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Coming up in just a few days Winnipeg audiences will have the opportunity to see one of the genuinely great string quartets on the stage today.  

The Swedish Stenhammar String Quartet will be in Winnipeg performing two concerts. One for Virtuosi and one for Winnipeg's GroundSwell. 

Coming up in just a few days Winnipeg audiences will have the opportunity to see one of the genuinely great string quartets on the stage today.  

The Swedish Stenhammar String Quartet will be in Winnipeg performing two concerts. One for Virtuosi and one for Winnipeg's GroundSwell. 

Winnipeg police continue to search for a suspect after a man was seriously assaulted while at a Nort End park early Tuesday morning. 

Officers responded to Main St. near St. Johns Ave. at around 4 a.m. yesterday where they found a 44-year-old man suffering from serious injuries. 

He was rushed to hospital in unstable condition but has since been upgraded to stable. 

Winnipeggers looking for ways to give their pumpkins a second lease on life are encouraged to stop by CF Polo Park this weekend. 

This Saturday Compost Winnipeg will host their annual Pumpkin drop, allowing Winnipeggers to turn their rotting pumpkins into compost.

"Of the 80,000 tonnes of pumpkins produced in Canada, 66% are sold to consumers; often used for carving and are never eaten," said Compost Winnipeg in a post on Instagram. "Without intervention, this is an immense amount of organic waste destined for the landfill!" 

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says its investigation into an Ontario facility processing plant-based milk found it was not adhering to Health Canada’s policies on listeria prevention.

The facility is still shut down after a listeria outbreak last summer linked to the plant infected at least 20 people in Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and Alberta and led to three deaths.

Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister David Morrison has confirmed a report that Canada is alleging an Indian cabinet minister and close adviser to Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered intelligence-gathering operations targeting Canadians.

The Washington Post first reported that Canadian officials alleged Indian Home Affairs Minister Amit Shah was behind a campaign of violence and intimidation targeting Sikh separatists in Canada.

Morrison told MPs at the national security committee Tuesday that he was the one who confirmed Shah's name to that newspaper.

Food banks across the country are seeing an increase in use. 

New data from Food Banks Canada released this week suggests that more people than ever are having to make tough decisions when it comes to food. 

Its annual survey of food bank use in Canada recorded more than two million visits in March 2024, nearly double the monthly visits five years ago in March 2019. 

Agape Table, a soup kitchen in the West End of Winnipeg has seen this first hand.

Harvest Manitoba is warning Winnipeggers of a scam involving people posing as their organization. 

"We have been informed that individuals are going door-to-door and claiming to collect food and money donations on behalf of Harvest Manitoba," says the organization on Instagram. "Please be aware: we do not conduct any door-to-door solicitations. If someone approaches you for donations in our name, it is a scam."

For 35 years Harvest Manitoba, formerly Winnipeg Harvest, has been collecting non-perishable food and giving it to people in need. 

A member of the Winnipeg Sea Bears executive staff receives an honour in back-to-back seasons. 

Jason Smith, President of the Winnipeg Sea Bears, has been named the 2024 Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL) Executive of the Year. Smith becomes the second executive to win the award in back-to-back years after Vancouver's Dylan Kular did so in 2021 and 2022. 

Five people are in custody after a traffic stop turned violent. 

Shortly before 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 27, officers stopped a Dodge Ram with five occupants near McGregor St. and Alfred Ave. 

All of the occupants were taken out of the vehicle after a fight broke out and the passengers began fighting with each other.

At the same time, officers searched the vehicle, where they located and seized a 12 gauge shotgun, collapsible baton (Prohibited) and 2.6 grams of crack cocaine (estimated street value $220.00).