Manitoba News

House of Commons Speaker Andrew Scheer dropped the news today at the end of a ruling on whether he or the House of Commons should decide if Glover and Selkirk-Interlake MP James Bezan can continue to sit and vote while their 2011 election expenses are in question.

Progressive Conservative house leader Kelvin Goertzen talked of sheep-shearing and canoe races Tuesday, as he started a filibuster - albeit an office-hours one - of the Manitoba government's planned sales tax increase.

Steinbach MLA Kelvin Goertzen said Tuesday he hopes to talk for days in opposition to Bill 20, the NDP government's controversial bill to hike the PST from 7 to 8 percent July 1. He's got a pack of throat lozenges in his pocket and a list of procedural tricks up his sleeve.

Until last week, you could get the T-Rex Burger - a cheeseburger featuring nine quarter-pound patties and nine slices of cheese - at just one Wendy's location in Manitoba, Canada.

Both companies have stylized Ms in their company logos, the founders of each company were friends and McMunn & Yates and McDiarmid Lumber are the only regional building-supply chains in the market since the arrival of the big-box category killers.

Kasim Kawo with his daughter, Milki, 14 months, and wife Balkisa join a rally at Central Park to protest federal cuts to refugee health benefits.

Police block the intersection of Sherbrook Street and Ellice Avenue after a van crashed into a grocery store on Tuesday morning.

KEN GIGLIOTTI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Nunavut Premier Eva Aariak , Yukon Premier Darrell Pasloski, Alberta Premier Alison Redford, Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger, B.C. Premier Christy Clark, Sask.

The Winnipeg International Jazz Festival comes to the Free Press News Caf this week with daily live interviews and nightly performances.

Inside a pair of ring binders, the Langley senior has compiled dozens of old newspaper articles and reviews, interspersed with advertisements and playbills.

A 53-year-old man from MacGregor, Man., is facing a number of firearms charges after police responded Friday afternoon to a report of a distraught male at a residence in the rural municipality of North Norfolk.

City crews have begun work on a section of St. Mary's Road in Winnipeg's Glenwood area - a project anticipated to take six weeks and delay thousands of drivers.

About 50 troops from CFB Edmonton left the international airport Monday morning as part of the last deployment of Canadian soldiers to Afghanistan.

Move over, Marvel. A group of teenage girls from Winnipeg has created a set of trading cards starring a squad of superheroes dubbed The Craftastics: Agents for Social Change.

Some time before lunch today, a small caravan of motorcycles will make its way through the city towards Thunderbird House.

The R.D. Defries Award is the highest award of the Canadian Public Health Association, presented annually in the form of a medal and citation for outstanding contributions in the broad field of public health and carries with it an honorary life membership.

WAYNE GLOWACKI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Carleen McDowell, an administrative assistant with 20 Vic Management Inc., stands under the new skylights and LED lighting in St. Vital Centre that helped the mall win a BOMA BESt Award of Excellence for energy-efficiency improvement.

Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter, New Brunswick Premier David Alward, Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger, Alberta Premier Alison Redford, Prince Edward Island Premier Robert Ghiz and British Columbia Premier Christy Clark, left to right, listen to a choir at Province House during the annual Council of the Federation meeting in Halifax on Thursday, ... (more)

Here's a great story about Ken Ilgunas, a young man who dug himself out of two years of undergrad student debt.

Police were looking for four suspects after the 1:30 a.m. robbery Saturday in the 200 block of Provencher Boulevard.