News/Canada/Manitoba (Page 23)

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

Manitoba Dean Murdoch, a.k.a. The Deaner — the mullet-haired, hard-rocking headbanger who crashed his way into the Canadian comedy firmament with the cult films Fubar and Fubar 2 — returns in spectacular form in Deaner ’89, a new origin story for the character invented and played by Paul Spence. NewContinue Reading

Manitoba·Photos The number of the flamboyant birds living in Souris, Man., has fluctuated over the past 40 years. Currently, there are about 15, with at least two full grown white peacocks in a barn by the local campground. ‘There are people who come far and wide to see these birds,’Continue Reading

WARNING: This story contains details about violence against Indigenous women. The brutal acts of a Winnipeg serial killer that left even the judge who handed him a life sentence calling that punishment inadequate have illuminated a debate over how long people convicted of multiple murders should wait before getting a chanceContinue Reading

Manitoba Guy Maddin has built a career helming bewildering, dreamlike, avant-garde films, but the Winnipeg auteur’s new dark political comedy Rumours may be his most accessible work yet. ‘The idea is to get 12 or 13 Oscars,’ quips director of famously oddball films Alex Nino Gheciu · The Canadian PressContinue Reading

Manitoba Marlies Soltys is trying not to lose her own head over it, but the constant decapitation of her sculpture is starting to cut deep. ‘I was a little bit disheartened and in disbelief,’ Marlies Soltys says about latest beheading of Art Darren Bernhardt · CBC News · Posted: AugContinue Reading

Manitoba Former family doctor Arcel Bissonnette has been sentenced to 12 years for sexually assaulting seven women during medical appointments and examinations in Ste. Anne, Man. Arcel Bissonnette convicted in November of assaulting 5 patients, pleaded guilty in February 2024 to 2 more Cameron MacLean · CBC News · Posted: Aug 29, 2024Continue Reading

Manitoba During a speech in Winnipeg Wednesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended his government’s move to call for binding arbitration and force an end to a work stoppage at the country’s two major railways. Prime minister visits city as federal byelection looms in Elmwood-Transcona Steve Lambert · The Canadian PressContinue Reading