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Funeral For: Jacob D. (Jake) Friesen 
Funeral Date: August 19, 2025 
Jacob D. (Jake) Friesen, 88, of Steinbach passed away Tuesday, August 12th at Bethesda Regional Health Centre. He is survived by his wife Elizabeth, 2 daughters, 2 sons, and their families. He was predeceased by 2 sons in infancy, 1 grandson, 3 sisters, and 3 brothers.  
The funeral service for Jacob D. Jake Friesen will be held Tuesday, August 19th at 2pm at Birchwood Funeral Chapel with burial at Heritage Cemetery. 

Hundreds of residents in Winnipeg's St. John's neighbourhood are waking up in the dark Thursday morning.

A power outage is affecting well over 1,000 customers in the area. 

The outage is also impacting traffic in the area, knocking out traffic signals at several busy intersections along Main Street, including at Redwood and Mountain Avenues.

Winnipeg - North Main St area outage to approx 1000 customers. Crew looking into cause. pic.twitter.com/F7sn1W4Y9m

A southern Manitoba family is praying for a miracle after their daughter was born with significant heart issues. 

Mike, Courtney and their three boys were excited to welcome a girl into the family. However, their world was quickly turned upside down when they learned she would be born with serious heart complications and need surgery.

Daisy was born on February 25, 2025 and spent her first five weeks in the NICU in Winnipeg before joining her family at home in Niverville.

Southern Manitoba is bracing for a hot, muggy day that could start and end with a bang.

Environment Canada is forecasting a high of 29°C for Winnipeg on Thursday, with the humidex making it feel closer to 37. But relief from the heat may come later in the day as a cold front moves in, and with it, the potential for severe weather.

“We actually have thunderstorms that are ongoing right now and could be going through the city in the next hour or so,” said Robyn Dyck, meteorologist with Environment Canada, in an interview at 6:30 a.m. on Thursday.

A new park is set to open in southwest Winnipeg. 

The playground, located in the Ridgewood West neighbourhood, will feature swings, an accessible play structure, and independent play equipment suitable for children aged 2 to 12 years old. 

City officials broke ground on the playground on Wednesday and expect it to be ready by the end of September. 

The Manitoba government has begun its "test phase" search of a Winnipeg landfill for the remains of a victim of a convicted serial killer.

Premier Wab Kinew said Wednesday the preliminary search of the city-run Brady Road landfill for the remains of Ashlee Shingoose started this week. 

"We began the pilot test phase ... this is basically the excavation and taking a look at the material to try and figure out what is the actual process of the search going to look like," he said. 

Five-year survival rates for people with lung cancer have doubled since the 1990s, but the disease still kills more patients than any other type of cancer, a Statistics Canada report said on Wednesday.

The report said the number of people living five years after they were diagnosed jumped from 13 per cent to 27 per cent between 1992 and 2021.

Lung cancer is still responsible for almost a quarter of all cancer deaths in Canada, it said.

No one was injured following a collision on Wednesday morning between a train and a semi-truck. 

The crash happened just before 7:30 a.m. on Highway 23, at Road 18 East near Dufrost in the RM of DeSalaberry.

RCMP say a semi-truck travelling west on Highway 23 attempted to stop from a train crossing but was not able to do so on time. The driver swerved into a ditch, avoiding a collision with the train. The driver, a 57-year-old male from the RM of Montcalm, was transported to hospital for precautionary measures. 

Farmer Bill Prybylski says China’s planned tariff on canola seed wasn’t factored into his business equations this year.

The president of the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan says the 75.8 per cent preliminary duty, announced Tuesday, has already caused canola prices to fall by $1 per bushel.

That translates to a loss of about $200,000 for his farm. 

“That’s a pretty significant financial hit,” said Prybylski, who farms northeast of Regina near Yorkton.

It's the second week of Folkorama, and the CHVN Cruiser continues its global exploration and visitation of different cultures.

The Cruiser was at the Polish Pavilion and the Brazilian Pavilion on Wednesday evening at the RBC Convention Centre, 375 York Avenue.

The Polish Pavilion had various dances and costumes from different regions in Poland. The Pavilion taught the audience the deep and rich history behind the patterns of the costumes and their symbolism.

There was also a traditional singing performance in Polish.