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Body of Misipawistik Cree Nation man recovered weeks after truck fell through ice | CBC News

The body of a 31-year-old man who went missing after the truck he was in fell through the ice in northwestern Manitoba last month has been found, while the search for a 23-year-old woman who was with him continues.Corbin Constant and Tasha Ferland, 23, drove onto Cedar Lake in the early morning hours of Dec. 16, when the pickup truck they were travelling in fell through the ice about 75 metres from shore, west of Manitoba Hydro’s Grand Rapids Generating Station.RCMP previously said the two were...
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No end in sight for Pimicikamak Cree Nation evacuees even after power returns: leadership | CBC News

As Pimicikamak Cree Nation struggles to fix damage to homes caused by a four-day power outage, thousands are in the dark about when they can return to their community.The northern Manitoba First Nation was evacuated last week after a power line servicing the community — located about 530 kilometres north of Winnipeg — snapped, leaving residents without heat in extreme cold temperatures that dropped below the –20 C mark.Manitoba Hydro repaired the downed power line and fully restored electricity...
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'If they want to intimidate us it's not going to happen': Synagogue stands together after antisemitic graffiti | CBC News

WARNING: This story contains references to and images of antisemitic symbols.A Jewish congregation in Winnipeg came together for Sabbath in a show of strength and resilience a day after their synagogue was vandalized with antisemitic graffiti, including a slew of swastikas."The intention was to intimidate and frighten people. Maybe put people in a position where they didn't want to show up," said Rena Secter Elbaze, executive director of the Congregation Shaarey Zedek."Luckily people are resilie...
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Real estate broker, family financially exploited man with intellectual disability, lawsuit alleges | CBC News

A man is suing three members of a Winnipeg family and a real estate broker he alleges used his intellectual disability to financially exploit him through property deals in Canada and India, leaving him out hundreds of thousands of dollars."I am not the bad guy here, but I am losing everything," said Gagandeep Pejatta, 56, who filed his statement of claim in the Manitoba Court of King's Bench on Oct. 27.The lawsuit alleges Charanjit Uppal, his wife, Ravinder Uppal, and their son, Sundeep Uppal, f...
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Menorah lit in 'days of darkness' as Winnipeg Jews mark Hanukkah in wake of Sydney shooting | CBC News

In the aftermath of a deadly attack at a Hanukkah event that claimed the lives of 15 people in Australia, Rob Williams was adamant about attending a Winnipeg Jewish centre to mark the same holiday."We're not gonna be scared. We're not gonna stay home and just be fearful of going out and wearing [the] Star of David," he told CBC news."Stuff like this has never stopped us in the past … we will always see the light through evil."Williams was among at least 100 people who gathered for prayers at the...
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Die-off of hundreds of birds something Manitoba hasn't experienced 'at this scale': biologist | CBC News

WARNING: This story contains an image of a dead goose.At least 500 bird carcasses, the majority Canada geese, have been recovered near water streams in southern Manitoba over the last month — a die-off scientists say they haven't witnessed in the province before and are attributing to avian influenza."Anywhere there was open water, where birds were concentrated, now we're seeing carcasses," Frank Baldwin, a biologist with Canadian Wildlife Service, told CBC News on Thursday. "We haven't experien...
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Customers line up at Manitoba Liquor Marts for 1st chance to buy American booze in months | CBC News

Customers flocked to Manitoba Liquor Marts Wednesday, with some lining up even before stores opened, to buy the first bottles of American alcohol sold at the provincial retailer in months, after the products were warehoused amid the trade war with the United States. Dozens waited outside the Madison Square Liquor Mart near Polo Park shopping centre, one of seven stores in Winnipeg where U.S.-made alcohol products were back on the shelves Wednesday. They'll be available until Dec. 24.Five other s...
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Province now proposing Henry Avenue location for 1st supervised consumption site | CBC News

