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Police have seized more than $1 million worth of drugs in an intricate bust in which seven people were apprehended and six more have warrants out for their arrest. Project Deplete, a large-scale takedown by the Manitoba Integrated Organized Crime Task Force -- comprising officers with the...

Ed Bachewich and his son Ray hurriedly jumped out of their beds and rushed to the truck to search for Beverly Rowbotham, Ed's sister-in-law, a Winnipeg murder trial heard Friday. Rowbotham's husband, Mark Stobbe, had just phoned them, waking them to say his wife was missing. It was just after 3

MANITOBA Water Stewardship is working on a spring flood forecast despite this winter's mild and relatively dry weather. Provincial flood forecasters plan to unveil a preliminary flood outlook before the end of February, spokesman Paul White said Friday. Although much of southern Manitoba has

Thank goodness. We thought the whole thing was Jason Kenney's fault. Ottawa is aflutter with revelations the federal Immigration Department staged a phoney citizenship ceremony for broadcaster Sun News, carried on their cable news channel last October. In that ceremony, a judge had 10 newly

Winnipeg's globe-trotting human rights lawyer David Matas is trying to help thousands of Sri Lankan refugees stuck in limbo in Indonesia and Malaysia, including a dozen families hoping to come to Winnipeg. "If you had to start somewhere, I'd say get the kids out of jail and let them go to

The Harper government's determination to rein in the cost of Old Age Security pensions could suck hundreds of millions of dollars from the Manitoba economy while dealing a body blow to the province's poorest seniors. The OAS, which pays $500 a month on average to Canadians at age 65, is a key

Soccer fields around town are still covered with snow, but things are reaching a fevered pitch at the administrative level. A west Winnipeg soccer association is crying foul over pending changes to youth soccer for this coming spring that will make the games less competitive and more

A union representing Child and Family Services workers has filed a court motion that could temporarily derail the inquiry into the death of Phoenix Sinclair. The Manitoba Government and General Employees Union applied to the Manitoba Court of Appeal Friday to force the commission of inquiry to

Beth Friesen expected the birth of her second child would be no big deal -- until the baby insisted on making his entrance while the Manitoba mother was driving on Highway 59. When Friesen's contractions started Thursday night, she and her husband, Arlin Friesen, figured they had time to make

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If Canadian scientists want to conduct research on H5N1 flu viruses modified to enhance their ability to spread, the work will have to be done in laboratories with the top level of biosecurity, the Public Health Agency of Canada says. In other words, in Winnipeg. The agency said in a statement

RESTAURANT Dubrovnik has closed its doors while its owner ponders the future of the Assiniboine Avenue institution. After a routine closure in January, the upscale restaurant did not reopen. Owner Milan Bodiroga said he will decide by the end of March whether to reopen the restaurant, which

It's only $2.67 million -- a drop in the bucket of cash needed -- for a project to cut through 1,000 kilometres of wilderness and make the first all-weather roads on the east and north sides of Lake Winnipeg. But a federal funding announcement Friday for a road linking Blood-vein First Nation to

Federal documents have offered a glimpse into a controversial hearing last month in which a Haitian-born convicted killer was able to access an aboriginal-style parole hearing at Stony Mountain Institution. Gregory Bromby, 35, was convicted of first-degree murder in 1997 for the stabbing death

It's the largest-ever compensation deal in Canadian history -- but groups that represent thousands of aboriginal people have come forward to say it's flawed. The National Residential School Survivors Society is calling for a judicial review of the $5-billion Indian Residential Schools Settlement

Premier Greg Selinger and Education Minister Nancy Allan face school-tax hikes on their personal property tax bills this year after Louis Riel School Division received zero increase in provincial operating grants. Every penny of increased costs will come from division residents, Louis Riel

Two men are charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of three people in a farmhouse near St. Leon. A third man pleads guilty to the same three slayings after making a deal with the Crown for a reduced charge and less time before parole. A trial is held and the Crown's star witness points...

OTTAWA -- Winnipeg NDP MP Pat Martin added fuel to the obscenity-laden firestorm he created this week when he cursed at a Conservative senator who suggested murderers should be given ropes to hang themselves. On Wednesday, Martin called Sen. Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu an "asshole" for the comment