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POWER RESTORED

Power has largely been restored across southwestern Manitoba after severe storms moved through the region Sunday night, leaving widespread outages and debris in their wake. Manitoba Hydro confirmed Monday that crews worked through the night to repair...

WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE

I’ve walked the same blocks most of you have downtown, the West End, Point Douglas, Osborne and I’ve seen what everyone else sees. Open drug use in doorways. Needles on sidewalks. Business owners who’ve stopped expecting help and started expecting...

MAN KICKS OFFICER DURING ARREST

MANITOBA: A 21-year-old Rapid City man is facing multiple charges after police say he broke a window at a home and later kicked an officer while being arrested. Spruce Plains RCMP say they were called to a disturbance at a Rapid City home at around...

CBC WON’T SAY

Twenty-five years after nineteen hijackers murdered 2,977 people, including two dozen Canadians, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has decided the word “terrorism” is now optional. A memo circulated to CBC News staff this week, from senior director...

HELLEBUYCK HEADS FOR EXIT

Winnipeg Jets franchise goaltender Connor Hellebuyck has officially made his trade request public. After months of reporting that the three-time Vezina Trophy winner wanted a change of scenery, the 33-year-old broke his silence Thursday, with his...

STEPHEN HARPER WAS RIGHT

Property taxes are climbing again, downtown storefronts keep going dark, and rents keep rising in a city with more available land than almost any comparable Canadian centre. Donald Trump did not cause any of that. Former prime minister Stephen Harper...

THREE STORIES ONE TRUTH

Trade talks between Canada and the United States collapsed late last week. Within hours, Washington imposed 50 percent tariffs on roughly $20 billion in Canadian goods, and Ottawa announced matching retaliatory tariffs on steel, dairy, appliances,...

“TRADE WAR” IMPACT

The tariff war hit home this weekend, and the bill is landing on Manitoba’s kitchen tables, not just its trade ledgers. Washington’s new 50 percent tariff on a wide swath of Canadian goods took effect August 22 after last-ditch talks collapsed, and...

E-BIKE RULES REQUIRED

Despite what some might believe, government is not the solution to every problem. To the contrary, it is often the problem itself rather than the solution. Entire libraries could be filled with debates on the subject. However, there are times when a...

PERMIT PANTOMIME

WINNIPEG — A Winnipeg homeowner’s video is going viral this week for all the wrong reasons. She had booked a pool inspection and stayed home all day waiting for the city to show up. No one rang the doorbell, and she had no missed calls or voicemail....

CRIME, BAIL, REPEAT!

I hear from Winnipeggers who still glance over their shoulders walking to the car after dark. Parents still weigh the risk before letting teenagers take the bus alone. Small business owners still calculate whether another late shift is worth the chance...

LANE CHANGE!

On August 14, 2026, the Ontario Court of Appeal delivered a unanimous 3-0 ruling that Premier Doug Ford’s government can proceed with removing protected bike lanes on major Toronto streets. The court found that a lower-court judge had “erred in law” by...

BRACE FOR INCREASING BILL$

My family, like yours, keeps a close eye on what comes in and what goes out. When something unexpected hits- a car repair, a rate hike, a smaller paycheque- we adjust. We don’t pretend it isn’t happening. Manitoba’s government doesn’t operate that way,...

TARGET INSIGHT

The Manitoba Wildlife Federation says it is seeking answers from the provincial government after learning that numerous parcels within several Interlake Wildlife Management Areas are being considered for transfer to Peguis First Nation through the...

CARNEY’S POWER PITCH

Prime Minister Mark Carney pointed to a new $10-billion energy agreement between Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador on Monday, just two days before a 50% U.S. tariff deadline is set to hit Canadian goods. Speaking to reporters at a news conference...

ABDUCTION SUSPECT NABBED

A 37-year-old man reportedly abducted from Winnipeg has been found, and a 31-year-old Manitoba man has been arrested in Minnesota, U.S. authorities say. On Saturday, the North Dakota Highway Patrol says it was alerted to the possible abduction in...

CANADA’S SHAME!

A Jewish family hides a Star of David before walking outside. Synagogues in Vaughan and Toronto are struck by gunfire. Jewish-owned bakeries are targeted. Organizations are arranging exploratory trips to Panama and Tulsa, Oklahoma, for Jewish Canadians...

SAFE? THINK AGAIN!

I filed reports from numerous town halls and panels leading up to the opening of a “safe consumption site” for Winnipeg drug addicts. It was an election promise so important to the NDP that Premier Wab Kinew avoided every single opportunity to appear...

