Новости Виннипега и Манитобы

новости Манитобы

• Bathhouse owner admits fire code violations
  The owner of a downtown Winnipeg bathhouse where a fire killed two people in October pleads guilty and is fined for fire code violations.
• Media fights to televise Sinclair inquest
  Several news outlets will be in a Winnipeg court Friday to argue that an inquest into the high-profile death of a homeless man should be televised so as many people as possible can watch it.
• Man hurt in Osborne Village hit and run
  Police have reopened River Avenue and Osborne Street after a pedestrian was struck and injured by a vehicle at 4:30 p.m. CT.
• Manitoba murderer nabbed in Seattle
  A convicted murderer from Manitoba who violated his parole and fled Canada has been arrested in Seattle, Wash. after 14 years on the run, the U.S. Marshals Service reported on Wednesday.
• Baby Isaiah dies in Edmonton hospital
  Isaiah May, the Alberta infant who had been in intensive care since he suffered severe brain damage during his birth in October, died in his parents' arms just after he was taken off life support shortly after noon Thursday at Edmonton's Stollery Children's Hospital.
• Canadian beaten in Australia recovering
  A 35-year-old Manitoba man who uses a wheelchair is recovering from surgery in Sydney, Australia, after he was severely beaten late Tuesday night.
• Town shaken by abduction, sex assault of girl, 6
  Crisis counsellors were on hand at schools in The Pas, Man., to help students upset by the abduction and sexual assault of a six-year-old girl a day earlier.
• New law to extend Indian status to thousands
  The Conservative government introduced new legislation to amend the Indian Act that, if passed, could recognize an additional 45,000 Canadians as status Indians.
• Protestors force suspension of sewage project
  Protesters have shut down construction of a sewage system in the northern Manitoba community of Norway House Cree Nation.
• Taxpayers cheated by Man. NDP donations: Opposition
  Manitoba's Progressive Conservatives are pressing for a public inquiry over allegations the provincial NDP cheated taxpayers in how their 1999 election campaign was financed.