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Residents living in Carman will soon have access to faster internet after the town and Bell MTS announced an expansion of the all-fibre broadband network.
The technological upgrade will reach approximately 1,600 homes and businesses throughout the town.
By Steve Lambert, The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government has filed its own court challenge of the federal government’s carbon tax, following similar moves by Ontario and Saskatchewan.
In documents filed in Federal Court on Wednesday, the Manitoba government seeks a judicial review to quash the federal tax on the grounds it exceeds Ottawa’s constitutional authority.
WINNIPEG — Everybody knows The Forks is the place to be in the winter, and now the market is stepping up its summer game.
Visitors will soon be able to sip and sit on a beverage in a new licensed area on the upper plaza. Drinks, anyone?
By The Canadian Press
SELKIRK, Man. — An RCMP officer in Manitoba is facing a charge of assault with a weapon for allegedly striking a man with a pylon during an arrest.
The Independent Investigation Unit, the province’s police watchdog, says in a release that the assault allegedly happened north of Winnipeg last fall.
The owners of the BerMax Caffé + Bistro on Corydon weren’t the victims of a robbery, assault and hate crime-fueled graffiti, according to Winnipeg police. They were the ones responsible for it.
Police were called to the establishment on April 18 and investigated the incident, but later determined it was completely staged.
By The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG — A nine-year-old boy has died after he was pulled from a pool, along with his brother and father, at a Winnipeg apartment complex.
A member of the city’s Hindu community who knows the family says Aaram Misra died Tuesday afternoon, one day after his father, 38-year-old Ram Nivash Misra, died in hospital.
The Assiniboine Park Zoo needs the public’s help in naming a baby gibbon born earlier this year.
The white-handed gibbon is the first offspring for Maya (female) and Samson (male) and was born on February 4.
A man returning to his home in the RM of St. Clements was robbed and carjacked at gunpoint early Tuesday morning.
The 59-year-old was driving home when he noticed a silver Dodge pickup truck following him at around 2:30 a.m. He pulled into his driveway and the vehicle stopped behind him.
