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Greyhound will live beyond November 2 to provide bus service in Manitoba.
The province met with senior Greyhound officials on Tuesday following a federal-provincial-territorial meeting in Vancouver on October 22. Both the province and Greyhound agreed to continue discussions on Greyhound’s future in Manitoba.
“We are committed to develop made-in-Manitoba options in the short [...]

A national “working group” made up of deputy ministers will take a look at bus travel in rural communities after Greyhound threatened to pull out of Manitoba and Ontario several months ago.
Manitoba Transport Minister Ron Lemieux said today on a conference call with media that Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, John Baird, has recognized the [...]

Posted by Sarah Klein
UPDATE: Transportation Minister Ron Lemieux said late today that service will continue for Greyhound passengers and there will be no layoffs. Both the government and Greyhound are working on both short- and long-term solutions to fix the financial state of the bus line.
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Staff and drivers of Greyhound in Manitoba are bracing for [...]

Submitted photo by Winnipeg cartoonist Dan Phelps

This is a shocker. Greyhound Canada will cease operations in Manitoba and northwestern Ontario.
The company said today in a release that it’s giving 30 days notice to the Manitoba Highway Traffic Board. Ontario’s board will receive 90 days notice.
Greyhound is also reviewing operations in Alberta, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Yukon and the Northwest Territories.
The reason for [...]

Some horrifying ‘leaked’ photographs claiming to be of Tim McLean are making their way around the Internet today. The photos show the aftermath of the brutal attack on a Greyhound bus in July 2008 near Portage la Prairie, in which Vince Li mutilated the body.
ChrisD.ca received the photos earlier this morning, but will not be [...]

It’s been a year to the day since Tim McLean was brutally murdered on a Greyhound bus in southwestern Manitoba.
Tonight at 8:00 p.m., family and friends of Tim will hold a memorial vigil on the steps of the Manitoba Legislative Building. The public is asked to attend.
View archived stories of Tim McLean since last July [...]

Vince Li has been found not criminally responsible (NCR) for the murder of Tim McLean on board a Greyhound bus last July.
The verdict was brought down by Queen’s Bench Justice John Scurfield. Li will now go to a mental health facility instead of prison, possibly in Selkirk.
Li attacked 22-year-old Tim McLean, who was sleeping at [...]

Next week the trial of Vince Li, the man who killed Tim McLean on a Greyhound bus in July 2008, begins in Winnipeg. There is a chance Li will be found not criminally responsible for his crime and be sent to a hospital for an undetermined amount of time, with the possibility of being released [...]

Another incident has taken place aboard a Greyhound bus in Manitoba.
On Friday afternoon at around 1:30 p.m. near Headingley, a female passenger threatened another with a knife when she overheard his conversation with another passenger and took offense to it. The woman then said she would cut the man’s head off if he tried to [...]

A young man was stabbed Sunday aboard a Greyhound bus travelling through northern Ontario bound for Winnipeg.
The victim, a 20-year-old male, was stabbed by another passenger near the town of White River, ON.
The victim was taken to hospital with minor injuries and the suspect has been arrested.
28-year-old David Roberts from Manitouwadge, ON, has been charged [...]

The family of Tim McLean, the 22-year-old Winnipeg man who was murdered and beheaded aboard a Greyhound bus in late July, are suing the bus company, the Attorney General of Canada and Vincent Li, the accused killer.
The lawsuit is on behalf of 13 family members, and claims that Greyhound and the federal government failed to [...]