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Hot discussions about the opening of the pedestrian traffic at the Portage and Main crossroads are still going on. This intersection was closed to pedestrians in the late 70's. Then, as now, the residents of the city did not have a common opinion whether there was a pedestrian traffic. Two generations have grown since then, and no consensus was found on this issue. At the initial closure of this crossroads for pedestrians, the decision was taken by five vo...

The Police give positive tickets to children. On Friday, a special Springfield police program was launched to support children who observe safety rules while being on the streets of the city. Police officers hand special positive tickets to such children. According to Chief Constable Mark Crane, this program is designed to support children leading themselves safely and set an example for everyone else. He underlined that this is a very important initiative...

On Sunday morning there was a big fire in Southdale. A large complex with apartments suffered a lot from a big fire. There were more than 150 apartments in the building, but only a part of them was on fire. More than 20 families lost everything, and a family consisting of eight people was among them. Leanne Nacionales, a person that has lost the apartment, said that it was like hell. Fire was everywhere and the family having six children miraculously escap...

Mike Enns, a citizen of Winnipeg, wrote an open letter to city`s mayor with some critic on why the mayor hadn’t publically address the crime problem of the city, especially the wave of stabbings rolling thru certain areas of downtown, that even police do not recommend to walk there along during a dark time of the year. Mike`s stepson got attacked in a random act of violence on August 18th while he was walking in the Central Park. The boy received around 20...

Indigenous leader calls for more control over all people coming to their communities. Sheila North, the First Nations leader, informed that she continues to learn that women complain of sexual harassment from men working in Manitoba Hydro. Last week a report on this issue was published by the Clean Environment Commission. However, the leader of the first nations noted that sexual harassment, racism and all sorts of abuses that lasted for decades are still...

Michael Karas, 61 years old, was arrested by the police in one of the Winnipeg hotels. He is accused of three bank robberies, that happened since November 2017 till this August. This is not the first time when Karas is being accused. The first one was in 1996, when the police found the woman body in one of the Thai resorts. It was divided into parts. The detectives found out that Karas was in a relationship with the victim, whose name was Suwannee Ratanapr...

The Police in Winnipeg informs that a dangerous sex offender can live in the city. This recidivist sex-criminal is named James Badour and he committed sexual violence against young children, men, and women many times. His last crime occurred in 2015 in Ontario. He committed sexual violence on six and seven-year-old children who lived across the street in front of his place. He was sentenced to 685 days. James Badur was released from prison in April 2015, b...

Jeff Freiheit was found dead in Germany where he was hiking. The 32-year-old Manitoba resident worked as a school teacher in Brandon school. The man went to Germany about a month ago and there was no communication with him since August 2. The local Police found somebody’s body with the help of a helicopter. The relatives of the missing teacher decided to go in search of Jeff to Germany, where he went hiking in the mountains, to identify the body. Unfortuna...

Nine people were injured, two killed and gunman also fatally shot himself in Jacksonville, Florida. The murder-suicide happened during Madden NFL 19 video game tournament in one of the restaurants at Jacksonville Landing last Sunday. The shooter was identified as 24-year-old David Katz, the winner of 2017 championship as a part of a team The Buffalo Bills, last February. This year he was also taking part in a tournament, but not as successful as last year,...

No Stone Unturned is held every year for 10 years to honor the memory of the missing and killed Indigenous women. Many people gathered on Saturday in St. John's Park to communicate, eat food and listen to music. Members of families who survived the grief also attended the concert. The concert should show the families of the victims that they are not alone and can ask for the necessary help and support. Bernadette Smith, the organizer of the concert, said t...

Alex Martin kayaked 1,700 km along the coastlines of Lake Winnipeg. The 18-year-old Winnipeg resident just finished his journey and called it the adventure of his life. Lake Winnipeg is the largest lake in the province, its circumference exceeds1,700 km. Alex Martin informed that his main goal was to get more information about the lake, its environmental problems and to show his discoveries to all people who are interested in this topic. He is really fond...

From September 24 to October 14 Wasagaming will host RAW: almond. A famous chef Mandel Hitzer from Winnipeg is going to contribute to the celebration. Hitzer will take his popular pop-up restaurant to the festival in Wasagaming. A well-known chef will create a tasting room on a temporary basis in Riding Mountain National Park. He is already known to do something similar on the frozen Assiniboine River. Joe Klaturnyk, a local architect, noted that the Park...

One Facebook post got all the attention possible not just from friends and regular auditory, but also from Police. CJ 104, one of the radio stations in Swan River, Manitoba recently was receiving threats and breakings, so the employees decided to deal with the matter by themselves. Some of the threats had a statement commanding radio station to shut down and stop broadcasting in one week, otherwise, the station will be burned to the ground. As per CJ 104 w...

Two men were arrested on Tuesday morning on Notre Dame Street. Police found a bag full of instruments and tools used for braking and opening locks and doors. Charges brought up against them for five break-ins and enter in the city. Winnipeg police believe the men are responsible for at least five incidents. The charges filed are for the robberies from February 25, 2018 to July 27, 2018, mostly for stolen tools from storages and garages, also including two...

On Wednesday, Dauphinites, a Ukrainian band wearing Ukrainian national costumes, and Canada's National Riding & Dancing Cossacks took park at Stanley Cup. Barry Trotz, NHL coach, said that he can not imagine a parade without Ukrainian music. More than a thousand people found time during a busy weekday to come to the celebrating of the achievement of Cup-winning Dauphinite Barry Trotz. People wore vintage clothing, drank dubious vintage alcohol and fired vi...

Past Wednesday morning one of the police officers was surely surprised when he got a full sized barbeque tank thrown in the rear window of police cruiser he was in. As per Winnipeg Police: a man of 30 years old, who threw a large metal object at a cruiser with an officer inside, was under influence of an unknown at the time substance. Officer was at the front passenger seat of a police vehicle, when a man, appeared to be high on methamphetamine, passed by...