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By James Turner, The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG — Manitoba’s children’s advocate is urging the province to stop lengthy solitary confinement of youth in custody after a review that found one boy was isolated for 400 straight days in a cell no bigger than a parking stall.
Daphne Penrose and provincial ombudsman Marc Cormier jointly investigated the use of solitary confinement, segregation and pepper spray in Manitoba’s youth jails.
By The Canadian Press
REGINA — Kienan LaFrance is back with the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
The Canadian running back signed a one-year deal with Saskatchewan on Thursday. Lafrance spent the 2017 season with the Riders before joining the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
WINNIPEG — If it’s up to the Manitoba Bisons, the women’s hockey team would repeat their Canada West championship win to end the 2018-19 season.
Before that happens, of course, the Herd needs to make their way through the semi-finals.
Manitoba RCMP are asking motorists to slow down and move over when approaching emergency vehicles after one of their cruisers was hit on Thursday.
Police were stopped behind a semi-trailer that had been in a collision on Highway 1 near Headingley at around 7:30 a.m.
By Kevin Bissett, The Canadian Press
After years of increasingly bad news, there’s a glimmer of hope for the beleaguered North Atlantic right whale.
There are estimated to be fewer than 420 of the endangered mammals left, and their ranks have been decimated as deaths far outpaced live births — there were no births at all during last winter’s calving season.
WINNIPEG — Manitoba RCMP has named Assistant Commissioner Jane MacLatchy as the new commanding officer of the RCMP in the province.
MacLatchy is a Nova Scotia native with an extensive policing career dating back to 1988.
By The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG — A Manitoba antique store owner who found a letter written by a First World War soldier to the sister of a man who saved his life on a battlefield has contacted some of the relatives.
In the letter written in 1917, a soldier named Earl Sorel tells his friend’s sister about her brother’s death at the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
By The Canadian Press
OTTAWA — An international committee of legislators wants executives from some of the world’s largest digital and social-media firms to testify on disinformation and “fake news” when it meets in Ottawa this May.
The “grand committee” of elected politicians from nine countries, including the U.K. and Canada, has already been stymied in its efforts to hear from some of them at earlier meetings in London.
