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Fellow Winnipeggers, everyone who loves and supports Blue Bombers, get your tickets early for the next game or for the whole season! Let us all come together and show our support for our city team. If you are not going to visit the game, let us plan a game night at home with friends and family! The Blue Bombers just announced a one-year contract extension signed with a Winnipegger Thomas Miles. Miles, 26, is a former member of the Manitoba Bisons. The line...

Chinese New Year will be on February 5, and all residents of Manitoba can come and celebrate this holiday together with the Chinese who live in the province. On February 9 Manitoba residents are invited to the Manitoba Great Wall Performing Arts. "Chinese New Year will get everybody together - join us to celebrate. That will make us feel that Manitobans really care about people who come from other places." The president of Manitoba Great Wall, Gary Liu, is...

With the help of people who work in the industry of game creating, Manitoba students learn how to bring video games to life. Nine classrooms at Sisler High School will become a creative hub, and about 300 students will practice there. "It's all of the all the parts of education put into one," said Jamie Leduc, department head of the Interactive Digital Media program at Sisler High School. "So you have your storytelling, you have your art, you have your mus...

Winnipeg`s authorities recognize the growth of our city`s needs, the population grows every year and the workforce visiting Winnipeg constantly increases as well. Public transportation is a very important part of city infrastructure modernization and development. The local transit union and other organizations have been pushing for since the February 2017 murder of a driver. A deadly accident happened on the city transit bus. As per defense lawyer Evan Roi...

Car theft is a growing problem in Canada, thankfully in Winnipeg, we have the Air1 helicopter that helps police to track down and find the stolen vehicle fast! A new report from the Canadian Insurance Bureau says that picky car thieves are increasingly targeting Ford trucks and high-end SUVs. At the same time, the total number of car thefts continues to grow throughout the country. Four people are in custody facing more than 100 charges between them after...

Manitoba residents knew him as the voice of sport. On January 30, Bob Picken passed away at Riverview Health Centre in Winnipeg. Bob Picken spent most of his life talking about sports events in the province. He saw the birth of such a sports legend as Winnipeg Jets and covered everything related to hockey and curling. In 2017, the sportscasting received the Order of Manitoba for his contribution to the sport life of Manitoba. "Our family were very, very pr...

This week will deliver the coldest temperatures and highest wind chill values of the winter. Bitterly and brutally cold air is descending over the eastern prairies of Manitoba. The Superintendent of Education Ted Fransen announced Wednesday afternoon that all buses in city divisions will be pre-emptively canceled for Thursday, January 31st. Schools remain open, but buses will be off the road in the Pembina Trails, Seven Oaks, River East Transcona, Louis Ri...

A retired gardener killed eight people. On Tuesday, January 29 the Supreme Court of Toronto, Ontario held hearings in a serial murder case. In the presence of jurors 67-year-old gardener Bruce MacArthur confessed to killing eight people who disappeared between 2010 and 2017. “MacArthur is accused of killing eight men between the ages of 40 and 58,” the report said. The first victim was murdered in 2010. A Skandaraj Navaratnam, who was last seen in Septembe...

This year the winter in Manitoba is as severe as ever. Therefore, more and more people are turning to hospitals with frostbite. The WRHA is concerned that people underestimate the severity of frost. In most cases, frostbite and such terrible consequences as pain, numbness and possible amputation can be avoided. Due to the increasing complaints from city residents, the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority decided to raise their awareness about frostbite. So,...

A nonprofit organization from Detroit hires homeless people and makes coats to help other homeless people survive the winter. Now, some of the people in need have already received such coats in Winnipeg. The biggest advantage of such coats is that they can turn into a sleeping bag and help people not freeze during the night. "It means a whole lot to me," said Lee Levasseur, a homeless man from Winnipeg who had only a thin jacket before the organization hel...

Winnipeg is a great and constantly growing city. Our city authorities recognize a need for constant growth and development as the city`s population grows every year. Waverley Underpass project slated to be completed in 2020, now being pushed to open this year! The total cost for the project is now $98 million, down from the original $156 million budget. The construction at Waverly was completed ahead of schedule and $57 million under budget. The Waverley S...

Most Winnipeg residents sleep warmly and comfortably on cold January nights, but there are those who are less fortunate. Instead of staying at home, Mark Stewart, the director of the Salvation Army's emergency shelter, sits behind the wheel and drives through the city’s streets to help the homeless. Thus, the most vulnerable population of the city feel that they are not alone in such a frosty period. "The vulnerable people within our community in this area...

Blizzard appeared at the zoo in 2014. After 5 years he died. Winnipeg's Assiniboine Park Zoo staff and all the volunteers who knew the bear are very sad about the death of the animal. Their work is usually connected to a particular animal, to which they are attached very much. The zoo's director of veterinary services, Chris Enright, said that Blizzard was an unusual bear, very kind and communicative with people. It all started about 2 weeks ago when the b...

Chet Breau, a famous guitarist from Winnipeg, passed many tests over the past two years and plans to return to the scene. Two years ago, Breau was brought to the hospital, and his life was in great danger. He had too much extra weight, and therefore there were big heart problems. "They had to do surgery immediately in order to save me," Chet explained. "They weren't making any promises if I was going to live or not, that's for sure. If I didn't go by an am...

City residents gathered under the roof of one of the churches of Winnipeg to show that they did not forget what happened 2 years ago. On Tuesday, Winnipeggers marked the 2nd anniversary of Quebec mosque shooting and remembered people who died on that terrible day. About thirty people took part in the meeting to show their respect. Shahina Siddiqui, the head of the Islamic Social Services Association in Winnipeg, said that they devoted that day not only to...

Approximately ten months ago a scary crash happened in Saskatchewan, experts believe it was not an accident. On April 6 last year 16 people were killed and 13 injured, when a westbound semi-trailer truck struck a northbound coach bus near Armley, Saskatchewan, Canada. The semi-trailer had failed to yield at a flashing stop sign at the intersection of Highways 35 and 335. Jaskirat Singh Sidhu had 70 regulation violations in the days leading up to April 6, 2...

Everyone likes to eat the food that tastes good, but also we need to think about the health aspect of the food we consume and the nutrients and vitamins it gives our body. For the first time since 2007, Canada has updated the healthy nutrition guide and did not include the recommended daily intake of dairy products. The new document includes general recommendations on nutrition, for example, Canadians were recommended to increase the consumption of fresh v...

Health Minister Cameron Friesen promised a plan to overcome the local methamphetamine crisis in October, but a report from a new task force to combat drug trafficking said the plan would not be available to the public until June 2019. Crime Stoppers announced the 100% increase in rewards for tips that help to fight meth crisis and arrest criminals dealing drugs and selling it to teenagers and even youth. Winnipeg Officials say methamphetamine has become su...