree NationCBC News · Posted: Sep 09, 2024 12:42Continue Reading

Manitoba If some of the election promises of the Saskatchewan NDP sounds familiar to Manitobans, that’s because these commitments were also in the playbook the Manitoba NDP used in its successful election campaign last year. Platforms often have similarities, but Sask. NDP campaign head happy to replicate Manitoba’s ‘great ideas’ IanContinue Reading

Manitoba The province of Manitoba is extraordinarily well represented this month at the Toronto International Film Festival, with four features and three shorts with Manitoba connections. Latest from Guy Maddin, Matthew Rankin’s Universal Language among 7 films with Manitoba connections at TIFF Randall King · for CBC News · Posted: SepContinue Reading

Manitoba First Nations leaders said they have lost a great leader, a warrior and a powerful voice, but vowed to continue the advocacy work of Cathy Merrick as they paid tribute to the late grand chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs on Saturday. Merrick will lie in state at ManitobaContinue Reading

Manitoba The federal Conservatives are trying to use the New Democratic Party’s two-year association with the unpopular governing Liberals as a means of wresting a longtime Winnipeg stronghold away from the NDP in an upcoming byelection. Confidence-and-supply deal fuels Conservative strategy in Elmwood-Transcona byelection Bartley Kives · CBC News · Posted: SepContinue Reading

Manitoba A protest at Portage and Main turned into panic on Wednesday afternoon after a man drove a car through the downtown Winnipeg intersection during the demonstration, held in response to the death of a woman hit by a police cruiser earlier this week. Protest follows Monday death of womanContinue Reading