The Manitoba government has a new proposed location for the province's first consumption site.Addictions Minister Bernadette Smith said in a statement on Friday the proposed location for the supervised consumption site is now 366 Henry Ave., west of Main Street and north of Logan Avenue.The new location comes after the NDP government backed off its initial proposal to locate the site on Disraeli Street, east of Main Street in Winnipeg's inner city, after local residents raised several concerns,...
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Search of Brady Road landfill for remains of Ashlee Shingoose begins, province says | CBC News

The search for the remains of Ashlee Shingoose has officially begun at Brady Road landfill in Winnipeg, Premier Wab Kinew says.Around 8:45 a.m. on Monday, the first truckload with landfill debris drove down the hill to a search facility where workers will comb through it to search for the remains. "I hope we will be able to bring ... her home soon," Kinew told reporters at an unrelated news conference on Monday, after taking part in a ceremony with Shingoose's parents and her sister at the land...
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Nearly all of Manitoba's RCMP officers now equipped with bodycams, Mounties say | CBC News

Manitoba RCMP say almost all front-line officers are now equipped with body cameras as part of a program launched more than a year ago.According to the Mounties, 98 per cent of front-line officers in policing duties through detachments in Manitoba wear the device as of Nov. 27.Officers in Steinbach were the first to wear body cameras attached to their vests in November last year when the program was launched. RCMP Assistant Commissioner Scott McMurchy said the devices have since been "essential"...
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Nurses vote to 'grey list' Thompson General Hospital over concerns about violence, vacancies: union | CBC News

Staff vacancies, violence and inaction from Thompson General Hospital on improving working conditions have nurses voting on whether to "grey list" the facility, discouraging others from taking jobs there, according to the Manitoba Nurses Union.Members of the union working at hospital in the northern Manitoba hub city are casting electronic ballots from Wednesday and until Friday on whether to apply the grey list designation.Union president Darlene Jackson said if the vote passes, a list of recom...
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Federal budget 'does not reflect the needs of First Nations': Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs | CBC News

The federal government's new proposed spending plan falls short of addressing the needs of Indigenous people, says the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, which is decrying budget cuts to First Nations programming and what it says was a lack of consultation in drafting the budget in the first place. "We are dealing with a budget … that doesn't make a lot of sense," Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Kyra Wilson told reporters at a news conference on Wednesday."The money that the federal government...
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The NDP wants Manitoba to be 'truly bilingual.' What does that mean? | CBC News

Manitoba's government wants the province to become "truly bilingual" — but exactly what that would look like is still a work in progress.The premier has said bilingualism could come with official status in the law, but some argue existing legislation is enough, and the focus should be on improving the delivery of services in French.However it's done, Raïssa Bado looks forward to being able to easily access services in French."I would like to be able to live in an environment where there is that...
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Nearly 90% of Manitoba's reported measles cases involved unvaccinated patients: public health | CBC News

Nearly nine in every 10 reported measles cases in Manitoba since February involved patients who didn't have a single vaccine dose, according to the province's data.There have been 238 confirmed and 15 probable measles cases of measles so far this year, according to the latest Manitoba Health data, which covers the period up to Oct. 18 and was released on Friday.Of those 253 cases, 221 — or 87 per cent — involved people who were not vaccinated for measles.While the vast majority of Manitoba's pop...
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3 people arrested in homicide of Melissa Lynxleg, whose body was recovered years after she went missing | CBC News

Three men have been arrested and charged with second-degree murder in the death of Melinda Lynxleg, more than five years after she went missing from a western Manitoba First Nation.The investigation into Lynxleg's disappearance and death was "extremely complex," Sgt. Morgan Page with RCMP major crime services told reporters at a news conference Monday.Kirk Kenneth Allarie, 42, Myles Malcolm Allarie, 38, and Billy Jay Lynxleg, 46, have all been charged with second-degree murder and offering an in...
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Residential-school-themed totem pole lowered to assess storm damage, start repairs | CBC News

The work to build back a Winnipeg totem pole that tells the stories of Canada's residential school system has begun after it was damaged during a storm this summer.The structure was carefully lowered to the ground on Friday to be examined by Charles Joseph, the Kwakiutl First Nation artist who carved the structure more than a decade ago and is determined to fix it."The story and the meaning of this pole is not ruined, just the top part," Joseph said. "It's in my heart to restore it." The totem p...
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Change needed in sepsis treatment, says Winnipegger who nearly died from condition | CBC News

