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Dr. Stefan Carter is 90 years old and he received Sport for Life Award for his achievements in badminton. Now, Carter tried to play four times a week. He started playing in 1981. The man said that when he was 50, it was much easier for him to play and to run. Now it is much harder but he does not give up and tries to do his best. On Wednesday, November 7, he received Sport for Life Award from the Manitoba Badminton Association. In his comments, Carter note...

Postal services is a very important piece of modern life, millions of people and businesses rely on postal deliveries every day, so when it comes to striking of postal workers it will have a huge impact on the everyday life of smaller towns, big cities and industries, and the whole countries. The Canadian postal workers' rotation strike “has come” to Winnipeg and Brandon. Manitoba was the last province hit by members of the Canadian Postal Workers Union (C...

Seven Winnipeg Blue Bombers players were named to the CFL’s West Division all-star team Wednesday, including three members of the offensive line. Winnipeg Blue Bombers defensive back Taylor Loffler (16), linebacker Adam Bighill (4) and defensive back Anthony Gaitor (23) bring down Ottawa Redblacks wide receiver Diontae Spencer during first half CFL football action in Ottawa on Friday, October 5, 2018. As a team, the Bombers led the league by a wide margin...

Lately, there was a couple of incidents that resulted in the hours-long armed standoff. The situation keeps repeating in different areas of the city, for some reason, people think they can achieve some results by barricading themselves, sometimes with other people inside the building, threatening the hostages, who are random people or even the family members and negotiating with police. Almost every incident ends in surrender and arrest, police officers an...

As it became known, the Canadian Cancer Society stated that it will not accept hair donations starting from January 2019. Within the program Beautiful Lengths, this organization has worked together with the Pantene company since 2006, and together they accepted hair donations and made free wigs for cancer patients. From 2006 to 2018 more than 70000 people have given their hair to the organization. However, this society has recently stated that wigs made of...

The new Volkswagen Tiguan is a real deal - the car looks like a real premium SUV (Audi Q5, Mercedes GLE), but in fact it is in the middle price category - the prices on Tiguan start from $ 28,925 as standard modification and from $ 31,175 for the version with all-wheel drive (prices for October 30th, 2018 from the official website of VW Canada). The appearance has changed, but so that, on the one hand, in the new version you can always find the old one, bu...

Kids Help Phone will answer all questions and help teenagers. This service began its work in test mode at the beginning of 2018, and more than 13,000 texts with various questions were made. This service will now work to the full extent in 2 languages: English and French. In order to use the service, you only need a phone that sends SMS, Internet connection or some special app are not needed. A test version of the program showed that anxiety, relationship a...

Manitoba authorities are starting auditing of CancerCare. Cameron Friesen stated that such a review is very useful to find out what can be improved to become the best in the country. In February 2018, it was decided to cancel a $300 million CancerCare expansion that the previous government was going to do. In October, the province expressed its intention to analyze the effectiveness and financial performance of CancerCare Manitoba and compare data with sim...

Nelson House opens a new women's shelter for Northern Manitoba women. In case of the possibility of abusive situations, this shelter will be open for all women who live in Northern Manitoba. This centre became the first women's shelter, which he opened, and the grand opening has already taken place. For women who face domestic violence and abusive behaviour at home, it is very important to know that there is a safe place to which they can come if necessary...

Heidi Wright is fifteen and she is a grade 11 student at Technical Vocational High School in Winnipeg. The girl told that she likes music and history most of all among school subjects. So, it is not a surprise that Heidi decided to write a song about historical events of World War I. Her song is about Corporal Leo Clarke, Sergeant-Major Frederick William Hall, and Lieutenant Robert Shankland. All these men grew up in Winnipeg, distinguished themselves by t...

Several years ago the news about the construction of a commercial center of the two towers became public and in 2016 the construction officially began. The first tower and the only office space in Winnipeg since 1990 appeared on 242 Hargrave. Signature architecture, floor-to-ceiling glass, flexible floor plates, advanced construction technology, modern heating, and cooling systems and of course exciting rental offers. The tower with a height of 17 floors w...

Snowfalls have come to Manitoba, but if you live in Winnipeg, you may not see them. Apparently, Perimeter Highway created an invisible protective field around the city. “Last night, the snow came close to Winnipeg, and it slowly moved all night. But a few hours ago, when it seemed that it would get into the perimeter of the city, suddenly the direction had changed,“ said The Environment Canada meteorologist Dan Fulton on Tuesday, November 6th. "The snow wa...

Wonderful news - Winnipeg again won first place as the best cultural city according to Culture Days rating. This organization creates a rating of cities due to registered activities during Culture Days weekend. This is the sixth time when Winnipeg gets the first place. Nicole Matiation, co-chair of Culture Days Manitoba and Nuit Blanche Winnipeg informed that Winnipeg is a very valuable place in the arts and culture for the inhabitants of Manitoba. Culture...

NDP MLA Bernadette Smith introduced a bill to amend the law on children and family services. The woman said that she had to go through this law in childhood, and if the changes had been made when she was small, then perhaps her life would have been better. Bernadette said that her mother was not given appropriate support from the government, and therefore the girl had to live in a group home. She faces many cases every day when children are taken from the...

There are just regular days, but there are some…, well just not your days! It was a rough Tuesday morning for a 30-year-old driver, who was pulled over for speeding in two different vehicles by the same RCMP officer. Just yesterday, November 6th the woman was clocked at 124 km/h – resulting in a $364 fine – on the west Perimeter at 8:27 a.m. She was pulled over just three and a half hours later with a further $299 fine at 11:55 a.m. while traveling 119 km/...

A scary and dangerous incident occurred in the residential area right next to a school full of children right during classes. Last Friday, November 2nd Winnipeg Police blocked the street outside the Shaughnessy Park School in response to what its spokesperson called a "serious incident." Police units were positioned on Chudley Street south of Tyndall Avenue starting at 4 a.m. and asked people to avoid the area. There were around 25 police units at the scen...

Winnipeg Mayor Brian Bowman says the city will get stronger every single year during his speech after being re-elected. Everyone who voted for the current mayor is celebrating the victory with the Bowman, people showed their support as he showed good work on his electoral promises from the last campaign. Bowman stated that it is still a long way to go for the city to work on all the issues and problems of the city, but his team is ready to work hard and ma...

A private corporation will build a new centre with 74 child care spaces in the first half of 2019. This company will receive $10000 in tax credits for each new child care space.  As it became known, this company is creating a new child non-profit centre. All workers of the centre and Sage Creek families will be able to take its services in the nearest future. This child centre will have 16 children's and 58 preschool places. $740,000 in tax credits will be...