RM of Dauphin Phase 1 Water Break Update

The water break the RM of Dauphin has have working on is much more significant than anticipated.

Details: Published: Sep 20, 2017 - 3:25 pm

Tomorrow is the first planning meeting of the Manitoba Maple Syrup Festival.

Details: Published: Sep 20, 2017 - 12:50 pm

The Grandview Fire Department is hosting their first ever awards banquet.

Details: Published: Sep 20, 2017 - 12:33 pm

The RM of Dauphin Rural water distribution line experienced a break last night and two crews are out and have isolated the area.

Details: Published: Sep 20, 2017 - 9:51 am

The Manitoba Federation of Labour says it's time to raise minimum wage in Manitoba.

Dozens rallied at the Manitoba Legislature on Tuesday afternoon to call for an increase in the province's minimum wage to $15 an hour, a $4-per-hour hike from the current minimum wage of $11 per hour.

The Federation States that the province needs to follow in the footsteps of others like Ontario, which has proposed legislation to boost minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2019, and Alberta, which has promised to do the same by October of next year.

British Columbia's NDP govenrment has also said it has plans to get to $15 per hour by 2021, and raised minimum wage by 50 cents this year to $11.35.

The rally was held during International Basic Income Week, a week of action for the concept of basic income that started in Europe in 2008 and has spread worldwide.

Details: Published: Sep 20, 2017 - 7:33 am

Issues surrounding mental health, post-traumatic stress disorder, occupational stress and depression are a growing concern among paramedics working in Manitoba — which has prompted the association to offer a course to help its members deal with such issues.

The course, initially developed for the Department of National Defence, focuses on how to cope with stress and how to spot the signs of a problem. It has been adapted for first responders and is now being offered to paramedics in Manitoba for the first time.

Trainers began working on the program in May and paramedics will be able to sign up starting in October.

The Road to Mental Readiness course aims to improve short-term performance and long-term mental health outcomes, provide tools and resources for support, and reduce barriers to care. The $100 course will first be offered at PAM's office in Winnipeg, and expanded to sites in rural Manitoba starting in 2018.

Details: Published: Sep 20, 2017 - 7:02 am

Hundreds of volunteers, soldiers and police are frantically digging through ruins of a collapsed Mexico City school in hopes of finding survivors in the wake of a 7.1 magnitude earthquake.

They have found the bodies of at least 25 students and teachers underneath the rubble.

Outside the school gates, rumours ran through the crowd of anxious parents that two families had received text messages from girls trapped inside, though nobody could say for sure whether it was true.

There are at least 248 confirmed fatalities so far in Mexico's deadliest earthquake since 1985.

And, in Puerto Rico, thousands are bracing for Hurricane Maria's direct hit this morning.

The record-breaking Category 4 hurricane -- with sustained winds of 155 mph (250 kph) --is the first storm of its strength to hit the US territory in nearly 80 years.

Conditions are expected to worsen between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. Wednesday, when the storm's eye wall -- and the strongest winds that it will bring with it -- hits the eastern coast of the island.

CKDM will continue to follow the story.