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Winnipeg singer makes a new tattoo to draw attention to suicidal youth. Rob Nash already has several tattoos and they are all very interesting and unique and show his attitude towards music. However, this time, the singer gave sociality to his tattoos. Rob's right hand is already covered with the signatures of people who wanted to commit suicide. Now, the singer fills his left hand with ink. “I’m covering the other arm with more tattoos, more signatures, b...

CNIB provides the residents of Winnipeg with a unique opportunity to raise a future guide dog for the blind people of the province. A puppy can be taken home at the age of about eight weeks and will be raised to the age of 12-15 months. With each new litter, the institute needs more and more volunteers for this work. “Our puppy raising program is actually a really big part of CNIB guide dogs. It’s where we have all the volunteers that will accept one of ou...

This summer in Winnipeg 2 types of pesticides will be used to protect the trees in the city from a dangerous pest – the emerald ash borer. This insect has caused significant damage to greenery in the city last few years. For the second year in a row, Winnipeg’s insect control branch will use 2 pesticides, including widely used neonicotinoid, to fight its invasion. This year, ash trees will be given three injections, created to minimize the effect of pestic...

This year, the celebration of the Ukrainian New Year was overshadowed by the theft of the brass plaque, which was considered the national historic site of the Labour Temple in Winnipeg. Despite the theft, people nevertheless gathered to celebrate the holiday. Glenn Michalchuk, the president of the Ukrainian Labour Temple, explained that the theft took place on Friday night, just on New Year's Eve on the Julian calendar. "It's really disappointing, it reall...

Will, this is the goose’s nickname, did not fly south but stayed at Winnipeg car wash for the winter. Since December, residents from the community next to Shell car wash on Pembina Highway come and bring food and water to the goose. Tiffany Lui, animal care co-ordinator at Wildlife Haven Rehabilitation Centre, said that a lot of reports were sent to her from the local people. She also said that they are trying to catch the goose, to see if it is healthy, b...

Unfortunately, meth and other drug trafficking is a rising problem in Manitoba and Canada overall. Police and Drug Enforcement Agency working hard to identify and arrest those, who involved in drug trafficking organized crime activities. But sometimes a regular traffic stop can lead to a major drug bust. Last Friday, January 11th police stopped a vehicle on Highway 17 east of Dryden, Ontario after the driver allegedly committed Highway Traffic Act offenses...

Drug trafficking problem is on a rise in Canada for the last couple of years. Winnipeg authorities started a full-scale investigation into city`s meth problem. As per Winnipeg Police, there is a spike in meth-related crime incidents, like property theft, residential break-ins, unreasonable anger towards each other (meth users) and other people around them, violent attacks, some ending up in lethal outcomes for victims, lately there were three deadly beatin...

Unfortunately, fires or other life-threatening incidents are happening at industrial and production sites quite often. But much more dangerous and scary is a residential are fire, the place, where people live, there can be little children inside or elderly people, who are not fast up on their feet to run for safety. On Sunday, January 13th approximately 4 a.m. the sound of a blaring fire alarm woke up the residents of an apartment complex on Ellice Avenue....

Winnipeg Jets is an amazing team and has a huge army of fans and supporters. Go Jets Go! Last week was great for our team with another victory for our team! Amazing result 7-4, that is a great and deserved game score for our own Winnipeg hockey team! The Winnipeg Jets had goals from seven different players as they won their second game in a row to close out the homestand. The Jets finally solved their first-period scoring woes as they beat the Colorado Ava...

Everyone wants to live in a big house, with many rooms and the property big enough to drive around in a golf cart, with a pool and four-car garage, but not everyone can afford it, especially counting the fact that after purchasing a house like this for a hefty price, you will have to pay annual taxes on the property that could reach like $40-50 thousand dollars annually. Sales were down 5 percent from 2017, and down 6 percent from the record-setting year 2...

Winnipeg Jets is an amazing team and has a huge army of fans and supporters. Go Jets Go! Last week was great for our team with another victory for our team! Amazing result 7-4, that is a great and deserved game score for our own Winnipeg hockey team! The Winnipeg Jets had goals from seven different players as they won their second game in a row to close out the homestand. The Jets finally solved their first-period scoring woes as they beat the Colorado Ava...

In Canada laws regarding the empowerment of local police have been revised, and now any driver in the country risks losing the driver license. As it turned out law enforcement officers could check if a person drank alcohol even at his home or at a bar when a person didn’t even think to get behind the wheel after a drink. It is enough just to have ″reasonable suspicion ″ for the officer to perform a breath test. However, now in Canada on this basis, any dri...

Nowadays everyone takes flights. Even the people, who afraid of planes, still fly because it is the safest and fastest way to travel, sometimes, though, the incidents happen. Planes have mechanical issues or the passengers have some health or mental problems, which can force a crew to make a decision of an emergency landing in the nearest airport. The flight, which flew from Los Angeles to London on Thursday, January 10th was forced to stay overnight in Wi...

Methamphetamine is a real problem in Canada, the majority of people involved are youth and older teenagers. There is a study conducted by Winnipeg Police department about how people on meth are no longer productive, so they have to find other ways to get money to fuel their addiction and get more drugs. People on meth turn to pity theft and other, more serious crimes. Bike theft, residential break-ins, garage theft is now a rising problem in the city. On M...

We all had bad days, some are just hard, but sometimes you just wish you didn’t leave a bad today. Hitting a wall or throwing a game console controller into a TV is pretty bad, but this Toyota driver went crazy and crashed into a Porsche dealership - on purpose. The incident occurred late on Monday night in Toronto, according to a Toronto media report, it is known that this man was 20 years old, and he did everything intentionally. Apparently, two employee...

Everyone loves snow days and beautiful weather the winter brings. But sometimes too much snow can bring some problems like difficult driving conditions and power outages. The winter forecast for Canada shows different temperatures and not as much snow, as it was last year. It is expected that the eastern part of the country throughout the winter will have a lot of rain in the form of rain and snow, predicts Accuweather. There were almost 8,000 Winnipeg res...

Everyone dreams of hitting a lottery jackpot, but not everyone even tries and buys lottery tickets. Life is full of surprises, not always good ones, but sometimes it's just your lucky day! Monica Hornbeck, who bought her $6 quick pick ticket at a McGregor Street store, won one of the Lotto Max prize draws December 7th. Hornbeck won her million-dollar prize by correctly playing all seven numbers in one of the Maxmillions draws. The winner said she plans to...

The Indigenous people of Manitoba influenced the economy of the province really significantly in 2018. During last year, the Indigenous population brought more than $9 billion to the provincial economy. This year, the first report was made on the contribution of this population, and its goal was to reduce racism in the country, and in the province in particular. Carolyn Bennett, Canada's Indigenous-Crown relations minister, said the following: "We know tha...