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Josh Crabb is a reporter in Winnipeg with CBC Manitoba.

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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 7h
Union slams Manitoba’s NDP government after Dynacare workers deemed essential www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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Union slams Manitoba government after Dynacare workers deemed essential
A union is unhappy with the provincial government after a labour board decision that services provided by Dynacare lab workers are essential in the event of a work stoppage. The Manitoba Association o...
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A new measurement of a remote Manitoba waterfall suggests it’s the province’s tallest. Kwasitchewan Falls is widely considered the highest, but a new measurement suggests Kapakaytay Falls is taller. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Seldom-visited site recently measured as Manitoba’s tallest waterfall | CBC News
Two researchers recently made a more-than-100-kilometre canoe trip to the remote, difficult-to-access Kapakaytay Falls in northern Manitoba. Using a process called digital photogrammetry, they calcula...
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
New measurement of remote waterfall suggests it's Manitoba's tallest www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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New measurement of remote waterfall suggests it's Manitoba's tallest
Two researchers recently travelled into a seldom-visited site in northern Manitoba's boreal shield to measure the height of Kapakaytay Falls. Their findings suggest it might be the tallest one in the ...
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Winnipeggers losing compassion for people who are homeless or openly using drugs, survey suggests www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Winnipeggers losing compassion for people who are homeless or openly using drugs, survey suggests | CBC News
Ahead of this October’s municipal and civic elections, a majority of Winnipeggers and Manitobans are losing compassion for people dealing with homelessness and addiction, survey results suggest. There...
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Number of non-funded independent schools in Manitoba growing www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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Number of non-funded independent schools in Manitoba growing
The basement of a Mennonite church in Altona is home to one of a rising number of non-funded independent schools across Manitoba. For some, the schools — which operate with less oversight from the pro...
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Strike begins for Manitoba Dynacare workers after contract talks hit impasse www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Strike begins for Manitoba Dynacare workers after contract talks hit impasse | CBC News
Dynacare laboratory technicians and technologists across Manitoba are now on strike, after their union says the company refused to raise wages during contract negotiations on Friday.
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Port of Churchill loads first grain shipment in 6 years www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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Port of Churchill loads first grain shipment in 6 years
Arctic Gateway Group, which owns the Port of Churchill and Hudson Bay Railway, held a ceremony Monday marking the first grain shipment from the northern Manitoba community in six years. A vessel bound...
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Manitoba to make in-person phys ed mandatory for kindergarten to Grade 12 students www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Manitoba to make in-person phys ed mandatory for kindergarten to Grade 12 students | CBC News
Manitoba is rolling out a new health curriculum that will make in-person physical education mandatory for all students from kindergarten to Grade 12.
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Man convicted in woman’s 2017 trailer hitch death in Thunder Bay granted full parole www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Man convicted in woman's 2017 trailer hitch death in Thunder Bay, Ont., granted full parole | CBC News
Brayden Bushby, who was convicted of manslaughter in the 2017 death of Barbara Kentner in Thunder Bay, Ont., has been granted full parole with conditions. The decision was made by the Parole Board of ...
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Body of 10-year-old Maximo Au Ramirez recovered from Nutimik Lake www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Body of 10-year-old Maximo Au Ramirez recovered from Nutimik Lake | CBC News
The body of 10-year-old Maximo Au Ramirez has been recovered from Nutmik Lake, RCMP confirm.
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Manitoba Métis Federation's transitional housing complex tightened screening amid drug crisis www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Manitoba Métis Federation's transitional housing complex tightened screening amid drug crisis | CBC News
A transitional housing complex says it has tightened its screening process because of the severity of Winnipeg's mental health and toxic drug crisis.
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
2 boys missing, believed to have drowned in Manitoba's Nutimik Lake www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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2 boys missing, believed to have drowned in Manitoba's Nutimik Lake | CBC News
Two brothers from Winnipeg, aged 10 and 13, are believed to have slipped into the fast-moving rapids near Sturgeon Falls Trail in Manitoba's Nutimik Lake on Saturday.
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Driver with meth in system pleads guilty in crash that killed Manitoba woman, 28 Kellie Verwey 'touched a huge amount of people in her lifetime,' mom says via @caitlyngowriluk.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Driver with meth in system pleads guilty in crash that killed 28-year-old Manitoba woman | CBC News
A man who caused a fatal crash while driving a stolen truck with a "very high amount" of methamphetamine in his system has pleaded guilty in the collision that claimed the life of 28-year-old Kellie V...
