Shannon Dueck

The family of a missing senior from the Rural Municipality of Piney continues to hold out hope that their loved one is alive, even though she has now been missing for more than one year. 

The family of a missing senior from the Rural Municipality of Piney continues to hold out hope that their loved one is alive, even though she has now been missing for more than one year. 

Temperature records fell across Manitoba on Monday.

Danielle Desjardins with Environment Canada says much of the Prairies has been under the influence of an upper ridge for most of October and even stretches of September. This culminated Monday with record breaking weather.

Desjardins says eight different locations in Manitoba broke temperature records on Monday. They are:

Brandon
New record of 24.9 
Old record of 22.8 set in 1897 
Records in this area have been kept since 1890 

Manitoba has launched its flu shot campaign as the start of respiratory virus season nears in our province. 

Dr. Brent Roussin is Chief Provincial Public Health Officer. He says all Manitobans six months of age and older are encouraged to get their free influenza and COVID-19 vaccinations, noting they are currently available in many medical clinics, ACCESS centres, pharmacies, vaccine clinics, nursing stations, and through public health. 

Manitoba has launched its flu shot campaign as the start of respiratory virus season nears in our province. 

Dr. Brent Roussin is Chief Provincial Public Health Officer. He says all Manitobans six months of age and older are encouraged to get their free influenza and COVID-19 vaccinations, noting they are currently available in many medical clinics, ACCESS centres, pharmacies, vaccine clinics, nursing stations, and through public health. 

The Member of Parliament for Provencher says the Conservatives have introduced a bill aimed at defending freedom of worship and assembly.

Ted Falk says Bill C-411, or the Anti Arson Act, would create a specific criminal offence for causing damage by fire or explosion to a place of worship. It would also amend the Criminal Code to create an offence for causing a wildfire.

The St. Joachim Parish Church in La Broquerie is nearing its 125th anniversary. And, to ensure that the church building is around for many more years, a fundraising campaign has started that will help with some much-needed repairs. 

Luc Grenier is President of the 125th ad hoc committee. He says the church along Principale Street was constructed in 1901. Grenier says it was a handful of parishioners that moved to the area, along with their priest who decided that a church building needed to be constructed. He notes almost all of the material was sourced locally.

Manitobans could be paying more for natural gas, beginning next month.

Centra Gas Manitoba Inc. has filed a general rate application with the Public Utilities Board (PUB). The application seeks approval, on an interim basis, of an average natural gas general revenue increase of 4.5 per cent. If approved, the increase will take effect November 1st of this year.

Manitoba Hydro states that for a typical residential household, the new rates would result in an average increase of approximately 3.9 per cent, or $2 per month. 

Back-to-back weekends of extremely windy conditions in southern Manitoba has some people asking whether we are currently in a windy cycle and if this is a sign of things to come. 

David Phillips is Senior Climatologist with Environment Canada. He says though it has been a windy year for this half of the province, there is not much we should be reading into this. 

There was a two-vehicle crash involving a school bus Monday morning south of Ile des Chenes.

Ritchot Fire Chief Scott Weir says emergency crews were called at approximately 7:30 am to the intersection of the old Highway 59 and Provincial Road 210. 

Weir says a First Student school bus and pickup truck collided there. According to Weir, there were no children on the bus at the time of the crash.