WINNIPEG – Peter Nygard remains in a Manitoba jail following a Winnipeg judge’s decision to deny his request for bail. The disgraced former fashion king will stay in jail while waiting for an extradition trial on charges that he’s facing in the United States in relation to multiple accusations of sexual assault. Manitoba Court of…
Care Home COVID Improving
WINNIPEG – COVID-19 at the city’s 39 long-term care homes continues to improve. Only nine of the homes currently have active cases and just three have residents with coronavirus. A total of 12 people living at care homes in Winnipeg are fighting the virus. There are also seven staff members with COVID. A second dose…
Catalytic Converter Thieves
WINNIPEG – The Winnipeg Police Service is warning the public about car part theft, and providing tips to avoid being a victim of it, after getting nearly 80 reports related to it in January. Just this week, five people are facing charges in connection with catalytic converter thefts. On January 31, the WPS arrested three…
4 Firefighters Off The Job
WINNIPEG – Four firefighters with the WFPS are reportedly not on active duty anymore following a probe that concluded bias and lack of concern for well-being was directed at an Indigenous woman during an EMS call. The members of the paramedic service are apparently on administrative leave in response to the investigation that looked at…
Pandemic Artifacts Wanted
WINNIPEG – The Manitoba Museum says it’s on the hunt for modern materials that can help preserve history in the making, and everyone in the province could have a future artifact without knowing it. Historians there are asking for donations of things that can help tell the now unfolding story of Manitoba’s COVID-19 experience long…
City Considers Algae Fix
WINNIPEG – City Hall is considering a $10.5 million capital project – that comes with a more than $2 million annual operating price tag – in a search for solutions to the city’s phosphorus problem. The proposed processing concept is in response to algae infestation on Lake Winnipeg fed by the chemical after sewage treatment…
Free Bus Service?
WINNIPEG – The city is looking at free Winnipeg Transit for all. Councillor Vivian Santos’ motion asking administration to develop no fare bus program has been passed unanimously at the community committee level and it now goes to the standing policy committee on infrastructure renewal and public works. She says her idea would break socioeconomic…
Report: Racial Bias At WFPS
WINNIPEG – All Winnipeg Fire Paramedic staff will undergo more education and training after an outside investigator discovered implicit racial bias in the service. According to a leaked report, two firefighters failed to help with a badly hurt Indigenous woman after repeated requests from a paramedic. The paramedic is also a person of colour and…
Smokine Log Cabin Bottle
WINNIPEG – This Smokine log cabin bottle was made by Alfred Andersen & Co. and The Western Importers. Alfred Andersen founded his company in 1893, marketing cooking utensils to Scandinavian Immigrants in and around Minneapolis. But within ten years, Andersen was removed from his own company. Before Andersen got the boot, he created Smokine, later…
Less COVID At Care Homes
WINNIPEG – The WRHA says long term care homes in Winnipeg are recovering at a level that gives cause for cautious optimism after seeing months of deadly COVID-19 outbreaks. New data from the health authority shows less than half of the city’s care homes have ongoing outbreaks, and at least half a dozen don’t have…