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Field hospital needed in Dauphin while regional health-care centre is closed, residents say www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Field hospital needed in Dauphin while regional health-care centre is closed, residents say | CBC News
Susan Thiele says she's terrified and she wants some sort of replacement for the regional hospital six blocks from her home in Dauphin, Man., after it was closed by flooding that took out its power an...
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Dauphin greenhouse suffers 'catastrophic situation' after floodwaters sweep through facility Vermillion Growers lost about 500,000 kilograms of tomatoes to flooding, vice-president says www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Dauphin greenhouse suffers 'catastrophic situation' after floodwaters sweep through facility | CBC News
A Dauphin greenhouse that supplies tomatoes to consumers across Manitoba and parts of western Canada says its entire crop has been destroyed after floodwaters tore through the facility about a week ag...
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Unprecedented flooding inundates Swan River, leading to evacuations www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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Unprecedented flooding inundates Swan River, leading to evacuations
Heavy flooding has forced people from their homes and caused significant damage in Swan River, Man. Premier Wab Kinew flew in to visit the town, along with some of the other hard-hit areas in the Park...
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
'Back with vengeance': Manitoba's Parkland area faces heavy flooding again www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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'Back with vengeance': Manitoba's Parkland area faces heavy flooding again | CBC News
Flooding in Manitoba's Parkland area has swamped already-waterlogged communities, washed out roads and forced the closure of a provincial park — stranding campers, cottagers, lodge guests and staff.
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Storm rips apart home, leaves destruction in southwest Winnipeg www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Storm rips apart home, leaves destruction in southwest Winnipeg | CBC News
A vicious storm pounded Winnipeg Monday night, leaving a swath of destruction in the southwest part of the city that included the partial collapse of a house.
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Ian Froese @ianfroese.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Top physicians warned Winnipeg hospitals nearing 'disintegration' in March letter www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #mbpoli
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Top physicians warned Winnipeg hospitals nearing 'disintegration' in March letter | CBC News
Top Winnipeg doctors warned in a confidential letter in March that urgent-care centres might have to close and another patient death was inevitable unless immediate changes were made.
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
'It sucks': Minitonas residents fret costs of flood damage as cleanup continues. 'Hardest part at times is psychologically,' man says after waters muddied Manitoba home. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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'It sucks': Minitonas residents fret costs of flood damage as cleanup continues | CBC News
Some people in Minitonas worry about the cost of the damage left by flash floods in western Manitoba earlier this week as the cleanup continues.
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Bartley Kives @bkives.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Manitoba sought U.S. help to develop large AI data centre and find private financial partner on $18B hydro dam www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Manitoba sought U.S. help to develop large AI data centre and find private financial partner on $18B hydro dam | CBC News
Manitoba's government spoke last fall with U.S. energy advisers about developing a hyperscale AI data centre near Winnipeg and using private capital to build an $18-billion hydroelectric generating st...
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Man, 47, went into medical distress, died after rescue from capsized canoe on Bloodvein River www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Man, 47, went into medical distress, died after rescue from capsized canoe on Bloodvein River | CBC News
A man went into medical distress and died shortly after he was rescued from a capsized canoe on the Bloodvein River on Friday, police say.
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Manitoba's biggest flood caused 'wreck of a whole colony' 200 years ago via Darren Bernhardt www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Manitoba's biggest flood caused 'wreck of a whole colony' 200 years ago | CBC News
The spring 1826 deluge that devastated the Red River Settlement, described as a "once-in-a-millennium flood" by one historian, was the largest in the recorded history of the Red River watershed.
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Longtime tenants say they no longer feel safe in a 55-plus building providing housing to homeless people. The province says its public safety investigation unit is investigating safety concerns at the Selkirk Avenue social housing complex. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Longtime tenants no longer feel safe in 55-plus building providing housing to homeless people | CBC News
Residents in a 55-plus social housing complex on Selkirk Avenue are fed up with safety issues and deteriorating living conditions they say started when tenants with a history of homelessness began mov...
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Manitoba First Nations leaders demand apology, inquiry into RCMP spying www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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Manitoba First Nations leaders demand apology, inquiry into RCMP spying
The calls for action, made Thursday at the downtown Winnipeg headquarters of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, come after revelations by CBC Indigenous that the RCMP spied on Indigenous people from the...
