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A new poll by Leger has found that Quebec residents are the happiest in Canada.

The web survey of nearly 40,000 Canadians found that Quebecers rated their happiness at an average of 72.4 out of 100, which is well above the national average.

New Brunswick followed Quebec with an average of 70.2, while Manitoba and Prince Edward Island finished at the bottom of the list. 

Mississauga, Ont. had the highest happiness rating of the 10 largest cities, while Toronto was lowest. 

Montreal finished second in the category.

Evacuees from northern Manitoba continued to pour into Winnipeg Friday as a renewed round of wildfires threatened communities and shrouded much of the province in smoke.

"It's been rough," Misty Harper said, as she and her partner walked outside of a large indoor soccer complex set up to house evacuees, along with her one-year-old daughter in a stroller. 

Some people sat at picnic tables under small canopies or on grass in an adjacent field. Buses filled with more evacuees arrived a few times each hour.

It has been 10 years since Thelma Krull left her Winnipeg home for a morning walk and never returned.

On the anniversary of her disappearance, the Winnipeg Police Service is once again asking for the public’s help to solve the case, which remains open despite extensive investigation and national attention.

Discover Manitoba’s Past with the MHS InSite App—Just in Time for Historic Places Days

If you’ve ever walked past an old building and wondered about the stories it could tell, you’re in luck. Just in time for Historic Places Days (kicking off today and going until July 20th across Canada), the Manitoba Historical Society has launched a brand-new way to explore the province’s storied past—right from your phone.

Canada’s labour market topped expectations in June amid a surprise surge in hiring.

Statistics Canada said Friday that the unemployment rate dropped a tenth of a percentage point to 6.9 per cent in June as the economy added some 83,000 jobs.

The vast majority of those jobs were part-time, the agency said, with 47,000 positions added in the private sector.

A Reuters poll of economists heading into Friday’s release had expected the jobless rate would rise to 7.1 per cent in June as employment levels held flat.

The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity is one of the best places in Canada to explore new artistic expression and to add to one’s creative arsenal. This can be true even for one of the most celebrated masterworks in western classical music.  

One person was taken to hospital following a house fire in Winnipeg's North End Thursday evening.

The Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service was called to a one-and-a-half-storey home in the 800 block of Boyd Avenue at 6:46 p.m. after reports of smoke coming from the residence.

Firefighters launched an interior attack and brought the blaze under control by 7:03 p.m.

One resident was evacuated by firefighters and taken to hospital in stable condition, the city said in a release. No other injuries were reported.

2025 marks a quarter-century since the Midwifery Act was passed in Manitoba, allowing mothers and families to access informed prenatal, birth and post-partum care. Now, a new exhibit called Mother Care at the 210 Gallery in the Exchange District is celebrating that anniversary with a multi-disciplinary reflection on the work that has been done to acknowledge the work of midwives across the province that stretched back two decades before passing of the act. 

Jazz, Sunshine, and Sculpture: Danny Carroll Brings Heart and Humour to Assiniboine Park 

Due to unstable conditions in the environment last night, there were a few intense thunderstorms reported throughout southern Manitoba. 

"What we had yesterday was quite a hot and humid day over southern Manitoba," says Rose Carlsen, a meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada. "There were some pretty unstable conditions in the environment."

Friday afternoon, the temperature reached 31 degrees Celsius with a humidex of 39.