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Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister David Morrison has confirmed a report that Canada is alleging an Indian cabinet minister and close adviser to Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered intelligence-gathering operations targeting Canadians.

The Washington Post first reported that Canadian officials alleged Indian Home Affairs Minister Amit Shah was behind a campaign of violence and intimidation targeting Sikh separatists in Canada.

Morrison told MPs at the national security committee Tuesday that he was the one who confirmed Shah's name to that newspaper.

Food banks across the country are seeing an increase in use. 

New data from Food Banks Canada released this week suggests that more people than ever are having to make tough decisions when it comes to food. 

Its annual survey of food bank use in Canada recorded more than two million visits in March 2024, nearly double the monthly visits five years ago in March 2019. 

Agape Table, a soup kitchen in the West End of Winnipeg has seen this first hand.

Harvest Manitoba is warning Winnipeggers of a scam involving people posing as their organization. 

"We have been informed that individuals are going door-to-door and claiming to collect food and money donations on behalf of Harvest Manitoba," says the organization on Instagram. "Please be aware: we do not conduct any door-to-door solicitations. If someone approaches you for donations in our name, it is a scam."

For 35 years Harvest Manitoba, formerly Winnipeg Harvest, has been collecting non-perishable food and giving it to people in need. 

A member of the Winnipeg Sea Bears executive staff receives an honour in back-to-back seasons. 

Jason Smith, President of the Winnipeg Sea Bears, has been named the 2024 Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL) Executive of the Year. Smith becomes the second executive to win the award in back-to-back years after Vancouver's Dylan Kular did so in 2021 and 2022. 

Five people are in custody after a traffic stop turned violent. 

Shortly before 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 27, officers stopped a Dodge Ram with five occupants near McGregor St. and Alfred Ave. 

All of the occupants were taken out of the vehicle after a fight broke out and the passengers began fighting with each other.

At the same time, officers searched the vehicle, where they located and seized a 12 gauge shotgun, collapsible baton (Prohibited) and 2.6 grams of crack cocaine (estimated street value $220.00).

This Thursday, October 31st at 7:30 at the Rady Jewish Community Centre as part of their inaugural JFest they are presenting Winnipeg drag goddess Lady Muse and her band The Inspirations playing the music of Amy Winehouse. 

Josephine Sindani’s first memory of using a food bank is a happy one. 

She was eight years old and still adjusting to the shock of an Ottawa winter after recently moving from Halifax, where she and her mom arrived in Canada from Sudan about two years earlier. One day she saw her pregnant mother approaching their home, trudging through snow and carrying a “big bag of toys.”

Premier Scott Moe and the Saskatchewan Party won a fifth consecutive majority government Monday, losing in the big cities but retaining its iron grip on rural areas to secure victory.

Moe’s party was shut out by Carla Beck’s NDP in Regina and lost all but two seats in Saskatoon.

But it found enough support everywhere else to be elected in 35 seats in the 61-seat legislature, compared with 26 for the NDP.

"Thank you once again, Saskatchewan for placing your trust in our party, the Saskatchewan Party," Moe said as supporters in Shellbrook clapped and whooped.

The Bloc Québécois is poised to begin talks with other parties to bring down the minority Liberal government, which has not met its deadline to pass two key bills.

Bloc Leader Yves-François Blanchet set the deadline last month, putting the Liberals on notice that to avoid an election "before Christmas" they must adopt a pair of private member's bills.

One of the Bloc bills aimed at safeguarding supply management in trade negotiations has the support of the government and is being studied by the Senate.

A woman is recovering after being run over by her own vehicle during a carjacking that took place in broad daylight in downtown Winnipeg. 

The incident happened shortly after 2 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024, in the 300 block of York Ave. near Carlton St.

Winnipeg police say that a 45-year-old woman was robbed of her Toyota Tundra in a parking lot near the intersection of York Avenue and Carlton Street.