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Home : Canada : Manitoba couple down on their luck before lotto win Manitoba couple down on their luck before lotto win Photos Date: WINNIPEG - Only a week ago, Kirby and Marie Fontaine were battling health problems and poverty.

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.

Defense minister Peter Mackay and Colonel Luc Milot remembered the 133 Canadians who died in Afghanistan on Wednesday before a marble memorial etched with their faces.

Many indoor and outdoor Remembrance Day memorial services are being held around the province on Wednesday, the largest of which, as always, will be at the Winnipeg Convention Centre.

The medals of a St. Andrews soldier who died at Vimy Ridge made it home just in time for Remembrance Day.

A woman from eastern Manitoba has been named as the winner of the second-biggest lottery prize ever awarded in Canada.

Via to reduce northern Manitoba service A polar bear is seen walking along the road as the Olympic Flame arrives in Churchill, Man.

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STEINBACH, MB, November 10, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Lorna's Flowers, a local florist in Steinbach , Manitoba is pleased to announce the availability of its new Web site.

On behalf of the Honourable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, Shelly Glover, Parliamentary Secretary for Official Languages and Member of Parliament , today announced funding for the Centre culturel franco-manitobain to support its 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 programming.

A First Nations couple who had "a hard time in their lives making a living" are now $50 million richer, thanks to the biggest single-ticket lottery win in Manitoba's history.

In this undated photo taken from the Dickinson State University athletics department web site, missing student Ashley Neufeld, 21, of Brandon, Manitoba in Canada is shown.

Ice jam now extends from the St. Andrews Lock and Dam in Lockport north towards Selkirk, Thursday.

DIAMONDS are a transit rider and cyclist's best friend -- starting today. Diamond lanes, that is.

One lucky person, presumably a Manitoban, has won $50 million in the second-largest lottery prize ever awarded in Canada.

The H1N1 flu shot is being given out this week on a narrowed priority list from last week.

Peter Nakogee knows the chances are not good for aboriginals seeking transplants in Canada, but the gregarious father of four has reason to celebrate.

DICKINSON POLICE LT. DAVE WALLACE SAYS A SEARCH OF A NEARBY YOUTH FISHING AREA ALSO FOUND NO TRACE OF THE DICKINSON STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS.

Canada has had a pandemic plan of some kind since the late 1980s. After SARS killed 44 Canadians in 2003, more action followed: A federal chief public health officer was appointed, the Public Health Agency of Canada was created, and federal and provincial governments agreed on an up-to-date pandemic influenza plan.

School children look on as the Olympic Flame arrives at the airport in Thompson, Man.