A Winnipeg sepsis survivor says he wants to see Manitoba follow Nova Scotia's lead and change how it treats the condition that almost killed him nine years ago. "I came out of this in many ways a better person, but it was at a huge cost to me and my family for a period of time," Mac Horsburgh told CBC News. Horsburgh collapsed after a cyst on his finger was misdiagnosed as an inflammation and left untreated for days. The infection got into his bloodstream, weakened a vessel and created an aneury...
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Manitoba Bar Association criticizes premier over bail decision comments | CBC News

Two associations representing members of Manitoba's legal community are pushing back against comments made by Premier Wab Kinew following a judge's decision to grant bail to a driver accused in a fatal crash, which Kinew suggested may erode confidence in the justice system.“When political actors, especially politicians who are in leadership positions, make these kinds of comments, it's those that undermine the … [administration of] justice, not decisions made by judges,” Manitoba Bar Association...
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Winnipeg care home resumes admissions, ending 5-month dispute with WRHA | CBC News

For five months a Winnipeg care home refused to accept new residents to protest a lack of funding from the provincial health authority it says it needed to keep the facility afloat.  That ended on Oct. 1, but the executive director of the company that operates the facility doesn't regret making the move to shut down admissions."It was the only way I could get their attention because I was being ignored," said Gilles Verrier, the executive director of the of the Lions Housing Centres, which opera...
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Courier in grandparent scam gets 3 years | CBC News

The courier in a sophisticated fraud operation that swindled eight older adults out of more than $30,000 has been sentenced to three years in prison in a grandparent scam a judge says left the victims feeling frightened and likely incapable of recouping their losses."It is a truly despicable crime against the population who should be treated with respect, dignity and care … they have been left poorer financially and psychologically," provincial court Judge Cynthia A. Devine said in a sentencing...
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She says respiratory issues prevented her from giving a breath sample, but MPI upheld her licence suspension | CBC News

A Manitoba woman says she was stripped of her independence at the age of 76 after her driver's licence was suspended because breathing problems prevented her from producing a breath sample at a police traffic stop — leaving her stranded in a small town with limited services. "When you can't even go out of your room, it's like you're in jail," Sharon Hosco told CBC News. "It's just like a continuation of depression and anxiety." Hosco was pulled over for speeding on Highway 44 in November. An RCM...
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Wasagamack orders mandatory testing for public employees over concerns about illegal drugs in First Nation | CBC News

Public employees in a northern Manitoba First Nation have been given mandatory drug tests, which the community's chief says is part of an effort to connect residents with addictions resources amid an escalation in illegal drug activity."We're doing this for everybody to be safe — not just one organization … but in all the community," Wasagamack First Nation Chief Walter Harper told CBC News."We're not trying to label anybody, we are not trying to offend anybody, but this is an ongoing issue."Was...
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'Overwhelming' summer ends for thousands of Manitoba wildfire evacuees returning home | CBC News

More than 2,000 residents of two First Nations and a town in northern Manitoba who were forced out by wildfires this summer are returning to their homes, after spending months in hotels during the worst wildfire season the province has seen in decades.​"Everybody is just happy to go back," said Don McCallum, the chief administrative officer of Marcel Colomb First Nation.​"We always thought that we would be out for three or four weeks. We didn't think it was going to be the whole damn summer."Mar...
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School division left former students at risk of exploitation by disgraced coach Kelsey McKay: lawsuit | CBC News

Three former high school students are suing Pembina Trails School Division, alleging it failed to provide them with a safe environment after they were groomed, harassed and exploited over a period of years by a former teacher and coach who is now a convicted sex offender.In the suit, the three plaintiffs — identified only as A.B., C.D. and E.F. — allege the south Winnipeg school division gave Kelsey McKay a position of power in his duties as a teacher and coach at Vincent Massey Collegiate, allo...
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