Alana Cole

CBC spoke with middle school students and educators at General Wolfe School about Manitoba’s move toward a ban on social media and artificial intelligence chatbots for those under 16. It’s the same school we recently visited to learn how AI was getting introduced in the classroom.

Inside an unassuming building in Winnipeg’s core a small team is working to protect people from dangerous street drugs. It’s where the Main Street Project runs its safe supply program– providing those addicted primarily to opioids a prescribed daily amount of the opioid hydromorphone.

A growing number of Manitoba's MRI machines now use artificial intelligence, with a plan to have more than half using the technology by spring.

Dozens of people were in hospitals waiting for a space in a personal care home over a six-week period this summer, according to Winnipeg Regional Health Authority numbers.

Brain bleeds, spinal fractures and amputations are just a few of the injuries a Winnipeg pediatric emergency room doctor says she's seen in kids hurt while riding off-road vehicles — and data shows the majority of the most recent cases to land in the ER weren't wearing helmets.

A Winnipeg-based metal plant says U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum will hurt American customers building artificial ice rinks — casting uncertainty over the future of their contracts at a time when the business is expanding. 

A proposed screening clinic for people with diabetes in Winnipeg aims to reduce complications related to the disease such as vision loss, kidney disease and amputations, says the executive director of an existing centre that focuses on diabetes care. 

There was a time Christian Swan would dream about being able to walk again. The 46-year-old has diabetes and had his ankle and foot amputated more than two years ago, following complications from an infection.

Alyssia Sutherland, owner and designer of Ally’s Ribbons, will see a collection of her designs on the runway at Paris Fashion Week later this month.

A high school in rural Manitoba hasn't taken hazing allegations seriously enough, a community member says after a teen charged in connection with the alleged incidents on a hockey team was named the recipient of two high school athletic awards last month.

The head of Doctors Manitoba said what Manitoba is currently seeing with regards to pediatric primary care is another symptom of the physician shortage here.

Two teenage hockey players say they saw manipulation, along with abusive and inappropriate behaviour, during a season with Madison Biluk as their head coach on an under-18 team in Alberta. 

Jeremy Skibicki is charged with four counts of first-degree murder, but the identity of one alleged victim remains unknown.

Bianca Beauregard got a call last Friday that her sister was in a Winnipeg hospital following an overdose and wasn’t expected to survive. But after family members visited Health Sciences Centre to say goodbye, they discovered the woman lying in the hospital bed wasn’t their loved one.

Cambria Harris hasn’t had the chance to grieve the loss of her mother. The 21-year-old woman has been too busy fighting for action for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

A Manitoba mom whose baby was hospitalized with RSV wants people to know what might seem like just a cold for some can be devastating for others — including newborns.

As Manitoba sees a surge of RSV cases, a program aimed at protecting babies and toddlers at risk of getting the sickest if they’re infected has started early this season.

The CEO of NEEDS, a non-profit in Winnipeg that helps immigrant and refugee kids, youth and their families get settled in Canada, says the organization is busier than ever this year.

Like many other five-year-olds, Maksym Okhrimenko is getting ready to start kindergarten. But for him, that means more than just getting used to a new class or teacher. Maksym, who is from Ukraine, is getting ready to learn in a new language and in a new country.

Noelle Drimmie still remembers the challenges she faced just a few years ago while trying to get a prescription for the abortion drug Mifegymiso in Flin Flon, Man. where she lives.