WINNIPEG – The COVID-19 situation at personal care homes in the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority is improving. There are 166 active cases among residents, while 66 workers have the virus. The numbers haven’t been that low since last month. Larger scale outbreaks continue at four facilities. 28 of the city’s 39 care homes have active…
MPI Goes Online
WINNIPEG – Manitobans are finally getting online auto insurance. Manitoba Public Insurance and the Insurance Brokers’ Association of Manitoba have struck a deal allowing you to buy and renew your vehicle insurance on online. The deal includes two levels of commission for brokers for over the internet and in-person business. Association CEO Grant Wainikka says…
Power Back On In Transcona
WINNIPEG – Power is back on in the Transcona area after an outage impacted thousands of customers Wednesday morning. Manitoba Hydro says most of Transcona and customers in St. Boniface Industrial Park and Mission Gardens were without power. That’s around 21,000 customers. Hydro says the cause of the outage was a pole fire that triggered…
Downtown Toilets For Homeless
WINNIPEG – The descent of harsh weather on Manitoba is highlighting the need for resources and shelter for some of Winnipeg’s most vulnerable, and a new program through the City of Winnipeg will help ensure more people will have access to the facilities around the city’s downtown. Three temporary public washrooms are now set up…
Winter Storm Closed Highways
WINNIPEG – The worst of last night’s storm missed the city but the snow we did get, about five centimetres, really blew around will wind gusts up to 70 kilometres an hour. A hydro pole fire knocked the power out overnight for much of Transcona. There were also outages in Westman The Interlake, Parkland region…
‘Unhinged’ Road Rage Incident
WINNIPEG – A local case of road rage, caught on video, is making its way around the internet. It has even been featured by TMZ, the second Winnipeg video in less than two weeks to be picked up by the infamous tabloid news organization. The first was that cop who was questioned about not wearing…
Possible Exposures/Wednesday
WINNIPEG – Here are the most recent possible exposures to COVID-19 in Winnipeg, as provided by provincial public health officials.
Lotto Max Winning Numbers
WINNIPEG – Here are the Lotto Max winning numbers from Tuesday, December 22nd. Good luck! The $50 million jackpot was won so Friday’s draw will be for $12 million. In the event of any discrepancy between this information and the WCLC, the latter shall prevail. Photos: WCLC
Help For Dine-In Restaurants
WINNIPEG – Premier Brian Pallister has announced $5 million for restaurants forced to close their dining rooms under COVID-19 restrictions. The money will reimburse dine-in eateries for the new cost of delivering their food to customers. Pallister says he may have more help for restaurants but he’s waiting to see what Ottawa comes up with.…
10 Robberies In 3 Days
WINNIPEG – Police have arrested four people for a series of 10 armed robberies over three days last week where knives and guns were used. The holdups were carried out between Wednesday and Saturday at gas bars and convenience stores. All but one of the robberies happened in Winnipeg and five of them occurred on…