Dauphin's Countryfest Has Only Just Begun

Dauphin's Countryfest officially started Wednesday but the party is still going.

Details: Published: Jul 2, 2016 - 8:45 am

Bangladesh Attack

The body count rose dramatically this morning after commandos stormed a restaurant to end a hostage siege in Bangladesh's capital of Dhaka.

A senior military official says the troops killed six hostage takers and captured one alive. Once inside the restaurant they found the bodies of 20 hostages all of them foreign nationals. The nationalities of the victims are not yet known, however, a Japanese official earlier reported that seven of his county's citizens were unaccounted for.

The more than ten hour siege also left at least two police officers dead and dozens wounded.

The Islamic State is reported to have claimed responsibility for the attack but officials are still trying to verify the claim. There's been no word if any Canadians are involved.

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Cranberry - Portage Missing Person found by RCMP

A Manitoba woman who went missing a couple days back has been found. Cranberry Portage RCMP confirm that 52 year old Cythnia Bjornson has been located safe and sound.

Manitoba RCMP thanks all the members of the public and media for their assistance during the search.

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Manitoba Plane Crash

The Transportation Safety Board is looking into what caused a single-engine plane to crash in Manitoba. The crash east of Winnipeg yesterday killed two people whose identities have not yet been released. Though the cause of the crash is not yet known, weather is not believed to have been a factor as skies were clear at the time.

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Manitoba Mom Murdered

A mentally ill Winnipeg man who beat his mother to death with a marble rolling pin as she sat at the kitchen table inside their home will spend at least 13 years behind bars.

Christopher Campbell pleaded guilty earlier this year to second-degree murder, which carries an automatic life term with no chance of parole for at least 10 years. Queen's Bench Justice Sadie Bond has upped that to 13 years, calling it a brutal killing that was intentionally and intensely violent.

Defence lawyer Stacey Soldier told court her client - who has schizophrenia - has little recollection of the deadly April 2013 attack on 61-year-old Rosina Campbell.

Hours before the beating, the victim put a note in her purse saying her son had accused her of molesting him and she feared for her life.

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Alberta Wildfire Emergency Lifted

A provincial state of emergency declared over a raging wildfire in northern Alberta nearly two months ago has finally been lifted. The provincial government said the declaration was ended yesterday, though it will be replaced by a local state of emergency in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo.

Municipal Affairs Minister Danielle Larivee says while Fort McMurray is still on the path toward recovery, the government is encouraged by the significant progress the community has made to date.

She says the work of rebuilding can now be turned over to the municipality, adding Alberta will continue to stand with the people of Fort McMurray.

Details: Published: Jul 2, 2016 - 6:21 am

Planned Power Outage

A planned power outage will take affect for residents in the San Clara area on July 6th.

Manitoba Hydro says in a release they will be interupting the electrical service and surrounding region from 10am-2pm.

The areas that will be affected runs along Highway 83 starting north of Roblin and then extends northwards and eastwards toward Childs Lake, including San Clara and Boggy Creek.

The outage is to let Hydro workers install new lightening arrestors to reduce the chance of a power outage during a storm.

Approximately 300 customers will be affected.

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Manitoba Government Amends The Mental Health Act

Health, Seniors and Active Living Minister Kelvin Goertzen announced yesterday that an amendment to the Mental Health Act (MHA) will allow police officers to transfer custody of individuals awaiting an involuntary medical examination to a trained, qualified individual as defined under the act.

Currently, a police officer must wait with a patient until a medical examination is completed.

The minister said this amendment will enable police to transfer custody of an individual detained under the MHA to a qualified person, other than a police officer, who would remain with an individual detained under the MHA until they have received the assessment.

Goertzen said in a release that the government recognizes the importance of keeping those in need of involuntary medical examinations safe while in custody and to protect health-care workers and the public, and they believe it is equally important to promptly return police officers to their policing duties in the community.

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Canada Day Cigarettes

Anti-smoking advocates are fuming over a tobacco company's special ``eh-dition'' packaging for Canada Day.

Rob Cunningham of the Canadian Cancer Society says Rothmans Benson and Hedges' marketing of its Canadian Classics cigarettes underscores the need for plain packaging of tobacco products.

Cunningham says it's wrong that a tobacco company is using the theme of Canadian pride to sell cigarettes.

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Manitoba Government Adopts Act To Continue Serving Francophone Community

The Manitoba government has adopted the Francophone Community
Enhancement and Support Act.

Culture Minister Rochelle Squires says French is entrenched in the history of the province and the francophone community continues to be an integral part of its development.

The minister says this is one of the most significant provincial commitments to the francophone community since the first French language services policy was introduced in 1989 and the Chartier report was tabled in 1998.

The act will establish a Francophone Affairs Advisory Council comprised of senior officials and community members to advise and make recommendations to the minister responsible for francophone
affairs.