Thursday Dec 3 | The Winnipeg Free Press
Letter writers seek hope -- and suggest answers
STORIES FROM THE HEART OF THE CITY... It always happens around Christmas. Santa's mailbag gets heavier and so, coincidentally, does mine.Except the people who write to me aren't looking for gifts.
City dissolves police advisory board, paving way for new commission
City council has voted to dissolve the Winnipeg Police Advisory Board to make way for a new police commission that will be created as soon as next year.
Ken Gigliotti Winnipeg Free Press / May 26 2009 - 090526 - Manitoba...
KEN GIGLIOTTI WINNIPEG FREE PRESS / May 26 2009 - 090526 - Manitoba Human Right Museum members meet with WFP Editorial Board ,in FP boardroom ,re: financing and building of the museum - Arni Thorsteinson Chair and Trustee Administrator Enlarge Image Winnipeg's real estate investment market is cooking and one local investment trust is using that to ...
$5K for bottle of Scotch? Oh, for the love of peat
KEN GIGLIOTTI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS MLCC employee Barb McBride holds a $4,500, 43-year-old bottle of single-malt Scotch.
A St. Clements family is looking to bring back to life a special piece of Manitoba history - found right in their own backyard.
Truck carrying toxic material overturns
A truck transporting a toxic substance overturned Monday evening in a rural area near the intersection of provincial roads 213 and 206, about 30 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg and south of Birds Hill Provincial Park.
THE affidavit my friend, was blowin' in the wind earlier this week. Allan Fineblit, CEO of the Manitoba Law Society, said Thursday it is investigating why legal documents being stored by lawyer Fred Bortuluzzi were found flying loose outside in the RM of East St.
The man in line to be Canada's next king joined Prime Minister Stephen Harper and thousands of others to pay tribute to the country's war dead at a packed national Remembrance Day ceremony Wednesday.
Woman arrested after taxi stolen, driver assaulted
A Winnipeg woman is in custody, accused of assaulting a taxi driver, making off with his cab while intoxicated and crashing it into a ditch on the outskirts of the city, police said on Tuesday.
Frosty roads blamed for crashes
Slippery conditions in southern Manitoba led to a number of crashes in Winnipeg and surrounding communities on Friday morning.
New library, no more rent: councillors
Winnipeg is poised to keep its second-busiest library in a North Kildonan strip mall until 2029, prompting some councillors to wonder whether it makes more sense to build a new facility instead of spending almost $9 million on rent.On Tuesday, city council's property and development committee approved a plan to extend the Henderson Library's lease ...
Man gets five years for robberies
A Winnipeg man has been sentenced to five years in prison for two gunpoint robberies his lawyer blames on his troubled background.
Kellestine found guilty of 8 counts of first-degree murder in Bandidos slaying
A body sits in the back of a car in the area where eight men were found dead inside four vehicles near Shedden, Ont.
Jaeda Vanderwol was last seen on the morning of Oct. 28, 2009.
Winnipeg police asked for the public's help today in locating two girls, aged 11 and 16, who are missing in separate cases.
Debit nightmare for stores, shoppers
INTERNET service, debit and credit card machines, automatic bank tellers, and even some TV stations were knocked out of service in Winnipeg much of Sunday, due to technical problems at MTS Allstream.The outages resulted in countless lost sales for merchants, and as many inconveniences for Winnipeggers.
Too soon for 'good' residential school stories
AN elder named Percy called me and asked if we could meet for coffee. Despite a hectic schedule I said sure.
Remains found in Birds Hill park gravel pit
RCMP are investigating after a body was found at a gravel pit in Birds Hill Provincial Park at about noon Friday.
Wintry blast ices roads, autos keep wrecking
SNOW and slippery driving conditions that came with the first winter blast led to numerous multi-vehicle traffic collisions in and around Winnipeg on Friday night.
Key evidence hidden: documents
Winnipeg police and the Crown failed to disclose a report about an informant's murder warning that could have changed the outcome of the trial that sent Frank Ostrowski to prison for the last 22 years, court documents say.