Blue Bombers add talent through 2025 draft

*Per Winnipeg Blue Bombers Press Release

The Winnipeg Blue Bombers selected nine players in the 2025 CFL Draft held Tuesday night.

The Club began the night with a trade with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, acquiring National running back Matthew Peterson (Alberta), the second pick in the first round of the Global Draft, and the 39th pick overall (5th round) in the CFL Draft. In exchange, Hamilton received National defensive lineman Kyle Samson, the eighth pick in the first round of the Global Draft, and the 36th overall selection in the CFL Draft (4th round).

Spring in Manitoba means the return of geese, green lawns and ticks

What are the things that signify a Manitoba spring?  The sight and sounds of geese, the lawn taking on the faintest shade of green, and the little creepy crawlies that you feel making tracks up your leg in the middle of the night.

Yes, unfortunately, in Manitoba, with spring comes the season of ticks.

Brandon University professor in the Department of Biology, Dr. Bryan Cassone, has a keen interest in infectious diseases carried by both ticks and mosquitoes.

Key agriculture voices returning to Parliament

Submitted by gvossler on Tue, 04/29/2025 - 17:36

The Liberals have won their fourth mandate this time under the leadership of leader Mark Carney.

When Mark Carney formed government as Canada's 24th Prime Minister on March 14, 2025, he selected 34-year-old Kody Blois from the Kings-Hants riding in Nova Scotia as the Federal Minister for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and Rural Economic Development.

Blois is heading back to Parliament after winning his riding last night. Expectations are that Carney could keep him in that role, but that will be determined when he announces his new cabinet in the days ahead.

Bezan credits team effort for victory in tight Selkirk-Interlake-Eastman race

James Bezan, re-elected as MP for Selkirk-Interlake-Eastman, attributes his win to an “incredible team effort” amid shifting voter priorities and a nail-biting national race. 

A campaign built on boots and ballots 

Bezan highlights the work of over 200 volunteers who counted ballots, scrutinized results, and covered the sprawling rural Manitoba riding with signs, door-knocking, and phone calls.

Poilievre loses his long-held seat in Ottawa

Submitted by mike.thom on Tue, 04/29/2025 - 14:20

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will not have a seat in the next Parliament, after a stunning upset by Liberal candidate Bruce Fanjoy in the riding of Carleton. 

Poilievre's loss raises a host of questions about his ability to continue with the Conservative party leadership, and the role he will play as the House of Commons reconvenes. 

In his concession speech on election night, Poilievre pledged that Conservatives will "do our constitutional duty of holding government to account and proposing better alternatives." 

Liberals win 4th mandate as NDP vote collapses and Singh announces he will resign

Prime Minister Mark Carney promised to unite the country and govern for all after Canadians handed the Liberals a fourth consecutive mandate in Monday's federal election.

"Who is ready," he shouted to cheers and applause and people chanting his name in a crowded hockey arena in Ottawa in the wee hours of the morning. "Who is ready? Who is ready to stand up for Canada with me? And who is ready to build Canada strong?"

Liberals projected to finish just short of a majority after very close election race

Prime Minister Mark Carney will lead a minority government after a very close general election race that left the Liberals just three seats shy of a majority. 

Just before 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Elections Canada showed the Liberals projected to win 169 ridings after flipping one riding in Quebec from the Bloc Québécois earlier in the day. 

The Conservatives won 144 seats and will form the official Opposition again. The Bloc Québécois followed with 22 seats, the NDP with seven projected seats and the Green Party with one seat.

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