The head of the Manitoba Electric Vehicle Association won't go as far as supporting the provice's decision to remove Teslas and China-made electric vehicles from the EV rebate program, but he understands it.

RCMP logo is shown in Edmonton, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson)

A 70-year-old woman has died after reportedly falling through the ice on Lake Winnipegosis, RCMP confirmed.

Winnipegosis RCMP received a report around 1 p.m. on Thursday that the woman, who had gone for her usual walk with her two dogs, had not returned home. Concerned family members searched the area and found one of her dogs sitting alone on the ice.

Emergency responders, including RCMP and the local fire department, launched a search in an area with open water. The woman was eventually found under the ice and recovered. She was transported to Dauphin hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

RCMP continue to investigate.

Police have identified the victim as 60-year-old Mario Ferreira of Toronto. They say he was killed in a random attack on a public bench Thursday morning, and the outstanding suspect should be considered armed and dangerous.

A visually impaired woman says the City of Thompson needs to bring back its local transit service, which was shut down last summer. Michelle Bruneau says the bus service was vital to her and others who can't get around easily without it.

Swift Current residents and community members are being advised of a bridge closure in Swift Current to allow for flood barricade placements in high-priority areas.

The historic Lee Lam Bridge, also known as the Blue Bridge, is closed, effective Friday, March 21.

Ryan Hunter, fire chief for the Swift Current Fire Department, noted that the barricades should be set up for seven to ten days or until it's been deemed safe.

"Our area that's most low-lying in the city is called Piper's Addition, which is by the Blue Bridge on the south side," he shared. "It's a narrow point where that bridge is so it creates a pinch point and chunks of ice get blocked up,

"Therefore, the water gets forced to go around and into the neighbourhood, so that's our first priority."

Folks heading to Piper's Addition can follow the detour on 17th Avenue South East to Dahl Street, detour signage has been has been put up.

The second area of high flood risk is around Connaught Drive and Riverdene Park.

"We anticipate that we're going to watch the water levels and the weather, we may start to put some barricades up there in the middle of next week," Hunter said in regard to the second location.

The City of Swift Current is planning to stay vigilant and respond as necessary to tariffs

Be they tariffs from the United States, China, or anywhere else in the world, staff are closely monitoring the effects happening in Swift Current. One of the most observable at the moment is the U.S. tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum. Industry producers that utilize those materials, such as S3 Group, AGI, and various machine shops, are how the City sees these effects. When their production lines and prices are adjusted to match tariffs, it gives the City insight into how other tariffs may play out. 

Swift Current Mayor, Al Bridal. is confident the City will be able to avoid 'rocking the boat', so to speak. 

"I can't change what President Trump does," said Bridal. "I can't change what Prime Minister Carney does. All I can do is try to make sure that as a city here, we try to keep things as steady as we can."

Bridal predicts that there may even be opportunities in Swift Current for industry growth and expansion. As the trade ware goes on, the market will continue wanting to buy Canadian, rather than American. Items previously produced in America will begin production in Canada, so long as their is enough incentive and demand. 

For Swift Current, that means there is a chance people may want to open shop and begin producing products that are adjacent to existing production lines. One example Bridal used was sliding aluminum and glass doors, commonly used for the entryways to malls, businesses, and other facilities. Bridal highlighted how the raw materials to construct these items are commonly used in Swift Current but are often shipped for assembly to the United States where they are sold. 

"Why are we not making some of that finished product in Canada?" asked Bridal. "We need, as Canadians, to look at doing a lot more of this stuff ourselves."

A senior who did not return home after she took a walk on a western Manitoba lake on Monday is believed to have drowned, RCMP say.

Winnipegosis RCMP received a report about a 70-year-old woman who allegedly fell through the ice on Lake Winnipegosis.

It is believed she had gone on her regular walk with her two dogs and did not return home.

A family member went to the location and found one of the dogs sitting on the ice.

RCMP and local fire department personnel arrived at the scene and began searching the surrounding area, which had sections of open water.

The woman was eventually found beneath the ice and retrieved. She was taken to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

The investigation is ongoing.

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An Alberta man has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of 55-year-old Dirk Nyhuis who was found dead in his Waterdown home on March 6, Hamilton police say.

Dylan Kurt Macdonald, 30, is facing a total of four charges which are being prosecuted in the counties where the offences allegedly took place: Queens, Kings and Prince.

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has released a new report detailing the decline in local news media over the last 16 years, indicating Newfoundland and Labrador has seen the worst of it.

The report, which tracked changes to 2,900 news outlets across the country since 2008, says this province has seen “cataclysmic losses of local print outlets.”

Outside St. John’s, they say the province lost three quarters of its news sources in the last 16 years.

The fact many small towns and rural areas have a single, local outlet, typically a newspaper, translates into a 100 per cent decline in print outlets for those communities, said the report.

Meanwhile, based on an index that the centre has created, they say St. John’s has seen some of the least news deprivation out of larger cities across the country.

They say that’s because the capital city is a “regional hub” that produces broadcast content that serves the rest of the province.

On a national scale, the centre says the country has lost 11 per cent of print media outlets since 2008, including newspapers and online, and a loss of nine per cent of broadcast media outlets in the same timeframe.

The overall result of the changes, according to the report, is that 2.5 million Canadians now live in a postal code with only one, or no, local news outlets. It says that accounts for seven per cent of the total population, up from three per cent 15 years ago.

Days before he’s expected to call a federal election, Prime Minister Mark Carney is confirming he won’t move ahead with a key Liberal tax policy.

The Prime Minister’s Office says a plan to hike the inclusion rate on capital gains, first pitched in the federal budget last year, will not move forward.

A person types on a laptop computer during in Gatineau, Que., on Monday, May 27, 2024. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick)

WINNIPEG — Manitoba plans to begin collecting retail sales tax on cloud computing services and software next year.

Beginning January 1, 2026, PST will be added to software subscriptions, data storage, and remote computer processing. Examples of such services subject to the tax include web hosting, Apple iCloud storage or a Microsoft 365 subscription.

The move is expected to generate $4 million annually for the province and was quietly revealed in Thursday’s 2025 budget.

The province says the change comes as a result of technological changes that have occurred in the industry.

Businesses, both resident and non-resident to Manitoba, will be required to register to collect retail sales tax on these services.

A registry to verify a business’ RST number will be developed and implemented by the end of 2025.

It hasn't exactly been a conventional spring sitting in the House of Assembly. CBC's Jean Laroche and Michael Gorman explain how some controversial bills and amendments have created some unexpected unity.

The fisheries union and processing companies have failed to reach an agreement on snow crab prices, the union announced on social media Friday.

The FFAW and Association of Seafood Producers had been trying to negotiate a price amid the added threat of tariffs from the United States. The FFAW says the matter will now go to the price-setting panel on Sunday.

“The parties have failed to reach an agreement on crab and are proceeding to the Panel on Sunday morning at 9:30 in St. John’s,” the FFAW posted on X, formerly known as Twitter. “A further update will provided following Panel submissions.”