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A Christian organization is in talks with the Manitoba government to create the country's first "faith-based" prison unit for inmates to explore their spiritual side, Canwest News Service has learned.

It's going to be a rather pleasant day in Winnipeg, but there's a winter storm watch in effect for southwestern Manitoba.

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By Eric MacKenzie, The Daily Graphic Don Sissons and Cory Smith found out first-hand that the terrain in Costa Rica isn't quite the same as it is at home in Portage la Prairie.

The efforts of fire crews couldn't stop a home on Ingersoll Street in Winnipeg from being destroyed on Saturday night.

Winnipeg police found scales of a different kind during a drug raid Thursday. Officers executing a raid at a house in the 100-block of Polson Avenue found an unspecified amount of marijuana, morphine tablets and cash -- plus a boa constrictor.

When police rounded up 18 terror suspects around Toronto in 2006, they found cash, detonators and videos that showed some of them yelling "God is Great" as they trained in the snow with guns.

I find former Selkirk-Interlake Liberal candidate Kevin Walsh's rant about my use of novelty cheques and our government's Economic Action Plan puzzling.

Locomotive engineers from Canada's largest railway were walking picket lines at major stations across the country Saturday, beginning a strike after last-minute negotiations derailed.

Arctic sea ice has nearly vanished, expert fears Scientist says permanent ice year-round and nearly 10-metres thick has melted and only a thin, seasonal replacement has appeared Chinta Puxley Winnipeg - The Canadian Press Published on Friday, Nov.

James Kopp , gets escorted into State Supreme Court by Sheriffs Department Deputy Sullivan and Deputy Hornberger to hear his sentence in Buffalo, New York, on March 18, 2003.

A semi-trailer unit transporting pigs has rolled over on the exit from the Perimeter Highway at Pembina Highway.

"The right thing for us to do is drop prices and let Canadians shop right here at home," says South Winnipeg Wal-Mart's Johnson.

The Honourable Greg Selinger, Premier of Manitoba, and the Honourable Vic Toews, President of the Treasury Board, along with his Worship Sam Katz, Mayor of Winnipeg, today announced up to $33 million in support for improvements to the existing South End Water Pollution Control Centre in Winnipeg.

Recognizing the need to position Canada as a global leader in the fight against lung disease, the Canadian Lung Association together with the Canadian Thoracic Society have launched the development of a national research agenda that aims to prioritize areas of significant need as it relates to the treatment and management of lung disease.

Alex Cuba will play Folk Under the Clock on Saturday. Cuba is a two-time Juno Award winner for best world music and hails originally from Cuba.

The Government of Canada is helping those who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless build a stronger future for themselves.

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Manitoba is once again the child poverty capital of Canada says a report card issued by the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg today.

Tucked away on the edge of Winnipeg's historic exchange district is probably one of the few places that attracts fashionistas and serious cultural historians alike.

Winnipeg police have arrested a fugitive who allegedly shot his ex-girlfriend at close range last month, resulting in the woman losing part of her arm.

Two women are being sought in connection with an armed robbery at a Winnipeg restaurant.

The RCMP's vaunted project to nab more Internet child-porn offenders has been bogged down by technological setbacks and a chronic shortage of officers, says a newly released report.

Lucca Romano died Sunday after falling at Toronto's Pearson International Airport.

This is an undated photo from the web of Kyle McKee, who is wanted by Calgary Police for attempted murder and other charges.

Flood fears forced another Manitoba community to declare a state of emergency Tuesday, as the provincial government confirmed Canada's military is already is on the ground, eyeballing the flood situation in the unlikely event they're called in to help.

Some provinces have stopped using a particular batch of the H1N1 flu vaccine after six people experienced severe allergic reactions, the Public Health Agency of Canada says.

Five Manitoba communities will move forward with eight different projects thanks to the Recreational Infrastructure Canada program, a major job-creating investment from Canada's Economic Action Plan.

Police said a 22-year-old man turned himself into Portage la Prairie RCMP Sunday after a shooting last month that hurt a young woman.

An alleged drunk driver who had a young child as a passenger led police on a prolonged high-speed chase near Dauphin, Man.

Spence suspects she was living at a residential school, away from her home in Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation, when she was exposed to the disease.

As debate rages in Canada over allegations of prisoners being tortured in Afghanistan, a Winnipeg woman has been working to stamp out abuse and corruption in the war-torn country's much-criticized prison system.

THE cause of a fire that destroyed the interior of a home in St. Andrews early Thursday morning was accidental, the Manitoba Office of the Fire Commissioner says.

The Colgate Bookstore will host a special event with Richard Frost and Tapesty: All-Centuries Singers on Saturday, December 5 at 3:00 p.m. at 3 Utica Street.

This luminous literary novel will delight those who treasure word play, want a Winnipeg fix and yearn for interesting and complex stories.

Emergency medical staff transport a critically injured man who had made his way to a convenience store.

Porter: the little airline that could Porter Airlines in operation at the Toronto Island Airport.

A Flin Flon man has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly stabbing a woman Wednesday.

The Nebraska State Patrol is identifying a 38-year-old semitrailer driver from Manitoba, Canada, as the person killed in a three-vehicle crash on a southeast Nebraska highway.

WAYNE.GLOWACKI@FREEPRESS.MB.CA Dr. Joel Kettner and Theresa Oswald offer both grim and hopeful news on Thursday.

RCMP are investigating a fatal motor vehicle crash Wednesday near Oakville, southeast of Portage la Prairie.

The Manitoba Office of the Fire Commissioner has determined that a fire that gutted a house in St.

