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By Morgan Lowrie, The Canadian Press
MONTREAL – Babe the pig spends his days sleeping, going for walks on a leash or lounging around the Montreal condo he shares with his owners, their baby and three cats.
His owners, Mario Ramos and Sara-Maude Ravenelle, say he’s clean, intelligent and affectionate.
WINNIPEG — Warmer spring weather and the temptation to venture near open water has prompted a seasonal warning for Manitobans.
The Canadian Safe Boating Council and the Lifesaving Society says despite the time of year, the immersion into cold water can be a serious danger.
By The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG – Quarterback Matt Nichols and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers no longer have the element of surprise in the West Division.
In a conference call, Nichols said he expects the Bombers to be marked men in 2018 after compiling a combined 23-13 record over the last two years, reaching the CFL playoffs both times.
By Ross Marowits, The Canadian Press
MONTREAL – Canada’s airline profitability, which reached a 20-year high last year, is expected to soften due to higher fuel and labour costs, according to a Conference Board of Canada report.
Airline pre-tax profits are forecast to drop 27 per cent to $1.32 billion as increasing costs outpace higher revenues that are forecast to approach $32 billion.
Winnipeg’s city-wide spring cleanup is set to begin this weekend.
Crews will begin sweeping city streets, including back lanes, on Sunday, April 22 at 10 p.m. Over the next five to six weeks, work will initially focus on the downtown area, major routes, bridges and overpasses.
Allegations of sexual assault against a young boy in Brandon have revealed the same man may have also sexually assaulted the boy’s mother.
Brandon police say they began investigating in March after a complaint that the boy — who was between the ages of three and five — was sexually assaulted by his step-grandfather between 2011 and 2014.
The Manitoba government is sharing more plans for a future school to be built in southeast Brandon for kindergarten to Grade 8 students.
Premier Brian Pallister was in the Wheat City on Thursday, where he made the announcement at the future site of the school, located at Maryland Avenue and Ninth Street.
The union representing Winnipeg Transit employees has a plan to finance additional electric buses in the city’s fleet.
The proposed financing partnership would rely on a pay as you save (PAYS) model, with the province providing the city with an interest-free loan to cover the difference in capital costs of electric buses.
The Blue and Gold are in the black for 2017.
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers turned a profit of $5.1 million last season — up $2.3 million from 2016.
By Terry Pedwell, The Canadian Press
OTTAWA – A charitable group dedicated to preserving the country’s broadcasting heritage is calling on the CBC to stop destroying original television and radio broadcast materials as it moves to digitize the content.
The Canadian Broadcast Museum Foundation says the public broadcaster’s English service earlier this month began destroying acetate transcriptions, as well as audio and video recordings that span eight decades, after converting the master copies into a digital format.
