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By Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press
OTTAWA — Setting up supervised injection sites at federal institutions is the way to go if the Correctional Service plans to continue making needles available to drug-using inmates, prison guards say.
The Union of Canadian Correctional Officers says one such injection site at Drumheller Institution in Alberta is proving a safer alternative to the service’s needle-exchange program, operating at seven federal prisons.
By Steve Lambert, The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG — A Winnipeg man who left his mother on a floor for weeks until she died has been ordered to spend more time behind bars.
The Manitoba Court of Appeal overturned a 90-day jail sentence given to Ronald Siwicki and replaced it with a two-year term minus three months credit for time served.
By Judy Owen, The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG — Mathew Barzal says he’s still finding his game, but it didn’t look lost on Thursday.
Barzal scored twice as the New York Islanders won their third straight game with a 3-1 victory over the Winnipeg Jets.
By The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government has backed off a plan to delay a court battle over its public-sector wage freeze.
Unions representing 110,000 workers are asking the Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench to strike down the legislated wage freeze as a violation of their right to collective bargaining.
By Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG — A man acquitted of killing a Winnipeg teenager following two trials and more than a decade behind bars is suing the Manitoba government and police for wrongful conviction and imprisonment.
Mark Edward Grant alleges in the lawsuit that he was subjected to a “never-ending nightmare” in prison due to negligence by police and prosecutors in a dogged pursuit for a conviction in the killing of 13-year-old Candace Derksen.
By Lauren Krugel, The Canadian Press
Police, lawyers and advocates say that one year into cannabis legalization, Canada has a long way to go toward stamping out the black market and pot-impaired driving.
“We can’t call it a success at this point,” Chief Const. Mike Serr of the Abbotsford, B.C., police department said of the law change a year ago Thursday.
By Steve Lambert, The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG — Slogging through drenched fields and exposed to open prairie in near-freezing temperatures, Manitoba Hydro crews continued to restore power Wednesday to homes and businesses hit by last week’s snowstorm.
Even with the help of workers from Ontario, Saskatchewan and Minnesota, many residents could be without electricity for several more days.
By Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG — Public health concerns over vaping have cast a haze over expansion excitement in the cannabis market.
The production and sale of cannabis derivatives — edibles, extracts, topicals and vape products — become legal Thursday on the one-year anniversary of the legalization of recreational cannabis.
