CBC - Manitoba (40 minutes ago)
The former owner of a remote lodge in northern Manitoba where recent caribou hunts led to allegations of vandalism and animal wastage says he believes images of dead fetuses at the site were circulated with the intent of making First Nations hunters "look bad."
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By Jack Denton And Desmond Tiro MATHARE, Kenya (AP) — Joseph Kariaga and his friends once lived the “gangster life” in Nairobi’s Mathare slum, snatching phones, mugging people and battling police. But when Kariaga’s brother was shot dead by police, the young men took stock. “We said, ‘We cannot live like this. We are going […]
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By Samya Kullab And Volodymyr Yurchuk KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Since U.S.-brokered talks began in March, Ukraine’s strategy has been to convince the Trump administration that Vladimir Putin is unreliable, and that Kyiv is serious about peace. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has few options, analysts and officials say, but to draw U.S....
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Spring in Manitoba is generally a trickster and a flirt. May long weekend wobbles on the cusp of summer, daring us to commit to one plan or another, plunging us into freezing lakes and blazing sunshine, and mocking our vain perennial desires to hang up the snow shovel or plant the garden.
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By Stefanie Dazio BERLIN (AP) — Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen is playing a single game of chess against 140,000 people worldwide in a mega-match that could overturn expectations by ending in a draw in the next few days. Billed as “Magnus Carlsen vs. The World,” the online match began April 4 on Chess.com, the world’s […]
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (4 hours ago)
Friday’s Scoreboard NHL Second Round Toronto 2 Florida 0 (Best-of-seven series tied 3-3) — PWHL Semifinals Ottawa 2 Montreal 1 (Ottawa wins best-of-five series 3-1) — World Hockey Championship Preliminary Round At Stockholm, Sweden Austria 5 France 2 Sweden 4 Slovenia 0 At Herning, Denmark Denmark 8 Hungary 2 Switzerland 3 Norway 0 — AHL...
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By Joshua Goodman And Jim Mustian MIAMI (AP) — In the sordid annals of Colombia’s underworld, Diego Marin stood out as the ultimate survivor. Time and again, the reputed henchman for the Cali cartel evaded capture — or worse fates — as he built a money-laundering network stretching across four continents. He did so, authorities […]
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By Matt Brown And Leah Askarinam WASHINGTON (AP) — Days before Republicans unveiled their sweeping tax cut plan, the chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee had one last person to consult. He went to the White House, where he and President Donald Trump went over the legislation “line by line.” “He was very […]
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By Patrick Whittle FREEDOM, Maine (AP) — Heather Donahue is walking through the woods once again. The star of the successful low-budget horror movie “The Blair Witch Project” has an on-screen history of getting into scary situations in a forest. But this time she is merely picking up an old soda can someone carelessly left […]
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (5 hours ago)
By Joshua Clipperton SUNRISE — Auston Matthews and Mitch Marner flung pucks back and forth as warm-ups concluded. The Maple Leafs star forwards were in their own world as fans banged on the glass in hopes of grabbing a souvenir. Toronto’s dynamic duo always insists the outside noise in a hockey-crazed market falls on deaf […]
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By Giovanna Dell’orto GENAZZANO, Italy (AP) — Pope Leo XIV closed his first public blessing as pontiff with a Hail Mary, after invoking the feast day of Our Lady of Pompei. On his first papal trip, he went to the Sanctuary of Our Mother of Good Counsel in the medieval village of Genazzano and on […]
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (6 hours ago)
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A shooting inside a Las Vegas gym Friday afternoon left two people dead, including the suspect, and injured at least three others, police said. One person was killed at the Las Vegas Athletic Club on the city’s west side as gunfire erupted, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Undersheriff Andrew Walsh said. Officers […]
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (6 hours ago)
By Tim Wharnsby TORONTO — Toronto Blue Jays manager John Schneider resisted the temptation to employ Anthony Santander as a ninth-inning pinch-hitter on Friday. Schneider gave his struggling slugger a day off partly to rest a sore shoulder and partly to reset after a series against the Tampa Bay Rays in which he went 1 […]
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (6 hours ago)
By Lisa Wallace OTTAWA — The Ottawa Charge are going to the Walter Cup final to play for the Professional Women’s Hockey League championship. Emily Clark’s third-period goal proved to be the winner as Ottawa edged the Montreal Victoire 2-1 on Friday. The Charge won the best-of-five semifinal series 3-1. Ottawa, the third seed, will […]
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (7 hours ago)
By Tim Wharnsby TORONTO — Riley Greene homered and added a two-run double to spark the Detroit Tigers to a 5-4 series-opening win against the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday. Greene homered in the second inning and knocked in two more runs in the fifth. Zach McKinstry and Javier Baez also belted solo homers in […]
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (8 hours ago)
By Lisa Wallace OTTAWA — The Ottawa Charge are going to the PWHL’s Walter Cup final. Emily Clark’s third-period goal proved to be the winner as Ottawa edged the Montreal Victoire 2-1 on Friday. The Charge won the best-of-five Professional Women’s Hockey League semifinal series 3-1. Ottawa, the third seed, will face the defending champion...
