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By The Canadian Press
TORONTO – Amnesty International says a Canadian man who was held in an Ethiopian prison for more than 11 years has arrived in Toronto after being released earlier in the week.
Bashir Makhtal was sentenced to life in prison on terrorism-related charges in 2009 following a trial that was denounced by Amnesty International as “unfair” and “a political exercise.”
RCMP in Thompson are investigating the death of a 35-year-old man on Saturday morning.
Officers were called to the Burntwood Hotel just before 1 a.m. for a report of an injured man in the parking lot. The victim was found with serious injuries and later died in hospital.
Two Winnipeg police officers were taken to hospital in stable condition on Saturday after their cruiser struck a building.
Police say the patrol unit was travelling southbound on Main Street responding to a high-priority call at around 1:05 p.m. when it was involved in a collision with a vehicle in the area of Polson Avenue. The cruiser then hit a nearby building.
By The Canadian Press
CALGARY – A rail strike has been temporarily averted after the federal labour minister ordered employees of Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. to vote on the company’s final offers, just hours before they were set to walk off the job.
Statements from both CP Rail and two unions representing workers say the minister’s order to administer a ratification vote on each of the two offers follows advice of federal mediators.
Winnipeg police say there weren’t any major incidents to report Friday night with about 36,000 fans flocking to downtown for the Jets game.
The Jets clinched the first round playoff series with a 5-0 win over the Minnesota Wild.
There’s a lot to love about Winnipeg. The people. The mix of cultures. Our winning hockey team.
Put simply, it’s good to live here. That’s why ChrisD.ca is currently running a clothing fundraiser aimed at raising donations for the United Way in the words of Jets’ winger Patrik Laine.
By Kate Jackman-Atkinson, Neepawa Banner & Press
NEEPAWA, Man. — The newspaper industry has a problem, but it’s not what most people think. More than anything else, the newspaper industry in North America has an ownership problem. Long known by those in the industry, the public watched this story explode a little over a week ago. The spark? A series of editorials in the Denver Post blasting their owners, a hedge-fund called Alden Global Capital.
What most readers forget, or don’t know, is that many of the papers they read are owned by hedge funds or investment companies. It could be outright, like the Denver Post, or by extension, like Postmedia, which has borrowed so much to fuel its expansion, it is effectively beholden to its lenders. This ownership structure favours profitability at any cost — they are investors looking to make money through newspaper ownership, not newspaper owners looking to make money.
By Judy Owen, The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG – Bryan Little’s teammates were happy they could deliver something special to the veteran Winnipeg forward.
Connor Hellebuyck made 30 saves and the Jets scored four goals in the first period to eliminate the Minnesota Wild with a 5-0 victory in Game 5 of their best-of-seven series Friday.
Winnipeg fire crews sprang into action on Friday to rescue a cat that had become stranded on an ice floe in the Assiniboine River.
The United Firefighters Union of Winnipeg tweeted that the stranded cat was successfully saved and taken to the Winnipeg Humane Society for care.
By Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG – The Manitoba Metis Federation and the province have agreed to a two-week “reset” in the hope of avoiding a court date over planned hydro projects.
Federation president David Chartrand and Crown Services Minister Cliff Cullen had a private meeting Friday to discuss a deal between the Metis and Manitoba Hydro.
