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One of the most timeless works in the art song repertoire will be shared this week in one of the most timeless communities in rural Manitoba. 

Gas prices jumped early this week to 145.9 cents per litre.  

This recent spike in gas prices in Manitoba — and across parts of Western Canada — is largely due to an unexpected shutdown at the British Petroleum (BP) Refinery in Whiting, Indiana.  

It is still summer, yet The Old Farmer's Almanac has just released its winter weather outlook.

Carol Connare is Editor of The Old Farmer's Almanac. She says on Tuesday, they released their 2026 edition, which, of course, includes forecasts for the upcoming seasons.

"For your region, we are calling for a warmer-than-normal winter," says Connare. "Of course, that doesn't mean that it will be balmy, because it's pretty cold there."

John Williams says he ‘never liked film music very much’ despite legendary career

John Williams may be the most decorated film composer alive, with more than 100 scores to his name and a record 54 Academy Award nominations, but the 93-year-old has revealed a surprising truth: he doesn’t think much of film music.

Researchers say pediatricians, family doctors and parents need to learn more about what kind of performance-enhancing substances kids are using when they work out or play sports.

Seventeen per cent of more than 800 Canadian pediatric specialists surveyed say they saw adolescents who needed medical attention due to dietary supplements or performance drugs over the previous year.

The majority of cases were boys and more than half of them were between 13 and 15 years old.

Almost a third of the patients were even younger — between 10 and 12 years old.

Workers dangle from ropes as they brush the last bit of white paint on the trim of the Okhmatdyt children’s cardiac hospital in Kyiv.

Below them, a damaged children's stroller and construction supplies sit atop a tree-covered garbage heap. Windows of some surrounding buildings are still boarded up with plywood.

One year after a devastating rocket attack on Ukraine's largest children's hospital that killed four and injured a dozen, the century-old facility is getting ready to reopen — with help from the Canadian Red Cross.

The family of a Norwegian hiker whose body was recovered over the weekend from the shores of the Hayes River in northern Manitoba says an autopsy shows the man drowned.

Steffen Skjottelvik, 29, was on a cross-continental journey of the Canadian wilderness when he set out on foot with his two dogs from Fort Severn, Ont., to York Factory, Man., last month. 

He was expected to arrive in York Factory on Aug. 15 but never made it. 

Police had said Skjottelvik may have tried to cross the swift-moving Hayes River and got swept up.

The Winnipeg Architecture Foundation will be presenting a lecture this week on a distinctive figure in the city’s architectural history.  

A Taste of Manitoba: When Composers Meet Cuisine 

Students across Manitoba will be entering new learning environments of all kinds in the coming weeks. This includes new classrooms and new extracurricular activities, one of which is music lessons. Long accepted as a valuable part of children’s development, it can be an adjustment period for families to get into music lessons, especially if they are doing so for the very first time.