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Premier Wab Kinew has added two more ministers to the Manitoba cabinet. MLAs Carla Compton (Tuxedo) and David Pankratz (Waverley) were given new cabinet roles during an announcement at the legislature...

Premier Wab Kinew created two new cabinet positions today. He appointed David Pankratz, the MLA for Waverley, special envoy for military affairs, and deputy house leader, as minister responsible for.....

Getting an investigator assigned and your case heard at the Manitoba Human Rights Commission can take years and the calls to fix the system are getting louder.

Anxious Furby Street residents contacted the city and their elected officials Friday to — once again — report people coming and going from a boarded-up house they call a dangerous “drug centre” and “d...

A hearing to determine whether Dynacare workers are essential is within the law, but it shouldn't be, a union says. The Manitoba Labour Board has been hearing arguments on the matter since it ordered ...

Charlie Medd wasn’t ready for another adventure last October, when she moved out of the Wolseley Avenue apartment she had called home for 15 years.

Linda Smith first turned to Harvest Manitoba in the early 1990s when her husband became permanently disabled. Now, on a fixed income, she continues to access the food bank to make ends meet.

Health Canada has suspended all plasma collection at Grifols’ Taylor Avenue facility while the private company continues to face scrutiny after two people died following donations at its Winnipeg clin...

While concerns about homelessness and public safety continue to make headlines in Manitoba, the two government departments mainly responsible for addressing them came in under budget last year.

As Premier Wab Kinew pitches investors on a Port of Churchill expansion that could cost as much as $80 billion, the company that owns the port says it only needs a small fraction of that cash — less t...

Manitoba’s new plan to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 is a lot of things. It’s detailed. It’s certainly comprehensive in scope. But when it is all said and done, it is still very much a wor...

Wab Kinew refused to comment on his old rap lyrics. A reporter cites a Nova Scotia minister resigning over misogynistic lyrics, then asks about Kinew’s own video. “No.” He had plenty of words for t...

The MLA for Portage la Prairie is alarmed his city’s hospital has been treating some patients in a room where black mould is growing.

Premier Wab Kinew says Manitoba may bring Dynacare’s diagnostic lab services back into the public system rather than continue to sign contracts with the for-profit company.

A shortage of judges is forcing Manitoba’s provincial court to slash sittings across the province.

There is a point in every government’s life when blaming the previous government stops being an explanation and starts becoming an excuse.

Hundreds of Dynacare workers are being ordered back to work by the Manitoba Labour Board, their union says.

Independent schools are preparing to welcome a record number of students as more families pay for faith-based instruction and secular alternatives.

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The justice minister said Thursday he can’t discuss an arbitration case in which Crown attorneys blasted the government for trying to keep a report on excessive workload out of an upcoming grievance h...

The Manitoba Labour Board is scheduled to hear a request next week for medical laboratory staff to be deemed essential workers — the same day they're set to go on strike.

When we talk about barriers to education, what usually comes to mind are tuition, cost of books or access to technology.

If there’s been a throughline in the past 30 years of Manitoba politics — apart from the fact the electorate has bounced between NDP and Progressive Conservative governments — it’s that the state of p...

Northern Manitoba First Nations are raising new objections to a corporation Premier Wab Kinew hopes will enable the expansion of the Port of Churchill and the construction of a liquefied natural gas s...

Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara doesn’t mince words when describing how bad things are in the province’s emergency departments and urgent-care centres.

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On most days at Health Sciences Centre’s adult emergency department, all 58 treatment beds are filled with sick patients. Another dozen or so brought in by ambulance line the hallways on stretchers, w...

Imagine a Manitoba in which our lives are powered by clean, affordable electricity that Manitobans own and which doesn’t pollute the air and water we depend on.

Community organizations in Winnipeg say they're inundated with demand as Manitobans struggle to afford groceries and put food on the table. The province continues to have one of the highest year-over-...