Category: CBC Winnipeg

Serial killer Jeremy Skibicki knew what he was doing was wrong, a judge said in a lengthy decision outlining why he convicted the Winnipeg man in the murders of four vulnerable Indigenous women.

Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation in northern Manitoba is declaring a health care state of emergency due to a nursing shortage that has forced it to lock the doors of its health centre to everything but emergencies only.

After nine years of waiting for a decision in a human rights complaint, a Winnipeg woman has been offered $175,000 in compensation, minus some deductions, by Price Industries, her former employer, after she complained about a sexist atmosphere in the workplace.

Dozens of mourners came together Saturday to remember a young soccer player who was killed after a match last weekend in the city’s south end.  

Manitobans can walk through the icy terrains of the Arctic and Antarctic at an art exhibition in Winnipeg featuring photography from the late climatologist and ice researcher Klaus Hochheim.

Tenants who were evicted from a North End Winnipeg apartment building can go home after the province says a a notice of violations was served to the building owner Friday. 

The federal Conservatives have picked Colin Reynolds, an electrician who calls himself a proud union member, to run for the party in a working-class Winnipeg riding.

A widespread tech outage that has impacted many industries around the globe has also hit home in Winnipeg, but some services are coming back online Friday afternoon.

Parks Canada found another adult zebra mussel in Manitoba’s Clear Lake this week, suggesting the invasive species has further established itself in the largest body of water in Riding Mountain National Park.

A historic agreement is to be signed Friday afternoon at the site where the Manitoba Métis community of Ste. Madeleine stood before it was burned to the ground by the government in the 1930s.

A tentative collective agreement for most Manitoba teachers — one imposing a single contract across 37 English school divisions for the first time ever in the province — includes yearly salary increases and other gains. 

The Manitoba government says it’s offering emergency hotel stays and a per diem to people displaced in a mass eviction at a Winnipeg apartment building last weekend.

Canadians weren’t spared the headaches of cancelled flights, delayed medical appointments and other problems caused by a cybersecurity software upgrade fail that resulted in a host of cascading issues around the globe on Friday.

Officials with the federal government told organizations and community leaders responsible for searches for missing children and unmarked burials at residential school sites Thursday their funding is being capped at $500,000 per year.

A 28-year-old man who was among a trio of northern Manitoba boaters who went missing near the end of June has been found dead, the chief of Misipawistik Cree Nation says. 

The provincial government says it’s “outraged” by recent evictions at a Winnipeg apartment it says were illegal, which saw dozens of tenants given cash and forced out of the building after a notice was posted at the front entrance Friday saying it was being shut down.