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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...

A male teenager was killed after he was hit by a car on the Main Road in Oxford House. Midday Tuesday a 16-year-old female was driving the car when she hit a male victim. RCMP officers believe he was lying on the road when the accident happened. Police said, there were no signs of an alcohol or a speeding to be involved in the accident. The female driver stopped the vehicle and called the police, the teenager boy was delivered to a nearby nursing station,...

Methamphetamine consumption has a different effect on people, some sleep or play video games and act somewhat peaceful and quiet, but some individuals are getting angry and agitated. Monday morning incident in Winnipeg had a very angry meth junkie and a damaged property. Winnipeg police responded to a call about a man on the roof of one of the buildings on William Avenue. When arrived at the scene, officers found a male on the roof of the building, he was...

Two companies are assigned to do the job. One of the contractors, Paradox Access Solutions from Edmonton, Alberta, announced that the Churchill line will be repaired in 2 months. The company’s president and founder, Marc Breault, said that they had been mobilizing resources since the last Friday. The track repair will start on the 8th of September. Breault says that his chief engineers are already estimating the situation in Gillam, Manitoba. He also state...

Will it be possible to smoke cannabis in dormitories? The discussions continue. At the moment smoking marijuana is officially prohibited, but in the autumn the ban will be canceled. Accordingly, the residents of Manitoba have a lot of questions, as well as positive and negative comments on this situation. The problem associated with possible smoking in universities and campuses is especially relevant. Smoking in multi-apartment complexes is also discussed....

Marijuana legalization will start in October and on the eve of this date the province conducts an educational campaign for all residents. This program developed in conjunction with Liquor, Gaming and Cannabis Authority (LGCA), should prepare citizens of Manitoba and explain to them all the rules of this innovation. Justice Minister Cliff Cullen said that all residents of Manitoba should have full information about the rules of legalization, in order to mak...

Some children can not wait to start their school year in order to return to the classroom and to see their friends, but many others experience a bitter anxiety and fear about it. During coming back to school period, children’s problems are becoming more urgent and painful. A recently published report states that children do not receive the necessary psychological support nowadays. The head of one of the charity organizations helping children said that this...

Residents of Winnipeg will experience inconvenience due to repair work on the streets of the city in the fall too. Representatives of the city authorities of Winnipeg announced that repair work on the roads will continue in the fall. In 2018, the city planned to repair 255 road sections and only 66 of them were completed at the moment. Manager of Engineering at the Public Works Department Brad Neirinck noted that the timing of other construction works on t...

The owner of Muddy Waters announced the closure of this popular place. This restaurant was opened 20 years ago in the heart of the Forks. Muddy Waters is one of the oldest establishments not only in the Forks but throughout Winnipeg. Representatives of the Forks said that the restaurant did not renew the lease, and so far they have no new plans for this place. The proprietor of the place Doug Stephen thanked all the inhabitants of Winnipeg and the guests o...

Winnipeg Police arrested a man with a couple of guns and a meth. Past Sunday evening police got an anonymous tip about a man driving around Wolseley neighborhood with firearms in the car. Around 9 p.m. officers located empty vehicle parked on Honeyman Avenue and found the driver in one of the nearby restaurants. A 30-year-old male was arrested with a gun and a revolver, a big hunting knife, also police found meth for over two thousand dollars on him. Guns...

A tragic accident happened near Lowe Farm, a large farming community in southern Manitoba. Last Friday around 2 pm a pickup truck got off the road and rolled a few times, killing a driver and sending a passenger to a hospital.  Manitoba Police responded to a call about a crash near Highway 23 north of Lowe Farm, when arrived at the scene, officers found a truck off the road with two people inside. Apparently, a truck was heading north, when a driver lost c...

According to the RCMP, alcohol consumption has led to two fatal accidents this weekend in Manitoba. The first of them occurred on Friday morning in Cranberry Portage. The pickup, driving along Sturgeon Landing Road, flew into a ditch and crashed into a tree. A 49-year-old woman, who was not injured, drove that car. However, her passengers were much less fortunate. A 31-year-old woman died right on the scene of the accident, and the second passenger got ser...