Manitoba

The interim leader of Manitoba's Progressive Conservatives apologized on Wednesday to the families of two slain First Nations women after refusing to search a landfill for their remains and touting the decision in a provincial election campaign ad.

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says a rate freeze on electricity in 2025 is achievable, despite another forecasted financial loss at Crown-owned Manitoba Hydro.

The encounter between Mamgark and the tourists is where the real and practical world of the North confronts an idealized and romanticized Arctic. It’s an imaginary Arctic, part of an image sold for southerners’ consumption. That tension is underlined by an increasingly common phrase: “last chance tourism." This phrase refers to the threats posed by the rapid ebbs and flows of the Anthropocene. As for Churchill, the term could mean a tourist’s last opportunity to see the Arctic as it is now, before its iconic wildlife is gone, a relic of a colder era.

The Raven Indigenous Outcome Fund has embraced a new model for funding that eschews the “pan-Canadian” approach of other programs, which are not developed for the nuances of particular communities and often leave Indigenous nations pigeonholed.

The prospective conservation area would stretch down the western edge of Hudson Bay on Manitoba’s Arctic coastline, producing an increase in resources, regulations and support to ensure a healthy coast in the sensitive low-arctic waters. Churchill, along with several First Nations, will decide the project's fate, government officials and environmental campaigners told Canada’s National Observer.

To achieve electrification goals, it will be advantageous for governments to take measures to support Indigenous-industry partnerships.

The minimum wage in four provinces is going up today.

They're about a difficult mother-in-law, a headbanger and three estranged sisters

A judge convicted Jeremy Skibicki last month of first-degree murder in the 2022 slayings, which put another spotlight on the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada.

Voters will go to the polls in the Elmwood — Transcona riding in Manitoba and the Montreal-area riding of LaSalle—Émard—Verdun on Sept. 16.

A blistering heat wave is moving across Western Canada, pushing record temperatures and the threat of wildfires into Saskatchewan.

A chief of a northern Manitoba First Nation is condemning a decade-long nursing staffing shortage in northern and remote communities as “systemic racism.”

A First Nation community in northern Manitoba says ground-penetrating radar has found 150 anomalies at the site of a former residential school, including 59 unmarked graves at a nearby cemetery.

We're a decade out from the Canadian goal of decarbonization for its electricity supply. Here's how each province and territory is faring in their quest to achieve that goal — and the very different measures they are taking to do so.

The fire had not grown in two days, but there was no end in sight to the battle against the blaze and no word on when residents might be able to return home.