Local news from around Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
Following a successful pilot year, “How to Start a Side Hustle” — a free six-week workshop organized by the Asper School of Business — has become a fixture on the Fort Garry campus.
On June 29, the cockpit of the Gimli Glider crossed the border. It will eventually be installed at a new commemorative park under development at the former landing site
Corporations gave $1.6 million to the Saskatchewan Party last year, amounting to 70 per cent of all corporate donations made to the province’s political parties.
Under a one-boat, one-lake policy, having boats on the lake could work to prevent boaters from spreading the zebra mussels into other water bodies in Manitoba.
Manitoba is shifting away from what the minister called “reactive, exclusionary practises,” such as timeouts, detention and early dismissal in response to student misbehaviour.
Dating violence is driving Saskatchewan’s intimate partner crime, and young people are most at risk. New RCMP data shows more than 80% of intimate partner violence victims were harmed by a current or former boyfriend or girlfriend, not a spouse.
Unlike traditional concussion assessments, which rely heavily on symptom reporting and subjective interpretation, Eye Mirage offers objective evidence of neurological impairment — and does so in seconds.
Spanning 34,000 acres of potatoes, grains, and oilseeds, the project helped producers create formal water stewardship plans using the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) Standard as a guide.
The president of Doctors Manitoba said the new technology allowed her to start more appointments on time and treat several walk-ins because she didn’t need to do extensive documentation after every visit.
The project will encompass roughly three dozen housing units next to a new museum of the sanatorium.
