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On Wednesday, the 6th pre-season match of the NHL team Winnipeg Jets was held, in which hockey players from Winnipeg unfortunately could not defeat the team of Minnesota. This is the second defeat of the Jets in the pre-season games, now the score of their exhibition series is 4-2. It should be noted that in the match in the Xcel Energy Center in Minnesota everything turned out for Winnipeg's team very well before the start of the third period. The Jets le...

On Wednesday, the PC government informed that $82 million loan should be paid between 2014 and 2058 by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, University of Manitoba and City of Winnipeg, as it was expected before. As it became known, Manitoba’s provincial government is going to write off the second loan part for IGF (Investors Group Field). Brian Pallister noted that in his opinion Triple B Stadium Inc. can pay such an amount of money. The President and CEO of the Win...

Meth-related visits number is growing rapidly lately. Along with some patients that willingly come to the hospital to seek help, there are some, which are brought in by their family members against their will or even by police, if officers think detainee requires medical help to calm him down or in life-threatening cases. Such patients express anger and sometimes act violently towards the doctors, nurses and other hospital staff. As per the Manitoba Govern...

On Wednesday, Winnipeg Police Chief Danny Smyth spoke about the struggle with meth in the city at an information session. The session took place at the Gonzaga Middle School in North Point Douglas, there were about 75 people present and the event started 7 p.m. Some were there just to listen and get some information. Others were present because they have somebody in their family or among their friends battling a meth addiction or dealing with a stress afte...

Methamphetamine is a real problem in Winnipeg. 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 beatings in just three days in the city, one of the incidents is already connected to meth use, two other cases are sti...

After the legalization, not only the police but also other representatives of the law will be authorized to make arrests and present fines to all those who violated the law in this area. They include river patrols, safety officers and the Police Cadets. All the above-listed officers will be able to apply appropriate measures regarding those people who do not follow the new law. These changes will come into power in parallel with changes in the law. Safety...

Right-handed pitcher Edwin Carl, left-handed pitcher Zack Dodson, outfielder Blake Adams, right-handed pitcher Tyler Herron, first baseman Josh McAdams, and catcher Gavin Stupienski announced about their decision on September 25. The manager of the team said that he does not have information about the future of these guys and how they will arrange it and where they will play. However, from his side he did not see the problem to satisfy their wishes and to...

The Manitoba authorities are concerned: the number of children that are in the welfare system has significantly decreased. The statistics are disappointing - the decreasing is more than 3%. Families Minister informed that the government increased all possible help to families with children and tried to change the situation for the better not to make the indicators decrease even more in comparison to March 2018. State programs aim at giving help to families...

The cultural life of the province is going to be very busy: two festivals will gather a lot of residents of Manitoba this week. Provincial residents can visit Culture Days and Winnipeg's Design Festival. This year two great festivals are colliding. Culture Days can be visited on Friday and Saturday, and Winnipeg's Design Festival can be visited from Wednesday to Saturday. Co-curator of Winnipeg's Design Festival noted that it is going to be about the rethi...

A nurse was attacked by a man who was probably on meth at Winnipeg’s Grace Hospital On Friday night. The Manitoba Nurses Union is sure that that was not the first incident. They reported that a man hit a woman in the face. According to official data, the number of patients on meth that got to the city hospitals has increased by more than 1000 times. This leads to increased danger for all hospital workers, especially for nurses. Such patients usually have p...

Jenny Motkaluk said that if she becomes a new Winnipeg mayor, the first step that she is going to do is to change the city’s 311 service. The Mayoral candidate announced this on Tuesday morning. More than 60,000 calls were made on line 311 in August. The candidate said that her goal is to make some changes that will allow residents of the city to receive more detailed information on their issue. All people will be directed to the appropriate department whe...

The center of Winnipeg became the focus of discussion at Winnipeg downtown mayoral forum. Eight candidates for Winnipeg mayor gathered together to discuss problems that occur in the city center and to offer their solutions. A big debate has unfolded around the issue of the opening of Portage and Main to pedestrians. Mayor Bowman was one of those who liked the idea of reopening this area for pedestrians. However, he did not get enough support. Tim Diack ann...

Winnipeg Police made few arrests of suspects in one crime and that revealed a list of other numerous crimes they were wanted for. There is a huge amount of thefts in liquor marts nearly 1300 reported this year, which a big increase in comparison to previous years and there are still four-month left in 2018. This statistics is at least concerning, but also show a bigger problem in the city where crime lever constantly rises and police are not capable of pre...

Another deadly beating attack happened in the city. This makes it 3 homicides in Winnipeg in just three days. Winnipeg Police is still investigating an incident that happened Monday afternoon on McPhillips Street, a man died under the railway underpass. He was assaulted and violently beaten after delivered to a hospital, he died of received injuries. Three similar violent beating happened in the city in the past three days. Winnipeggers are scared and shoc...

Past three days were really busy for Winnipeg Police with three homicides in just a three day period. All of these deaths occurred due to violent beatings. Winnipeggers are scared and shocked by what is happening in the city lately, even though police said, these incidents are not in any way related. Early Sunday morning police responded to a call about an elderly man attacked by a teenager. When arrived at the scene, officers witnessed an older man being...

Can Canadians improve their health? Of course, they can but only if they have enough money. Shully Sappire shows on her own example what it means to work two jobs and to have health problems. She is dong social work from 9 to 5 every day, and she also work as a bartender. Her goal is to get social benefits, but she has not reached it yet. So, Shully Sappire has health problems. She often has migraines and dizziness and other chronic problems. In order to m...

The adventures of the famous bear continue: a new book with this amazing heroine has been published. All fans of Winnie the Bear are looking forward to September 25. On this day in Winnipeg's bookstores there will be a new book that connected her adventures and the events of the First World War- Winnie’s Great War. Readers will be able to plunge into different episodes from the First World War and will look at everything with the eyes of the main character...

The problem with cell phone dead zone is finally solved in Manitoba communities. It takes only about an hour to get to Manitoba communities from Winnipeg, but cell phone works only in some parts of the communities. Bell MTS informed that Woodridge will get a cell tower the next week, and Zhoda and Stuartburn will get their towers in 2019. If to go back to 2011, we can remember that Marchand community had big problems with fires because firefighters could n...