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'A lot better': Goertzen praises fentanyl agreement with China
Health Minister Kelvin Goertzen said the RCMP's Thursday announcement of an agreement with China will help stop the flow of fatal opioid fentanyl into Manitoba. More
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Video How the powerful opioid fentanyl kills
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Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid — a painkiller similar to morphine. But its recreational use is becoming a public health crisis and increasing problem for law enforcement across the country.
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Girlfriend, brother plead for help to find missing man
A Winnipeg family is pleading for neighbours to help search for Bryan Balong, 33, who has been missing since Tuesday.
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Family searches for missing man in St. Boniface
A Winnipeg family has notified police after a man left his home early Wednesday morning and hasn't been seen since.
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Brian Pallister increasingly frustrated with Justin Trudeau government
Premier Brian Pallister isn’t backing down from critical comments he directed at Ottawa earlier this week.
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Craig McDougall was on phone with girlfriend when police shot him, inquest hears
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Craig McDougall was on the phone with his girlfriend when he was shot and killed by police, she testified at the inquest into his death.
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REVIEW Manitoba Opera's warm and cheerful Falstaff cures the winter blahs
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With the opening production of the new season, Manitoba Opera has finally presented all three of Verdi's Shakespeare operas.
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Health Canada names team to review cases of Manitoba men switched at birth
Health Canada has named the two people who will lead a review team looking into the cases of four men switched at birth at Norway House Indian Hospital in northern Manitoba in 1975.
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Winnipeg daycare centre may have to close due to mould, asbestos
Parents are worried about the health of their children and staff after asbestos and mould were found in the Epiphany Children's Centre. Renovations to the 40-year-old building could cost $700,000.
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Independent review clears officer after suspect seriously hurt hand during arrest
A Winnipeg police officer didn't use excessive force when he pushed a suspect into a jail cell and the man's hand got caught in the cell door, resulting in "serious injury," the Independent Investigation Unit says.
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Manitoba failing on Phoenix Sinclair inquiry recommendations, report says
It's been 11 years since five-year-old Phoenix Sinclair was killed by her mother and her mother's boyfriend, yet very little has been done to make sure other children in Manitoba's child welfare system don't fall through the cracks.
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Snow-dump 'mountain' will loom over Kenaston again this winter
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An 18-metre mountain of snow may loom over southwest Winnipeg again this winter, thanks to a dispute over the sale of the city's Kenaston snow dump.
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Crash near Fisher River kills two 19-year-old women
Speed is believed to be a factor in a crash that left two 19-year-old women dead in Manitoba's Interlake Region.
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RCMP officers now carry life-saving fentanyl antidote in Manitoba
RCMP officers will now be able to help people suffering from an opioid overdose in Manitoba with a life-saving antidote, the police force says.
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Video Winnipeg's bike theft hot spots revealed
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Records released by the Winnipeg Police Service on bike theft show the University of Winnipeg had the most reported stolen bicycles since 2015 and you're most likely to have your bike stolen on a weekday.
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Pipeline opposition isn't really about climate change, Canada West Foundation finds
If you think opposition to pipelines is driven mainly by concerns over climate change, you're wrong, according to a new study from the Canada West Foundation and University of Ottawa.
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Cloudy, calm and mild in southern Manitoba on Thursday
Thursday's forecast in southern Manitoba is nearly identical to Wednesday with another cloudy day and another mild high.
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What does $105M worth of roadwork look like? Here's where your money goes
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In 2017, the city will spend $105 million on road renewals. Here's how the lion's share of the spending breaks down.
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Semi-trailer crashes into bridge, gets stuck for hours
A semi-trailer was left twisted and crunched after it crashed into a bridge and became wedged for several hours on Wednesday afternoon.
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Miriam Toews awarded $50K Writers' Trust Fellowship
Miriam Toews, the acclaimed author of the novels All My Puny Sorrows and A Complicated Kindness, has been awarded the $50,000 Writers' Trust Fellowship.
