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Boy dies in house fire in Sioux Valley

Geena Mortfield 2 minute read Preview

Boy dies in house fire in Sioux Valley

Geena Mortfield 2 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 9:32 PM CDT

A child is dead, and a woman is in hospital with severe injuries after she attempted to save him from a house fire in Sioux Valley Dakota Nation over the weekend.

On Saturday evening, community members worked with the Sioux Valley fire department and local safety officers to extinguish the blaze.

The boy was pulled from the burning home and rushed to hospital, where he later succumbed to his injuries.

A 65-year-old woman who participated in the rescue efforts sustained serious injuries and was taken to hospital, where she continues to be treated.

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Updated: Yesterday at 9:32 PM CDT

The logo of the Manitoba RCMP. (File)

A couple more Steer Burgers to go

Kyle Darbyson 5 minute read Preview

A couple more Steer Burgers to go

Kyle Darbyson 5 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 10:30 AM CDT

Brian Kilborn is entering his final week as the owner of the Beef and Barrel Restaurant, with the well-known Brandon eatery slated to close its doors for good come Friday evening.

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Updated: Yesterday at 10:30 AM CDT

Brian Kilborn showcases some old photos of the Beef and Barrel Restaurant inside the business on Saturday afternoon in Brandon. Kilborn has been running the local restaurant since 1987 and announced in January that he will retire at the end of this month. (Kyle Darbyson/The Brandon Sun)

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Boy, 11, dies following Manitoba house fire

The Canadian Press 1 minute read Yesterday at 3:01 PM CDT

WINNIPEG - An 11-year-old boy has died following a house fire in a First Nation in western Manitoba.

RCMP say the fire erupted Saturday evening in Sioux Valley Dakota Nation when four adults and three children were inside the home.

Six got out without serious physical harm, but the boy was pulled out and rushed to hospital, where he died.

The Mounties say people from the community were trying to put out the blaze, and a 65-year-old woman suffered serious injuries while trying to get the boy out of the house.

Humphries ready for Winter Fair

Kyle Darbyson 3 minute read Preview

Humphries ready for Winter Fair

Kyle Darbyson 3 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 8:52 AM CDT

After taking over as the Provincial Exhibition of Manitoba’s new general manager this past fall, Mark Humphries has had a full plate to contend with, being tasked with spearheading Manitoba Ag Ex and now the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair.

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Updated: Yesterday at 8:52 AM CDT

Provincial Exhibition of Manitoba general manager Mark Humphries chats with the Sun outside of Brandon’s Dome Building last month. (File)

Food Rescue looking to put hunger on ice

Kyle Darbyson 4 minute read Preview

Food Rescue looking to put hunger on ice

Kyle Darbyson 4 minute read Yesterday at 2:54 AM CDT

Brandon’s Food Rescue Grocery Store continues its campaign to eliminate food insecurity in the Westman region, with the hope that three new freezer units will allow organizers to better store perishable items for the long term.

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John Howard Society of Brandon chair Ted Dzogan holds up a loaf of bread inside one of the Food Rescue Grocery Store’s new refrigerated storage units on Saturday afternoon. (Kyle Darbyson/The Brandon Sun)

MP threatens legal action against Global News

Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press 3 minute read Preview

MP threatens legal action against Global News

Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press 3 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 2:14 PM CDT

OTTAWA - Han Dong is threatening legal action against Global News and its parent company after the media outlet published an allegation the Toronto MP spoke to a Chinese diplomat about delaying the release of two Canadians.

"Yes, I am taking legal action against Global News and Corus Entertainment," Dong said in a statement on Monday. "I have retained a lawyer to begin legal action to its fullest extent."

The statement follows a Global News report last week, citing anonymous security sources, that alleged the Toronto MP spoke about Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig with a Chinese diplomat in Toronto in February 2021.

The two Canadian men had been detained by China in December 2018, just over a week after the RCMP arrested Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver on a U.S. extradition warrant.

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Updated: Yesterday at 2:14 PM CDT

The Corus logo is shown in Toronto on Friday, June 22, 2018. Han Dong is threatening legal action against Global News and its parent company Corus Entertainment over an allegation that he spoke to a Chinese diplomat about delaying the release of two Canadians.THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Tijana Martin

Predators settle for second at Cats Classic

By Thomas Friesen 3 minute read Preview

Predators settle for second at Cats Classic

By Thomas Friesen 3 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 11:37 AM CDT

This Predators Volleyball Club team is hard-working and fearless. It plays the right way.

