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An early morning fire in Elmwood has left several people displaced. 

The blaze broke out shortly after 2 a.m. in a mixed-use commercial and residential structure in the 2002 block of Watt Street. 

Flames and smoke were coming from the building when crews arrived. Firefighters were able to enter the building and fight the fire from inside. 

The fire was declared under control just after 3 a.m.

Everyone in the building was able to escape before crews arrived. Two people were assessed at the scene but did not require a hospital trip.

The newly created Build Canada Homes agency will oversee plans to build 4,000 homes on six federally owned sites, as part of a $13 billion agency budget to speed up affordable home building, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Sunday. 

Carney said that the $13 billion will offer financial incentives for builders to construct affordable homes and reduce upfront costs of affordable homebuilding.

Specific locations for the homes have not yet been announced, but Carney said they will be in Dartmouth, N.S., Longueuil, Que., Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg and Edmonton.

Members of Parliament are gearing up for their return to the House of Commons in what's expected to be a busy fall. 

Here is a look at some of the things to watch for as Parliament gets underway this week.

The budget

The Liberal government took some heat in the spring when it decided to delay the introduction of the federal budget, which is typically done in March or April, until this fall. 

Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne said his fiscal plan is set to be released in October. 

Updated at 9:22 p.m.

Environment Canada has issued multiple tornado warnings and severe thunderstorm advisories across southern Manitoba Sunday evening as a powerful storm system tracks through the region.

Meteorologists say some of the thunderstorms are capable of producing tornadoes, along with damaging winds, large hail and intense rainfall.

Warnings have shifted through several communities over the evening, including Brenda-Waskada, Grassland and Victoria, with advisories continuing to change as the storm moves east and north.

Four people are dead and a young pilot is in hospital after a plane crash in northern Manitoba.

Island Lake RCMP say they received a report of the crash around 6:45 p.m. on Sept. 13. The aircraft went down about 40 kilometres south of St. Theresa Point First Nation, near Makepeace Lake.

Police said the flight had departed from St. Theresa Point and was headed for Makepeace Lake.

A report that could shed more light on why Manitoba's former Progressive Conservative government rejected calls to search a landfill for the remains of two murder victims is being withheld under the province's freedom of information law.

Records obtained by The Canadian Press show senior bureaucrats assembled a presentation for cabinet ministers on a potential search in the weeks before the government decided not to proceed with the idea in 2023.

The early-1960s revelation that British spy Kim Philby had worked for Moscow alarmed Canadian intelligence officials who feared that he had betrayed confidences gleaned from Soviet defector Igor Gouzenko, once-secret archival records show.

Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby was recruited by Russian intelligence in the 1930s. He joined Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, known as MI-6, during the Second World War, rising through the ranks to become a senior liaison officer in Washington from 1949 to 1951.

Former federal environment minister Catherine McKenna says the Justin Trudeau government's efforts to explain the consumer carbon price to Canadians were "half-hearted" — and just getting a meeting with the prime minister to discuss it "seemed impossible."

McKenna offers those behind-the-scenes details in her new autobiography, Run Like A Girl, which is being launched next week.

A bridge in Wolseley will be closed for pedestrians and cyclists this week.

Between Monday, September 15 to Friday, September 19, the active transportation bridge over Omand's Creek will be closed. 

The closure is to allow crews to repair the bridge and embankments. 

During the closure, a detour will be in place through the park's north entrance on Portage Avenue. 

The Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service (WFPS) responded to two separate structure fires early Saturday morning.

Midwinter Avenue fire

At 5:33 a.m., crews were called to a two-storey home in the 200 block of Midwinter Avenue. Heavy smoke and flames were visible when firefighters arrived.

An interior fire attack brought the blaze under control by 6:54 a.m. A search confirmed no one was inside the home, and no injuries were reported.

The house sustained significant smoke, fire and water damage. Investigators have not released a cause or damage estimate.