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The Canadian Nurses Association says it hopes the new "united Team Canada" approach at the Council of the Federation will lead to harmonization of nurses' licences across the country.

The association was among a number of health-care advocacy groups at the recent annual meeting of Canada's premiers.

While health care tends to take centre stage when the premiers meet, this year's gathering with Prime Minister Mark Carney was dominated by discussion of U.S. President Donald Trump's global trade war.

Most Canadians believe the country is making good progress on reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples, a new poll from Leger suggests.

"The extent to which people feel progress on reconciliation is being made or not has an important bearing on how they feel about the country," said Jack Jedwab, president and CEO of the Association for Canadian Studies, which commissioned the poll.

The survey of 1,580 respondents was conducted between June 20 and 22. A margin of error cannot be associated to the survey because online polls are not considered to be truly random samples.

There is a heat warning in effect for the city of Winnipeg and southern Manitoba. 

Environment Canada shares that there will be hot and humid conditions over portions of southern Manitoba on Saturday, with humidex values reaching 38 during the afternoon. 

Saturday night, there will be a cold front sweeping over Manitoba that should abate the intense heat. 

Don’t Be Late for a Very Musical Date: Alice in Wonderland Takes Over Classic 107’s 9 AM Hour!

“Curiouser and curiouser!” That’s how things will be sounding this Saturday morning in the 9 o’clock hour, as Classic 107 tumbles down the rabbit hole into a whimsical world of music inspired by Alice in Wonderland! Why, you ask? Because it was on this very day—July 26, 1951—that Walt Disney’s animated adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s beloved tale premiered in theatres.

The Manitoba government says it has settled a lawsuit with the family of a woman who died during the COVID-19 pandemic while in the process of being transferred out of province due to a shortage of hospital beds.

Matt Wiebe, minister of justice and the province's attorney general, confirmed a settlement was recently reached with the family of Krystal Mousseau more than two years after Mousseau's mother first sued the provincial government and health agencies. 

A new report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says the federal public service could shed almost 60,000 jobs over the next four years as Ottawa looks to cut costs.

Earlier this month, Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne sent letters to multiple ministers asking them to identify cuts to program spending at their departments of 15 per cent by 2028-29.

The report, written by Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives senior economist David Macdonald, says the federal public service could lose up to 57,000 employees by 2028.

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says Canada's new Arctic ambassador will play a key role in preserving sovereignty in the region as the military closely watches the movements of a Chinese icebreaker.

Iqaluit resident Virginia Mearns will be Canada's senior Arctic official on the world stage, following a career with local Inuit governments.

"Canada's Arctic ambassador is going to advance Canada's polar interests in multilateral forums," Anand told The Canadian Press in an interview from Inuvik, N.W.T.

The Louise Bridge closure has been extended again, and isn't supposed to open at all this summer.

The closure of the bridge was originally supposed to be four days, and was set to reopen on May 26 before unexpected delays. that caused the closure to be extended. 

The bridge was set to reopen at the end of July. 

The Winnipeg Police Service says that a missing 85-year-old man has been found safe.

The man was last seen in downtown Winnipeg at 07:30 a.m. on Friday, July 25, 2025.

The WPS had sent out a silver alert shortly after, asking for help in locating the missing man.

Just after 6 p.m. on Friday night, police sent out another release saying he had been found safe.

The Winnipeg Police Service activates a silver alert when a vulnerable adult person is reported as missing.

Over 50 people attended the Winnipeg Fringe Festival show, 'An Improvised John Hughes Movie', on Friday at the Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain. 

We enjoyed this improv show so much the first time on Tuesday that we went back for a second time on Friday. The show used the styles and tropes popular in John Hughes' movies.

With a similar structure to Tuesday's show, audience suggestions were incorporated into the show but led to different results.