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A truck with hot tar, driven by a 21-year-old man, pulled out of the road and jammed into a ditch. Bradley Jackson lived in Woodlands, Manitoba. The Police in North Dakota, where an incident occurred, reported that the truck wheels had slipped from the road to the side of the road, the truck leaned over and overturned. This happened near Thompson at around 1.30 am. About 6 gallons of hot tar spilled onto the road and into the ditch. The ambulance, who arri...

Thunder Rapids Fun Park hosted charity races on the race track for fundraising for the Huntington Society of Canada on Sunday. The annual charity event was attended by hundreds of residents of Winnipeg, who managed to collect more than $20,000 to combat the terrible disease. Teams with 6 people took part in the races. It was an excellent family event for people of all ages with a very noble purpose. Huntington disease is a fatal and irreversible disruption...

The cochlear implant, installed in the ear of a 6-year-old boy in June, has already become the 250th since HSC Surgical Hearing Implant Program began in 2011. To mark this historic achievement for provincial medicine, Health Sciences Centre on Sunday organized a barbecue. The boy, who is a jubilee patient, is called Mathew Spears. At the age of 1.5 years, he was diagnosed with meningitis and because of the rapid spread of infection, Mathew completely lost...

A man found his stolen vehicle and tried to stop the driver from getting away, but ended up in the hospital. Winnipeg police are investigating the incident and looking for a carjacker. Earlier last week a vehicle was stolen from Rossmere neighborhood. Past Friday, around 3 p.m. the owner came across his vehicle that was reported stolen and in wanted by police, it happened on McLeod Avenue. The owner tried to stop the driver from leaving but unfortunately d...

A huge fire has completely destroyed a house in Brandon on Sunday. Approximately 2 a.m. Brandon Fire and Emergency services had to respond to a call of a fire in a local neighborhood on 23rd street. Firefighters arrived at the scene to find a two-floor house is completely taken by a fire and had to act quickly. Also, a strong wind was no in favor of firefighter’s crew, creating a danger to a next building. Manitoba Hydro was called to the location to shut...

On August 30th a scary crash happened in Winnipeg, which sent two pedestrians to a nearby hospital. Police are still looking for witnesses of the accident or a possible dash cam video from one of the driving by vehicles. On Thursday night, approximately 9-10 p.m. police officers responded to a call about an accident on Santa Fe Drive. Two people were hit by a vehicle and rushed to a hospital, both victims still remain in the hospital under a doctor’s super...

Environment Canada informs that Winnipeggers should be careful: smoke came to the city. As it became known, a lot of forest fires occurred on the border of Manitoba with Ontario. As a result of the wind which has a southeast direction, in Winnipeg people can smell the smoke. The situation is not as critical as it was last month when Winnipeg's sky was covered with fog due to fires in Alberta. This time, the inhabitants of the city can only feel a faint sme...

A new shop that was opened recently, offers work to all young people who want to get experience and to use it in the future. Resource Assistance for Youth hopes that this offer will save a lot of people from poverty. Gift and Thrift was launched by this organization in order to help young people get new skills, knowledge and work experience in retail. Residents of the city will be able to use this opportunity to find a good job. This store is a mix of a so...

At the International Film Festival in Toronto, the premiere of the movie Fahrenheit 11/9 took place, the most striking impression of which was the comparison of Donald Trump with Adolf Hitler. The creator of this documentary is the famous American director Michael Moore. It is worth noting that the film received a scandalous status before its release. In this film, Moore draws parallels between the won elections of Trump and the rising to power of Hitler i...

A fitness club for the whole family worth $30 million will be built in Bridgwater neighbourhood in Winnipeg by the end of 2019. The new facility will occupy an area of 80,000 sq. ft. and will provide services for people of all ages and different opportunities. It will be named Altea Active Club. The appointment of contracts and the commencement of construction is scheduled for October this year. All construction works will be carried out by contractors fro...

Winnipeg police detained a local resident who abducted a woman, beat her and forced her to trade her body. The victim of this monster was a woman from southern Ontario. She was kidnapped about four months ago. Since then, she has been subjected to extremely cruel treatment. The woman was regularly beaten, exposed to electric shock, closed in a freezer and forced to engage in prostitution. She managed to turn to the police only on August 6. She came up with...

Court hearings on the freezing of wages will not be held for more than a year. The possible adoption of a law on freezing wages is still being discussed since the coalition of trade unions is against. According to official data, court hearings will be held in November and December 2019. The bill to freeze salaries for state employees was issued in 2017, but it has not entered into force yet. The coalition of trade unions opposes this bill and believes that...

Norwood Outdoor Pool will be closed. Winnipeg plans to replace Norwood Outdoor Pool with other facilities after the public services department decided that it would be too expensive to maintain a 56-year-old water facility. The Protection and Public Service Committee will consider a recommendation on the closure of an old outdoor pool and a pool for children and creating of a new territory with a gaming structure, picnic tables, and a beach volleyball cour...

The Vincent Massey Trojans will soon have to play the first home game of the season, and it will not be played on its own field due to the fact that the vandals broke the goalposts The match will be held at Oak Park High School field. Coach Kelsey McKay is very unhappy with this event. He said that the team has only three home games this year, and one of them will have to be held on someone else's field. The game will take place on Friday, and by this time...

The first clinic for rapid help to drug addicts began work at Winnipeg's Crisis Response Center. The opening of the second clinic at 146 Magnus Ave. is scheduled for September 13. Also this year, the rapid addictions help centers will open in Brandon, Thompson and Selkirk. The total amount spent on opening these clinics is $1.2 million. These clinics are designed to treat and support people addicted to substances such as methamphetamines, opioids and alcoh...

On September 5, the president of the University of Manitoba told the world shocking news that the university conducts investigations in connection with sexual crimes and humiliation of human dignity. During a press conference for journalists, David Barnard also said that in 5 of these cases faculty ongoing is involved. Three of the investigations are related to sexual violence and sexual and personal harassment, and two more investigations were opened beca...

Stolen vehicle driver took Winnipeg Police on a wild chase through the unfinished construction site, gladly no workers were at the site during that time, so nobody got injured. Approximately at 2 a.m. on Tuesday police officers noticed a vehicle and tried to stop it, but the driver decided to run away driving over a boulevard in the area of Chalmers Avenue. The vehicle then turned on the Perimeter Highway and ran through the construction site. When pursued...

An election campaign is getting more intense when the Winnipeg Police Association gets involved in the process. City`s Mayor Brian Bowman speaks about the WPA`s ads as a “fear-mongering” and just political stunt to bring the public’s attention to their own needs. The Association released two video ads to run online and on local television airing on September 10th. Here is a link to the first ad: https://vimeo.com/288283603 . In this video a young girl is r...