Steinbach

A man now living near St. Adolphe is trying to put the pieces of his dreams and life back together, after losing his home in the Nopiming Wildfire.

Trevor Paradis, 41, says he was working in northern Manitoba when he was told that his home was a total loss. A GoFundMe has been started to help him restart.

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.

The Manitoba Wildfire Service (MWS) says a firefighter has been severely injured while battling a wildfire in eastern Manitoba.

It says they were injured on Sunday, and have been hospitalized—noting this highlights the danger of the current fire situation.

On Tuesday, the province issued a wildfire update, saying there were large pockets of very high to extreme fire danger throughout the province.

For families who’ve experienced the heartbreaking loss of a child due to miscarriage, stillbirth, or newborn death, the grief can feel isolating and never-ending. That’s why Bethesda Place and Bethesda Regional Health Centre are once again offering a quiet space for healing, the annual Service of Remembrance, happening Wednesday, May 28 at 2:00 pm at Birchwood Funeral Chapel in Steinbach. 

InteliRain is like the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, but for irrigation farmers — getting their fields “just right” for water distribution.

The Calgary-based company uses an automated variable rate irrigation system that allows growers to maximize yields, minimize workloads and conserve water.

From Alberta to Manitoba, residents across the Prairies are out of their homes, while others remain on edge as wildfires inch closer to their communities.

The Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation in Saskatchewan has imposed an evacuation order for more than 1,800 residents of Pelican Narrows, 412 kilometres northeast of Saskatoon.

They are to flee to PAGC Urban Services, also known as the Margo Fournier Centre, in Prince Albert.

Several people are hurt following the collapse of a roof just north of La Broquerie.

La Broquerie Fire Department chief JC Normandeau, says rafters fell at a construction site where work was being done on a hay shed, about one and a half miles north of La Broquerie near Provincial road 302.

Fire crews got the call just after 9 a.m. on Tuesday morning, and were on scene for around two hours.

"We had some injuries, with several (construction) members involved," he says.

The Americas Agriculture and Food Security Forum will be held at Olds College and run parallel to the G7 meeting in Kananaskis.

The agenda for this year’s G7 Leader’s Summit contains no discussions of agriculture or food security, but one organization is aiming to make up for what the G7 lacks at an event of it own.