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Councillor Jeff Browaty wants to see the question of opening Portage and Main put on this October’s civic election ballot.
The North Kildonan city councillor introduced a motion at city hall Thursday to consider a resolution to place the following question on the Oct. 24, 2018 ballot: “Do you support the opening of Portage & Main to pedestrian crossings? YES/NO.”
Canada’s new Diversity Gardens at Assiniboine Park have received another generous donation.
The Bert & Lee Friesen Foundation announced a $250,000 donation to the Conservancy’s Imagine a Place Campaign Wednesday night.
ShekonNeechie.ca is now live.
The new platform, designed to help Indigenous historians gather, was founded and directed by seven Indigenous historians and launched on National Indigenous Peoples Day.
Portage la Prairie RCMP say a man has died after he was assaulted in his home.
Police say the man, 56, was assaulted by “unidentified suspects” at his home on Royal Road North on May 23. He suffered severe, life-threatening injuries, said RCMP, and was taken to hospital. He died on June 17.
WINNIPEG — A new private hockey training facility in the city will be home to future professional athletes to help them develop their on-ice careers.
The Rink, which began training hockey players in 2009, is expanding to construct a $20 million facility, complete with a 95,000-square-foot complex with an NHL sized rink.
By The Canadian Press
VANCOUVER – A partially clothed fan who was hit by a B.C. Lions player has retained the services of a law firm.
In a statement released Wednesday, Preszler Law Firm said the fan “suffered serious injuries, including a mild traumatic brain injury, as a result of being violently struck by BC Lions player Marcell Young.”
Two people from out-of-province have been charged after RCMP seized 190 grams of cocaine earlier this month.
Mounties conducted a traffic stop on the afternoon of June 5 in Dauphin, where they also located a large sum of Canadian currency and various drug paraphernalia.
By Joan Bryden, The Canadian Press
OTTAWA – Canadians will have to wait until Oct. 17 — one month longer than expected — before they’ll be able to legally purchase and consume recreational marijuana.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the date Wednesday during the last question period in the House of Commons before MPs departed for a three-month summer break.
By Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG – A former educational assistant who gave a student money, food and drugs as their relationship intensified has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years behind bars for sexual exploitation.
Sheryl Dyck, who was 42 at the time, was arrested in 2015 after seven months of having oral sex that progressed to intercourse with the 16-year-old boy.
Two men are facing charges after they allegedly carjacked and robbed a driver Monday night in the area of Stella Avenue and McGregor Street.
Winnipeg police say the 28-year-old male victim was stopped in his vehicle at around 9:50 p.m. when three men approached him. One of them was armed with a sawed-off rifle and ordered the man out of his vehicle.
