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The first Singles Day was in 2009 and it is a Chinese version of Cyber Monday. It is held on November 11 on an annual basis. This year it was already the 10th time of this shopping day. Singles Day has become more profitable than Cyber Monday, and as it became known, online shoppers bet their last year record of $24 billion spending on purchases. On Sunday afternoon a new record was set- $24.2 billion, and this was not the end of the day. According to Adob...

Last week, Bob Heber, a man who has intellectual disabilities was named Selkirk's Citizen of the Year. Bob Heber became the 33rd person who received this award. He spent most of his life doing all kinds of volunteering activities, and only a few people can be compared to this great man. The man said that he was very surprised and glad to receive such an award in front of hundreds of people who were present in the hall. Bob felt that he was moving in the ri...

In the speech that was made by a member of the United Conservative Party of Alberta during the weekend, there was a very controversial statement: John Carpay compared pride flag and swastikas. Soon after the incident, he apologized publically and said that his comparison was misunderstood, it was unintentional. On Sunday evening he was making a speech again and he tried to explain the essence of his comparison. John Carpay stated that he discussed the natu...

An agreement between the Allies and Germany was made a century ago, on November 11, 1918. On that day people laid down their weapons showing that the war was over. On Sunday, thousands of residents of Manitoba got together to show what they remember and show their respect to all the people who showed their courage in the war, and thanks to whom they can live freely now. Janice Filmon (Manitoba's Lieutenant Governor), Brain Pallister (Prime Minister) and Br...

Winnipeg has a new millionaire. And, although he plans to invest money, as well as to donate some of it to his favourite charities, he also looks forward to upgrading his gaming algorithm. Steven Bernjak, who won $1 million on a Lotto Max ticket on October 19, said he does not want to spend his money. He always wanted to have a high-quality gaming system, so he will probably be working on it in the near future. When the numbers appeared on the screen, he f...

Snowfalls have come to Manitoba. However, if you are located in Winnipeg, you may not see any snow. Perhaps, Perimeter Highway created an invisible protective field around the city. Environment Canada meteorologist Dan Fulton said on Tuesday that the previous night, the snow came close to Winnipeg, and it slowly moved closer the whole night, but a few hours ago, when it seemed that it would get into the perimeter of the city, it decided to move in the dire...

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...

Chevrolet Equinox - American crossover, which has been manufactured since 2004. This model is popular nowadays, because of a reasonable price offers, reliability, maneuverability, an acceptable level of comfort and safety. The third generation of the Equinox is designed for those who need a mid-size family car, designed to operate in North America and Canada. After the last restyling, the vehicle became smaller and lighter, the cabin is a five-seater and i...

INDOCHINO is the world leader in the field of clothing trade and it announced that in November 2018 two new stores will open in Canada. The trademark, which demonstrates the highest sales growth in the world, and which has made customized clothing accessible to the whole world, opens its doors in the Halifax Shopping Center on November 9 and in Winnipeg’s Polo Park on November 16. Buyers will meet the annual Black Friday Sale, which offers discounts up to...

The more players on the market, the better prices or the service for customers, just simple competition rules. Every company, every business will try to offer something special, to do something better than their competitors to attract more customers and to stay in business. A new wireless carrier will launch in Manitoba this week, following up on a Competition Bureau deal that tapped it as a fourth player in the province's telecommunications mix after Bell...

The crime level is on the rise in Winnipeg for the last couple of years. Almost every day a murder happens in the city. On Monday, November 5th approximately 6:25 a.m. emergency personnel went to the area of Powers Street and Pritchard Avenue following the report that a man was shot. A 46-year-old man was found with a gunshot wound to his upper body. The victim was a construction worker, he just got off the bus and was walking towards a construction site o...

How would you like to buy a luxury car made in 2018 with mileage from 50 to 200 km at half price? Almost five months have passed since the G7 summit in Quebec, but it seems that Canadians still continue to bear the costs of this event even today. To serve the guests of the summit, more than 600 new cars were purchased, worth a total of $ 23 million. According to the RCMP, 431 vehicles were purchased for the cortege, while the remaining 200 were used for “a...

Remembrance Day will be celebrated on Sunday. 100 years have passed since soldiers from Manitoba. Due to this day, the Archive of Manitoba will show many records and works telling about the events of this war. Provincial sport, culture and heritage minister, Cathy Cox, said that it is very important to raise people's awareness of the events that took place a hundred years ago. On Friday and Saturday, all residents of the province can come to the Archive an...

St. Boniface Hospital informed about too high workload and stagnant funding. The president of the hospital noted that neonatal unit is working more than the permissible rate for many years and this can threaten the birth of babies. As it became known, the neonatal intensive care unit has not received any additional funding since 2010. At the same time, the number of children has increased by more than 7% from 2010 to 2018. Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister...

Online gaming is very popular among teenagers and younger kids nowadays. A lot of parents concerned with their children health and wellbeing describing gaming as a sort of addiction, which sometimes lead to health problems, like exhaustion and back problems from sitting in front of the screen all day. But what no one really expects is a Sextortion through an online game, that is just unbelievable. Police in the Montreal-area is warning parents about online...

Winnipeg Harvest will make breakfasts for schoolchildren to have at the weekends. A nutritious breakfast is very valuable for children, so in the nearest future they will be able to have food even when they are not at school. A new program will be at Mulvey School and it is called Breakfast2Go. Due to this program, children can take breakfasts on Friday and eat them at the weekends when they are at home. A recent study found that kids who eat healthy every...

A recent research has shown that social networks are not beneficial to the financial situation of millennials. About 60% of people surveyed said that using social networks increases their spending. About 20% of people surveyed told that they do not want to miss out so they often splurge. And only 6% of people said that social networks are capable of increasing their financial income. Fidelity’s young investors director Kelly Lannan noted on his interview t...

Kat Granda is an amateur painter. She decorated rocks with painted poppies to make people remember. Kat told that she paints rocks, then she hides them and after a while people can find the rocks. Then people decide whether to save them or to hide again for somebody else. Winnipeg Rocks Facebook group coordinates the whole process. Members of the group post photos with rocks of all types and with different paintings on them.  Paintings can be very diverse:...