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The demands of protecting parliamentarians and other public figures are placing "significant strain" on RCMP personnel and taking resources from other federal policing priorities, warns an internal briefing note. 

The national police force is "forced to walk a delicate balance" in providing protective services in response to threats flagged by parliamentarians, says the newly released February memo.

"The limited capacity of the RCMP's protective services must be prioritized based on these assessments."

Monday's supermoon was the first of four this year.

During a supermoon, the full moon inches a little closer than usual to Earth. A supermoon isn't bigger, but it can appear that way in the night sky, although scientists say the difference can be barely perceptible.

September's supermoon will coincide with a partial lunar eclipse. October's will be the year's closest approach, and November's will round out the year.

The Winnipeg Police Service is alerting the public of many fraudulent phone calls coming in to residents recently. 

The scammers calling are posing as people's financial institutions and then saying the person's bank accounts have been compromised. Then the suspects say they want to help the victim secure their money. 

Once the victim agrees, the suspect instructs the person to move money from their account to a 'secure' one which ends up being an account they take the money from. 

According to the WPS, the number being dialed from even looks legitimate. 

Canada’s annual inflation rate fell to 2.5 per cent last month, matching economists' forecasts and solidifying expectations for another interest rate cut in September.

Tuesday’s consumer price index report says prices for travel tours, passenger vehicles and electricity helped drive the headline figure lower.

Meanwhile, shelter costs are still the main driver of inflation as Canadians face significantly higher rents and mortgage payments.

Since this past Wednesday, August 14th, the Campus at Canadian Mennonite University has been resonating with the sounds of strings.  

The Rosamunde Summer Music Festival and Academy is now on.  Students from as young as five all the way up to 65 have been learning intensively from some of the finest string players in the country.  

Police in Winnipeg are asking the public for help in locating a homicide suspect.

The Winnipeg Police Service says in a press release that on March 18, at approximately 4:40 p.m., police responded to a residence in the 1200 block of Selkirk Avenue where they found 56-year-old Edgar Allan Bear, a member of Peguis First Nation, deceased from a gunshot wound.

Following an investigation by the Homicide Unit, 27-year-old Maxim Dale Garneau was arrested and charged with second-degree murder.

Global Affairs Canada said Monday it's aware of reports that a Canadian has died after a luxury superyacht sank off Sicily during a violent storm, while Italian authorities said they continued to search for six people who remained unaccounted for.

In a statement Monday afternoon, Global Affairs said consular officials were in contact with local authorities, but said it could provide no further information due to privacy concerns.

"We extend our deepest sympathies to everyone affected by this tragic event," the agency said.

When Alice Foubert entered her home in Jasper, Alta., for the first time since a wildfire roared into the community, the rancid smell from her fridge made it difficult for her to recognize where she was.

"It felt like a shell of home," the 25-year-old said in an interview Monday.

"My heart just sank. I'm used to my cats being in there to greet me but the streets were also pretty empty and it just didn't feel like home."

Foubert was among dozens of residents roaming the town Monday on foot, in cars or on bikes. Some were out walking pets.

The appointment of longtime broadcaster Charles Adler to the Senate is being criticized in some quarters, including by a member of the federal cabinet.

Adler, who spent decades hosting talk-radio shows, was named to the Senate on the weekend by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and will represent Manitoba. 

Dan Vandal, the minister of northern affairs, has issued a brief one-sentence statement that says there are many Manitobans better suited to represent the province.

A group of dogs are now looking for their forever homes. 

Just over two weeks after the Office of the Provincial Veterinarian- Animal Welfare, the first group of dogs are at the Winnipeg Humane Society (WHS) ready to be adopted.