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (9 hours ago)
By Jake Coyle CANNES, France (AP) — Kazuo Ishiguro ‘s mother was in Nagasaki when the atomic bomb was dropped. When Ishiguro, the Nobel laureate and author of “Remains of the Day” and “Never Let Me Go,” first undertook fiction writing in his 20s, his first novel, 1982’s “A Pale View of Hills” was inspired […]
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By Paola Flores LA PAZ, BOLIVIA (AP) — Hundreds of supporters of ex-President Evo Morales marched toward Bolivia’s top electoral court on Friday to push for their leftist leader’s candidacy in presidential elections later this year, a rally that descended into street clashes as police tried to clear out a group of demonstrators. The...
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (10 hours ago)
By Jaimie Ding LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 28-year-old woman described Friday how she survived for weeks outdoors in California’s eastern Sierra Nevada by foraging for food and drinking melted snow after a solo camping trip went awry during harsh winter weather. Tiffany Slaton detailed her ordeal during a news conference with the Fresno County […]
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By Rebecca Santana And Eric Tucker WASHINGTON (AP) — Former FBI Director James Comey was set to be interviewed by the Secret Service on Friday about a social media post that Republicans insisted was a call for violence against President Donald Trump, according to a law enforcement official. The interview is part of an ongoing […]
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (10 hours ago)
LAC DU BONNET — Rain offered some help in the battle against forest fires in eastern Manitoba on Friday, but the effort remained far from over. Steady rain hit areas including the Rural Municipality of Lac du Bonnet, where a fire this week destroyed 28 homes and cottages and left two people dead. “It’s been […]
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (10 hours ago)
By Dan Ralph CFLPA president Solomon Elimimian is among those supporting CFL players participating in the 2028 Los Angeles Summer Games. Flag football will make its Olympic debut in L.A., and next week, NFL owners will discuss a resolution to allow their players to compete. Elimimian says the CFL and its players’ union have also […]
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (10 hours ago)
By Schuyler Dixon ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Paige Bueckers will make her WNBA regular-season debut on Friday night as the Dallas Wings host the Minnesota Lynx to open the season. The occasion is being marked in her hometown of Hopkins, Minnesota, with a temporary renaming of the city in honor of her WNBA debut and […]
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (10 hours ago)
Mark Scheifele looked like he was wrestling a grizzly bear, only it was wearing stripes. The Winnipeg Jets centre lost his temper late in Game 5 against Dallas on Thursday, when Stars captain Jamie Benn delivered a gloved left hook to his face. An official prevented Scheifele from getting at Benn to retaliate, or the […]
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (10 hours ago)
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho police on Friday released the names of six Chinese and Italian tourists killed when a pickup truck collided with their van in a fiery crash near Yellowstone National Park earlier this month. Idaho State Police said Jian Shi, 56, of Shanghai and Xiaoming Jiang, 66, of Guilin, China, died from […]
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (10 hours ago)
A dominant win, a second shutout at home and an edge in all phases of the game was exactly the confidence boost the Winnipeg Jets needed against the Stars in Game 5. But how much of that momentum made it onto the Jets Friday flight bound for Dallas and Game 6? "It’s a whole new […]
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (10 hours ago)
By Wolfgang Depner VICTORIA — British Columbia Forests Minister Ravi Parmar says the province is sending almost 100 wildland firefighters to Ontario, where fires have been threatening several communities near the Manitoba border. Parmar says the deployment comes after B.C. sent 42 firefighters to Manitoba, where a blaze near Lac du Bonnet this...
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New funding announced Friday will help improve access to veterinary care in remote Manitoba communities, including through a pilot project to work with two Indigenous communities to control dog populations and increase animal welfare, the province says.
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (11 hours ago)
By Hallie Golden After a wildfire decimated a California high school’s newsroom, destroying its cameras, computers and archived newspapers spanning six decades, one of the first offers of help that its journalism adviser received came from the other side of the country. Claire Smith, founding executive director of Temple University’s sports...
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By Aaron Sousa EDMONTON — A judge sentenced an Edmonton police officer to six months jail Friday for making sexual advances toward eight vulnerable women he met on the job. Const. Hunter Robinz showed no reaction when Court of King’s Bench Justice Susan Bercov handed him the sentence. She also imposed two years of probation […]
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (11 hours ago)
MONTREAL — A Quebec labour tribunal has begun hearing a case against Amazon over the e-commerce giant’s closure in January of seven warehouses in the province. Some 1,700 employees lost their jobs following Amazon’s sudden termination of its Quebec warehouse operations months after workers at a Montreal-area facility unionized with the...
