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The Manitoba government has increased its funding for the Manitoba Arts Council to $13.7 million this year, an eight per cent boost announced Friday at the Centennial Concert Hall.

The investment aims to strengthen the province’s arts sector, supporting artists, Indigenous knowledge keepers, and organizations that shape Manitoba’s cultural landscape.

With colder temperatures and shorter days comes the perfect time for cozying up with a good book. If you are in a reading rut, Chris Hall from McNally Robinson Booksellers joined Nolan Kehler in the Classic 107 studios to share 'What to Read' with him for the first time.

The titles that Chris shared with Nolan this month were: 

Precipice by Robert Harris

A Case of Matricide by Graeme Macrae Burnet  

Didion & Babitz by Lili Anolik

Patriot by Alexei Navalny

No one was injured following an early morning fire in the city's North End. 

The blaze broke out at around 6 a.m. Friday morning in a single-storey home in the 800 block of Pritchard Ave.

When crews arrived, the fire was well involved with smoke pouring out of the home. 

Firefighters fought the fire from outside the home, quickly declaring it under control about 40 minutes later. 

No one was found in the house and no injuries were reported. 

The house suffered significant fire, smoke and water damage. 

On August 2nd, 2024, the Music and Arts Record Label released a CD that features the fantastic playing of the renowned Ukranian-American pianist Anna Shelest. 

Maureen Anderson lost both her sons to their overseas service in the Canadian Army, even if they died years later and a continent away from the hot dust and violence of the Afghanistan war.

Growing up, Ron Anderson was more serious, “a little fighter,” his mother recalls. His younger brother Ryan was quieter, softer. Both joined the military before they finished high school, already certain of what their career paths would be.

“My boys were very kind to me, and I miss them terribly,” Anderson said in an interview this week from her home in Oromocto, N.B. 

Mounties have dismantled what they say is the largest, most sophisticated illicit drug "superlab" in Canada that had been acting as a "supermarket" for organized crime. 

Police say the lab mass produced and distributed the powerful opioid fentanyl and methamphetamine across Canada and internationally.

David Teboul, assistant commissioner with the RCMP's Pacific region, told a news conference Thursday that dismantling the lab “undoubtedly saved thousands of lives in Canada and abroad.” 

A group of youth from across the province have gathered in Winnipeg to participate in the Manitoba Provincial Senior Honour Band.

72 students in Grades 9-12 from all points across southern Manitoba and as far away as Thompson, spend three days rehearsing with a special guest conductor for a concert that will take place on Saturday.

"We're really excited to have guest conductor, Dr. Emily Moss, coming to us from the University of New Mexico," said Manitoba Band Association Executive Director, Brent Johnson.

Carpets For Less has been going strong in Winnipeg for more than 20 years. Which is why, when Dale Vencatasamy assumed ownership and operations in July, he didn’t want to mess with a good thing. 

“Operations-wise, we really haven’t changed that much,” says Vencatasamy. “We still offer the same products, and the people who worked under the previous owners are still here.” 

Residential school survivors are calling on Canada to criminalize residential school denialism, echoing one of the findings in a report about unmarked graves and burial sites associated with the institutions.

Doug George, a survivor of the Mohawk Institute, said Canadians need to acknowledge the schools' place in history and to ensure the children who died are not silenced.

Just over a year after one of Canada’s longest-standing orchestra was silenced by bankruptcy, the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony announced its return to the stage this week. 

In a Facebook post, the symphony shared that its bankruptcy had been officially annulled, and that they would return to present concerts again as soon as the end of this year.