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By Armina Ligaya, The Canadian Press
TORONTO – Demand for newly legal pot appears to be outstripping supply as retailers run low on some products or are cleaned out completely amid a shortfall that could last for months.
Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries said Thursday that it is expecting product shortages in both brick-and-mortar and online stores could last “up to at least six months.”
By Sarah Klein
WINNIPEG — 154 new medications are now covered under Manitoba’s Pharmacare Program, including coverage for a drug used to control high blood sugar.
“We are continuously working to add drugs to the pharmacare program in a timely manner to ensure Manitobans have access to medications that offer important treatments for many different illnesses and treatments at a more affordable price,” said Health, Seniors and Active Living Minister Cameron Friesen.
By The Canadian Press
HALIFAX – Homeowners who thought they had been robbed got a happy surprise instead: Their house was cleaned for free by cleaners who went to the wrong address.
Police say the two women went to the home Tuesday afternoon in Upper Tantallon, N.S., outside Halifax.
A day after recreational marijuana was legalized in Canada, RCMP in Manitoba have arrested a man for driving while impaired.
Police were conducting a checkstop at the intersection of Cree Road and Deerwood Drive in Thompson early Thursday when officers noticed an SUV signalling to turn down the road they were stationed on. He suddenly turned in the opposite direction of the checkstop and began driving away.
By The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG – The Manitoba government has hired former British Columbia premier Gordon Campbell to review two major hydro projects that have added billions of dollars to the provincial debt.
Campbell will look at whether the Keeyask Generating Station and Bipole Three transmission line — projects built under the former NDP government — were based on sound economics.
A 14-year-old Winnipeg boy was arrested Wednesday for making a bomb threat at Churchill High School.
Police were called to the Hay Street school at around 10 a.m. after staff reported a threatening note. The school of approximately 500 students was evacuated.
The province has opened two more Rapid Access to Addictions Medicine clinics in Manitoba to help people suffering from addictions.
The RAAM clinics are located in Brandon on 7th Street and Thompson at the Addiction Foundation of Manitoba’s Eaglewood site.
By Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG – The leader of Manitoba’s Opposition has called for an inquest into the death of an Indigenous man who died during a 10-hour bus trip for a medical appointment.
Abraham Donkey of Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation was travelling from Thompson to Winnipeg for a followup appointment after a recent heart surgery.
