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This year’s Red River Ex drew in more than 195,000 people to the midway and other site attractions.
“Wow, was it a scorcher! Snow cone sales hit record levels,” said Garth Rogerson, CEO, Red River Exhibition Association.
Legendary rock band Sweet will bring their 1970s chart-toppers to Winnipeg this fall.
The band will play the Burton Cummings Theatre on October 18, performing such hits as “Ballroom Blitz”, “Fox on the Run” and “Love is Like Oxygen.”
By The Canadian Press
ALDERGROVE, B.C. – Yoga practitioners in Aldergrove, B.C., had some unlikely company during a string of sessions on Sunday.
Five pigs, a chihuahua and turkey wandered between mats, with one pig taking a bite out of a mat and others flopping down for some belly rubs.
John Denver‘s critically acclaimed hits will be relived with the performance of Rocky Mountain High: An Evening of John Denver.
The tribute concert on October 4 will breathe new life into the singer-songwriter’s music at the Centennial Concert Hall.
Two people were killed in separate crashes on Manitoba highways over the weekend.
A 25-year-old Sagkeeng woman was initially struck by a vehicle on Highway 11 in the Sagkeeng First Nation community on Saturday morning. A 48-year-old Rosenort man came upon the scene at around 3:55 a.m. and also hit the same pedestrian, who was lying on the highway. She was pronounced deceased at the scene.
By Kathryne Grisim (@foodmuser)
Confession time — I recently got to suggest a place for my girlfriends and I to dine out. Since the occasion for our get-together was to celebrate my birthday, I got to pick. When I went online to see that Kevin’s Bistro only serves mac and cheese, I thought perhaps I had made a dining mistake. Was Kevin’s going to be too casual for our get-together? Was everyone going to be able to find something to eat? Would we all go into a carbohydrate coma?
The Canadian Press
LORETTE, Man. – A four-year-boy who was riding a utility trailer on a rural Manitoba property has died.
RCMP say the incident happened Saturday afternoon near Lorette, southeast of Winnipeg.
By Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG – Nearly half of all youth who end up in custody across Canada are Indigenous, a statistic that a Manitoba activist says shows unacceptable and systemic racism.
Data released by Statistics Canada shows Aboriginal youth made up 46 per cent of admissions to correctional services in 2016-17 while making up only eight per cent of the youth population.
WINNIPEG — A three-kilometre walk today is stepping up support for Ronald McDonald House Charities Manitoba.
The 4th annual Red Shoe Crew Walk kicks off from the Smartpark Event Centre on the University of Manitoba Fort Garry campus at 1:35 p.m.
By Jordan Press, The Canadian Press
OTTAWA – The federal tax collector is less and less seeing dead people where there aren’t any.
Figures recently tabled in Parliament show that 319 people were erroneously declared dead by the Canada Revenue Agency between Jan. 1, 2016 and Dec. 31, 2017, which actually marked a 39 per cent decline from the preceding two-year period.
