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Our own Winnipeg Blue Bombers is a great team with a bright future and the fans show their support each and every game! The last game was a big failure for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, unfortunately, Calgary team was better and finished the game on top. The Winnipeg Blue Bombers made a pair of signings on Boxing Day. The club inked national defensive back Jacob Firlotte and international linebacker Otha Peters Jr. to contracts. Also, just recently Bombers sp...

In the capital of the easternmost Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, the city of St. Johns last week four bank robberies were committed. All the robberies were carried out using heavy construction equipment. As per police, two robbers are located and arrested. As reported on Sunday, January 20th the robbers tried using the loader to gain access to the ATM of one of the major Canadian WMO banks. They left heavy equipment near the crime scene in...

The 3rd annual Women’s March was held in Winnipeg on Saturday. Despite the extreme weather conditions which the inhabitants of Manitoba face at the weekend, women came to the Manitoba Legislative Building to take part in the 3rd annual Women’s March. The temperature reached -36 C, but it did not scare Winnipeg women. “There are women who are dealing with all sorts of things, so we can deal with the cold,” one of the organizers for the Winnipeg march, Haili...

City authorities recognize and understand the importance of constant transport infrastructure growth and modernization to be able to satisfy the needs of Winnipeg citizens and a workforce visiting our city every day. Mayor Brian Bowman says the city transport system needs a major overhaul.  “We really have to make tough decisions to really improve the transit. I'm from Charleswood. I rode 66 all my life, and the routes haven't changed much. This is your gr...

Winnipeg is a beautiful city with hundreds of bright lights all year long, especially for the Christmas Holiday season. But Mother Nature also has some bright wonders to share with us! Residents of Winnipeg witnessed a rare natural phenomenon called light pillars. The pictures posted on social networks websites show that bright rays were rising up from all artificially lit objects a few hundred meters up. As shown in the photos below, this magical phenomen...

Crossfit Winnipeg helps people with cystic fibrosis. In January, many people start thinking about training especially hard. After all, the festive season could be reflected in the figure. Crossfit is a very popular training session nowadays, and it gathers lots of people. However, on Saturday, the training was different from the usual one - Crossfit Winnipeg decided to help collect donations for people with cystic fibrosis. Each resident of the city who de...

On Sunday, Joe Daley, the former Winnipeg Jets goalie, was honoured with a mural at the Bronx Park Community Centre. "That's what I try and convey to all the young kids, is, first and foremost you're playing the game because you love the game and have fun doing it. I mean, I came down to this community club day after day only because I knew the fun I was going to have," he said. He grew up close to Bronx Park and went there almost every day to see his frie...

Book critics of Manitoba tell which books are worth reading before you see their screen adaptations. 1. If Beale Street Could Talk, by James Baldwin The book raises questions of hope and tells about an 18-year-old black woman who learns that she is pregnant after her husband was imprisoned. The action takes place in New York in the 60s of the 20th century. The book shows the truest life with its realities. The adaptation of the book has caused different op...

Winnipeg is looking forward to the start of one of the most anticipated events of this winter - Winnipeg New Music Festival. This festival will be remembered by residents of the city for long because they will be able to enjoy the musical creations of the famous Norwegian musician, Terje Isungset, who plays ice musical instruments. He deigns his ice instruments himself and gives concerts in a specially constructed open-air audience. "It'll be a really beau...

Drug trafficking problem is on a rise in Canada for the last couple of years. In some case Canada citizens involved in drug trafficking and smuggling, but recent international court hearing caught press attention – Citizen of Canada is sentenced to death for drug smuggling in China Canadian Foreign Minister Hristia Freeland stated that Ottawa requested a pardon for Canadian citizen Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, who was sentenced to death in China for smugglin...

Every winter in Winnipeg there is special parking rules implemented to help snow cleaning services move the equipment around the city and clean the streets to make it possible and safe to drive and get to work and back home. The city authorities use special signs to mark places that are prohibited from parking, which are priorities for snow removal. As per Manager of Streets and Maintenance for the City of Winnipeg, Michael Cantor, the Winnipeg road worker...

The cost of a barrel of Canadian oil soared to $44 in January. The reason was a sharp decline in production in Alberta. This may lead to a decrease in revenue for US exporters of Canadian oil. The government of the Canadian province of Alberta forced manufacturers to cut production by almost 9% to raise collapsed prices for a local brand of Western Canadian Select (WSC) oil. This led to the fact that the price of the WSC variety rose to $44.71 per barrel f...

A residential fire is always a scary and dangerous thing, people might get hurt or killed, especially children and elderly citizens since they are not able to react fast and evacuate the building by themselves. On Saturday, January 19th a fire happened in the residential area in Winnipeg. The apartment burst in flames in the area of London Street and Antrim Road, thankfully nobody got injured and all tenants managed to escape the building safely. The fire...

Animal shelters are full of animals that are just waiting for someone to take care of them and bring them to a place they can feel safe at and could call it home. Doggy daycares across Winnipeg are filling up fast due to owners who don’t want to brave the elements and go for a walk but still want their furry friends to enjoy some physical activity. January, February, and March is pretty much the peak season for daycare and boarding. The president of the Ma...

A lot of accidents on the road happened because drivers are in a hurry, distracted or simply intentionally do not follow the rules and regulations. Every year, about 421,000 people are injured in crashes that have involved a driver who was distracted in some way. Unfortunately, a lot of those drivers are teenagers, who are not just irresponsible to their own vehicles and lives, but to other people’s health and lives as well. Some drivers just really don’t...

On Monday, January 14th a fire broke out in the Maryland area, just a day after the fire on Ellis Avenue. According to the company, which manages both facilities, two large fires in apartments in Winnipeg`s the West End were caused by drug use. “Both of these fires were drug-related,” said Mike Romani, president of Armor, a company that manages 626 Ellice Avenue and 426 Maryland Street. Romani says he believes that one of the fires was specifically related...

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! Winnipeg Blue Bombers spoke person confirmed that a 28-year-old linebacker Ian Wild leaves the Bombers after six seasons with the team. Wild was a big part of the t...

Despite the fact that the weather will not be the most pleasant in Winnipeg at the weekend (cooling to -30 and strong wind is expected), we do not recommend you to stay at home, because you can have a lot of fun! So, what to do this weekend in Winnipeg? 1. FortWhyte Alive Winterfest We offer you to declare war to cold and to head to FortWhyte on Sunday. There you can go skiing, sledding, ice skating, playing snowballs and spending time outdoors in all othe...