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A stretch of Fermor Ave. has reopened Wednesday morning following a serious collision.

Emergency crews were called to Fermor on the outskirts of Winnipeg on Wednesday just after 8 a.m.

The westbound lanes of Fermor were closed between Murdock Rd. and Symington Rd.

At 8:50 a.m., Manitoba Infrastructure sent out a notice saying the roadway had been reopened. As of 8:55 a.m. heavy delays remain for the westbound lanes.

There is no word on this time of how many vehicles were involved or injuries.

The Louis Riel Arts and Technology Centre raised thousands of dollars at an event held earlier this month in honour of those battling cancer. 

It was all part of their 14th annual Cure-a-thon, where students and staff offered salon services, hosted a bake sale and pizza lunch, ran a car wash, organized games in the gym and held a silent auction.

A pre-alert evacuation notice has been issued for the City of Flin Flon as a wildfire draws close to the community. 

The northern Manitoba city issued the alert at 7:40 p.m. after a fire broke out nearby. 

The city says the pre-alert was issued due to the dry conditions and the proximity of the fires. 

Residents are encouraged to be prepared and ready to act if an evacuation is called. They say it could occur on short notice if the situation escalates.

As May comes to a close, one Winnipeg non-profit is hoping to continue the conversation about Mental Health Awareness. 

"Peer Connections MB is a peer support organization providing support to any Manitoban with a mental health concern or a substance use issue," says Julia Hoeppner, the Executive Director of Peer Connections MB. "We offer several options for service, the first being peer support. Which is people connecting over shared experiences."

While Canadian singer/artist Daniel Richter isn't new to the music industry, he's branching out into the Christian side of things with his new single. 

Richter, from Ontario, was in the band Eleven Past One right out of college. 

"We were a pop band, top 40, mainstream," says Richter. "We were grinding for a long time, starting back in 2006. In 2009, we started taking things seriously as I had just graduated University, and my brother and his buddies just graduated high school. We took off, living in trailer parks all over the states, going for it."

Canada Post on Wednesday laid out its "final offers" to the union representing 55,000 workers after negotiations resumed Wednesday morning, as tensions run high over the future of the beleaguered institution.

Included in the proposal are an end to compulsory overtime, a signing bonus of $1,000 for urban employees and $500 for rural and suburban ones, cost-of-living payments that are triggered at a lower inflation threshold.

Parliament gets back to work Wednesday with a new Speaker, a new prime minister and plenty of new faces in the House of Commons.

Speaker Francis Scarpaleggia will preside over the House of Commons for the first time today, while his office has confirmed that all 343 members of Parliament have now been sworn in.

Roughly a third of those MPs, including Prime Minister Mark Carney, were elected for the first time in April and will face their first question period today.

A judge in Minnesota has sentenced a man to 10 years for his role in a human smuggling operation that saw a family freeze to death in southern Manitoba near the Canada-U.S. border.

Harshkumar Patel, wearing an orange prison jumpsuit, did not address the court.

A co-accused in the case, Steve Shand, was to be sentenced later Wednesday.

Judge John Tunheim described the crimes as "extraordinarily serious.”

A jury convicted the two men last fall on four charges related to bringing people illegally into the United States from Canada.

Romans 12:15

"Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn."

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Matthew 6:19–21

I once read that the average American is exposed to about three hundred advertisements a day. Today that number has increased many times over.

The Internet article from which I read that fact was cluttered with advertisements, most of them with little interest to the reader. Pop-up ads, brash banners, and flashing digital attractions all lead us into a world of exaggerated make-believe, convincing us that we simply cannot live without the stuff!