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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:...

Unfortunately, fires or other life-threatening incidents are happening at industrial and production sites quite often. That is really concerning not only for employees and visitors on site but also for people living in the area. Incidents like that always affect the air quality in surrounding areas, which are often full of houses with people inside that have no other choice but just breathe that air. After two recent fires at industrial properties in Winni...

The big construction project on repairing the rail line and clearing the washouts to renew the railway connection between Churchill and Gillam is almost finished. The federal government announced the investment of $117 million for the repair works and for dealing with the washout damages. The workers from Churchill and a massive workforce that was brought for out of town together finished the project with no delays and trains will be running the route very...

Everyone dreams of hitting a lottery jackpot, but not everyone even tries and buy lottery tickets. Life is full of surprises, not always good ones, but sometimes it's just your lucky day! Lorne Ronald bought his winning ticket at Mississippi Jack’s Car Wash on Beaverhill Boulevard for the Oct. 19 draw and was shocked to discover that he was one of two Winnipeg winners. “I hoped I had one of the winning tickets,” he said. “I always hope that I’ll win someth...

The Misericordia Education and Research Centre honours Agnes Wilkie. The woman was a nurse during World War II. The woman was studying at Misericordia's School of Nursing. In 1942 she joined the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II. Agnes was on board SS Caribou when a German U-boat torpedo hit it. After the explosion, Agnes and another woman found themselves in the very cold water of the Atlantic Ocean, it was October. The women had no choice but to tr...

Two Winnipeg therapists created a storybook for kids. It will help the, understand their feelings after any trauma. This storybook is titled Big Feelings Come and Go and it is intended for children of a certain age. Kate Kiernan and Billy Brodovsky noted that very often after trauma children take one of three positions: flight, fight or freeze. However, they do not understand their feelings and think that something wrong is with them. The storybook will be...

Dr. Stefan Carter is 90 years old and he received Sport for Life Award for his achievements in badminton. Now, Carter tried to play four times a week. He started playing in 1981. The man said that when he was 50, it was much easier for him to play and to run. Now it is much harder but he does not give up and tries to do his best. On Wednesday, November 7, he received Sport for Life Award from the Manitoba Badminton Association. In his comments, Carter note...

Postal services is a very important piece of modern life, millions of people and businesses rely on postal deliveries every day, so when it comes to striking of postal workers it will have a huge impact on the everyday life of smaller towns, big cities and industries, and the whole countries. The Canadian postal workers' rotation strike “has come” to Winnipeg and Brandon. Manitoba was the last province hit by members of the Canadian Postal Workers Union (C...

Seven Winnipeg Blue Bombers players were named to the CFL’s West Division all-star team Wednesday, including three members of the offensive line. Winnipeg Blue Bombers defensive back Taylor Loffler (16), linebacker Adam Bighill (4) and defensive back Anthony Gaitor (23) bring down Ottawa Redblacks wide receiver Diontae Spencer during first half CFL football action in Ottawa on Friday, October 5, 2018. As a team, the Bombers led the league by a wide margin...