Tag: News/Canada/Manitoba

If there’s one area where the Manitoba Tories can boast about their performance, it’s managing the provincial books. During the NDP’s final year in power, Manitoba’s deficit mushroomed to $932 million. The Progressive Conservatives promised to slow the flow of red ink when they…

While people might wish for a magic pill or program, there is no easy way to guide someone away from hateful, racist ideologies, deradicalization experts say. Michael Mitchell, a retired army major and former associate faculty member at Royal Roads…

A Winnipeg commander was not aware the military was investigating an army reservist accused of ties to a global neo-Nazi terrorist group due to the type and nature of the probe, Canada’s defence department said Friday. The local chain of command was…

As Manitobans prepare to head to the polls, some voters with disabilities still encounter hurdles to learning about provincial party platforms and the candidates. Although Elections Manitoba says people have many convenient ways to vote in the upcoming election, a disability advocate says participation in the…

Claims by Progressive Conservative Leader Brian Pallister that he grew up poorer than his NDP rival are being called “offensive” by an Indigenous leader, and will only draw attention to Pallister’s frequent jaunts to Costa Rica, says a political scientist.  Pallister was…

Manitoba Progressive Conservatives are accusing a union of breaking the spending limits for third parties in the provincial election, but the union says the accusation is false. Kelvin Goertzen, a cabinet minister running for re-election in Steinbach, says Unifor has…

A pivotal moment in Winnipeg’s history is being added to Canada’s literary trail, marking a scene and a place that now only exists in archival photographs and prose. In commemoration of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike, Project Bookmark Canada will unveil a…

The City of Winnipeg could get help upgrading its main sewage treatment plant if the New Democrats win the Manitoba election. NDP Leader Wab Kinew says he would commit $500 million for the province’s share of the project in the…

The Manitoba Liberals will finish what Brian Pallister couldn’t — building 1,200 more beds for seniors — leader Dougald Lamont promised Friday at Tyndall Park. Lamont said the Progressive Conservatives didn’t get very far in building the 1,200 personal care home beds…

Winnipeg police are asking the public to help identify a man who broke into a house earlier this month and sexually assaulted a woman. The woman, in her 60s, told police the intruder broke into the home on Houde Drive, in St. Norbert, around 5:30 a.m.…