WINNIPEG, MB – The Provincial government reduced ambulance fees yesterday by and additional $85.00. The reduction was Initially announced in last month’s provincial budget, the fee reduction took effect on April 1. The new cost is a 20% reduction as it’s down from $425. Manitobans are paying either $340 or the pre-existing base fee established…
VIDEO – Winnipeg Flood Circa 1950
VIDEO OF THE DAY – We enjoy sharing the lighter side of life with you through videos. Please share them with your friends on Facebook and Twitter. In today’s video, take a trip back to Winnipeg in the 1950’s and see how floods affected us back in the day. Click play to watch the video;…
The Benefits of Walking
WINNIPEG, MB – Imagine if you could live longer and be more creative by doing one simple thing every day – the same thing that the father of western medicine and a famous English poet believed to be the very foundation of good health. What could it be, you wonder? Well, it’s as easy as…
PMCR Has a New Name – Winnipeg Metropolitan Region
WINNIPEG, MB – The Partnership of the Manitoba Capital Region has a new name, Winnipeg Metropolitan Region. From its inception in 1998 by Winnipeg Mayor Susan Thompson and a group of pioneering Capital Region leaders the PMCR has continued to evolve while staying focused on the job at hand, creating the conditions for good growth,…
Tesla & Shindico Putting Supercharging Station in Portage
PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, MB – Portage la Prairie will soon have Tesla Supercharger Stations. Shindico announced they have partnered with Tesla to build a six-stall Tesla Supercharger Station on land owned by Shindico at Westfield Crossing shopping centre in the city. As indicated in the map below, Tesla is working to place Supercharger Stations at…
April Starts With a Chill All Across Manitoba
WINNIPEG, MB – It is a cold week to begin the month April in Manitoba with no real break in sight. Today will be sunny in Winnipeg, but it will feel like minus 29 with the wind. Then mostly sunny skies all week, however the daytime highs never reach above zero. Thompson will feel like…
Do You Know These Memorable 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…
Seven Manitobans Named to National Junior Football Team
WINNIPEG, MB – McMaster University quarterback Andreas Dueck out of Vincent Massey High School and U of M Bisons’ defensive stars Cole Adamson (Oak Park), Brody Williams (St. Paul’s) and Shae Weekes (St. Paul’s) will lead seven Manitobans onto Canada’s National Junior Football team. A group 45 of Canada’s top players plus 10 more players…
Bodies of a Father & Son Found in Steinbach Home
WINNIPEG, MB – RCMP in Steinbach discovered the bodies of two men, a father and son, in the city yesterday afternoon. Officers located the bodies of a 54-year-old male and a 25-year-old male, both from Steinbach, in a home on Parkwood Cove in Steinbach on Saturday around 2 PM. Police said the deaths are considered…
Russia Expels Scores of Western Diplomats Including Canadians
WORLD NEWS – As many as four Canadian diplomats have been expelled as Russia fulfills its promise to expel Western diplomats as retaliation for similar measures employed against them by Britain and its allies in the wake of the Sergei Skripal incident. Matthew Larotonda reports.