WINNIPEG – Two Police officers had to go to hospital for treatment of injuries sustained while arresting a 30-year-old woman. Thursday night police responded to a call of an erratic woman at a shelter on Henry Street. When officers arrived they made attempts to detain her and she immediately became combative. Both officers were subsequently…
A Manitoba Unsolved Crime – Can You Identify These Men?
WINNIPEG – RCMP are asking for the public’s help in solving a crime that happened on Thursday January 11th of this year. Mounties said they responded at 2:28 AM, January 11th 2018 to a commercial alarm at a business in the Rural Municipality of Grey near St. Claude, Manitoba. Police arrived a short time after…
Possible Fire Hazard Prompts Recall of Some Panasonic Laptops
WINNIPEG – A fire hazard has prompted the recall of two Panosonic Toughbooks laptop models in Canada. Health Canada issued the recall indicating the batteries of the identified laptops may spontaneously ignite during charging or after the battery is fully charged, resulting in a fire hazard. The recall is for series CF-SX2 and CF-C2 model…
Unemployment Rate Unchanged in Winnipeg & Manitoba
OTTAWA — The national unemployment rate was 5.8 per cent in April. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three−month moving average unemployment rates for major cities. It cautions, however, that the figures may fluctuate widely because they are based on small statistical samples. Here are the jobless rates last month by city (numbers from the…
Travel Restrictions & Fire Bans in Southern Manitoba
WINNIPEG – The dry and windy conditions impacting a large portion of the province has forced Manitoba Sustainable Development to implement a number of additional travel restrictions and permit cancelations. A travel restriction is in place for much of southeastern, central and western Manitoba including Spruce Woods Provincial Forest, Duck Mountain Provincial Forest, the Mars…
VIDEO – Teamwork, AIR 1 & WFPS Battle Brush Fires
WINNIPEG – Since the first of May, Winnipeg Police AIR 1 has provided assistance during a number of fires in the city. AIR 1 utilizes it’s thermal imaging sensor and camera to assist members of the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service. Police have provided a video to highlight the effectiveness of this collaboration. AIR 1 provided…
Top 5 Trending News Stories Over the Last 24 Hours
Top 5 Trending News Stories over the 24 hours. JETS SOAR INTO NEXT ROUND OF NHL PLAYOFFS Fans of the Winnipeg Jets gathered at the city’s Portage and Main intersection to belt out ’O Canada’ after the team beat the Predators in Nashville 5−1 last night to gain a berth in the NHL’s Western Conference…
16 Counts of Arson for 19-Year-Old Winnipeg Man
WINNIPEG – A 19-year-old man has been arrested and charged with sixteen counts of arson related to fires in the Downtown/West End and North End areas of Winnipeg. Police believe that a number of fires, 16, were deliberately set between May 1st and May 9th: 100 block of Balmoral Street (fire set to a garage,…
WestJet Pilots Voted 91 % in Favour of Strike Action
UPDATED WestJet pilots have committed to not disrupting passenger travel plans over the Victoria Day long weekend despite voting overwhelmingly to give its union a strike mandate. The Air Line Pilots Association said its WestJet members voted 91 per cent in favour of strike action. About 95 per cent of WestJet’s 1,500 pilots and WestJet…
23-Year-Old Woman dies in Collision on Highway 59
SELKIRK – A 23-year-old woman from Winnipeg died Wednesday in a collision at the corner of CIL Road and Highway 59 in the RM of St. Clements. Mounties have determined a car was travelling northbound on Highway 59, attempting a turn onto CIL Road when it was struck by a southbound pickup truck. RCMP said…