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A prosecutor urged a jury Thursday to find two accused human smugglers guilty, saying the men cared more about money than people's safety and their actions led to the deaths of a family of four in a prairie blizzard.

"They knew they were risking people's lives," Michael McBride said in his closing arguments after three days of testimony in U.S. district court.

"To them, all of those people were nothing but dollar signs."

A senior official says the Canadian government is not aware of any evidence linking Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to alleged criminal activity perpetrated by Indian agents on Canadian soil.

Meta is refusing to publicly disclose information that could determine whether it is subject to the Online News Act despite blocking news from its platforms.

In this episode of Feel Good Fridays, we went to Clearspring Centre to give away gift cards to Prairie Oils & Vinegars courtesy of the Steinbach Auto Dealers. We ran into a family in the parking lot and blessed them with a $50 gift card, and then they got to bless someone else!

Catch up on past episodes right here.

The Steinbach Minor Hockey Association recently held the Steinbach Minor Hockey Raffle. 3076 raffle tickets were sold, successfully raising $60,000 to cover the registration fees of their members. 

Raffle prizes included: 

1st place - $5000.00 cash (Winner- Jess Loewen)
2nd place - $2500.00 cash (Winner- Karen & Wesley Fontaine)
3rd place - $1000.00 gift card to Harvest Honda (Winner- Savannah Neudstadter  
30 additional $250 cash prizes and gift card to local businesses 
Early bird: 2 Winnipeg Jets tickets

2024 will go down as the year of canola disease.

That is according to Curtis Rempel, Vice President of Crop Production and Innovation with the Canola Council of Canada. Rempel says diseases were primarily root and lower stem. He notes this was partially due to the wet and cool conditions felt in large parts of the Prairies.

"For a lot of stubble-borne fungi, which are primarily disease-causing organisms, they are all fungal-related," explains Rempel. "The cool, damp conditions really allow the fungus to take off."

The Woodridge ATV Club had a busy and successful season. 

Gary Hora, President of the Woodridge Sandhogs and the ATV Association of Manitoba says the season was extended because of the warm temperatures but they have closed the trails out of respect for the snowmobile and winter sports community. 

Steinbach is experiencing a building boom, with a significant uptick in housing developments across the city. October 2024 saw impressive numbers in building permits, signaling strong growth for the year. City Council recently received an update on the building permit activity, which shows a thriving housing market and a steady increase in both residential and commercial developments. 

The Reeve of Piney says they were caught off guard by this week's announcement that three border crossings in southeastern Manitoba will be seeing their hours of service reduced. In fact, Wayne Anderson says it was only three weeks ago that they were informed that this would not be happening.

20 men's teams and 20 women's teams are competing in the 2024 DEKALB SuperSpiel which got underway Thursday morning at the Morris Curling Club.

Eunjung Kim of Korea who is seventh in the World Curling Team Ranking is in the women's field along with reigning Alberta champion Selena Sturmay of Edmonton, 2024 Manitoba finalist Beth Peterson, 2023 SuperSpiel finalist Serena Gray-Withers and Chelsea Carey who has is skipping Jennifer Jones' 2023 Manitoba championship team of Karlee Burgess, Emily Zacharias and Lauren Lenentine.