Unlike birth doulas, who help mothers during pregnancy and childbirth, postpartum doulas step in after the baby arrives.

The Indian and Metis Friendship Centre was recently ruined by vandals, but the North End fixture will likely reopen again — just maybe not at its current location, and preferably with input from the Bear Clan, patrol co-founder James Favel says.

An Indigenous leader and mentor at the centre of a multi-billion dollar lawsuit against the federal government over Indian Day Schools has died.

A train carrying petroleum struck a gravel truck Tuesday that was trying to cross an intersection near Westbourne, about 110 kilometres west of Winnipeg.

Federal investigators say CN railcars that spilled crude after derailing on farm land in western Manitoba were upgraded tankers.

(Bloomberg) — At least one conservative party premier in Canada is willing to work with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on his controversial new carbon tax. While conservative leaders in Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan have pledged to fight the levy, Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister says he’s open to renegotiating the rate of the carbon tax with […]

One man is dead after what Alberta Labour is calling a workplace incident Tuesday morning.

A hockey team from Nunavut is making history this week as it competes for the first time at the Canada Winter Games in Red Deer, Alberta.

Petro-Canada said more than 50 EV stations will be located at gas stations along the Trans-Canada Highway, from Nova Scotia to British Columbia.

Research on African fossils involving the University of Saskatchewan suggests organisms on Earth were capable of movement 2.1 billion years ago.

The RGHA is planning on building a hospice to provide end-of-life care and comfort for terminal patients of the Prince Albert, Sask., area.

Hey all! If you're looking for something to do on this lovely Louis Riel Day, why not head down to the Park Theatre to catch a live recording of Superbomb, the podcast about the most comically-bad comic book films ever made. Tonight's special guests are local comedians Ashley Burdett, Paul Rabliauskas and Kids in the […]

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Hey all, I noticed a few days ago that my hot water tank (Rheem R40-33M … 40 gallon/gas supply) has a slow dripping leak coming from the bottom. We have been in our house for 3.5 years, so the tank is at least that old (probably a few years older is my guess). First question, […]

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The trade deadline for the Winnipeg Jets was always supposed to be about bolstering an already dangerous team for a playoff run. Add a second-line forward, the thinking went, and the Jets should be as good a bet as any to reach another Western Conference Final, and beyond. But things have changed over the last […]

Manitoba’s budget deficit will narrow by more than $100 million next fiscal year, leaving room for Premier Brian Pallister to fulfill his pledge to eventually cut the provincial sales tax by a percentage point. Manitoba will post a budget gap of less than $400 million for the 2019-20 fiscal year, down from a forecast of […]

The City of Winnipeg is set to table its delayed budget on March 1. The budget will be tabled at a special meeting of the city’s executive policy committee. “This has been a challenging budget year considering continued demand for high quality services, the need to improve the city’s efficiency and control costs, as well […]

SYDNEY, N.S. — Manitoba’s Tracy Fleury has seen all this before. When she represented Northern Ontario at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts last year, her team started out 0-2 and bounced back to finish pool play with a 5-2 record. After starting out 0-2 again this year with a different team, from a different province, […]

Winnipeg Jets (36-19-4) at Colorado Avalanche (24-24-11) 7:30 pm CT. Pepsi Center TV: TSN3. Radio: TSN 1290 THE BIG MATCHUP Connor Hellebuyck vs Semyon Varlamov With one team trying to snap a two-game losing streak and the other trying to get above the playoff line, motivation won’t be lacking for either of the masked men. […]

“Any inference that this was meant to somehow threaten the Judge or disrespect court is categorically false,” Stone said in a statement posted to Instagram.

Rosenstein is expected to step down by mid March, a Justice Department official said on Monday.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has ordered Blue Heron Creamery to stop calling their products ‘cheese’.

Dylan Myskiw stopped all 38 shots he faced as the Edmonton Oil Kings blanked the Medicine Hat Tigers 5-0 on Monday afternoon in Western Hockey League action.

The rival bids for aid and concerts to shore up support are part of a tense bid by both Maduro and the opposition to break a monthlong stalemate over power in Venezuela.

The City of Winnipeg is calling for pitches from charging station manufacturers as it plans to add two electric vehicles to its fleet of 2,200.

A rancher whose land is being cleaned up after a CN derailment sent dozens of crude oil-carrying cars toppling onto his western Manitoba property says the company has apologized for not immediately reaching out to him after the incident.

A Winnipeg retiree who sold everything to sail around North America says he’s determined to continue despite hitting a reef and destroying his boat off the coast of Honduras.

For those of you who don’t have 2019 calendars, allow me to point out there are only — hold on while I count — five more sleeps until the 91st …

OTTAWA — A controversial reform of how Ottawa approves energy projects that has drawn loud protests across Western Canada could also have profound implications for Manitoba, legislators argue. The federal Liberals …

A human rights advocacy group is promoting diversity to students with a new contest, and the winner could become a published author and pocket $3,000 in the process. B’nai Brith Canada …

Emerson MLA Cliff Graydon wants to see his constituency keep its name in the next provincial election, which would require reversing a decision made by an independent commission to rename ……

A legacy of Roblin man who loved horses and the nature around him in western Manitoba will now live on after his family donated a slice of land he owned near Riding Mountain National Park to the Nature Conservancy of Canada on Monday. Bob Mickelson, a long-time resident of the area, owned the tranquil, 418-acre (169-hectare) […]

With the time coming to pay the taxman, the Winnipeg Police Service is reminding the public to be conscious of potential scams and frauds. Those scams come in various iterations with the most common including telemarketing, online, email and text message, identity theft, business, mail and door-to-door scams. Police say each of those methods utilized to […]

PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, Man. — A man in southern Manitoba has been charged with attempted murder following an apartment fire that injured a woman. The 38-year-old man from Portage la Prairie is also facing charges of arson with disregard for human life and forcible confinement. RCMP allege the injured woman was being held against her will when […]

Under the bus Did anyone else notice that when Trudeau announced how disappointed he was in Wilson-Raybould he was in a Winnipeg bus depot and his speech podium was right beside a city bus? His disappointment stemmed from her not advising him what common sense is. Wonder what the rest of the Liberal caucus thought […]

An Edmonton physiotherapist has been identified as the woman seriously injured when she was struck by a vehicle on Whitemud Drive over the weekend.