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Manitoba still unsure when or if Mantario Trail will reopen in 2026 via @bkives.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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As hiking season nears, province still unsure when or if Mantario Trail will reopen in 2026 | CBC News
Almost a year after a forest fire scorched the Mantario Trail, Manitoba parks officials remain unsure whether the province's most popular distance-hiking trail will reopen in 2026.
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Indigenous activists, leaders in Manitoba were monitored as part of historic RCMP ‘Native extremism program’ www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Historic RCMP spy program targeted early Indigenous rights movement in Manitoba | CBC News
Two future national First Nations leaders, a deputy premier and a city councillor are among the prominent Manitobans who appear in declassified intelligence files from years of RCMP spying on the Indi...
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Winnipeg jury finds Jamie Felix guilty of five counts of second-degree murder in November 2023 mass shooting at West Broadway rooming house. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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Jury finds man guilty in shooting deaths of 5 people
A jury found Jamie Felix guilty on Thursday of five counts of second-degree murder in the shooting deaths of five people at a Winnipeg rooming house in 2023.
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
2 people from Misipawistik Cree Nation in northern Manitoba are still unaccounted for after the truck they were driving last week broke through the ice on Cedar Lake. Multiple rescue teams have been looking for the pair but the search will be put on pause over Christmas. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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2 people still missing after truck broke through ice near Grand Rapids, Man. | CBC Northern Manitoba
Two people from Misipawistik Cree Nation in northern Manitoba are still unaccounted for after the truck they were driving last week broke through the ice on Cedar Lake near Grand Rapids Generating Sta...
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Three people are missing in Manitoba after vehicles went through ice earlier this week in two separate incidents. The RCMP says search efforts are ongoing in what's been a tragic start to the winter season. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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3 feared drowned after vehicles fell through ice
Three people are missing in Manitoba after vehicles went through ice earlier this week in two separate incidents. The RCMP says search efforts are ongoing in what's been a tragic start to the winter s...
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Residents of a Winnipeg highrise have been told it could take up to five business days for both its elevators to be repaired in the aftermath of a power outage last week. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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2 elevators in Osborne Village apartment building inoperable after power outage caused by squirrel | CBC News
Residents of a Winnipeg highrise have been told it could take up to five business days for both its elevators to be repaired in the aftermath of a power outage earlier in the week.
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
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Ambulance response times improve in early months of Winnipeg's new 911 dispatch system | CBC News
Ambulance response times to life-threatening emergencies in Winnipeg have improved under a new system for dispatching crews, according to the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service, but paramedics are concer...
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
1 less grain elevator ‘to tell people they’re home’ after fire destroys Prairie icon in Waskada www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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1 less grain elevator 'to tell people they're home' after fire destroys Prairie icon in Waskada | CBC News
A nearly 64-year-old wooden grain elevator in Waskada was destroyed by fire early Tuesday morning, leaving just over 100 of the Prairie icons in Manitoba, compared to a peak of 700.
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Several homes destroyed as large grass fire burns in Peguis First Nation: RCMP www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Several homes destroyed as large grass fire burns in Peguis First Nation: RCMP | CBC News
Several homes have been destroyed in Peguis First Nation as a large grass fire burned in the First Nation, according to RCMP.
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
NDP nearly wiped out in Manitoba after losing northern, Elmwood-Transcona seats, CBC projects www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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NDP nearly wiped out in Manitoba after losing northern, Elmwood-Transcona seats, CBC projects | CBC News
The NDP suffered heavy losses in Manitoba on election night, with the Winnipeg stronghold of Elmwood-Transcona going to the Conservatives and longtime MP Niki Ashton losing the northern riding of Chur...
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Winnipeg seats change hands as Liberals take Winnipeg West, Conservatives win Elmwood-Transcona, CBC projects www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Winnipeg seats change hands as Liberals take Winnipeg West, Conservatives win Elmwood-Transcona, CBC projects | CBC News
Two Winnipeg seats are changing hands, after Liberal candidate Doug Eyolfson won Winnipeg West back from Conservative incumbent Marty Morantz, and Conservative Colin Reynolds took Elmwood-Transcona fr...
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Canada must seize ‘window of opportunity’ to attract U.S. scientists, health care workers: medical association www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Canada must seize 'window of opportunity' to attract U.S. scientists, health-care workers: medical association | CBC News
Canada has a unique chance to become a medical and scientific powerhouse — if it moves quickly to scoop up professionals leaving the United States in the wake of health cuts and layoffs, the head of t...
