Manitoba News

WINNIPEG — The chair of Manitoba's NDP caucus says a booted backbencher's ties to the lawyer representing convicted sex offender Peter Nygard was the last straw after a year of disrespectful behaviour.

WINNIPEG — Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew is standing by his government's decision to turf backbencher and defence lawyer Mark Wasyliw from caucus because a partner at the firm he works at represented convicted sex offender Peter Nygard.

OTTAWA — The federal Liberals were lamenting the loss of another stronghold on Tuesday, while the NDP and Bloc Québécois celebrated byelection wins in Winnipeg and Montreal that both parties said were a rejection of the governing party.

WINNIPEG — The federal New Democrats have kept a longtime stronghold in the Elmwood-Transcona riding in Winnipeg.

WINNIPEG — Manitoba's governing New Democrats ousted backbencher and defence lawyer Mark Wasyliw from caucus Monday, and Wasyliw fired back by accusing Premier Wab Kinew of being a micromanaging, toxic bully.

WINNIPEG — The owner of a pickup truck was injured along with his friend after they jumped into the back of the vehicle as it was being stolen and were launched out when it crashed.

WINNIPEG — Some 250 coloured tacks pepper a large-scale world map among bookshelves at Whodunit Mystery Bookstore. Estonia, Finland, Japan and even Fenwick, Ont.

WINNIPEG — Homicide investigators are now part of a probe into a weekend fire in Winnipeg after two people who were rescued from an apartment in the burning building died in hospital.

WINNIPEG — Climbing up trees, wrangling with ropes and navigating twisted odd-angled limbs may not be everyone's idea of a great day.

GODS LAKE NARROWS, MAN. — RCMP say a toddler has died after he was run over by a pickup truck on the driveway of his home in northeastern Manitoba. Mounties in Gods Lake Narrows were called when the 21-month-old boy was struck Thursday afternoon.