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Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says Canada's new Arctic ambassador will play a key role in preserving sovereignty in the region as the military closely watches the movements of a Chinese icebreaker.

Iqaluit resident Virginia Mearns will be Canada's senior Arctic official on the world stage, following a career with local Inuit governments.

"Canada's Arctic ambassador is going to advance Canada's polar interests in multilateral forums," Anand told The Canadian Press in an interview from Inuvik, N.W.T.

The Louise Bridge closure has been extended again, and isn't supposed to open at all this summer.

The closure of the bridge was originally supposed to be four days, and was set to reopen on May 26 before unexpected delays. that caused the closure to be extended. 

The bridge was set to reopen at the end of July. 

The Winnipeg Police Service says that a missing 85-year-old man has been found safe.

The man was last seen in downtown Winnipeg at 07:30 a.m. on Friday, July 25, 2025.

The WPS had sent out a silver alert shortly after, asking for help in locating the missing man.

Just after 6 p.m. on Friday night, police sent out another release saying he had been found safe.

The Winnipeg Police Service activates a silver alert when a vulnerable adult person is reported as missing.

Over 50 people attended the Winnipeg Fringe Festival show, 'An Improvised John Hughes Movie', on Friday at the Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain. 

We enjoyed this improv show so much the first time on Tuesday that we went back for a second time on Friday. The show used the styles and tropes popular in John Hughes' movies.

With a similar structure to Tuesday's show, audience suggestions were incorporated into the show but led to different results.

A warm and humid air mass will move through the province today, brewing up all the ingredients needed to create severe thunderstorms. 

However, something called "capping" is making it hard for meteorologists to predict exactly what will happen.

"The capping is just a layer of warm air above the surface, about 1-2 km up in the sky," said Crawford Luke, meteorologist with Environment Canada.

Wildfires continue to wreak havoc across northern Manitoba. 

A fire entered the town of Leaf Rapids on Wednesday, causing damage to between five and seven buildings, most of which were abandoned, with only one of those being a residence. 

Fire crews had to retreat to safety in response to the intense wildfire activity. However, they were able to return within the hour, working through the night to keep the blaze contained. 

Across the province, the fire risk is medium to high, with areas to the north of greatest concern. 

A blood drive has been organized following the tragic death of Royal Canoe bassist, Brendan Berg and his partner, Olivia Michalczuk.

The pair died in a head-on crash north of Swan River on July 1. 

The idea was brought to life by Michalczuk's mother, Donna. 

"Olivia received many units of blood after the accident," said Donna in a post on Facebook. "Without the generous blood donations to Canadian Blood Services, we would not have been able to say our last goodbyes before she passed. So….if you think you’d like to do something nice in her honour, please donate."

It is hardly revolutionary for parents to have complicated relationships with their coming-of-age children. What is less common is a teenager taking those complexities and turning them into a piece of theatre that audiences can take in during this year’s Winnipeg Fringe Festival.  

Shakespeare’s axiom, “All the world’s a stage,” rings especially true at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival with performers descending onto its stages from all over the world. That includes The Tempestuous, an amalgam of works by the Bard underscored with a wide range of classical pieces.  

Portage la Prairie RCMP are asking for the public's assistance in locating a man who escaped custody on Thursday.

RCMP say around 9 p.m. on Thursday, they were informed by the Manitoba First Nation Police Service that a suspect who had been arrested earlier in the day had escaped custody.

The suspect, 26-year-old Bryon Roulette of Winnipeg, is handcuffed and believed to be shirtless with blood stains on his shoes. He was also wearing greyish brown shorts. 

He was last seen in the 500 block of 5th Street SE in Portage la Prairie at around 7:30 p.m.