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
5 years after Eishia Hudson, 16, was shot by a police officer, hope remains for systemic change www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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5 years after Eishia Hudson, 16, was shot by a police officer, hope remains for systemic change | CBC News
Dates for the inquest into the death of a 16-year-old killed by Winnipeg police has yet to be set. Eishia Hudson was shot by an officer following a high-speed pursuit after a liquor store robbery in A...
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Ashlee Shingoose's father never let go of the idea his missing daughter could be Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Ashlee Shingoose's father never let go of the idea his missing daughter could be Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe | CBC News
Albert Shingoose's long-held suspicions that his missing daughter might have been the unidentified victim of a Winnipeg serial killer have been confirmed. On Wednesday, police confirmed Ashlee Shingoo...
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Landfill search can't happen soon enough for parents of Ashlee Shingoose www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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Landfill search can't happen soon enough for parents of Ashlee Shingoose
The mother and father of Ashlee Shingoose called for a quick start to the Brady Road landfill search for her remains during a news conference in Winnipeg. Shingoose was identified this week as Mashkod...
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe now has a name: Ashlee Shingoose was Winnipeg serial killer's 1st victim www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe now has a name: Ashlee Shingoose was Winnipeg serial killer's 1st victim | CBC News
The previously unidentified victim of a Winnipeg serial killer has been identified as Ashlee Christine Shingoose, a missing woman from St. Theresa Point First Nation last confirmed seen in downtown Wi...
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
This violent extremist network targets kids online - An Alberta teen was trapped inside a network that the RCMP says is ‘unlike anything’ its counterterrorism unit has ever seen. www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...
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This violent extremist network targets kids online
An Alberta teen was trapped inside an online extremist network that the RCMP says is ‘unlike anything’ its counterterrorism unit has ever seen.
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
19-year-old Winnipeg man allegedly tied to neo-Nazi group ‘not a crazy terrorist,’ grandmother says. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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19-year-old Winnipeg man allegedly tied to neo-Nazi group 'not a crazy terrorist,' grandmother says | CBC News
The grandmother of a 19-year-old Winnipegger facing terrorism-related charges says she burst into tears when she heard the seriousness of the allegations against him.
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Manitoba travel to U.S. takes hit amid Trump's tariff war www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Manitoba travel to U.S. takes hit amid Trump's tariff war | CBC News
Manitoba's tourism industry hopes to capitalize on a decline in the number of travellers heading to the U.S. New numbers show fewer people made trips south of the border in February compared to the sa...
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Manitoba premier, advocates praise families’ love, strength after the remains of Morgan Harris and a 2nd still unidentified person were found at Prairie Green landfill. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Manitoba premier, advocates praise families' love, strength after remains found in landfill search | CBC News
Advocates for missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and gender-diverse people are praising the strength and determination of the families of two First Nations women who fought for a search of a...
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Ian Froese @ianfroese.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
RCMP have confirmed a set of human remains found in a landfill outside Winnipeg late last month are those of Morgan Beatrice Harris, one of four victims of a convicted serial killer. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Morgan Harris's remains found at Prairie Green landfill outside Winnipeg: province | CBC News
Manitoba RCMP has confirmed the human remains found in the Prairie Green Landfill in late February were those of Morgan Harris from Long Plain First Nation, the province said in a news release late Fr...
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Thoughts tonight are with the Gregoires. Just an absolutely unimaginable loss and a heartbreaking situation in Mexico for Linda and son, Joel, and the rest of the family. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Father, daughter from Roblin, Man., remembered for kindness after being found dead in Mexican apartment | CBC News
A family in Roblin, Man., is mourning the death of a "kind" father and daughter who are being remembered for how they cared for others after their bodies were discovered by authorities in Mexico last ...
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Protecting Seal River watershed necessary as governments look north for critical minerals: Indigenous alliance www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Protecting Seal River watershed necessary as governments look north for critical minerals: Indigenous alliance | CBC News
A vast expanse of pristine land in northern Manitoba is one step closer to becoming a protected area.
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Josh Crabb @joshcrabb.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Kinew to speak at 3 p.m. CT after Canada fights back against Trump's 25% tariffs www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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U.S. alcohol pulled from Manitoba shelves, tax deferrals coming, Kinew says on social media | CBC News
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says U.S. alcohol products are being pulled from the shelves of provincial liquor stores.
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