Somebody forgot to tell the Richardsons about the recession. Winnipeg's first family of business was one of the movers and shakers on Canadian Business magazine's annual Rich 100 list, coming in 15th place with a net worth of $2.72 billion.

Final autopsy results show that three college softball players who drowned when their sport utility vehicle went into a livestock pond in southwestern North Dakota had not been drinking or using drugs.

Liberal Leader Micheal Ignatieff speaks during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ont., on Tuesday November 17, 2009.

Rob Swystun/Central Plains Herald-Leader -- A grass fire burns out of control northeast of High Bluff Wednesday.

Licensing orders for daycares originally provided to CBC News by the province were heavily redacted.

Police are looking for a man in his 20s in connection with two separate sexual assaults on women jogging in the River Heights area Tuesday morning.

He has been identified by several eyewitnesses as the man behind an execution-style slaying in a sleepy suburban neighbourhood.

Home : Canada : Family wants inquest into Winnipeg ER death Family wants inquest into Winnipeg ER death Date: Tuesday Nov.

The federal government's swine flu program hasn't done enough to help the provinces speed up distribution of the H1N1 vaccine, the Liberals charged Monday.

Ambulance personnel wheel a stabbing victim to an ambulance outside the the Global Bubble Tea House on Sunday night.

The album was a year in the works, but in a matter of weeks, the decision to launch "gospel" as a fundraiser for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank and MCC was made.

Submitted photo...The purchase of a cow can help a family in an impoverished country create a business to help feed themselves.

A health-care worker fills a syringe with H1N1 flu vaccine. Hundreds of people stood in line for a swine flu vaccination shot at clinics in Winnipeg and Brandon on Saturday as strong demand continued for the preventative measure.

More than 1,000 people filled a church yesterday to say good-bye to a young Manitoba woman who drowned in a North Dakota pond while she was out stargazing with friends.

A 29-year-old woman is accused of punching a taxi cab driver in Transcona and then stealing the vehicle.

The magnificent Immaculate Conception Church at Cooka TMs Creek, exterior and interior, showing the main altar.

When you're part of a fundraiser that relies on the power of something as humble as a penny, you realize philanthropy can be carried out by someone as young as a child.

A spokeswoman for fashion designer Peter Nygard says it's likely he will rebuild his multimillion-dollar Bahamas residence badly damaged by fire this week.

Evelyn Forget a Manitoba researcher who has uncovered findings from an experiment about how people fare when they are guaranteed a livable income.

Alicia Hebert keeps her support nearby as she prepares for her H1N1 vaccination this week in Selkirk.

HudBay Minerals Inc. , a Toronto-based zinc miner, says Peter Jones will retire as chief executive of the company at the end of the year, only nine months after he returned in the wake of a corporate and board shakeup.

Vancouver - based artist Rebecca Belmore, whose works highlight the disenfranchised and marginalized in society, has won this year's $25,000 Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Award.

Aerial combat was a key part of both World Wars. There were many great Canadian aces in the First World War, such as Arthur Roy Brown .

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.

They've seen horrors, experienced constant threats and survived traumatic events.

MANITOBA is taking centre stage at the Vancouver Winter Olympics -- literally. Plans for CentrePlace Manitoba, the province's 2,560-square-foot pavilion situated in the middle of Canada's pavilions, were unveiled Friday in Winnipeg.

Brock Golden, seen in 2004, began serving his reduced sentence Thursday. A ruling by Manitoba's highest court Thursday to reduce the sentence of a Winnipeg man convicted of sexual crimes against minors is being met with extreme criticism by child-safety and victims' rights agencies.

Authorities say preliminary autopsy results show drowning as the cause of death for three North Dakota college softball players found dead inside a sport utility vehicle that sunk in a rural farm pond.

Those living near the shores of Lake Winnipeg and Lake Manitoba are being advised by Manitoba Water Stewardship to prepare for possible flood conditions.

Two new books place the spotlight on 13 of Manitoba's feature filmmakers, three of whom have close ties with Gimli.

Patients experiencing septic shock who receive inappropriate therapy may have a fivefold reduction in survival, shows a new study.

Dickinson State University officials retired the numbers of three college softball players at a packed memorial Thursday, two days after the women were found dead in their sunken vehicle in a livestock pond.

Two drivers received minor injuries in a three vehicle collision after a car was struck from behind by another on the Trans Canada Highway last night.

It's the big question facing many companies: What effect will the H1N1 pandemic have on business? Companies, many held back by the strong dollar and tepid demand as the country struggles out of recession, are being urged to plan for absenteeism rates of up to a third of their work forces as the flu season plays out.

The Winnipeg police homicide unit is now leading the investigation into an arson fire that killed two men in a city bathhouse.

SEVEN Winnipeg schools are among 27 Manitoba public schools reporting higher-than-usual absence levels Tuesday -- the first time this fall that schools within the city are reporting absence problems.

A fire Tuesday forced students out of their residence at University College of the North in Thompson, Man.

An Ontario man is facing charges in Manitoba after he was found to be transporting contraband cigarettes.

The Manitoba government is spending $42 million to clean up 18 orphaned and abandoned mine sites in the province.

ESSENTIAL staff at CancerCare Manitoba were sent home early Monday afternoon while police searched the McDermot Avenue facility for a suspect in a downtown carjacking believed to be armed.

The women are 21-year-old Ashley Neufeld of Brandon, Man., Kyrstin Gemar, 22, of Grossmont, Calif., and Afton Williamson, 20, of Lake Elsinore, Calif.

Wendy Dirisio holds her two-year-old daughter Zoe as she receives the H1N1 flu vaccination from RN Diane Nannarone at Metro Hall in downtown Toronto, Oct.

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