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By Steve Lambert, The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG – Manitoba Liberals won a key provincial byelection Tuesday night, securing a legislature seat for their new leader, Dougald Lamont, and gaining official party status and the funding that comes with it.
Lamont, elected Liberal leader last October, soared well ahead of second-place NDP candidate Blandine Tona as results continued to come in late Tuesday night in the St. Boniface constituency in Winnipeg.
By Judy Owen, The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG – Paul LaPolice had something important to say to Andrew Harris.
After Tuesday’s practice, the Blue Bombers offensive co-ordinator told reporters about a conversation he had with the star running back after last Saturday’s 20-17 loss to the B.C. Lions.
WINNIPEG — 680 CJOB is adding to its morning show later this summer with veteran broadcast journalist Lauren McNabb.
The experienced co-anchor of Global News at 6 will join Greg Mackling and Brett Megarry weekday mornings from 6-10 a.m. CT beginning August 22. Both stations are owned by Corus Entertainment.
McNabb originally joined Global Winnipeg in 2000 and was promoted to Global National’s Manitoba correspondent three years later. She went on to work out of the station’s Toronto bureau in 2005 before returning to her home province in 2011 as producer and host of “Focus Manitoba.” In 2016, she joined Heather Steele as co-anchor of Global News at 6.
By The Canadian Press
CANMORE, Alta. – Problems persist in an Alberta mountain town overrun with rabbits despite an ongoing cull that has cost almost $400,000.
Canmore introduced its feral rabbit management program six years ago after much pro- and anti-bunny bickering and outcries from animal rights advocates.
RCMP have broken up an alleged drug trafficking network in northern Manitoba and laid charges against two people.
Police executed a search warrant at a home July 11 in Opaskwayak Cree Nation, seizing six grams of cocaine, approximately 550 miscellaneous pills, Canadian currency, a rifle, ammunition and drug paraphernalia.
By Andy Blatchford, The Canadian Press
OTTAWA – Physicians are calling on the federal government to shell out another $21 billion over the next decade to help provinces and territories pay for soaring health care costs that will be propelled by the unavoidable growth of Canada‘s seniors population.
A new analysis, to be released Tuesday by the Canadian Medical Association, is urging Ottawa to provide bigger and bigger annual top-ups to the existing federal health care transfer program.
A Brandon woman was arrested Monday after she allegedly hit her boyfriend with a frying pan.
Police say they responded to a domestic incident and learned the man was assaulted with the kitchen utensil, which caused minor injuries.
Larry Leadbeater had one plan for his winning million-dollar lottery ticket: tuck the prize safely away.
“This baby’s going in the vault!,” Leadbeater said after discovering he had won $1 million on a Lotto Max ticket from the June 8 draw.
By Brian Schultz
Winnipeg police came across a haul of drugs Monday evening after pulling over a stolen vehicle in the area of Redwood Avenue and Main Street.
Officers noticed the vehicle was bearing a stolen licence place and conducted a traffic stop at around 8:10 p.m. They also discovered the vehicle itself had been stolen from East St. Paul, Manitoba on July 4.
By Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press
OTTAWA – Fissures have appeared inside Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s youth council after a group of current and former members publicly urged the Liberal government to reverse its decision to buy Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline.
The request was made in a letter to the prime minister signed by 16 past and present members of the council and released to the public on Monday, in which signatories expressed “our immense disappointment” with the planned $4.5-billion pipeline purchase.
