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The Winnipeg Police Service is warning residents about a telephone scam going around where individuals identify themselves as "Winnipeg Police."

Numerous reports were made to the Winnipeg Police Service’s Communication Centre that officers were being impersonated, with the caller display showing the WPS non-emergency number, 204-986-6222.

Calls had been reported throughout Canada in Ontario, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia. While the callers' motive remains unclear, a few callers had been requested to share personal information. 

A neighbourhood renewal corporation is asking the public for assistance after a trailer and a shed were stolen.

Chalmers Neighbourhood Renewal in Elmwood shared the news on social media, saying it was more than a trailer. "This is not just a trailer. It represents months of hard work, community collaboration and shared hope. Our community lot is where we gather, celebrate and build connections."

The trailer was made by a local group and designed to be mobile and taken on the road to events that bring the community together.

The Manitoba Conservatory for Music and Arts (MCMA) is getting set to welcome aspiring musicians of all ages, backgrounds and skill levels into the wide array of opportunities within their Music Equals program in the coming weeks.  

First started in 2005, Music Equals is an endeavour that offers music education to a vast array of communities that range from school-age children to adults, Winnipeggers to northern Manitoba residents, Indigenous communities to newcomer Canadians. 

A new report released as students across the country return to school finds bullying, poverty and mental illness are on the rise among Canadian youth and urges action from policy-makers to improve the lives of children. 

The Raising Canada report says more than 70 per cent of Canadian youth between the ages of 12 and 17 experienced bullying in the last year, and more than 13 per cent of children were living in poverty by the end of 2024.

With the first day of school at the University of Manitoba this week comes an important day for the new dean of the Desautels Faculty of Music and the School of Art: the first day on campus with students.  

It is a day that Stephen Runge has been looking forward to for weeks. 

A symphonic journey honouring Bruckner’s birthday, one masterpiece at a time.

Born on September 4, 1824, in Ansfelden, Upper Austria, Anton Bruckner began his musical journey modestly—educated by his schoolmaster father, serving as organist in local churches, and eventually growing into a towering symphonist . A late bloomer, his major symphonic works emerged after age 39, following years of teaching and devout study.

The Poiesis Quartet from Cincinnati has been named the winner of the 2025 Banff International String Quartet Competition (BISQC), securing more than half a million dollars in cash awards, residencies and touring opportunities.

Oscar-nominated Canadian actor Graham Greene, who broke through with memorable roles across several genres at a time when the entertainment industry shunned Indigenous talent, has died at age 73

Greene’s management team said he died on Monday in Stratford, Ont., after a long illness.

The actor, who was born in Ohsweken, Ont., and is from the Six Nations Reserve, starred in a steady stream of film, television and theatre projects from the late 1970s onward.

As Chinese tariffs on Canadian canola products continue to hamper the cash price of one of the country's most valuable crops, farming experts say producers have big decisions ahead of them.

Market analyst Chuck Penner with LeftField Commodity Research said while future prices are down slightly, the cash price farmers receive for their canola, also known as the basis, is much lower.

Fred Fox, the older brother of Canadian icon Terry Fox, is continuing to share the impact on cancer patients 45 years after he passed.

"My dad was born and raised here [Winnipeg], Terry and I, our siblings were born here," says Fred Fox, Terry's older brother. "My mom was born in Boissevain. We moved west in the 60s, but it's always nice to come back to our home province."

Terry is a Canadian icon and hero for many across the country. However, especially before he got cancer, Fred shares how life was normal.