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Bombers kicker Sergio Castillo and the search for the perfect kick
“To create the perfect kick is just an oddity where you connect with everything, from your jab step, to your head placement, to your shoulders, the plant, the foot to the ball, the contact and the hit ...
Manitoba seeks public input on roadmap to net-zero emissions by 2050
The Manitoba government is inviting residents, Indigenous nations, businesses, municipalities, and environmental groups to ...
CUPE leader Carmen Prefontaine enters Elmwood-East Kildonan byelection race
Carmen Prefontaine, vice-president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Manitoba, officially registered her ...
Winnipeg police launch targeted operation to combat violent crime in Osborne Village
The Winnipeg Police Service is ramping up its presence in Osborne Village this summer in response to what officials are calling a troubling rise in violent incidents and business disruptions in the ...
Negro League alum Ron Teasley recalls Carman baseball days at 98
Teasley was named to the ManDak League’s All-Star Team three years in a row and hit .336 during the 1949 season when Carman ...
German zoo kills 12 baboons that it didn't have enough space to house, despite protests
BERLIN (AP) — A zoo in the German city of Nurember g said it killed 12 baboons on Tuesday despite protests, capping a saga rooted in concerns that the zoo had too little space to house a growing group ...
Grizzly attack in B.C. likely 'defensive', bears to be spared, investigators say
British Columbia’s Conservation Officer Service says a grizzly attack on a couple in the province’s Interior over the weekend was likely “defensive in nature,” and it’s unlikely the bears were ...
Parents want more warnings after a brain-eating amoeba killed their boy on a South Carolina lake
As they grieve their son, the boy’s parents said they were stunned to learn South Carolina, like most other U.S. states, has no law requiring public reporting of deaths or infections from the amoeba.
Maine police chief says Jamaican officer arrested by ICE had cleared federal check for work in May
OLD ORCHARD BEACH, Maine (AP) — The chief of police in a resort town in Maine has called for an investigation into the arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement of one of its officers, whom ...
What to know about the brain-eating amoeba that killed a boy swimming in a lake
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A 12-year-old boy died from a brain-eating amoeba two weeks after a holiday weekend on a popular South Carolina lake. The brain-eating amoeba enters the body when water is forced ...
Tataskweyak Cree Nation residents start to return home after lengthy evacuation
Some 2,400 people started returning to their homes in Tataskweyak Cree Nation in northern Manitoba, two months after they were forced to leave by encroaching fire. “It’s very good news this week,” ...
Trump Environmental Protection Agency moves to repeal finding that allows climate regulation
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday proposed revoking a scientific finding that has long been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions ...