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WINNIPEG — Bradley Houston couldn’t believe his luck upon checking his Lotto Max ticket and realizing he was suddenly a millionaire. So he checked it again. And again.
“I didn’t think I was seeing things right,” said the Winnipeg resident. “I called a couple buddies to come and look at the ticket with me, and went back to the store.”
By The Canadian Press
REGINA – Former Saskatchewan Roughrider Justin Cox faces a new assault charge.
Regina police issued a warrant for Cox’s arrest on Oct. 5.
By Steve Lambert, The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG – Premier Brian Pallister says he doesn’t believe the federal government when it says a nationally imposed carbon tax will be revenue neutral for Manitoba residents.
Pallister says a federal plan to send rebate cheques to people in his province is unfair and the tax will still hit them in their wallets.
RCMP in Thompson, Manitoba have charged two residents after coming across a haul of illegal items on Monday, including explosives.
Police executed a search warrant at the home in the Westwood area of the community at around 2 p.m.
Winnipeg police rounded up half a dozen people on October 20, suspected of operating a dial-a-deal drug ring.
A 46-year-old woman was arrested and found to be carrying crack cocaine rocks worth $325, Percocet pills worth $64 and $685 in cash.
Two people were arrested and charged Monday after Winnipeg police raided a drug operation inside a hotel on Wellington Avenue.
Police were investigating drug trafficking at the hotel when they spotted a suspect leaving the property at around 1:10 p.m.
WINNIPEG — Despite some monthly fluctuations, the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority says patient wait times to receive care at a hospital are generally trending downward.
The WRHA says median wait times were at or near the two-hour mark during the three years prior to the Healing Our Health System plan, which was rolled out in April 2017.
WINNIPEG — Flooding in the mechanical room of the Joyce Fromson Pool at the University of Manitoba has closed the facility indefinitely.
The U of M says repairs are commencing immediately on the pool’s operating systems, with an anticipated re-opening date of January 2019.
