Portage

With hundreds of thousands of kilometres of highway in Manitoba and a relatively small population base, keeping them all in good shape is quite the task.

Most people who travel Manitoba highways on a regular basis have a story of a bent rim or flat tire because of highway conditions and each year, CAA highlights some of the roughest with their worst roads competition.

Communities in the province have the same issue each year with potholes showing up out of the blue on a regular basis and heaving being the norm on some streets due to the spring thaw.

A pair of Portage Terriers have committed to play National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III Hockey next fall at the same school.

Last month, Canadian canola producers were hit with retaliatory tariffs from China, with 100% tariffs affecting exports of canola oil and meal. As Canada exports 90% of its canola production, the stakes are high for our approximately 40,000 canola producers.

Close to $5 billion of canola products are sent to China each year with the majority being seed.   

With the federal election just days away, farmers and ranchers had the opportunity to hear directly from political parties about their agricultural policies.  With the federal election just days away, farmers and ranchers had the opportunity to hear directly from political parties about their agricultural policies.  The Canadian Federation of Agriculture held their National Agriculture Leaders Debate last week. The debate on Thursday featured representatives from the Liberal, Conservative, NDP, Green, and Bloc Québécois parties. 

David “Dave” Spiers
July 9th, 1949 – April 14th, 2025

SUNDAY, APRIL 20TH

MJHL
Finals
Game 2
Dauphin 3 Northern Manitoba 2 (Triple Overtime)
Series tied 1-1

IIHF WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
Finals
USA 4 Canada 3 (Overtime)

NHL
Playoffs - Round 1
Game 1
Toronto 6 Ottawa 2
Toronto leads series 1-0

The Conservatives and NDP spent the weekend hunting votes in British Columbia — a key late-campaign battleground that one pollster says may offer Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre his best shot at victory.

Both Poilievre and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh addressed Canadians' cost-of-living concerns at campaign events in B.C. on Sunday.

Singh was asked if he was advocating strategic voting to shore up the party's flagging support against possible Conservative inroads in the region.

Pope Francis will be remembered by Canadian Catholics as a progressive leader whose approach to the papacy helped usher in a new era of Indigenous relations and make the church more responsive to its rank and file.

The Vatican says the pontiff died Monday at age 88.

Francis was the global leader of Canada's most popular organized religion. Nearly 11 million Canadians identified as Catholic in the 2021 census, second only to those without a religious affiliation.

 The long-anticipated Koko Platz Community Rec Centre is nearing completion and excitement is building among both organizers and community members.

"We're starting to see some great progress," said Tanner Waldvogel, one of the directors for the KoKo Platz Community Club.

"They're starting to get some drywall up inside… it's starting to actually look like the hall we envisioned."

With just a few more months to go, the newly renovated space is nearly ready to open its doors to the public.

Roland Thiessen, a Winkler-based business owner with agricultural operations in Manitoba and Ukraine, continues to support farming communities and displaced families in the war-torn country through his Into Action Foundation. He lives in Portage la Prairie and his humanitarian effort, launched after Russia’s 2022 invasion, focuses on food security and rebuilding livelihoods while Thiessen juggles his Canadian manufacturing ventures.