Local news from around Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
The Indian Head Research Farm, which has been in existence since 1887, will be closing due to federal cutbacks. Last week, it was learned that staff had been given six months notice. The government has announced it wants to cut 16,000 positions, or about 4.5 per cent of the public service workforce across Canada, over […]
This year marks the 90th anniversary of the flagship road safety program in Manitoba. The first volunteer patrollers in the province were assigned posts in the Winnipeg School Division in 1936.
For over 30 years, Svensen Toboggans have been a beloved Canadian name. Based in Admiral, Saskatchewan, Lloyd Garthus first developed the initial sled for his son.
Three European clients went to the game farm three months earlier and the owner outfitted one of them without the required licence.
Neil Friesen, a 76-year-old local of Wawanesa, has a seven-foot-tall tree in his living room this year, decorated with ornaments. The returning Christmas tradition comes as Friesen looks at the world with new eyes.
The call marked Nipawin Fire’s 249th response of the year, the highest number on record to date.
Dr. Peter Nickerson, a longtime transplant immunologist and now Dean and Vice-Provost (Health Sciences) at the University of Manitoba’s Max Rady College of Medicine, is credited with helping design the modern health-systems approach to transplant medicine that Canada relies on today.
Several rare “fallstreak holes” appeared across southern Manitoba on Dec. 1, creating dramatic circular gaps in the clouds as aircraft triggered supercooled droplets to freeze—an unusual multi-cloud outbreak confirmed by the Weather Centre of Manitoba.
