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A 34-year-old man from Winnipeg is dead following a collision Sunday morning near Stonewall.

The crash happened around 10 a.m. on Highway 67, just east of Highway 7 in the Rural Municipality of Rockwood.

Stonewall RCMP say a semi was travelling west on Highway 67 when an SUV in the eastbound lanes crossed the dividing line and collided head-on with the semi truck. 

The driver of the SUV, a 34-year-old man from Winnipeg, was transported to hospital, where he died of his injuries.

Manitoba's new Opposition leader says his party wants changes and clarity on a bill by the NDP government that would add gender expression to the province's human rights code.

The bill, now making its way through the legislature, would include protections for people to be called by their preferred pronouns.

Progressive Conservative Leader Obby Khan said Tuesday he has heard concerns by some members of the public who fear people could face a complaint for addressing someone by the wrong gender.

The Conservative caucus has tapped former leader Andrew Scheer to lead the party in the House of Commons when Parliament resumes on May 26 — a role that's needed because Pierre Poilievre lost his seat in last week's election.

"I'll be taking over the parliamentary leadership duties of the caucus until Mr. Poilievre rejoins us in the House," Scheer told reporters after emerging from an all-day caucus meeting on Parliament Hill Tuesday.

Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump met Tuesday in Washington for their first face-to-face discussion of U.S.-Canada relations and Trump's ongoing trade war.

Here are some highlights from the meeting, which Carney described as both "wide-ranging" and "constructive."

Carney says Canadians will 'never' put a price tag on sovereignty

After months of listening to Trump talk about annexing Canada, Carney told the president in the Oval Office that Canada will "never" be for sale.

A 20-year-old Winnipeg man is dead after slipping off some rocks at the Pinawa Dam Provincial Park and drowning.

Lac du Bonnet RCMP say the man was seen climbing rocks near the top of a small waterfall at around 8 p.m. on Sunday when he slipped on some wet rocks and fell into the water.

Police and fire personnel searched the shoreline for the missing man, but were unsuccessful in locating him.

Abandoned shopping carts and broken bus shelters are a common sight in Winnipeg’s urban core. For some, they are signs of the systemic problems that face our community and are in constant need of cleaning in order to make the downtown more aesthetic and livable. For others, these things represent the various ways that people who live in the downtown make it their home. 

To help enhance patient care in rural Manitoba, Shared Health is expanding its Community Paramedic Program to Brandon and Selkirk.

Through this program, patients in these rural communities will be provided with the care they need, without having to leave their community.

The Community Paramedic Program allows for the early identification of care concerns and links patients to the care they need through treatment plans.

Be prepared! The National Public Alerting System has planned an emergency alert test for Wednesday afternoon.

The alert will be broadcast on all communication channels, including television, radio and compatible wireless devices.

The province says testing all components is an important and necessary part of any public alerting system. They say it provides an opportunity to validate and improve the end-to-end performance and reliability of the system to ensure it operates as intended on TV, radio and compatible wireless devices.

The province of Manitoba is making Holocaust education mandatory in secondary schools.

Premier Wab Kinew made the announcement on Apr 24, 2025, Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Harvest Manitoba will see a significant rise in the amount of eggs it receives thanks to a generous donation from the Manitoba Egg Farmers. 

MEF announced Tuesday morning that they will double their regular donation of fresh, locally-produced eggs, providing the food bank with 3,600 dozen eggs per month, up from their previous bi-weekly egg donation of 1,800 dozen eggs.