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Moose trade Murray, lose Lukowich

Breaking News - 1 hour 49 min ago
WINNIPEG — The Manitoba Moose made one transaction and were stiffed by another on AHL roster-freeze day. Centre Marty Murray, 35, was traded to the Milwaukee Admirals for left-winger Peter Olvecky, 24. It’s a deal that is officially termed a “loan.” The Moose also found
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Hotels to join battle against child abuse

Breaking News - 3 hours 41 min ago
WINNIPEG — Hotel staff across Manitoba are to be enlisted in the battle against child sexual exploitation. The Manitoba government and the Manitoba Hotel Association announced the plan at a conference in Winnipeg Wednesday. Jim Baker of the hotel association said the campaign is modelled
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Inwood man dies after rollover

Breaking News - 3 hours 54 min ago
An Inwood area man is dead after he was thrown from behind the wheel of the pick-up truck he was driving Tuesday night. RCMP said a 1995 Dodge truck rolled over on Provincial Road 229, approximately five kilometres east of Inwood in the RM of Rockwood, at about 9:15 p.m. Tuesday. The
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Musician's mother dies

Breaking News - 5 hours 5 min ago
The mother of one of the city's most talented and reclusive musicians has lost her battle with cancer. Remy Shand's mother Lana Shand died on March 4. She and her husband Doug home-schooled Remy, who could play the keyboards, guitar and drums before he was a teenager. He recorded his debut solo
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Winnipeg Transit is on Twitter

Breaking News - 5 hours 19 min ago
WINNIPEG — Bus riders can get tweets on Transit disruptions by signing up for Twitter alerts: Twitter.com/transitalerts -- announces short-term disruptions. Twitter.com/winnipegtransit -- provides news about schedule changes. More information is available at
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Pothole report to sink out of sight

Breaking News - 5 hours 24 min ago
Mayor Sam Katz's inner circle has told city staff not to complete a pothole report that was ordered up almost a year ago. City council's executive policy committee voted this morning to file an April 2009 motion that asked the public service to assess the way Winnipeg repairs potholes, examine
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Wheelchair- bound Manitoban badly beaten in Australia

Breaking News - 6 hours 58 min ago
Shellan Proden said she was shocked when she received a call from Australia Tuesday morning with the news that her son Heath had been viciously beaten. "I was devastated," Proden said. "He was having such a good time there." The attack on Heath Proden, 35, who uses a...
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RCMP investigate sexual assault of Waywayseecappo teen

Breaking News - 7 hours 57 min ago
WINNIPEG -- A 16-year-old girl was sexually assaulted on the Waywayseecappo First Nation on Saturday, RCMP say. Two men from the reserve, aged 25 and 21, face numerous charges and have been detained. They will appear in Brandon Provincial Court on Thursday. They will not be identified by the
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Firefighters battle early morning blaze on Sherbrook

Breaking News - 9 hours 35 min ago
WINNIPEG -- About two dozen people had to be evacuated from a Sherbrook Street apartment building after fire broke out about 5:30 a.m. today. A fire spokesman said the blaze began in one of the suites. It's believed a man in that suite had to be taken to hospital for treatment. Other residents
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Stoughton team banging their heads before, after loss

Breaking News - 15 hours 50 min ago
HALIFAX -- Team Manitoba fell flat on its face Tuesday night. Well, maybe on the back of its head but either way it was ugly. Manitoba lead Steve Gould slipped and banged his head on the ice prior to Draw 11 action and nothing went right for the Buffaloes from there on out. In Manitoba's first
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Minorities visibly expanding

Breaking News - 15 hours 50 min ago
OTTAWA -- More than one in every four people in Winnipeg will be a visible minority in just over two decades, Statistics Canada projected Tuesday. The city's visible-minority numbers will grow from 15 per cent of the population now to 27 per cent in 2031, the agency says. In a new report, it
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Rival firms trash garbage plan

Breaking News - 15 hours 50 min ago
Small companies that haul garbage and the owners of two private landfills don't like the smell of a city plan to offer one company a discount in exchange for dumping more waste at a publicly owned landfill. In the latest garbage controversy to beset city hall, lawyers representing six waste
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WSD excludes lap-dance media clippings

Breaking News - 15 hours 50 min ago
WINNIPEG School Division's official secrets policy over personnel matters extends to refusing to provide its school trustees with copies of newspaper stories about personnel issues. You read that correctly -- WSD won't supply the school board that governs the $329-million-a-year division with
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Covering legal costs PUB's idea: consultant

Breaking News - 15 hours 50 min ago
A New York consultant who blew the whistle on Manitoba Hydro says it was the provincial regulator's idea to have her legal bills covered at an upcoming hearing. The woman, who can't be identified, said Tuesday that having taxpayers cover her legal costs is crucial if she is to appear before the
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TB cases on rise in Manitoba

Breaking News - 15 hours 50 min ago
The number of Manitobans infected with tuberculosis hit a 30-year high last year, raising alarm among First Nation leaders and medical experts that nothing is being done to address the root cause of the disease. The latest provincial disease statistics reveal Manitoba recorded 156 TB cases in
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Equipment working north of Winnipeg to cut jams, floods

Local News - 15 hours 50 min ago
The fight against the coming spring flood is already in high gear north of Winnipeg as ice-smashing equipment makes its way south from Netley Creek towards Selkirk. The province's two ice-busting Amphibex machines were put on display Tuesday near Breezy Point, chopping in unison through the...
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Organizers try to keep debate temperature low

Local News - 15 hours 50 min ago
On the front lines, the conversation is filled with persecution and hate, underlined with a deep-rooted passion in separate beliefs of what is fair and balanced. That's what makes dissecting Israel as an apartheid state such a delicate topic in Canada, as that same passion bubbles to the surface
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Covering legal costs PUB's idea: consultant

Local News - 15 hours 50 min ago
A New York consultant who blew the whistle on Manitoba Hydro says it was the provincial regulator's idea to have her legal bills covered at an upcoming hearing. The woman, who can't be identified, said Tuesday that having taxpayers cover her legal costs is crucial if she is to appear before the
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Cat abuse prompts call to report cruelty cases

Local News - 15 hours 50 min ago
SHADY the cat used up nearly all of her nine lives in a horrific beating. The disturbing case has the head of the Winnipeg Humane Society calling for more people to come forward with animal cruelty complaints. "This is a case where this cat hadn't done anything to anybody, and somebody
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Free Press staffers receive awards to research FASD, reserves' water

Local News - 15 hours 50 min ago
NEWSROOM staff at the Winnipeg Free Press are the recipients of two major journalism awards that will provide them $40,000 for in-depth research into Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders and drinking water on reserves. The awards are among 18 provided by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research this
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