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Gypsy moth spraying postponed

The city aerial spraying campaign against the European gypsy moth will have to wait a day. An airplane was to fly over the Minnetonka and Pulberry neighbourhoods and spray the organic, biological product Bacillus thuringiensis var. kurstaki (Btk) to kill t...

Mixed bag of sun and showers in forecast

Environment Canada says today’s weather will be a little bit country and a little bit rock 'n' roll. Well, that’s not exactly how they put it but Staff Writer reads it that way. You’ll see a mix of sun and cloud today, with a 60 per cent chance of showers ...

'I don't hear voices' Vince Li says

Vince Li understands why people are still afraid of him. He remembers what happened on a Greyhound bus bound for Winnipeg during that midsummer's nightmare in 2008. But now that he is medicated for his illness, the aliens he was afraid of have disappeared...

Violent killing in Leaf Rapids

A father of four was stabbed with a broken golf club in a grisly homicide in northern Manitoba, his family said. Garfield Baker, 39, was the victim of a fatal stabbing and beating early Saturday in the northern community of Leaf Rapids, said family. Mary-...

Province's chemical dependency

The provincial government is the biggest user in Manitoba of weed-killing chemicals banned in other provinces and soon to be restricted here. Last summer, according to an analysis of year-end pesticide reports filed by towns, cities, schools and other agen...

Pooch paradise, where champion beagles run free

NEAR ST. LAURENT -- Had enough of puppy-mill stories? Meet the anti-puppy mill. These dogs are so happy it's almost criminal. Male and female beagles are split up and each gender gets their own 258 hectares of fenced-off bush and pasture. They run around ...

Unsolved homicides torment families

AMANDA Sinclair last spoke to her sister when she called her from a West End convenience store last December. Carolyn Sinclair's body turned up months later near a Notre Dame Avenue Dumpster. Amanda said her sister, who lived near Ellice Avenue and Maryla...

Panel green-lights formal inquiry for judge

A five-person judicial panel agreed Saturday to launch a formal inquiry against a Manitoba judge whose husband once handed out nude photos of her to a client. The inquiry against Justice Lori Douglas will take place in a Winnipeg courtroom this summer, the...

New home, new rules for men in the kitchen

South Sudanese men in Winnipeg embraced a new tradition Sunday and broke with an old one. They celebrated Mother's Day for the first time -- albeit a week late, and the men did all the cooking -- taboo to their Dinka tribe. "It's unbelievable," said Rebec...

Senior technology mavens help educate their peers

Technology has come a long way over the course of Isabella Dryden's and Jean Johnson's lives, considering they grew up in the day and age when most did not own a television and many did not even have a radio. But despite that, the active women have not onl...