Nicole Buffie

Monthly food bank use in Canada has nearly doubled since 2019, a new report has found, and Winnipeg organizations are feeling the strain. There were more than two million visits to food banks across t...

The City of Winnipeg is suing various contractors over alleged shoddy work on the Bill and Helen Norrie Library. The statement of claim, filed in Manitoba Court of King’s Bench in September, alleges t...

The city is launching food waste depots to encourage composting and divert scraps from landfills ahead of a citywide program set for 2030. Fifteen food waste drop-off stations will open at community c...

Birth control is now free to Manitobans without a drug plan, but the majority of international students remain excluded from coverage. The province began providing free contraceptives to those without health insurance Tuesday but students from outside Canada are not eligible, a fact lamented by the University of Manitoba Students’ Union president. “Often the international student community has to pick between their textbooks, putting food on the table, paying for rent and health care,” said Divya Sharma. UMSU provides menstrual products and other contraceptives to students, but Sharma says universal access to birth control shouldn’t be a worry for students. […]

A woman paces in the foyer of a provincial administrative building on York Avenue, her sniffles echo against the high ceilings. Her face is red and blotchy with anxiety. Glossy exits the elevator and...

A Transcona woman and her neighbour are unhappy after the City of Winnipeg ordered them to remove garden boxes and face ornaments from their boulevard trees, or face fines. Joyce Maryk received a visit from a city arborist Wednesday morning regarding a report to the department about decorations on and around an American elm tree on her boulevard. Maryk built a garden box around the elm’s base five years ago to protect the roots from her lawnmower and city-operated snowplows that nick the trunk every winter.

MCCREARY — RCMP are investigating a triple homicide that happened in western Manitoba Friday morning. Ste. Rose du Lac RCMP were contacted about a dead man on Road 84 West in the municipality of McCre...

Less than a decade after making a $30-million donation to the University of Manitoba’s faculty of health sciences and its medical college, Ernest Rady, who was born in Winnipeg and graduated from the...

After nearly 80 years, Kromar Printing Ltd. has closed its doors, leaving a massive building vacant on the edge of the city’s downtown core. The Business Development Bank of Canada filed for a receive...

Truth and reconciliation was at the forefront of Niverville High School for the month of March as they undertook a month-long pilot project focused on Indigenous education. A provincial Indigenous Education Pilot Program chose NHS as one of three in Hanover School division to bring cultural awarenes…