MANITOBA IS ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL

A mother and her eight-year-old daughter never made it home. Sara Unger, 35, and Alexa were killed near Altona in November 2024 when a semi failed to stop and slammed into their SUV, RCMP said. The driver, Navjeet Singh, fled the country and stayed on...

GILLINGHAM DUCKS QUESTIONS

Winnipeg opened its first supervised consumption site this week at 366 Henry Avenue. What it didn’t open with was a straight answer from City Hall. Residents near the site have been asking basic questions since January: is there a permit, is there...

FROM FRANCE TO WINNIPEG

Four graduate students from France are spending their summer in Winnipeg gaining research experience while contributing to pharmaceutical research at the University of Winnipeg. Alicia Portal, Amélie Jarousse, Charlyne Werlin and Ema Corby arrived in...

CARNEY OFF AS TARIFFS LOOM

Prime Minister Mark Carney is spending this week in Italy on personal time, just over a week before a deadline that could see the United States impose 50 per cent tariffs on billions of dollars in Canadian exports. The Prime Minister’s Office told the...

BY ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN Spotting the Perseid meteor shower

NEW YORK (AP) — The Perseid summer light show is back — and viewing conditions are especially promising for the Northern Hemisphere. The meteor shower’s peak Wednesday night into Thursday morning coincides with a total solar eclipse across Spain,...

FAITH UNDER FIRE

Two people pulled up to the Rahma Islamic Centre on the night of Wednesday July 29th while people were gathered inside. According to the people at the mosque, the pair fired multiple shots from what turned out to likely be an airsoft gun at the...

MAYOR’S REALITY CHECK

The vacant building that was once home to Earls on Main Street caught fire again this weekend. The same one that burned last October. A Winnipeg Sea Bears player ended up in hospital after being attacked downtown. A man was stabbed waiting for a bus...

T&T TOUCHDOWN

T&T Supermarket is bringing its first Manitoba location to Winnipeg, announcing plans to open a 48,000-square-foot store at CF Polo Park in the spring of 2028. The new supermarket will be located on the lower level of the shopping centre at 1485...

UNITE THE FIGHT, SAVE STREETS

Every Winnipeg family has seen it. More people sleeping on sidewalks. More public drug use. More businesses replacing broken windows. More parents wondering if the park down the street is still safe for their children. The hard truth is this. We are...

PIPELINE PROMISE?

Mark Carney is making good on an election promise which has garnered little attention. He promised to reduce the size of the federal civil service and he is doing just that, or at least the people who work for him are doing it. To the delight of...

LABOUR DEAL CLEARS FOR TAKEOFF

The father of a Portage la Prairie woman killed in a 2024 watercraft collision has filed a lawsuit in Manitoba’s Court of King’s Bench, alleging three men were negligent in the fatal crash. The lawsuit was filed on July 20 by David Harold Rodgers on...

THE SECRET TOWER?

Public records on Gillingham’s new high-rise tower are deficient. Materials provided to the public are lacking. Information routinely submitted to the City for such projects is absent. Important information normally required for discretionary...

A FAILING STRATEGY

Ask anyone defending Manitoba’s approach to the overdose crisis for one thing: how they’ll know it worked. Four years after Sunshine House’s mobile site began operating downtown, the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service’s own numbers show a crisis getting...

TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE

Winnipeggers keep hearing about new units, new pilot programs, and new studies meant to fix the city’s public safety and mental health crisis. What they rarely get is a straight answer about how any of it actually works, who pays for it, and who shows...

IS BATH TIME OVER?

The Ottawa Senators face a significant challenge in trying to keep Drake Batherson from reaching unrestricted free agency next summer. Batherson, who is entering the final season of a six-year deal worth $4.95 million US annually, is expected by...

THE COST OF SILENCE

Ask a Winnipeg homeowner why their property taxes keep climbing, why potholes reappear faster than crews can patch them, or why downtown still feels hollowed out after dark, and most will shrug. They assume that’s just how city hall works. It doesn’t...

PAPERING OVER THE PROBLEM

Osborne is one of our oldest, proudest neighbourhoods, and right now the people who live there are being failed. Parents walking their kids into daycare are stepping around needles on the sidewalk first. Business owners are boarding up windows faster...

WINNIPEG’S SHAME!

Two men rode their bikes across five provinces to talk about something most guys won’t talk about: their mental health. They stopped in Winnipeg to do an interview with CBC. Thirty minutes later, they walked outside, and their bikes were gone, cut...

