News/Canada/Manitoba (Page 26)

Manitoba Supporters of Manitoba triathlete Tyler Mislawchuk hope the third time’s the charm for the Olympic hopeful ahead of his highly anticipated competition in France, which was scheduled to take place early Tuesday morning but has been postponed. Mislawchuk, from Oak Bluff, Man., was scheduled to compete on Tuesday, but eventContinue Reading

Manitoba The smoke billowing from a rapidly growing wildfire in northeastern Manitoba has forced the evacuation of more than 1,000 vulnerable residents from Wasagamack First Nation, Red Sucker Anisininew Nation and God’s Lake First Nation.  Province currently battling around 50 wildfires burning out of control in northern Manitoba More thanContinue Reading

Manitoba The federal Conservatives were in Winnipeg on Sunday rallying supporters for an upcoming byelection. Byelection officially set for Sept. 16 Gavin Axelrod · CBC News · Posted: Jul 29, 2024 9:13 AM EDT | Last Updated: July 29 Conservative Party of Canada Elmwood-Transcona candidate Colin Reynolds, left, received theContinue Reading

Manitoba Jessica McKenzie says earning the title as the inaugural Miss Indigenous Canada is also a win for Opaskwayak Cree Nation. ‘I just really wanted to do this for my community,’ says Jessica McKenzie of Opaskwayak Cree Nation Ozten Shebahkeget · CBC News · Posted: Jul 28, 2024 2:21 PMContinue Reading

Manitoba One year after the Manitoba government hired a staffing agency to bring 150 doctors to work in the province, not a single physician has arrived. Province unwilling to cancel contract with Canadian Health Labs because it doesn’t want to waste money Canadian Health Labs, a staffing agency that started recruitingContinue Reading

Manitoba A Manitoba man wants an apology from police after RCMP wrongfully named and charged him in relation to an alleged heinous child sexual exploitation case in Portage la Prairie. Scott Taylor said he was beaten up and his house vandalized after police wrongfully charged him Kristin Annable · CBCContinue Reading

Manitoba Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation in northern Manitoba is declaring a health care state of emergency due to a nursing shortage that has forced it to lock the doors of its health centre to everything but emergencies only. Nursing station open to emergencies only since September 2023CBC News · Posted: Jul 22,Continue Reading

Manitoba The search of a Winnipeg-area landfill for the remains of two victims of an admitted serial killer is expected to start late this fall, when technicians will sift through garbage removed from an area the size of four football fields, the engineer who designed the search plan says. SearchingContinue Reading

Manitoba An Ontario judge “very reluctantly” agreed to postpone the sentencing of disgraced fashion mogul Peter Nygard on Monday in a case that has dragged on since the convicted sex offender was found guilty of four counts of sexual assault last fall. Sentencing must wrap later this month ‘unless he’sContinue Reading