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Less than two weeks left before the election of the mayor of Winnipeg, and two candidates described their plans for property taxes. As Motkaluk informed, she intends not to make property tax more than 1.6% per year, because real estate is already owned by citizens. She also said that, in the first place, residents of the city will have certainty. Each time they receive a bill, they will know what number they will see there. This is very important because a...

Winnipeg Blue Bombers Legacy Gala Dinner is one of Manitoba`s most anticipated events each year for members of the business and the football communities.  This year the event took place at the RBC Convention Centre on October 9th. The event was planned from 6 p.m. until 10 p.m., it was full of people, team members and guests stayed even after it was over. Guests were taking pictures and getting players autographs. There were few new players that joined th...

A person missing gets reported almost every other day in Canada, thankfully a lot of those cases dismissed in a few days when missing people come back home by themselves. But there are still hundreds of cases, which take time to locate the person, some take years, some cases are never closed, unfortunately, a lot of them are missing children and some of them are never found. On September 12th approximately 8 p.m., a 9-year-old girl was coming back home fro...

Shots fired call came into the police station and officers were dispatched to a residential area on Tremaudan Avenue. When arrived at the location officers found a firearm left behind and a victim with a firearm wound. A victim is a 41-year-old man, he was shot multiple times and delivered to a nearby hospital with life-threatening injuries. Ryan Todd Campbell, 33, from Opaskwayak First Nation, and Clayton Joshua McKay, 26, of no fixed address, are each ch...

There are regular days of police officers on duty and there are some not like the others. When police are pulling over a vehicle, not every day you will see people exit while the car is still in motion. On Wednesday, October 10th Winnipeg Police Drug Enforcement Unit followed a taxicab that was driving evasively. When they tried to stop the vehicle near Boyd Avenue two men from the back seat opened the doors and decided to exit the car while it was still m...

Cannabis is coming, it is already here and in just a couple of days it will be legal and sold in the stores and online. People are still debating if it is good for Canada, what effect will it have on the youth and if it was the right decision to legalize it, we have to face the fact – cannabis is legal. Cannabis legalization is coming to Canada on Oct. 17, and whether you plan on smoking up or not, it’ll change the way you live. Businesses across the count...

Almost two years ago a great time with friends turned into a deadly tragedy. A group of teens had some alcohol iced teas and some weed, then decided to leave a party and one of them got behind the wheel despite his friends tried asked him not to, he also took a passenger with him. While driving teenager tried to pass the vehicle in front of him and lost control, the car rolled over, the driver was dragged out by one of his friends from the car behind them,...

Doesn’t matter if you are using it or not, cannabis is coming, it is already here and in just a couple of days it will be legal and sold in the stores and online. People are still debating if it is good for Canada, what effect will it have on the youth and if it was the right decision to legalize it, we have to face the fact – cannabis is legal.  Cannabis legalization is coming to Canada on Oct. 17, and whether you plan on smoking up or not, it’ll change t...

Loan program for tires was created for increasing the number of Manitobans who buy and use special winter tires during cold seasons. This type of tires is necessary in order to minimize the number of car crashes on the roads during the autumn-winter period. However, as it became known, Manitoba became the province where the least amount of car owners uses tires suitable for winter several years ago. The implementation of the program is already bringing goo...

Manitoba's health care system asks people not to neglect flu vaccination this season. Last year, the province recorded the highest number of people killed by the flu. There were also a maximum number of people who were hospitalized due to this disease. In this regard, the provincial doctors strongly recommend all residents to use a vaccine. As statistics show, only about 20% of the province’s population made the vaccination last year. According to doctors,...

Winnipeg residents protested against discrimination on Wednesday. Winnipeggers said that there is a loophole in the Human Rights Code that gives place for discrimination. The Manitobans Against Weight Stigma got together at the Manitoba Legislative Building to say their opinion. They want the government to amend the human rights code and to add the additional clause “physical size or weight”. These amendments to the bill are of great importance for a large...

A year ago, on October 10, Cody Severight died because of a hit and run accident. A policeman was charged with the death of the guy. A year has passed since the accident. The boy's family and many of his friends came to the place of his death and brought flowers. Relatives say they do not want residents in the city to forget about what happened that terrible day. Many people also brought pictures of the boy and lit the lights. The grandmother of the deceas...

Just a week left, is the province ready? The province reports that the government is not conducting all the necessary preparations quickly enough, and many aspects may not be ready in a week. For example, the police may not be provided with the necessary screening tests before the start of the legalization. This became known yesterday. The Minister of Health of Manitoba, Cameron Friesen, suggested that the decision on legalization was hasty and the provinc...

The Winnipeg Police in cooperation with the Tactical Support Team had searched the house on Furby Street. On Tuesday, October 9th the police bust in one of the Winnipeg residence was very successful, they found an SKS semi-automatic rifle, a restricted high-capacity magazine containing 18 rounds, an ASP telescopic baton plastic/composite knuckles, and a gram of meth. A female suspect was arrested and faces multiple drug and weapon-related charges. A woman,...

Monday night was not a quiet night, few vehicles were broken into, items stolen, bicycles stolen from a backyard and more. This so-called “crime spree” ended fast with a group of teenagers arrested. October 8th between 10:20 and 11:20 p.m. a group of teenagers committed multiple crimes in West Winnipeg. Three cars were damaged, broken into and personal items were stolen on Lumsden Avenue. Also one of the vehicles was spray painted with an obscene word. Lat...

When in your work you have to rely on a testing company, you just trust the test results, without even thinking otherwise. But, apparently, we cannot be so trustful because there is fraud everywhere. The owner of a Winnipeg drug and alcohol testing company is now facing multiple charges for fraud. Colleen Faye Robinson, 54, faces charges of fraud over $5,000, forgery, and using a forged document. Her company, Precision Health Ltd., was contracted to test a...

A little over six months ago a scary crash happened in Saskatchewan, experts believe it was not an accident. On April 6, 2018, sixteen people were killed and thirteen 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. Adam Herold, who was 16, was the youngest person killed in the crash. Adam’s fa...

New parents can sigh with relief - now they can use new baby-changing stations in Legislature. Manitoba residents who work in Legislature and who have little babies may get bigger comfort with the appearance of baby-changing stations there. Myrna Driedger informed that finally after almost a century baby-changing stations appear both in men’s and women’s bathrooms. She said that this is for sure a great decision and it is very important for many parents. T...