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At the annual assembly, the Métis federation decided to appeal to the court because of the refusal to pay the promised amount of money. In the summer of 2017, the province decided to allocate $67 million to the Manitoba Métis Federation. However, recently it became known that Premier Brian Pallister said the payment will not be made. Immediately after that statement was made, the president of the Métis Federation informed that he requires an apology from t...

Vehicle theft is a growing problem in Canada. Most of the cars are located by police, some just found abandoned after a few days, but in some cases, carjackers lead police on a wild chase, still end up arrested or in the ditch.  A vehicle was reported stolen in the beginning of the week from Indian Head, Saskatchewan, Sunday morning Brandon Police, Manitoba noticed a vehicle, matching the description of a stolen one, driving around 1:20 a.m. After police a...

Winnipeg road construction work continues. As we seen in the last couple of week a lot of construction project are finished, new or reconstructed roads are open, new bike lanes appear all over the city, mostly in the downtown area, but some projects are obviously behind schedule and still in progress. As shown in the photo, road construction on York Avenue and Fort Street is still in progress, this zone remains closed for at least two weeks now. Workers pu...

Another scary car crash happened in Winnipeg over the weekend. Just yesterday, early Sunday morning a single-vehicle crash occurred on Saint Mary`s road. Winnipeg police said, a driver was going along St. Mary`s road, when he went off the road and vehicle was crashed. The driver was delivered to a nearby hospital in critical condition, as of now there is no update from the doctors. Police are still investigating the crash site, no obvious reasons for why t...

As shown on the photo, construction works still in process on Notre Dame Avenue in downtown Winnipeg. Some projects, like this one, are a little behind the schedule to finish all work for the “end of construction” time, just yesterday we had seen the first snow, after the hot summer. In January this year by the city`s authorities was announced a big number of road construction projects in Winnipeg. Most of such works were already finished, but still, there...

Winnipeg Square features an office to support reopening of Main and Portage crossing for pedestrians. As you can see in the photo, the office already posted some flyers and ads in support of the mayor`s initiative. Current Winnipeg Mayor, Brian Bowman is pushing hard to reopen one of the busiest crossings in the city for pedestrians. As it was one of his election campaign promises back in 2014, when he was running for a chair, now with nearly four years pa...

As you can see in the photo new bike lanes appear in different areas of Winnipeg downtown.  In January this year by the city`s authorities was announced a big number of road construction projects in Winnipeg. Most of such works were already finished, but still, there is a big number of the projects are still in progress or coming in different areas of the city.  Manager of engineering at the Public Works Department Brad Neirinck noted that the timing of th...

One of Manitoba’s youth jails can be relocated or reduced, as a Winnipeg city councilor informed. John Orlikow made his proposal to close or to move one of the children's prisons in order to expand Kenaston Boulevard. This boulevard connects the airport to the southeast areas of the city. The provincial government of the province did not take this idea positively, but he hopes that the new Progressive Conservative government will see all the advantages tha...

Deputy minister for Manitoba Agriculture will be awarded for her work on improving relations between Manitoba and Japan. The awarding ceremony was organized by Consul-General Shigenobu Kobayashi and it will take place in Winnipeg on Friday. Agriculture Minister informed about such a decision on September 20. T he minister said that he personally, the city, the province and the whole Canada are very proud of what the woman is doing to improve relations with...

Great Manitoba Food Fight got together a lot of small and medium-sized agri-processors in Manitoba for the 12th time on September 19. Agriculture Minister informed that there were four best participants at the event. Ralph Eichler said that he congratulates all the winners, they are really worthy of their victory, and he has been sincerely glad to see so much variety of food and drinks that were presented at the festival. This festival takes place every ye...

Ecologists and researchers of the city can not name the causes that led to the death of birds in summer. This summer, a lot of dead birds were seen in the pond located at the corner at Keewatin Street and Adsum Drive. City residents continue to wonder what happened, and that caused the death of so many birds. Water samples were taken by scientists and sent to a laboratory for research. The main researcher of the laboratory said that the algae in the pond c...

Home cancer treatment became more affordable for residents of Manitoba. Huge achievements have occurred in medicine over the past 20 years, the residents of Manitoba who have cancer can take home treatment. The biggest achievement in this field that has made a huge shift in cancer treatment is the invention of pills that can be taken at home. One of the leading specialists of CancerCare Manitoba noted that their patients are very pleased with such changes...

Winnipeg police made two separate arrests with the suspects not connected to each other, but both detained on Liquor Mart theft charges across the city. Tuesday evening, approximately 10:30 p.m. officers arrested a 16-year-old girl in the Sargent Park area. Over three months she stole $4 thousand worth of liquor. Another arrest was made the same day, a 28-year-old woman is suspected of stealing a little over $5 thousand worth of alcohol form Winnipeg Liquo...

RCMP: “No excuses!” There are really no excuses for speeding, for going 50 km/h over the speed limit, even if you are running late, even if you are late for work! Unfortunately not all the drivers understand this and follow the regulations. Just yesterday, September 20, Manitoba RCMP pulled over a 26-year-old woman, who was going 157 km/h in a 100 km/h zone. Her excuse was that she was late for work! Police officers don’t really need to hear any excuses fr...

September 13th an unusual incident happened near the town of Mitchell, Manitoba. Thing like that does not happen there very often, so locals are scared and shocked. Thursday evening local police responded to a call approximately 4:40 p.m. The incident was described as a man exposed himself to a group of children. When arrived at the scene, RCMP officers were not able to locate the suspect in the area, but later they received a description that helped to lo...

Typhoon Mangkhut was the biggest typhoon during the last few years in the Philippines About 100 people were found dead after the typhoon. Also, more than 10 people are missing. Winnipeg's Filipino communities unite to help the families of the victims. On Tuesday there was a donation, which collected everything necessary for families whose houses were destroyed and whose close people were killed. People brought goods that they could: starting from canned fo...

The situation develops in such a way that harmful insects multiply, and useful bugs die out. So, pesky mosquitoes, disease-carrying ticks, crop-munching aphids and cockroaches become more and more from year to year. However, native bees, moths, butterflies, ladybugs, lovebugs, mayflies and fireflies become fewer and fewer. Scientists are concerned, it seems to them that something strange is happening. However, unfortunately, they do not have exact data on...

CAA Manitoba and the Winnipeg Police Service inform that a huge work should be done in the future to minimize dangerous driving in the areas where schools are located. On Wednesday morning a study was conducted, in the course of which more than 800 cases of dangerous traffic situations near schools were detected within 2 hours. In the experiment Linden Meadows, Ecole Henri-Bergeron and Stevenson-Britannia Schools took part. The most important violations: d...