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Ultra-low-cost airline Swoop has added new routes between Winnipeg and Kelowna, B.C. as part of its summer schedule.
The WestJet-affiliated airline will offer service between Manitoba’s capital and the Okanagan three times per week for $119. The schedule also sees the return of the seasonal route between Abbotsford, B.C. and Winnipeg four times per week for $129.
Winnipeg police say a physical dispute between a man and his two sisters led to one of the women being stabbed twice in the upper body.
Officers were called Monday night to a residential complex in the 100 block of Tuxedo Avenue where they found the injured victim. The woman, in her 30s, was listed in critical condition and remains in hospital.
The Winnipeg Goldeyes have brought back one of their most popular sluggers for the 2019 season.
Centre fielder Reggie Abercrombie has been re-signed to the club, making it his sixth season with the Fish.
Western Canada’s largest French-Canadian winter festival is turning 50 and ChrisD.ca wants to send you there!
Festival du Voyageur is February 15-24, making for 10 days of fun at venues across the city, bringing you music, food, culture and plenty of outdoor winter activities at Voyageur Park in St. Boniface.
By Mike Blanchfield, The Canadian Press
OTTAWA — Chinese telecom giant Huawei isn’t the only company that can build Canada’s next-generation wireless networks, the Trudeau government said Monday as China muted its threat to retaliate if Canada bans the company.
Federal Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale and Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains offered a sharp retort to China’s ambassador to Canada, who warned last week of repercussions if the federal government bars Huawei from supplying equipment for faster, more resilient communications systems than cellphone users have now.
By Steve Lambert, The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG — A Winnipeg bus driver was killed on the job by an angry passenger who refused to leave the vehicle at the end of a run, a Crown attorney said at the opening of a two-week second-degree murder trial.
Irvine Jubal Fraser, a 58-year-old driver working the late shift, was spat on and repeatedly stabbed after forcibly removing Brian Kyle Thomas from the bus, Crown attorney Keith Eyrikson told the jury Monday in his opening statements.
Winnipeg firefighters battled a blaze in a three-storey apartment complex Monday afternoon at the same location they attended last week.
Emergency crews responded to the 400 block of Maryland Street at around 2:20 p.m.
By Kevin Bissett, The Canadian Press
A powerful storm brought heavy snow and rain and bitter temperatures to much of Eastern and Central Canada, reminding Canadians of the many ways an unforgiving climate can disrupt their lives.
The widespread storm closed schools, flooded streets, knocked out power and forced school buses to stay off the roads in many areas Monday as temperatures began to plummet.
