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Spring temperatures have finally arrived in Winnipeg, and starting this weekend, City of Winnipeg golf courses will begin opening for the season.

This includes a new addition to the City’s courses this year: Canoe Club Golf Course, located at 50 Dunkirk Dr.

Here's a look at what's open & closed in Winnipeg over the Easter holiday, including Easter Monday. 

Garbage & recycling pickup

Garbage pickup is as normal on Good Friday and Easter Monday.

The Brady Road 4R Winnipeg Depot will be open to residential customers on Good Friday and Easter Monday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., and the Brady Road Landfill will be open to commercial customers from 5:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The city’s other two 4R Winnipeg Depots, on Panet Road and Pacific Avenue, will be closed on Friday and Monday.

The Manitoba Museum is preparing to honour one of the greatest Canadians to ever live later this week.  

The museum’s 20th annual Tribute Gala takes place this Thursday night, and it will pay tribute to the late Honourable Murray Sinclair, who passed away last fall.  

The Anne Oake Family Recovery Centre will receive $1.5 million in funding from the Manitoba government.

The province announced on Tuesday that it will provide the funds through the Mino’Ayaawag Ikwewag Strategy.

"The Anne Oake Family Recovery Centre will offer hope and healing for women with addictions," said Families Minister Nahanni Fontaine. "By giving women a supportive space where they can focus on healing, we are building healthier communities for women and their children as part of our Mino’Ayaawag Ikwewag Strategy."

Chess players from high schools across Winnipeg held a special tournament during spring break in support of peace in Ukraine. 

It was all part of the Manitoba School Chess Championship, which was hosted at Ecole Secondaire Sisler High School on April 1. 

This year, the Chess Club collaborated with the Social Justice Club and the Manitoba Chess Association, playing for peace in Ukraine and collecting funds for the Canada-Ukraine Foundation.

Last month, businesses from all over Manitoba entered Golden West Broadcasting’s Accelerate 2025 contest. The contest was aimed to help small businesses in a time of economic uncertainty by giving away advertising packages to help spread the word about the work that they do in our communities and to help them grow in a turbulent economy. 

A Calgary man accused of human smuggling after allegations that he picked up foreign nationals who crossed into Manitoba from the United States has had his charges stayed.

Manitoba Courts confirmed charges under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act were stayed in February for Saleh Youssouf.

Information on why the charges have been stayed was not available.

Youssouf was accused of driving a van last January that held seven men from the Republic of Chad.

The Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed a challenge of a government ban on firearms that Ottawa considers fit only for the battlefield, not hunting or sport shooting. 

The Liberals outlawed some 1,500 firearm models and variants in May 2020, meaning they could no longer be legally used, sold or imported. 

The move was generally applauded by gun control advocates as a first step toward removing firearms used in mass shootings from circulation. 

Liberal Leader Mark Carney's French language skills will be put to the test, and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will seek to turn his numbers around, when the five main federal party leaders square off in Montreal tonight in the first of two debates ahead of election day on April 28.

The two-hour French-language debate will be moderated by Radio-Canada's Patrice Roy and will focus on five themes: the cost of living, energy and climate, the trade war, identity and sovereignty, and immigration and foreign affairs.

A rare and storied violin that once belonged to one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century is poised to re-enter the world stage.

Tarisio, a leading expert in fine string instruments, has announced the private sale of the 1731 “Heifetz, Piel” Stradivari—an instrument owned for nearly three decades by Jascha Heifetz during the most prolific years of his career. The violin has been out of public view for more than 70 years.