Manitoba Dr. Sarah Giles and Dr. Sarah Newbery provide their insights on staffing shortages in rural health-care facilities. ‘This is real medicine,’ Toronto-born doctor says about time working in small northern communities Lara Schroeder · CBC News · Posted: May 07, 2024 6:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: May 7Continue Reading
Manitoba A Manitoba court has dismissed Peter Nygard’s extradition appeal more than a year after the former fashion executive’s lawyers argued their case in court. Canada’s justice minister ordered Nygard’s surrender to the U.S. to face trial for 9 offencesCBC News · Posted: May 06, 2024 2:52 PM EDT |Continue Reading
The jury trial of a man accused of killing four women in Winnipeg will now instead be heard by a judge alone, a change that comes after Jeremy Skibicki’s lawyers said he admits to killing the women but will ask to be found not criminally responsible. The Crown says that given itContinue Reading
Manitoba Winnipeg Jets head coach Rick Bowness announces retirementRick Bowness has retired from coaching in the NHL after 38 seasons. His 2,726 games as an NHL coach are the most by anyone in league history Darren Bernhardt · CBC News · Posted: May 06, 2024 11:21 AM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hoursContinue Reading
Manitoba Money the province is set to receive from a settlement with tobacco companies will go toward the development of a new CancerCare Manitoba headquarters along with other prevention measures, Premier Wab Kinew announced Saturday. Premier says first settlement payment could be in range of hundreds of millions to halfContinue Reading
Manitoba Canada and Manitoba are partnering to launch an alert system that would inform the public when an Indigenous woman or girl goes missing, they announced Friday in Winnipeg, ahead of a national day to mark the crisis. Provincial pilot project expected to help inform future national alert system AlessiaContinue Reading
Manitoba·New Rick Bowness of the Winnipeg Jets, Rick Tocchet of the Vancouver Canucks and Andrew Brunette of the Nashville Predators are the finalists for this season’s Jack Adams Award. Award is voted on by members of the NHL Broadcasters’ AssociationThe Canadian Press · Posted: May 03, 2024 12:28 PM EDTContinue Reading
A woman accusing former New Democrat MP Romeo Saganash of sexual assault has filed a civil suit, saying she never wanted prosecutors to divert his criminal charge to a restorative justice program. Carmen Roy, who fought to have her name released in the case, alleges she was sexually assaulted aContinue Reading
Manitoba Josh Morrissey initially struggled to put his thoughts together after the Winnipeg Jets’ 6-3 loss to the Colorado Avalanche Tuesday. He stared down, contemplating a reporter’s question about the feeling before offering one word: “Terrible.” ‘We need to take the lessons from what they did out there. We need to find a wayContinue Reading
