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It might not be your typical name for a plumbing business, but “Aloha” captures exactly what co-owner and founder Julian DeJesus hopes his customers will feel about his service. 

“If I say the word ‘Aloha,’ you will feel something positive,” he says. “We want everyone to have those positive vibes.” 

A significant winter storm is moving across the prairies, bringing heavy snowfall to parts of Manitoba.

Environment and Climate Change Canada meteorologist Brad Vrolijk says the system will move through in two phases.

The University of Manitoba Concerto Competition announced its three winners after a final round performance on the stage at the Desautels Concert Hall last week.  

Out of nine performers, pianist Ari Hooker, violinst Shion Tamashiro, and percussionist Nathan Gibbens came out on top of  a field that was open to all students in U of M’s Desautels Faculty of Music.  

A Winnipeg iconic curling facility is the host to the 2025 Canadian Curling Club Championships in November. 

Curling Canada made the announcement on Thursday that Winnipeg’s Granite Curling Club, with 110 years of history, which is also known as The Mother Club for Curling in Winnipeg will host the Championships from Nov. 18 to 23. 

On Friday March 28, a section of Portage Avenue East will be closed between 9:30 a.m to 2:30 p.m.

The closure is due to a concrete pour as part of the Portage & Main pedestrian reopening project. 

Pedestrians will still be able to access Portage Avenue East through the closure. All other closures around the area of the intersection will remain unchanged at this time. 

With up to 25 centimetres of snow forecast for much of Manitoba, the city is preparing for the clean-up.

The city says it will monitor road conditions and apply sand or salt to improve traction as required. 

Snow clearing decisions will be based on how much snow falls throughout the day. 

The city is reminding motorists to use caution when near heavy equipment and drive according to the conditions.

The Desautels Faculty of Music’s artists in residence have chosen a seemingly unlikely pairing for their latest concert.  

On the one hand, you have the stalwart Ludwig van Beethoven, whose String Trio in G major, op. 9, no. 1 bears all the hallmarks of the composer’s so-called first period. On the other, you have Kintsugi for Piano Trio, whose composer, New Zealand’s Salina Fisher, was born just shy of two centuries after the string trio was written.  

Winnipeg Mayor Scott Gillingham is looking to fill a new role in City Hall. 

On Wednesday, it was announced that his office is launching a search for a new Senior Advisor on Public Safety, a role that will help drive crime prevention and reform. 

This new position is part of a commitment that Gillingham made in his State of the City address.

When people think of early cinema, Hollywood often comes to mind. But long before the rise of Tinseltown, Manitoba played a crucial role in Canada’s early filmmaking. In 1897, the province became the setting for some of the country’s very first films, capturing grainy black-and-white footage of prairie life, farmers at work, and CPR trains chugging across vast landscapes.

Canadian police patrolling corners of the dark web are well aware of the commonly nefarious ways criminals exploit artificial intelligence. 

There's deepfake pornography. Voice impersonation. Romance scams that turn into financial fraud.

But recently there's been a new twist — criminals offering to "jailbreak" the very algorithms that form the architecture of AI's large language models, or LLMs, tearing down their safeguards so they can be retasked for criminal purposes.

Call it tech support for cybercriminals.