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The Winnipeg Sea Bears of the Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL) have retained the first right to negotiate with five members of its 2024 team for the 2025 season.
 
In the CEBL, all players are on single-season contracts, which means every club must sign its full roster each Spring. Free agency for the 2025 season begins Feb. 1. Each club is granted the right to negotiate with players on their protected list from now until Mar. 1 without interference from other CEBL teams.
 

Musicians of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra will not only play – but slay – on Friday as part of the Downtown Diva Ensemble showcase.  

The unique collaboration on the steps and in the lobby of the Centennial Concert Hall features local drag performers and vocalists accompanied by the musicians. 

“It's a nice way to welcome people back to the concert hall,” says WSO oboist Robin MacMillan.  

A fire broke out at a vacant three-storey apartment building in the 500 block of Balmoral Street on Wednesday night, marking the latest in a series of incidents at the site.

The Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service (WFPS) responded to the blaze at 7:39 p.m., with smoke visible from the building upon their arrival, according to a media release from the City of Winnipeg.

This Sunday, September 8th at 7pm, Jazz Winnipeg will be kicking off another great season of Sunday night Jazz at the Fort Garry Hotel. Some of the country’s best musicians will be taking to the stage to bring Winnipeg audiences the absolute finest in live music. 

The first concert of the season features former Winnipegger and guitarist Aaron Shorr.  

Dozens of residents of a Winnipeg apartment building have been displaced after a fire broke out late Wednesday morning.

At 11:36 a.m., the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service responded to a two-storey apartment building in the 300 block of Ross Avenue. Crews arrived to find smoke in the building, but the sprinkler system had already activated, suppressing the fire before it spread further.

Water damage from the sprinklers forced the evacuation of the building. Firefighters helped some residents leave, while others were able to exit on their own.

The City of Winnipeg is giving motorists a heads-up that a busy roadway will be closed for much of the day, today.

In an online post, the City says that the Osborne Bridge will be closed in all directions between Granite Way and Osborne Street on Thursday, September 5, 2024.

Construction taking place on the bridge is responsible for the closure.

The City says that lanes in both directions will be opened for the morning and afternoon rush hours, but otherwise to expect complete closures throughout the day.

The Sioux Falls Canaries (1-0) shut out the Winnipeg Goldeyes 5-0 in the first game of their American Association West Division Series Wednesday at Sioux Falls Stadium.
 
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Witnesses say that a vehicle drove through a crowd of protesters striking some of them on Wednesday in Winnipeg.

A group of protesters had gathered at Portage Avenue and Main Street to demonstrate after the Winnipeg Police Service announced on Tuesday that officers had struck and killed a woman with a vehicle at a homeless encampment. Officers were providing a ride home to a person who lives in the encampment in Fort Rouge Park off of River Avenue when the collision occurred. The victim was a woman in her 30s, police say.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has ripped up the supply and confidence deal with the Liberals that helped keep the minority government in power. 

In a social media video posted Wednesday afternoon, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said he notified Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of the decision. 

"Canadians are fighting a battle.  A battle for the future of the middle class.  Justin Trudeau has proven again and again he will always cave to corporate greed," Singh said in the video directly addressing Canadians. 

The NDP's supply and confidence deal with the Liberals in Ottawa will get heavy scrutiny when leader Jagmeet Singh meets with his caucus in Montreal next week, with the Liberals' decision last month to force binding arbitration to end a work stoppage at the country's major railroads potentially triggering the end of the pact.