RULES KEEP CHANGING!

A young couple in Transcona spends eight months getting their infill project approved, only to watch council change the height limit on a neighbouring site the following year because enough people showed up to complain. A small builder in St. Boniface...

TORIES IN TROUBLE?

The results of the July 21, 2026, by-election in The Pas-Kameesak are a clear win for Manitoba’s governing New Democratic Party, but they represent another troubling data point for the Progressive Conservatives as they grapple with their identity and...

WEEKEND TRAGEDIES

After a weekend marked by multiple fatal crashes and suspected drownings involving young people, Manitoba RCMP is urging residents to make safety a priority as summer activities continue. In a public appeal issued Monday, police pointed to four...

WHO DEFINES TRUTH?

Five years after the Kamloops “graves” controversy first erupted, and with zero bodies discovered, First Nations chiefs are pushing hard to make residential school denialism an imprisonable offence. But Canadians should not have to face up to two...

OPIOID CRISIS SOARS

Winnipeg families are locking their doors earlier. Parents are scanning parks for needles before letting their kids play. Seniors are avoiding downtown streets after dark. And Mayor Scott Gillingham wants us to believe his leadership has made this city...

TOO HOT TO CARE

This week’s heat wave didn’t just push Manitobans to their limit. It exposed a government that has lost track of its most basic job: keeping the lights on, the water running, and the air conditioning working in the buildings we trust with our sick and...

FUNDING FAILURE

With increasing pressure on non-government organizations – NGOS – to justify the millions of dollars being spent to fund their services to the homeless and down-and-out addicts on Winnipeg streets, the organizations instead have proven that they expect...

LINDENWOODS SHOOTING!

A 42-year-old man has died after being shot by a Winnipeg police officer outside a Lindenwoods home Monday night, in an incident now under investigation by Manitoba’s police watchdog. Winnipeg police say they were first called to a residence on Avon...

MANITOBA FLOOD RISK!

BRANDON — A city in western Manitoba says the rising Assiniboine River looks to have reached a peak overnight. The City of Brandon said Monday that water levels show the river is stabilizing after climbing about 2.3 metres in less than a week. Mayor...

DATA CENTRE UNDER SCRUTINY

Alberta’s newest AI data centre project, a $13-billion facility from Meta planned for rural Sturgeon County, is drawing attention this week after a similar Meta project in the United States was temporarily halted over a bacterial contamination...

MAIN STREET MELTDOWN

Walk down Main Street on any given afternoon, and you’ll see it before anyone has to explain it to you. People bent double at the waist, frozen mid-stagger, lost somewhere between standing and collapsing. Winnipeg Police officers have started calling...

TURBULENCE AHEAD?

An Air Canada flight ran off the runway while landing at Montreal-pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport Thursday afternoon, triggering a runway closure and hours of delays. Flight AC774, arriving from Los Angeles, touched down around 4 p.m. Air...

POTHOLES OR PRIVATE ARENA?

A 3d model unveiled on thursday gave winnipeggers a better idea of what the former Kapyong Barracks site along Kenaston Boulevard will look like once it is transformed into a brand new and massive urban reserve

HAZING HORROR

A Winnipeg family was mystified when their son walked off the Grant Park High School football team and lapsed into a severe depression about six months ago. “He literally came home and said he didn’t want to play anymore. He was working out 3-4 times...

WHO’S IN CHARGE?

The Winnipeg police finally decided to start enforcing laws prohibiting the brazen use of illegal narcotics in and around downtown on June 24th, after what Superintendent Brian Miln described to the media as “months and months of complaints, an...

MEGA PIPELINE PROPOSED

OTTAWA — It’s a plan to keep Canadian oil in Canada. On Monday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith unveiled the proposed route for a new 3,300-km crude oil pipeline — stretching from Alberta pipeline headwaters Hardisty,...

Mark Carney is a failed economic wizard!

The consensus in Canada is clear to most of us — even irrefutable — that Prime Minister Mark Carney has done very little if anything to make Jewish people in this country feel safer or more content. His contributions to rising antisemitism and divisive...

CANADA CRUSHED 3-0

Canada is out of the FIFA World Cup after falling 3-0 to Morocco in the round of 16 on Saturday. Azzedine Ounahi broke a 0-0 deadlock in the 50th minute, then added a second goal in the 82nd for a brace. Soufiane Rahimi converted a rolling shot in the...

THE ANGRY ASPER?

