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MGEU tells that Manitoba Lifeflight should not fly without a critical-care physician on board. Staff problems began after the government wanted to privatize air ambulance services last summer in the province. The situation has led to many disagreements between the government and the ambulance doctors. The medicals even said that the situation of deterioration in the quality of patient care services can happen in the case of transition to a fully commercial...

Recently one story of a Saudi woman who escaped and barricaded herself at the airport in Thailand is on every newspaper and news website online. Thankfully, this story has a happy ending and the woman is now safe and arrived in Canada. 18-year-old Rahaf Mohammed al-Kunun, who fled from Saudi Arabia, was granted asylum in Canada. Official Ottawa “responded positively to the UN’s request for asylum,” said Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday, Jan...

Everyone wants to live in a big house, with many rooms and the property big enough to drive around in a golf cart, with a pool and four-car garage, but not everyone can afford it, especially counting the fact that after purchasing a house like this for a hefty price, you will have to pay annual taxes on the property that could reach like $40-50 thousand dollars annually. Sales were down 5 percent from 2017, and down 6 percent from the record-setting year 2...

Toronto and Vancouver residents will see the movie about one of the most famous Canadian goaltenders Terry Sawchuk 'Goalie' on the 1st of March. Terry was born in Winnipeg, and he got the title of the best NHL goaltender of the 1950s and 1960s. The movie was shot in Ontario. As became known, Kevin Pollak plays the general manager Jack Adams and O'Brien's real-life wife Georgina Reilly plays Sawchuk's wife, Pat. It tells about the life of a great athlete si...

Winnipeg Jets is an amazing team and has a huge army of fans and supporters. Go Jets Go! On Tuesday, January 15th our own glorious Winnipeg Jets, despite getting dominated in the shot department, managed to come out on top and beat the Vegas Golden Knights a 4-1 at Bell MTS Place. Laurent Brossoit showed a fantastic game, he finished the night with 43 saves and set a franchise record for saves in a period, making 26 stops in the middle frame alone. The Jet...

Drug trafficking is a big and constantly growing problem in Canada, but on the other hand, it is also a problem in other countries. 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 A middle stage court in the city of Dalian in Liaoning province in northeastern China sentenced a Canadian citizen to death...

A vet from Manitoba sounds alarm: she thinks that funding cut of Western College of Veterinary Medicine in Sask can lead to reducing the number of veterinarians in local clinics. Dr. Keri Hudson Reykdal is concerned about the situation as there is a shortage of veterinarians in Manitoba. "That's certainly going to eliminate chances for people that are aspiring to be veterinarians — they're not going to be able to go to school," said Hudson Reykdal, a vet i...

Drug trafficking problem is on a rise in Canada for the last couple of years. Winnipeg authorities started a full-scale investigation into city`s meth problem. As per Winnipeg Police, there is a spike in meth-related crime incidents, like property theft, residential break-ins, unreasonable anger towards each other (meth users) and other people around them, violent attacks, some ending up in lethal outcomes for victims, lately there were three deadly beatin...

Bed bugs are a real problem in Winnipeg and, according to statistics from year to year, it runs in our city for at least a few years in a row on a very high level. Winnipeg was at the second place in 2017 and, apparently, nothing had changed in 2018 as well. According to a press release from Orkin Canada, the problem with bed bugs in Winnipeg is at an all-time high. The Orkin report for 2017 shows that Winnipeg did not budge this year, as they were again i...

Some Winnipeg School Division trustees think that local high school students starting their day too early. Trustee Chris Broughton noted that the idea of starting lessons for high school students later is now under study. According to him, this initiative was put forward by one of his colleagues about a year ago. The administration was interested in the idea and it was decided to study in detail all the pros and cons of switching to a later time to start c...

Winnipeg Air Traffic Controllers expressed solidarity with their colleagues from the United States, who are forced to work without a salary. At the moment, about 10,000 air traffic controllers in the United States go to work without having a clue when they get paid.  This happens because U.S. government prolonged partial shutdown for federal American employees. Since the work of air traffic controllers is considered indispensable, they must come to the wor...

Lexi Orbanski, a pastry arts student from Arborg, Manitoba, presented her culinary masterpiece at a Toronto cake competition and managed to win the main prize. Victory in a prestigious competition was brought to her by a gingerbread house with a height of 1 foot, made entirely of edible components. The competition is held annually by one of the hotels in Toronto during the holidays. Nowadays, a student from Manitoba gets a culinary education at George Brow...

There is a huge amount of thefts in liquor marts nearly 1500 reported last year, which a big increase in comparison to previous years 2017 and 2016. This statistics is at least concerning, but also shows a bigger problem in the city where crime lever constantly rises and police are not capable of preventing from increasing every year. In Winnipeg, a group of teenagers decided to have fun and break a law, which led to all of them arrested after a break-and-...

Everyone dreams of hitting a lottery jackpot, but not everyone even tries and buys lottery tickets. Life is full of surprises, not always good ones, but sometimes it's just your lucky day! Our fellow Winnipegger Khalaf Shammo had always dreamt of winning the lottery, so he did his part and bought a ticket. And he is now the latest winner of the LOTTO 6/49 draw. A new Winnipeg millionaire plans to start a family business and use his latest winning for that....

Winnipeg singer makes a new tattoo to draw attention to suicidal youth. Rob Nash already has several tattoos and they are all very interesting and unique and show his attitude towards music. However, this time, the singer gave sociality to his tattoos. Rob's right hand is already covered with the signatures of people who wanted to commit suicide. Now, the singer fills his left hand with ink. “I’m covering the other arm with more tattoos, more signatures, b...

CNIB provides the residents of Winnipeg with a unique opportunity to raise a future guide dog for the blind people of the province. A puppy can be taken home at the age of about eight weeks and will be raised to the age of 12-15 months. With each new litter, the institute needs more and more volunteers for this work. “Our puppy raising program is actually a really big part of CNIB guide dogs. It’s where we have all the volunteers that will accept one of ou...

This summer in Winnipeg 2 types of pesticides will be used to protect the trees in the city from a dangerous pest – the emerald ash borer. This insect has caused significant damage to greenery in the city last few years. For the second year in a row, Winnipeg’s insect control branch will use 2 pesticides, including widely used neonicotinoid, to fight its invasion. This year, ash trees will be given three injections, created to minimize the effect of pestic...

This year, the celebration of the Ukrainian New Year was overshadowed by the theft of the brass plaque, which was considered the national historic site of the Labour Temple in Winnipeg. Despite the theft, people nevertheless gathered to celebrate the holiday. Glenn Michalchuk, the president of the Ukrainian Labour Temple, explained that the theft took place on Friday night, just on New Year's Eve on the Julian calendar. "It's really disappointing, it reall...