A 36-year-old Brandon man has received a nine-month custodial sentence for uploading sex videos of his then-pregnant ex-girlfriend to a porn website without her consent. Some videos showed the woman’s face and in another, her pregnant belly. Neither the woman nor the accused were named in the decision. The man also received two years probation, and was ordered to pay a court cost and victim surcharge.
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Water leaking from the Tim Horton’s kiosk at Brandon Hospital allegedly caused mould in a dialysis unit and a boardroom last year, and Prairie Mountain Health is suing to recover the costs of repairs. An engineer found water seeping from multiple locations in the Timmy’s kitchen and serving area caused the damage.
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A medium-security inmate at Manitoba’s Stony Mountain prison was busted on Monday for trying to bring contraband into the building. $55,750 in illegal items were seized including crystal meth.
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Two men have been arrested in connection with home invasions last week on the Birdtail Sioux First Nation, and police are searching for a third suspect. Three men were injured in the assaults, including the community’s leader, who was hospitalized for several days.
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“Freedom Convoy” organizer Pat King was sentenced to three months of house arrest this week. He was found guilty on five of nine charges in November, including mischief and disobeying a court order, for his role in the 2022 protest that took over downtown Ottawa for three weeks.
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According to the Parliamentary Budget Office, a federal guaranteed basic income program could cut poverty rates in Canada by up to 40% – and in Manitoba by up to 53%. A family in the lowest income group could receive $6,100 a year. However. paying for the program would mean cuts to other social supports.
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Many of us are avoiding oral health-care services due to the cost. Statistics Canada reports that 1-in-4 Canadians aged 12 and older avoided a visit to the dentist last year, citing the cost. Last March, the federal government opened its new dental care plan to try and address these access to care issues.
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The wreck of a crashed Delta Air Lines jet has been cleared from a runway at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport, but it could be weeks before bags are returned to their owners after inspection and cleaning. Delta, meantime, has offered $30,000 to the 76 passengers, all of whom survived the crash.
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Ahead of a potential trade war, Canadian grocers are looking for alternatives to U.S. products while highlighting homegrown products already on their shelves. The ‘tariff truce’ right now could end in early March. A grocer with stores in Ontario and Quebec says we’d better get used to finding other, better long-term solutions that are reliable and stable.
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American president Donald Trump has now dropped the idea of a 25% tariff on Canadian lumber and forest products. If the levy is added on top of current duties already in place, the combined total on softwood exports to the U.S. will be closer to 50% or 55%.
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A new poll has found 63% of Manitobans are very, or somewhat confident premier Wab Kinew can deal with U-S President Donald Trump’s economic policies. At the federal level, Manitobans have Pierre Polievre slightly ahead of Justin Trudeau in terms of handling the effects of Trump’s trade tactics.
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and according to a new Leger poll, more than a quarter of Canadians – 27% – now see the United States as an “enemy” country – while another 30% still say they consider the U.S. an ally. One exec at the polling company says ‘enemy’ is a ‘strong word’, and he was surprised to see Canadians so divided.