Gail Asper tells me quietly but firmly: “My trust has been absolutely broken.” She is energized and resolute, but notably not angry. The 66-year-old daughter of the late Israel (Izzy) Asper — the media titan and Jewish philanthropist who envisioned...

Tornado touchtown

A tornado touched down in Winnipeg’s southwest during Monday night’s storm, the Northern Tornadoes Project confirmed on Tuesday, ending days of uncertainty about what tore through the Whyte Ridge neighbourhood. Investigators with the Western...

CELEBRATE CANADA!

This Canada Day, let’s celebrate our great nation unequivocally without the obligatory nod to guilt and grievance. We have just one day a year dedicated to the celebration of the free, democratic, tolerant country our predecessors built for us, and...

RCMP Musical Ride marks 153 years on horseback

The RCMP’S celebrated Musical Ride is almost as old as Canada itself. Speaking at the RCMP stables east of downtown Ottawa last week, RCMP Chief Instructor Sgt. Derek Quilley said the show is a living, breathing symbol of the country. The special...

TRANSIT TRAINWRECK

Winnipeg Transit riders will see several route and schedule changes when the system’s summer service begins on June 21, including modifications to the D16 and D19 routes, the introduction of the new D18 route and an expansion of On-request Zone 106.

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CTF CRITICIZES GOVERNMENTRUN GROCERY STORES

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is urging the Manitoba government to focus on tax relief rather than exploring government-run grocery stores as a way to address food affordability. The call comes after the province released a grocery price study...

Conservative in name only?

Police Officer killed after Montreal shooting rampage

A police officer was shot and killed Monday in Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood in an attack that also left a civilian and a suspected gunman dead. A second officer was wounded in the incident, according to the Montreal Gazette. Montreal...

Indigenous People’s Day

Events are being held across the country to mark the 30th National Indigenous Peoples’ Day on Sunday, a day meant to honour the culture, histories and contributions of First Nations, Inuit and Métis people. The day coincides with the summer solstice —...

FACEBOOK BANNED, FENTANYL FINE

from Facebook, Instagram and Tiktok. At the same time, just down the road, Manitoba is preparing to open its first supervised drug consumption site, one that internal documents show was designed to accept users as young as 16, no questions asked,...

Hometown Hero Retires

Nostalgic. Earth-shattering. Surreal. Those were some of the words Jonathan Toews used on Friday to describe the moment he’s come to in his life. The site of his retirement announcement, the St. Vital sportsplex bearing his name, fit the bill for...

The government invests $50,000 boost for The Pas Youth

The Manitoba government is investing $50,000 in after-school programming for children and youth in The Pas through its From the Ground Up – Safe Healthy Communities for ALL program. Municipal and Northern Relations Minister Glen Simard announced the...

DOCUMENTS EXPOSE CHRM ONE-SIDED NAKBA PUSH

A leading Israeli legal organization is preparing to seek a court injunction to stop the Canadian Museum for Human Rights’ planned Nakba exhibit. Correspondence received this week from Joshua Z. Lavine of the Shurat Hadin-israel Law Center states that...

A PLOT PROVEN?

Internal emails obtained by National Post show that senior officials at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) had a discussion with the Palestinian representative to Canada, in which she attempted to get involved in, and was updated on, the...

DEADLIEST CATCH

A homicide investigation that began with the death of an Ontario woman has led to charges against a man in both Ontario and Manitoba. The investigation eventually brought police to Winnipeg, where officers arrested a suspect allegedly linked to the...

Manitoba’s refusal of AI data centres could hurt growth

The recent decision by the Manitoba Government to reject a hyperscale AI data centre represents one way to handle concerns over AI: Elevating immediate concerns over a longer-term view. That is not inherently wrong, as democratic governments must...

Predators Targeting Kids

The Winnipeg Police Service is warning parents, educators and community members about a growing online threat targeting vulnerable children and youth. Police say nihilistic violent extremist networks are increasingly using popular online platforms to...

Wally Daudrich appeals Turtle Mountain disqualification.

Wally Daudrich, the Churchill-area businessman barred from seeking the Manitoba PC nomination in Turtle Mountain, is formally appealing the decision and pressing the party for answers. In a letter sent to PC Party president Peter Smith, Daudrich...

Two-tier Justice?

The First Nations of New Brunswick are currently fighting for title to the entire province, but that hasn’t stopped the local legislature from offering up its courts for their use. Last week, the N.B. Liberals tabled Bill 50, “An Act Respecting the...