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Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival celebrates 15 years of Indigenous cinema
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The 15th annual Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival kicks off this week, with a range of Canadian and international films made by Indigenous filmmakers screening for the first time in the city.
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Run Sister Run: Manitoba teen who ran 115km for MMIW focus of music video, Vogue article
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More than 100 kilometres and over a year later, a Manitoba teen's mission to bring attention to missing and murdered Indigenous women is getting recognized on a high-profile new platform.
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Trump's plan to scrap TPP mostly bad for Manitoba, say experts
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If the United States ends the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, Manitoba will lose out on some promising export opportunities, say two trade and industry experts.
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Recap Another bump in the road as Jets drop 4th straight
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Mikko Koivu, Jonas Brodin and Zach Parise scored to lead the Minnesota Wild past the road-weary Winnipeg Jets 3-1 on Wednesday night.
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Tina Fontaine's alleged killer still has no lawyer
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Raymond Cormier, the man accused of killing Winnipeg teen Tina Fontaine, is having difficulty securing a lawyer to represent him for his second degree murder charge and complaint against the Winnipeg Police Service.
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Manitoba introduces pooled pension plan for retirement savings
Manitobans looking to save up for their golden years will soon have another savings option.
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Manitoba government starts consultations on self-regulation of paramedics
Manitoba is launching consultations on how paramedics can become a self-regulating profession.
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Latest Winnipeg snowfall on record, but don't be fooled: wicked winter is coming
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Depending on your perspective, it’s either a holiday hallmark or the end to a weeks-long winning streak: the first proper snow hit the ground in Winnipeg on Tuesday, the latest measurable snowfall on record in 144 years of record-keeping.
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Police ask for help to find missing man
Winnipeg police are asking for help to find Bryan Balong, a 33-year-old man last seen in the North End on Tuesday evening.
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Manitoba Liberals want to have weight discrimination in human rights code
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Advocates say Manitoba should expand human rights protection to overweight people because they are being passed over for everything from job promotions to surgery.
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'Scary time for us all': residents reeling after 226 break-ins
The mayor of Powerview-Pine Falls is applauding the arrests of four men in connection with a raft of break-ins, but she believes many more people were involved in the crime spree.
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REVIEW Sick of Game of Thrones-style misogyny? Theatre Projects' Beautiful Man flips the tables
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Erin Shields' provocative play Beautiful Man was written as a response to the relentless violence toward, and objectification of, women on television and in movies — from the parade of sexual assault victims on police procedurals to the wall-to-wall female nudity of Game of Thrones.
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Killings in Winnipeg drop 20 per cent in 2015
Winnipeg’s homicide rate continues its downward trend, new data from Statistics Canada show. In 2015 there were 22 killings in Manitoba’s capital compared to 27 the year prior, down almost 20 per cent.
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Deadly encounter with Craig McDougall 'didn't end the way we wanted it to'
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An officer involved in the fatal police shooting of Craig McDougall eight years ago said she empathized with a distraught family friend who heard the gunshot and was desperately trying to reach the young man's body.
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Car crashes into popular Fort Garry lunch spot
A car tore into the Cottage Bakery on Pembina Highway shortly after the lunch rush on Wednesday, leaving a girl with minor injuries from flying glass.
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Teachers in northern First Nation walk off jobs, demand first wage hike in 20 years
Students in Pimicikamak have not been in class since Monday because teachers in the northern community, formerly known as Cross Lake, are picketing for what would be their first salary increase in 20 years.
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Assiniboine Park zoo gets new polar bear cub
Winnipeg's Assiniboine Park Zoo has welcomed another orphaned polar bear cub.
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Manitoba Hydro income down, debt on the rise
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Manitoba Hydro's net income for 2015-16 dropped by more than two thirds over the previous year, while its debt rose nearly $2 billion.
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