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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.
By Shawn Jeffords, The Canadian Press
TORONTO — The Royal Canadian Mint unveiled a commemorative loonie Tuesday to mark what it called a key milestone for lesbian, gay, transgender, queer and two-spirited people, with the government saying the coin symbolized progress while highlighting the work that still needs to be done to advance equality.
Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau was amongst a number of dignitaries who gathered in Toronto to unveil the new one-dollar coin that pays tribute to Parliament’s passing of legislation that “initiated the decriminalization of homosexuality in Canada” in 1969.
The 18th annual Winnipeg Comedy Festival just got a jolt of humour with the addition of two more comedians.
Tom Papa and Sasheer Zamata will perform May 2 and May 4, respectively, at the festival’s galas.
