Winnipeg Man Accused of Attempting to Kill Common-law Wife
A man in Winnipeg faces an attempted murder charge after police allege he forced his common-law wife into a car and then crashed on purpose.
Police allege the man assaulted the 21-year-old woman repeatedly while he drove, and then intentionally guided her side of the vehicle into a parked trailer.
Police allege he ran from the wreck while she was trapped.
Thirty-one-year-old Christopher Rutherford was later arrested.
Emergency workers freed the woman with extraction equipment and police say she's in stable condition.
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Selinger Supportive of Bike Space Bill
Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger says he's in favour of a proposal that would require motorists to give at least a metre of space between their vehicles and bicycles when passing them on roads.
NDP backbencher Dave Gaudreau has put forward the idea in a private member's bill.
However, the bill is one of many on the agenda and the legislature is scheduled to sit for only 12 days before the campaign begins for the April 19th election.
Selinger says whether there is enough time to pass the bill partly depends on the opposition.
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KAP Bad Road Campaign
Keystone Agricultural Producers says it's not too late for Manitobans to send in photos of bad roads for the group's campaign to find the worst roads in the province.
K-A-P president Dan Mazier says they're getting prepared to meet with Manitoba's infrastructure minister about bad roads and the ones that are getting missed.
Mazier says looking at the map they've created so far with the submissions, there are patterns in road problems, but the damage is well-dispersed through rural Manitoba.
Minister Ron Kostyshyn said he was taken aback by the campaign when it was launched in September, saying the government has made a lot of infrastructure improvements over the past eight years.
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Second Strike At Saskatchewan Jail
A brief resumption to a hunger strike at the Regina Correctional Centre has ended.
Saskatchewan's Ministry of Corrections says inmates stopped eating Friday morning -- two weeks after a previous hunger strike ended -- but resumed eating Saturday following discussions with officials about the quality of food at the jail.
Both the government and the company contracted to prepare and serve meals at the Regina jail conceded after the December strike that meals at the jail had not been meeting proper standards.
The province privatized food services at several correctional facilities last year.
