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A 16-year-old boy is in custody after an attack involving a sword at a high school in Brandon, Manitoba.

The Brandon Police Service says that at around 1:15 p.m. on Tuesday, they were called to Neelin High School for the report of a youth acting erratically with a weapon. 

The school was placed under lockdown until officers located the 16-year-old suspect. A stun gun was used to disarm the youth before he was placed under arrest and taken into custody.

One of the oldest theatres in Winnipeg aims to welcome concertgoers back inside its historic walls in the next few years at it becomes the artistic home of one of the city’s largest performing arts ensembles. 

About 7,000 people in and around La Ronge, Sask., will be allowed to return home on Thursday after the lifting of a wildfire evacuation order, the director of the local emergency operation centre said Tuesday.

Lyle Hannan said residents of La Ronge, Air Ronge and the Lac La Ronge Indian Band can start going home on Thursday at 8 a.m.

Those deemed to work in essential services will be allowed to return sooner, he said.

Hannan said rain in the last few days helped crews contain the wildfire near the community.

Ottawa’s efforts to prepare the country for the impacts of climate change have stumbled out of the gate, Canada’s environment commissioner said Tuesday.

In a new report, Jerry DeMarco concluded the National Adaptation Strategy was not effectively designed, did not prioritize Canada’s climate change risks and only established one of its three components since its release in 2023.

The Manitoba government is expected to use more "revenue levers," similar to its recent income and property tax changes, as part of its plan to reduce the deficit, a credit-rating agency report says.

S&P Global Ratings has affirmed the Manitoba government's existing short-term and long-term credit ratings and says the outlook for the province is stable, based in part on expected revenue changes and spending control.

The federal government is moving to shore up a historically weak summer job market for students — even as one economist argues tough employment prospects for young people suggest broader softness in the job market.

Statistics Canada shone a light on the difficult employment prospects for students heading back to school this fall in its May jobs report last Friday.

Roughly one in five returning students aged 15 to 24 was unemployed in May, the agency said. The last time the jobless rate for students was this high outside the pandemic was in May 2009.

Jessica Morris, the Australian journalist behind the investigation into former Newsboys and DC Talk frontman Michael Tait, says her intent was never to dismantle the Christian music industry, but to help protect those within it.

“This wasn’t about a vendetta,” Morris told CHVN in a 27-minute interview recorded Monday, June 9. “It was about shining a light in the darkness.”

Psalm 46:10

He says, "Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations,  I will be exalted in the earth."

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Proverbs 16:16

Foolish indeed is the person who considers himself safe and sound because he has money...

And another reason it's foolish to trust in riches for security is that money, in the final analysis, brings no lasting satisfaction, certainly not in the area of things that really matter. There are many things that no amount of money can buy.

Think of it this way:

The Winnipeg Police Service is requesting the public’s assistance in locating a missing 12-year-old gir.