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (11 hours ago)
By Chuck Chiang Another dead whale has washed ashore on a British Columbia beach, the third over two weeks, but a marine wildlife expert at the scene said Friday that there’s likely no connections between the latest case to the other deaths. The Namgis First Nation said in a statement that a resident reported finding […]
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (11 hours ago)
By Chuck Chiang Another dead whale has washed ashore on a British Columbia beach, the third over two weeks, but a marine wildlife expert at the scene said Friday that there’s likely no connections between the latest case to the other deaths. The Namgis First Nation said in a statement that a resident reported finding […]
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (11 hours ago)
RIMOUSKI — The case against a Quebec man charged with killing three people with his truck in an eastern Quebec community is straightforward, prosecutor Jerome Simard told jurors on Friday. “There will be no big twists,” he said in his opening statement in the trial of Steeve Gagnon, who is facing three counts of first-degree […]
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (11 hours ago)
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican citizen will face charges related to providing material support to a terrorist organization for the first time for allegedly conspiring to traffic guns, grenades, drugs and migrants for a drug cartel, U.S. prosecutors said Friday. The cartel was recently designated a foreign terrorist organization. An indictment...
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By Ashley Joannou VANCOUVER — Sixteen 320-kilogram barriers arrived in Vancouver this week, specially designed to block vehicles trying to enter public spaces. The barriers were ordered in February, about two months before the Lapu Lapu Day festival attack that killed 11 people, when an SUV plowed through a crowded street. But police say that...
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PORT MCNEILL — Another dead whale has washed ashore on a British Columbia beach, the third over two weeks, but a marine wildlife expert says there’s likely no connections to the deaths. The Namgis First Nation says in a statement that a resident reported finding the whale Wednesday on a beach near Port McNeill, B.C., […]
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (12 hours ago)
By Ashley Joannou VANCOUVER — Sixteen 320-kilogram barriers arrived in Vancouver this week, specially designed to block vehicles trying to enter public spaces. The barriers were ordered in February, about two months before the Lapu Lapu Day festival attack that killed 11 people, when an SUV ploughed through a crowded street. But police say that...
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (12 hours ago)
They’ve already proven they’re not the same old Winnipeg Jets, a team that folded when the games mattered most. That team didn’t meet an elimination game that didn’t overwhelm it. This one has already run into two, conquering them both. The latest, Thursday’s 4-0 win over Dallas in Game 5 of their second-round series. To […]
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (12 hours ago)
By Tara Copp And Rebecca Santana WASHINGTON (AP) _ f57072559133da0f611543f0f047 The Department of Homeland Security has asked for 20,000 National Guard troops to assist with immigration roundups across the country, and the Pentagon is reviewing the unusual request, a U.S. official confirmed to The Associated Press. DHS asked for the troops to help...
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (12 hours ago)
By Dorany Pineda CYPRESS, Calif. (AP) — California shouldn’t weaken hazardous waste rules to allow local landfills to accept toxic dirt that currently goes to two specialized disposal sites in the Central Valley and hazardous facilities in other states, the state Board of Environmental Safety voted Thursday. The vote went against a proposal by...
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By Alma Solis PANAMA CITY (AP) — Dozens of boats carrying around 200 people, mostly farmers waving Panamanian flags, traveled along the country’s central Indio River on Friday to protest a planned reservoir in the Panama Canal intended to solve water shortages in the waterway that have threatened international trade flow. The Panama Canal...
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By Todd Richmond MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin angler fishing in the fog this week discovered the wreck of an abandoned tugboat submerged in the waters of Lake Michigan for more than a century, state officials announced Friday. Wisconsin Historical Society Maritime Archaeologist Tamara Thomsen said that the society confirmed that Christopher...
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By Bill Graveland CALGARY — A Crown prosecutor is calling for a Calgary couple who killed their badly burned and emaciated toddler to be sentenced to eight years in prison. Sonya Pasqua and Michael Sinclair pleaded guilty last year to manslaughter in the death of Gabriel Sinclair-Pasqua. The 18-month-old died in 2021 from an infection […]
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (13 hours ago)
By Jamie Stengle DALLAS (AP) — The fastest-growing city in the U.S. last year was a Dallas suburb that saw its population jump by nearly a third. The number of residents in Princeton, located about 46 miles (74 kilometers) north of Dallas, increased from about 28,000 to 37,000 from 2023 to 2024, the U.S. Census […]
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By Daniel Rainbird SAINT-JEROME — Davis Alexander’s off-season looked a little different. The Montreal Alouettes quarterback went about his usual business — time in the gym, watching film, on the practice field _ despite knowing he would head into training camp as the CFL team’s starter. The one difference? He didn’t need a second job...
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (13 hours ago)
The Winnipeg Goldeyes will begin the home portion of their 32nd season on Tuesday night. The team’s 55-year-old general manager, Andrew Collier, has already been preparing for it, well into his 32nd season with the American Association ball club. And let’s be honest, very few executives in professional sport remain with the same team for […]
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (13 hours ago)
LONDON, Ontario (AP) — The judge handling the trial of five Canadian hockey players accused of sexual assault dismissed the jury Friday after a complaint that defense attorneys were laughing at some of the jurors. Ontario Superior Court Justice Maria Carroccia will now handle the high-profile case on her own. The issue arose Thursday after […]
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By Jeremy Simes REGINA — It’s concerning but not surprising Saskatchewan is seeing more measles cases, says the province’s chief medical health officer. Dr. Saqib Shahab told reporters on Friday that there’s been an uptick in measles vaccinations, but some families still don’t want to get their doses. “This means that the measles...
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