Karen Pauls

Community leaders are also trying to educate a new generation about how the animal also has important implications for the future of the Prairies.

Jennifer Dunn’s heart sank when news broke in 2022 about a London, Ont., sexual assault investigation allegedly involving members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team. Dunn and others with a civilian committee that reviews such investigations say a backlog meant they never got to the hockey case, which police closed in 2019 and then reopened, leading to charges against five players.

In what’s believed to be a first in relation to farmed animals, Canada’s federal court has given animal welfare advocates the green light to privately prosecute a live horse exporter in Manitoba.

Canada will soon have a second laboratory capable of working with the most dangerous pathogens in the world, home to Canada’s Centre for Pandemic Research. It will be the only non-government Level 4 facility in the country, part of the University of Saskatchewan’s Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization.

Thea Turcotte believes her life was likely saved by an experimental treatment developed in Winnipeg for a chronic artificial joint infection.

Amidst debate and discussion about what to do with art that reflects an imperialist history, the University of Manitoba is working to decolonize its art collection by replacing problematic paintings and sculptures with contemporary Indigenous art.

Parks Canada is racing against the clock in their fight against zebra mussels in Riding Mountain National Park following the discovery of a live adult specimen.

Newly released access to information documents from the Japanese government show at least 21 horses died during or in the days after being flown from Canada for slaughter in Japan between May 2023 and June 2024. That contradicts information from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.

They're not on the same team. Or even the same league. But football players Amélie Beauregard and Maya Turner have a lot in common: they're both breaking down barriers for women in a sport dominated by men.

Opaskwayak Cree Nation in northern Manitoba is concerned about an uptick in miscarriages, so it is working to support pregnant women better. One goal is to hire midwives so women don't have to travel to bigger cities when they are due.