The Canadian Press

The Winnipeg Blue Bomber and Saskatchewan Roughriders will honour Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation before their game Friday night.

Both teams — players and sideline staff — will don orange jerseys and shirts during the pre-game warm-up at IG Field in support of Truth and Reconciliation in Canada.

A sentencing hearing is to be held today for a Winnipeg man who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of his three-year-old daughter. 

Frank Nausigimana told court in the spring he was ready to accept punishment for the killing of his daughter, Jemimah Bunadalian, in July 2021. 

Court heard from an agreed statement of facts that the toddler was found with two stab wounds while buckled in her car seat inside her mother's vehicle. 

It said Nausigimana had a knife and forced himself into the mother's car, but she was able to escape. 

A British Columbia man who is now in his late 70s has been found guilty of numerous counts of sexual assault.

Coquitlam resident Raymond Gaglardi appeared in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster on Monday, and court records show he was convicted on 11 counts.

The charges related to historical sexual assaults of young men or teenage boys who attended several Coquitlam-area churches between 1993 and 2007.

Manitoba's police watchdog is investigating after a Winnipeg Police Service officer shot a suspect in an inner city neighbourhood.

The Independent Investigation Unit of Manitoba says officers went to a residence Tuesday in the Point Douglas area to act on a warrant when they came across a man armed with a knife.

The agency says in a release that an officer fired an electronic stun gun at the man but the suspect was able to exit the home and ran from police. 

Health officials and Indigenous leaders in northern Manitoba have signed a declaration to address racism in the health-care system.

The document commits the regional health system to reduce barriers for Indigenous people seeking care and reduce the gaps in care between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.

Bernice Thorassie, who helps northern Indigenous patients navigate the health-care system, says she has seen people struggle to get treatment and face barriers after travelling from their home communities to Thompson, Man., or Winnipeg.

Gustavo Dudamel, the U.S.-based orchestral conductor, violinist and music education activist,  is the winner of this year's Glenn Gould Prize for lifetime contribution to the arts.

The Venezuelan-born conductor is currently the music and artistic director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the music director of the Opéra National de Paris and Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra.

A police officer has died shortly after being charged with child pornography offences.

The Winnipeg Police Service says Const. Yvan Corriveau, a 15-year member of the force, was found deceased and his death is not considered criminal in nature.

RCMP say Corriveau, who was 39, was arrested at a home south of the city Thursday on charges including possessing and accessing child pornography.

He was released from custody following the arrest.

Federal ministers say all COVID-19 border restrictions will end as of Saturday, including mandatory vaccinations, testing and quarantine of international travellers, as well as mandatory masks on planes and trains.

The cabinet order maintaining COVID-19 border measures will not be renewed when it expires on Sept. 30.

The change will mean foreign nationals no longer require an approved series of vaccinations to enter the country.

Residents of Atlantic Canada and eastern Quebec are coming to terms with the full scope of the damage left behind after post-tropical storm Fiona tore through the region over the weekend as one of the strongest storms Canada's East Coast has ever faced.

Members of the Canadian Armed Forces are being deployed to help with recovery efforts, with federal Defence Minister Anita Anand saying Sunday that about 100 troops a piece were either in place or en route to Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and P.E.I. to provide assistance with the cleanup effort.

The Manitoba government is establishing healing lodges at two correctional facilities to give prisoners access to culturally appropriate supports and limit their chances of reoffending. 

The province says the Standing Together Healing Lodges at the correctional centres in Brandon and The Pas are to support inmate education, language acquisition, family reunification and sobriety. 

Justice Minister Kelvin Goertzen says evidence shows rehabilitative programs offered in the correctional system help reduce the chance of inmates reoffending.