Posted by Brian Schultz Former Manitoba Premier Gary Filmon and Winnipeg musician Burton Cummings will be invested into the Order of Canada as Officers Friday morning in Ottawa. Governor General Michaëlle Jean will preside over the investiture ceremony at Rideau Hall to recognize a lifetime of outstanding achievement, dedication to the community and service to [...]

Google has rolled out the ability for Gmail users to make free telephone calls directly from their inbox. “Calls to the U.S. and Canada will be free for at least the rest of the year and calls to other countries will be billed at our very low rates,” Google said on their blog Wednesday. Users [...]

Canada’s Governor General will be returning to Winnipeg to spend two days in the city beginning tomorrow. Michaëlle Jean will host a Youth Dialogue honouring North Point Douglas residents on Wednesday for ridding their community of guns, gangs and drugs. In June 2007, she held an Urban Arts Forum, in which neighbourhood youth pleaded for [...]

Posted by Sarah Klein After 77 applications were sent in to Canada’s National Screen Institute for consideration in the upcoming NSI Totally Television training program, five writer/producer teams were selected. One of the chosen teams is from right here in Winnipeg. Writer Tammy Marlowe Johnson and producer Shaun Johnson will be working on their TV [...]

Posted by Tyler Sutherland The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has launched an online consultation to gauge opinions of Canadians on basic telephone and Internet services. The federal broadcast regulator launched the consultation Friday as part of an upcoming proceeding and public hearing scheduled for October 26 in Timmins, Ontario. The CRTC outlined in [...]

Posted by Brian Schultz New parking numbers released Monday show Winnipeg has the third cheapest parking rates in Canada. The monthly unreserved parking rate in the city is $152.25 — just above Saskatoon at $147.00 and Kitchener-Waterloo at $116.94. The data was released by Colliers International as part of the company’s 10th Annual Parking Rate [...]

Posted by Tyler Sutherland The next time you go for your flu shot, you may just receive nasal spray instead of a needle. Health Canada has approved the nasal vaccine to be distributed by the maker AstraZeneca Canada. FluMist is approved for the prevention of seasonal influenza in Canadians aged two to 59-years-old. The main [...]

Posted by Tyler Sutherland Seventy-three newcomers will take the oath to officially become Canadian citizens later today. A citizenship ceremony is planned to take place in Clear Lake at Riding Mountain National Park at 12:30 p.m. Judge Harold Gilleshammer will preside over the beach ceremony. On Monday, 78 new Canadians were sworn in at the [...]

These posts seem to be getting repetitive, but once again, this week’s Lotto Max jackpot is a record in Canada. After three weeks in a row of a $50 million pot, no one has been declared a winner. For the fourth week now, the jackpot has climbed to $50 million, with fifty-five $1 million prizes [...]

Get ready to hear a lot of “I’m not coming in on Monday if I win” talk around the office today, as Canadians coast to coast hope to be the country’s newest multimillionaire. $50 million is up for grabs in tonight’s Lotto Max jackpot — which ties a record for the biggest jackpot ever to [...]

Posted by Tyler Sutherland Governor General Michaëlle Jean will honour a select group of people later this morning in Ottawa with the Order of Canada, including a Winnipeg woman. Susan Glass is a tireless volunteer and committed philanthropist. Glass has been a pillar of support for the arts in the West and throughout Canada. She [...]

Posted by Brian Schultz With the Red River Ex opening up this Friday, you wouldn’t think it would be a good time to ask Winnipeggers their views on Canada, but a touring exhibit will do just that. In what’s being dubbed the ‘biggest Canadian conversation ever,’ The National Capital Commission is bringing its travelling “Let’s [...]