Bryce Hoye

The number of children in care in Manitoba is up for the first time in several years, as Indigenous youth in the system continue to vastly outnumber non-Indigenous children.

A new 72-hour detention centre in Winnipeg for highly intoxicated people will open in less than three weeks, barring any legislative hiccups, the province's addictions minister says.

The NDP introduced legislation in Manitoba on Thursday that the premier hopes will safeguard against the frivolous use of the notwithstanding clause, a legal measure that's been invoked by Quebec and other governments in recent years to temporarily shield provincial legislation from legal challenges under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

A federal immigration program in Manitoba that faced significant cuts earlier this year subsequently received a boost of over 30 per cent from Ottawa — bringing the total number of slots through the provincial nominee program to 6,239, up from 4,750 in January.

The agency that oversees child welfare in Peguis First Nation released figures this week suggesting a system brokered through a historic 2023 agreement is working well — contrary to calls by the community's chief to scrap the "failing" arrangement due to oversight concerns.

A new piece of legislation could enable people who are highly intoxicated to be detained for up to three days — something Manitoba's addictions minister and Winnipeg's chief of police say keeps everyone more safe.

Families Minister Nahanni Fontaine says her personal safety and that of Housing Minister Bernadette Smith — the first two First Nations women cabinet ministers in Manitoba — are being considered carefully after fires and vandalism at their campaign offices.

The sister of a 33-year-old single mother murdered more than a decade ago wants stricter conditions embedded in the Criminal Code after the man convicted in her death was granted brief escorted leaves from prison for spiritual reasons.

The topic of political violence dominated question period as MLAs returned to the Manitoba Legislature for the beginning of the fall sitting on Wednesday, one day after a fire was started at the constituency office of Families Minister Nahanni Fontaine.

A woman is suing Health Sciences Centre and a psychiatrist alleging negligence on the part of staff after she was permitted to leave the psychiatric unit on an unaccompanied leave where she tried to kill herself.