Nicole Buffie

Forty nurses from the hospital’s emergency department signed an open letter stating because of the current staffing ratio, nurses are witnessing “excessive and unacceptable safety risks on a daily basis.”

A spring and summer of intense weather has wreaked havoc on southern Manitoba, slamming it with torrential rain, tornadoes, intense heat and, now, wildfire smoke.

Thirty five highways remain closed weeks after torrential rain caused destructive flooding in several Manitoba communities.

Business owners in the East Beaches area of Lake Winnipeg hauled out generators Wednesday after a planned Manitoba Hydro outage left thousands of residents and cottagers without power.

The former CEO of Shared Health received nearly $1 million in salary and other pay last year, despite working for only one month before being fired following a provincial health-care system audit.

Manitobans have been warned to brace themselves for a severe storm season. “If this pattern holds, it’s going to be probably up in the high end of tornado totals,” said Dave Sills, director of the Northern Tornadoes Project, based out of Western University in London, Ont.

Peter Petkau was on his porch Monday night watching the rain pound the streets in Whyte Ridge when things took an ugly turn and a tornado ripped through the area.

More than 200 people demonstrated outside the Canadian Museum for Human Rights Friday evening to protest the exhibition about the mass displacement of Palestinians in the 1940s during the Arab-Israeli war.

Residents of a seniors home in South Tuxedo were floored to learn about a change to a home care program a short time after 88 per cent of the facility’s health-care aides were laid off on the same day they received union certification.

A St. François Xavier man’s hospital stay is being investigated as a critical incident after his esophageal leak went untreated for nearly 24 hours, resulting in pneumonia and an extended stay in the intensive care unit.