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By Kolby Solinsky - BC Local News Published: June 18, 2013 11:00 AM Updated: June 18, 2013 11:52 AM Manitoba premier Greg Selinger identified an anti-bullying measure adopted in British Columbia - an online, anonymous reporting tool - that he thinks could help bullied students and children in his province.

Every year when I travel down to the World Pork Expo I tarry in North Dakota, Minnesota and rural Iowa.

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.

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

Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press 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.

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.

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

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

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.

Hundreds of health-care workers, newcomers and their friends are set to rally at noon today in Central Park to celebrate Manitoba's "compassion" and to call for help for refugees in other provinces suffering without health benefits.

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

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)

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

DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: I thought my beautiful wife was a lonely woman. I am away a lot and we only see each other on weekends when I am home.

$75 million to be covered by the city and province through property-tax revenues flowing from new developments at the former Canad Inns Stadium site.

You've done the art walk. You've taken the architecture, the ghost, the Winnipeg General Strike, and the death and debauchery guided walking tours.

MARLIN Travel is offering a wine tour to the Okanagan from July 28 to and will hold an information session on Thursday, June 20 at 1 p.m at our Polo Park office.

Patrons of the New York State Zoo at Thompson Park got their first look Friday at a set of four Canada lynx kittens born in early May. The three male and one female kittens, born about six weeks ago, could be seen scampering around a small enclosure inside of the lynx exhibit area.