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Updated: Yesterday at 11:37 AM CDT

Gibson elected to lead Green Party

By Malak Abas 3 minute read Preview

Gibson elected to lead Green Party

By Malak Abas 3 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 10:42 AM CDT

WINNIPEG — Janine Gibson broke out into song when she learned she would be the new leader of the Manitoba Green Party Sunday afternoon.

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Updated: Yesterday at 10:42 AM CDT

Janine Gibson, who did not attend in person the Green Party of Manitoba AGM at Assiniboine Park, was announced as it’s next leader Sunday, March 26, 2023.
(John Woods/Winnipeg Free Press)

Ottawa names official for Indigenous corrections

Mickey Djuric, The Canadian Press 3 minute read Preview

Ottawa names official for Indigenous corrections

Mickey Djuric, The Canadian Press 3 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 2:32 PM CDT

OTTAWA - The federal government has appointed a deputy commissioner for Indigenous corrections in a move towards tackling the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in Canada's criminal justice system.

Correctional Service Canada announced Monday that it is promoting Kathy Neil, a Métis official, to serve in the role beginning May 1.

The hiring of such a position was a call to justice in the final report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, which released its recommendations in 2019.

Neil is currently the corrections agency's assistant deputy commissioner of correctional operations in the Prairies, was previously the warden of Saskatchewan Penitentiary and has also served as a community health worker.

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Updated: Yesterday at 2:32 PM CDT

The interior of a cell is seen refected in a steel mirror during a media tour of renovations at the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility in Halifax on Tuesday, May 15, 2018. The federal government has appointed a deputy commissioner for Indigenous corrections in a move towards tackling the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in Canada's criminal justice system.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan

Grocery aid, clean tech tax breaks in budget

Nojoud Al Mallees and Mia Rabson, The Canadian Press 6 minute read Preview

Grocery aid, clean tech tax breaks in budget

Nojoud Al Mallees and Mia Rabson, The Canadian Press 6 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 4:47 PM CDT

OTTAWA - A second top-up to GST rebate cheques for low-income Canadians and "significant" new tax measures to keep Canada in the green technology game will be among the highlights in Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland's federal budget on Tuesday.

The document, Freeland's third since taking on the finance post in the early months of COVID-19, will try to balance demands from Canadians to help ease the bite of inflation, and the economic need to keep pace with allies, including the United States, on clean technology.

Marci Surkes, a political strategist at Compass Rose, and a former senior policy adviser in the Prime Minister's Office, said in 2021, Freeland had to table a COVID-19 response budget. In 2022, it was a budget peeking around the corner from COVID-19, but still heavily tied to the pandemic.

"This budget really needs to be the 'all that starts to come next' budget," said Surkes. "We are through the worst of the pandemic, let's hope. Now it's about how Canada needs to keep up and compete."

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Updated: Yesterday at 4:47 PM CDT

Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland speaks briefly with reporters as she makes her way to a cabinet meeting, Tuesday, February 14, 2023 in Ottawa. A federal source says the federal budget will include a rebate for low-income Canadians that aims to help with the rise in grocery prices. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Utilities board to review proposed rate increases

Ian Hitchen 3 minute read Preview

Utilities board to review proposed rate increases

Ian Hitchen 3 minute read Saturday, Mar. 25, 2023

Higher Brandon utility rates have taken one step closer toward reality.

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Saturday, Mar. 25, 2023

The Brandon water tower. (File)

UPDATED: RCMP cleared in man’s death

Geena Mortfield 3 minute read Preview

UPDATED: RCMP cleared in man’s death

Geena Mortfield 3 minute read Saturday, Mar. 25, 2023

Manitoba’s police watchdog has found no wrongdoing after an investigation into a Prairie Lakes man who died in a fire after a shootout with police last year.

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Saturday, Mar. 25, 2023

The logo of the Manitoba RCMP. (File)

Canada-U.S. border deal sparks fear asylum seekers will be put in harm’s way

Carol Sanders 6 minute read Preview

Canada-U.S. border deal sparks fear asylum seekers will be put in harm’s way

Carol Sanders 6 minute read Saturday, Mar. 25, 2023

WINNIPEG — A new rule to disallow asylum seekers from making a refugee claim if they enter Canada at an irregular crossing — such as the well-worn Roxham Road in Quebec or a desolate stretch along the Manitoba-North Dakota border — is raising concerns more migrants could lose life and limb.

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Saturday, Mar. 25, 2023

A border marker is shown just outside of Emerson, Man. (The Canadian Press)

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