Manitoba News

“For next summer we're making the transition to phosphate-free products. One of the products will be an eco-friendly fertilizer at the garden centre. It's to our advantage to offer these products”

While the provincial government continues to delay the banning of phosphates in automatic dishwasher detergents and fertilizers used in lawn care applications some retailers in Gimli are leading the charge to ... via Interlake Spectator

“Wanting more liquor, they drove from (Neepawa) about 6 o'clock in the evening to go to the foreign settlement north to get some more liquor”

Run to bootlegger's ended with a farmer as roadkill Three men went out for a night of drinking and only two returned home. via Winnipeg Sun

“We're really concerned about how toothless the municipal bylaw enforcementA - or the bylaws themselvesA - appear to be. Others have started to look to see, well, are there other solutions to this challenge?”

The City of Winnipeg says it will take legal action unless major changes are made to what it calls an illegal rooming house in the city's north end, even as the province continues paying rent for people living ... via CBC

“I cannot accept it. As prime minister, I will correct it.”

In a dramatic and welcome move to affirm a progressive agenda for Canada, Liberal Leader Stphane Dion spoke yesterday directly to Canadians Prime Minister Stephen Harper has forgotten and abandoned, namely the ... via The Toronto Star

“I was lying in bed and I heard the tires screeching, and then I heard this loud bang”

A 40-year-old man is suspected of impaired driving in a single-vehicle collision that killed his 36-year-old passenger Wednesday night, Winnipeg police said. via Winnipeg Sun

The Manitoba government is naming two northern lakes after soldiers who died in Afghanistan. via MyTELUS

“The thing that motivates me is seeing lives changed, seeing things turn around”

An 11-year-old boy believed to be responsible for several past arsons is accused of setting three new fires that caused $91,000 damage in the North End and North Point Douglas. via CANOE

“It appears that all he has done is sat at home smoking marijuana feeling sorry for himself”

A Winnipeg Beach man convicted for the second time of sexually assaulting one of his children has been sentenced to two years in jail. via Canoe

“He would even go and take the actual driving test under the alias”

The mastermind behind a global theft ring admitted Wednesday to a decade's worth of sophisticated attacks on banks, stealing a royal diamond from a museum and inadvertently funding terrorism in Iraq. via CANOE

Horrific crash in W. End Police investigate at the scene of a collision between two SUV's at Clifton and St. via Winnipeg Sun

“At the end of the day, we didn't sell any except to the Belgian army, (but) it cost three times what it would have to buy it from the Germans.”

CADSI's Tim Page. Are the feds doing enough to support domestic industry with defence-related purchases? A recent CBC investigation discovered Canada's military exports, including products for tanks and rocket ... via Ottawa Business Journal

“Actions by the minister and his delegates have conflicted with the . . . requirements relating to the reporting of releases and transfers to waste rock dumps and tailing impoundment areas from mining”

Three environmental advocacy groups appeared to get their wish Wednesday just hours after they accused federal Environment Minister John Baird of allowing the mining industry to conceal some of the pollution ... via Canoe

A man described by police as one of the most sophisticated criminal masterminds they've ever seen was sentenced to eight years in prison Wednesday in a case that involved a global theft ring and terrorist ... via CBC

“The suspect or (store staff) could have got hurt.”

A 13-year-old boy from the Steinbach area is accused of robbing the same rural store at knifepoint twice in just over two months, RCMP said yesterday. via Slam Sports

“She was a scared, insecure girl with a troubled past trying to adjust to a new situation”

Two Winnipeg men are facing possible jail sentences for a disturbing sex assault that saw a 13-year-old girl stripped naked and then drenched with ketchup and mustard. via Slam Sports

A 46-year-old woman slain in Portage la Prairie last week died of blood loss due to "sharp force trauma," RCMP said. via Winnipeg Sun

The section of highway spans from the Turcot Interchange in Montreal to Riveiere-Beaudette, Que., near the Ontario-Quebec boundary. via The Globe and Mail

“Who in the hell has ever escaped from two penitentiaries and a police department detectives' room, and is this smart and intelligent?”

Murderer Richard Lee McNair, one of the United States' most talented escape artists, became one of its most wanted men in April after he "mailed" himself out of a Louisiana penitentiary. via Canada.com

A Canadian court has found an Alberta pilot guilty of criminal negligence and unsafe operation of an aircraft for a 2002 accident that led to the death of a Kansas man. via AVweb