Manitoba News

BRANDON Correctional Centre will expand by 80 beds, provincial officials said Wednesday.

A "novel" influenza type A virus was confirmed in two hog farm workers in the central Canadian province of Saskatchewan, according to health authorities who stressed the virus was "non-pandemic." "A novel non-pandemic influenza A virus has been confirmed in two hog farm workers in Saskatchewan and a third case is under investigation," the ...

A new strain of flu virus diagnosed in at least two Saskatchewan hog farm workers will likely disappear with those cases, but public health authorities need to keep a wary eye on it in case it spreads, a leading Canadian infectious disease expert warns.

A 40-year-old man has been arrested in Portage la Prairie in the murder investigation of a young woman who hasn't been seen since leaving a southern Manitoba bar last fall.

A teenager has been charged with attempted murder in connection with the stabbing of a man in Winnipeg.

About 25,000 chickens have been destroyed in a barn fire in a southeastern Manitoba.

A new, never before seen flu virus has been found in Saskatchewan, but health officials were quick point out Tuesday that it's not connected to the current H1N1 pandemic.

Renowned sculptor Leo Mol, whose bronze statues have earned a distinguished place on Parliament Hill, in Vatican museums and in his beloved home of Winnipeg, has died.

EDMONTON a ' A second Albertan, a fifth Manitoban and a child from Saskatchewan have died after contracting the H1N1 flu virus, also known as swine flu.

Leo Mol in 1994. Mol was well known for sculpting animals such as bears, graceful female nudes, Ukrainian subjects, and busts or full-length likenesses of prominent personalities.

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Amin Dhillon was visiting relatives in the Indian state of Punjab two years ago when she happened to catch the Miss India beauty pageant on the television.

Local politicians and peace advocates are chagrined that Manitoba is selling guns to Saudi Arabia, one of the most authoritarian countries in the world."I think a Canadian company exporting small arms to the Middle East is a disgrace," said Winnipeg Centre NDP MP Pat Martin.

Romeo LeBlanc was remembered Friday as the "the great gentleman of Acadia" by the prime minister who appointed him Canada's 25th governor general.

Manitoba exported a cache of guns worth $1.2-million to Saudi Arabia last year, but the federal government won't say who sold them, who bought them, or what they were used for.

Hundreds of mourners paid their last respects Thursday to former governor-general Romeo LeBlanc, who is lying in state here ahead of Friday's state funeral.

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A 16-year-old Portage la Prairie girl is in a coma in a Winnipeg hospital following a brutal attack early Sunday morning.

It was cleanup time across Manitoba yesterday as the weekend's storm left people from Beausejour to Berens River surveying wind and rain damage.

Animal rights activists are outraged over a Manitoba city's practice of shooting stray dogs that are caught and not claimed.