Tag: Winnipeg News

Manitoba’s NDP government has ordered Shared Health to cut administrative costs, saying it intends to redirect that money to the front lines of health care in the province. But the head of the Manitoba Nurses Union says the sting will impact the front lines.

The prospect of the largest municipal property tax hike in 34 years is getting mixed reviews from Winnipeg homeowners and policy analysts.

A Winnipeg housing complex for people in the 2SLGBTQ+ community is getting more money to help it expand.

A day-long dump of snow on Sunday has left much of southern Manitoba under a deep white layer and forced several schools to cancel classes for Monday.

Jordan Charlie, a 24-year-old Inuk, was the fourth person police have shot and killed in Winnipeg this year — but he’s the only one whose race is publicly known, and that’s a problem, a criminologist says.

The Manitoba Legislature opened its doors Saturday to give people from all faiths and communities a chance to celebrate the season and explore the building.

The Southern Chiefs’ Organization has quietly removed references to Jerry Daniels, who has been the organization’s grand chief since 2017, from its website after he was hospitalized following an altercation in Ottawa earlier this week.

A 47-year-old Winnipeg man is facing multiple charges after allegedly posing as a police officer and trying to pull people over using a pickup truck affixed with emergency lights in the Point Douglas area.

First Nations leaders in Manitoba’s Interlake are pressing the federal government to address funding shortfalls due to a backlog in processing requests through Jordan’s Principle in their communities — funding requests intended to ensure First Nations kids get timely health-care services.

CBC Manitoba’s annual charity drive in support of Harvest Manitoba has so far brought in close to $430,000 to help fill cupboards and dining tables across the province.  

The Winnipeg Police Board has decided who it thinks should be the next chief of the city’s police service, but Winnipeggers will have to wait a little longer to find out who it is.

After criticism about consultation around the proposed location for a planned supervised drug consumption site in Winnipeg, the non-profit that will run the site says engagement will be an ongoing process — and the premier says the province is “willing to go in a different direction” if needed.

A search at a Manitoba prison after the death of an inmate who was fatally beaten during a gang fight turned up almost 40 homemade weapons, according to an inquest report into that man’s death and another in 2018.

Winnipeg property owners are facing the largest municipal property tax hike in 34 years, CBC News has learned.

More than two-thirds of the food bank clients who responded to Harvest Manitoba’s latest survey are women, a marked change from past surveys.