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TORONTO -- Sheralynn Kennedy says if her stepfather were alive today, he'd be proud she wants to dedicate her life to helping troubled teens. The 18-year old is entering the University of Winnipeg on scholarship with the dream of earning a PhD in psychology and working with teens in jails or

Mayoral challenger Judy Wasylycia-Leis is continuing to portray the Sam Katz administration as secretive and ethically suspect, this time by alleging the mayor's office interferes with freedom of information requests. Wasylycia-Leis said on Friday the mayor's office played a role in the denial

After two months of calling the City of Winnipeg to complain about dirt bike and ATV riders ripping up the baseball and soccer fields at Charleswood's Varsity View Community Centre's sportsplex, Steve Kazubek is holding his breath for Tuesday. That's the day city crews have promised to repair

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Antoine Predock is renowned for his splashy entrances, and today is no exception. Fashionably late on a brutally hot August morning, Predock, 74, dashes out of the brightness of the day and bounds up the stairs of a small cottage, one of a labyrinthian complex of century-old structures in downtown Albuquerque that serve as the studio and offices for his architecture practice.

Two-term city councillor Mike Pagtakhan finally has some competition at the ballot box this fall. Herman Holla, who has twice run for city council, visited the City Clerk's office on Thursday to registered his campaign for the inner-city ward of Point Douglas, which Pagtakhan has represented

SCRAPPING the long-form census is risking the health of some of the most vulnerable people, says a group calling itself Save the Census Manitoba. The group, made up of doctors, academics, senior public servants and heads of social service agencies, sent out a letter Thursday calling on the

The province's decision to co-manage sacred aboriginal sites in Whiteshell Provincial Park with the Brokenhead Ojibwa Nation has drawn protest from another First Nation that claims the park land is part of its traditional territory. Donovan Fontaine, chief of the Sagkeeng First Nation, said his

Alex Chapman may have been given nude photos of a Manitoba judge by her husband and was paid $25,000 to agree to return or destroy them but, because he didn't, another judge has ordered him to give them back. And now Chapman, the man in the centre of a sex scandal involving Manitoba Court of

The man at the centre of a Manitoba legal sex scandal which has forced the temporary reassignment of a judge has a long litigious history with provincial justice officials, a Free Press analysis has shown. Alexander Chapman, a computer programmer, made headlines across Canada this week by

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JEFF Norton admits it's hard to keep a low profile at the best of times when you drive a 1966 Amphicar. But when the German-made rag-top -- which can be driven both on the road and in the water -- loses power in the middle of the Red River on a summer evening, resulting in four fire trucks, a

University of Manitoba law professor Karen Busby clearly runs in more sophisticated circles than I. Responding to a reporter's question about Queen's Bench Judge Lori Douglas's ability to serve after a smarmy sex scandal detonated around her, Busby had this to say: "She agreed to have sex

IT was the dirty little secret that everybody seemed to know about. Revelations this week a Manitoba judge and her lawyer husband were caught in a sex scandal may have surprised members of the public, but it barely caused a ripple within Winnipeg's tight-knit legal community. "It was known

STEAD, Man. -- The family of a diabetic grandmother lost in the woods since Wednesday morning said they're praying for a miracle as precious hours tick by following her disappearance. About 70 searchers combed through a two-square-kilometre area of Belair Provincial Forest Thursday looking for...

WINNIPEG police have laid a trio of charges against a Montreal man who drove a stolen pickup truck onto a runway at Richardson International Airport early Wednesday morning. A police investigation revealed the suspect drove the 2009 Ford F150 towards a Beechcraft King Aircraft, which was

Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz's first campaign promise is about his re-election campaign. The Katz campaign is pledging not to place any campaign signs on public property in an effort to reduce what the incumbent mayor's campaign manager calls "sign pollution" during the civic election

Six businesses in the Broadway-Assiniboine neighbourhood hope the City of Winnipeg will back-pedal on a recent tweak to the Assiniboine Bikeway because they fear they'll be adversely affected by changes in traffic flow. The city began construction this week on the $125,000 Assiniboine Bikeway,

Two teens shot a crack cocaine supplier at point blank range in broad daylight while two young children played nearby, a jury was told on Thursday. Crown attorney Susan Baragar, during her opening statement to the jury at the beginning of a first-degree murder trial, said the shots left Thomas

Thompson RCMP are treating the discovery of a dead woman inside a home early Thursday morning as a homicide. Officers were called to a house on Brandon Crescent around 3:00 a.m. to investigate reports of an unresponsive woman. She was declared dead shortly thereafter. The cause of death and her...