WINNIPEG, MB – Students from Red River College’s Business Administration program won first place at the 2018 Canadian Institute of Financial Planners Case Challenge in Calgary. The team, Shelby Joss, Vitor Machado e Melo, Virginia Giesbrecht, and Shannon Krahn, competed against five teams from three other Colleges in the Western Canada division. “Competitions like this…
KidSport Announces a $15,000 Donation For Doug Brown Football Camp
WINNIPEG, MB – KidSport Winnipeg announced that David and Ruth Asper are once again supporting the Doug Brown Football Camp with a $15,000 donation. This will be the 9th annual camp and takes place Sunday, May 12. The camp is open to athletes in Manitoba who received funding in 2017 from KidSport in order to…
Winnipeg’s Indigenous Accord Invites Signatories
WINNIPEG, MB. – In a shared commitment to the continued process of reconciliation, the city is inviting all organizations, businesses and individuals to become signatories to Winnipeg’s Indigenous Accord. The Accord was unanimously adopted by City Council on March 22, 2017, marking an important step forward in the City’s Journey of Reconciliation. To date, 110…
$176 Million For Manitoba’s Agricultural & Agri-Food Sector
WINNIPEG, MB – It’s official, Manitoba has signed the Canadian Agricultural Partnership, a five-year agreement to strategically invest $176 million in the provinces agricultural and agri-food sector. Federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay and Manitoba Agriculture Minister Ralph Eichler signed the bilateral agreement yesterday at the St. Boniface Hospital Albrechtsen Research Centre, which is a leader…
22.8 Million For Child Care
WINNIPEG, MB. – The province has created 780 new licensed early learning and childcare spaces through funding from the Federal Government. The total funding for the spaces is $22.8 million and is supported through the Canada-Manitoba Early Learning and Child Care Agreement. “We’re pleased to announce these new spaces will be created through capital projects…
Team Colin Kurz Wins Mixed Provincial Championship
WINNIPEG, MB – The Mixed Provincial Championships were held this weekend at the East St. Paul Curling Club. The winning team earns the right to represent Manitoba at next seasons Mixed National Championships. Team Colin Kurz (Meghan Walter, Brendan Bilawka, Sara Oliver, Hailey Ryan and Hugh McFarlane) from the Assiniboine Memorial Curling Club defeated Team…
Alcohol a Factor in Collision That Kills a 15-Year-Old
WINNIPEG, MB – Early Saturday morning, around 1:20 AM, RCMP from Manitou responded to a single-vehicle collision. Police said the vehicle was in a field off of Road 66 West, approximately five kilometres southwest of Bruxelles, in the RM of Lorne. A pickup truck with two people inside, an 18-year-old male driver and a 15-year-old…
Winnipeg Player Among Survivors of Tragic Bus Crash
WINNIPEG, MB – News continues to be released about the fatal collision in Saskatchewan involving the Humboldt Broncos team bus and a semi-truck. RCMP confirmed 14 fatalities and 15 injured. Three of the injuries are reported as critical in nature. There were 29 people on the bus including the driver at the time of the…
RCMP Asking if You Can Identify These Men
WINNIPEG, MB – RCMP in Roblin are hoping someone may recognized these two would-be thieves. Mounties said that during the early morning hours of March 17 these two males attempted to break into Ben-Tech Powersports on Hwy 5 off 7th Avenue in Roblin. Once they realized there were surveillance camera’s, they began to run northbound…
Do You Know These Famous Manitobans
WINNIPEG, MB – When people talk about Winnipeg we always seem to hear the same things, “Coldest City in North America”, “Pot Hole Capital of Canada”, “home of the Winnipeg Jets – again”. We never hear about the many successful daughters and sons of the city. We want to change that with our weekly feature…