Tag: News/Canada/Manitoba

Keith Sandiford remembers being the only black person on the bus in Winnipeg — and among the faculty at the University of Manitoba. Black people were scarce in Winnipeg when the Barbadian took a chance on the city, coming here in the 1960s as a…

Recently, I’ve been thinking about safe spaces — as a woman, as a trans person, and as someone temporarily hobbled by an icy slip. There, my lack of safety came from unsalted sidewalks, but other definitions of safe versus unsafe spaces can be…

Winnipeg’s 50th annual winter celebration of fur-trapping and Franco-Manitoban culture got started with a bang. Festival du Voyageur opened Friday night with fireworks that filled the night sky over the St. Boniface festival grounds. George Forest founded the festival in 1969, coinciding with…

Tense relations between the City of Winnipeg and provincial government continue to take the form of tweets, this time from Manitoba’s premier. On Twitter Friday, Premier Brian Pallister called for calm in the ongoing back-and-forth between Mayor Brian Bowman’s office and…

A former British Columbia premier hired to review cost overruns with Manitoba Hydro megaprojects is being investigated by Scotland Yard for an alleged sexual assault related to his stint as Canadian High Commissioner in London, according to U.K.-based publication The Telegraph.…

A Winnipeg man who broke into his ex-wife’s home and installed hidden cameras in the walls was sentenced on Friday morning to two years in jail. But his ex-wife remains fearful of the man — and worried that he still has intimate…

An emergency Amber Alert about a missing Ontario girl sent to some Winnipeg cellphones late Thursday led to a spike in calls to the city’s emergency call centre — many expressing displeasure about receiving the message — that police say tied…

A new program from the Manitoba Metis Federation is aiming to give some families a head start on home ownership. The Metis First Time Home Purchase Program will roll out this spring and provide up to $15,000 for down payments to…

Joseph Davis is wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for missing his curfew. He is described as 5-8 and 178 pounds with short blond hair, blue eyes, and numerous tattoos on his arms. (Vancouver Police Department) A Canada-wide warrant has been…

A 36-year-old man is recovering in hospital after being attacked when he answered a knock at his door. The man was stabbed in the upper body just after 11 p.m. on Feb. 12, when he opened the door at his home in…