Art City has issued a callout to creatives of all kinds for paintings and other flat artworks to show solidarity with residents of Minneapolis.

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer ’s chief of staff resigned Sunday over the furor surrounding the appointment of Peter Mandelson as the U.K. ambassador to the U.S. despite his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — For Breezy Johnson, the road to an Olympic gold medal was similar to the winning downhill run she turned in Sunday: It was full of jarring bumps that nearly knocked her off course, but not off target.

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO – The Canadian mixed doubles curling team’s playoff chances took a big hit Sunday with a 7-6 loss to Sweden at the Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium.

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The urgent investigation into the apparent kidnapping of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie continued Sunday, a week after the mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie was reported missing in Arizona.

MILAN – Two-time Olympic gold medallist Sidney Crosby was been named captain of Canada’s men’s hockey team at the Milan Cortina Games.

OTTAWA – Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami president Natan Obed compares working with Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government to being a contestant on the TV show “Dragons’ Den.”

Former cabinet minister Chrystia Freeland says when it comes to the U.S. and its relationships with other countries on the world stage, it needs to “get their act together.”

Braden Calvert will play in the Manitoba men’s provincial curling final for the third year in a row.

MILAN — Ste. Anne’s Jocelyne Larocque had the puck on her stick, suddenly alone in the slot with a golden chance to make an immediate impact on the biggest stage in sport.

Children and adults in West Broadway celebrated winter with games, skating and even horses on Saturday.

Winnipeggers opened their hearts and vehicle doors on the weekend to help give comfort to children who have been abused.

GATINEAU – The federal government says it is making more than $1 billion available to Canada Post in the form of a repayable loan to help the beleaguered Crown corporation remain solvent and keep its services running.

MILAN — Well, that sure didn’t take long, eh?

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MILAN – Canadian speedskater Valérie Maltais has won the bronze medal in the women’s 3,000 metres at the Milan Cortina Games.

Community stage companies are uniting this month in Winnipeg to remind audiences that the cure to what ails them could be a little theatre.

Inner-city students and their families are getting more options and flexibility to study Indigenous languages.

United Way Winnipeg has 23.3 million reasons to celebrate after its 2025 campaign raised a record amount of donations.

The union that represents city workers has renewed its call to bring waste collection back in-house after the current provider moved its headquarters to the United States.

Manitoba wants to attract more qualified pharmacists from outside Canada by making it easier for them to practise here, the health minister said Friday.

The failure to recognize and intervene when a patient’s health has deteriorated continues to be a leading cause of death and injury in Manitoba’s health-care system.

Cash, credit or debit — or maybe just one and not the others? Even as technology advances, rising costs and the impacts of crime mean some Manitoba businesses are still seeking new ways to settle the bill with customers.

One of Winnipeg’s funniest playwrights and an ensemble of five of the city’s strongest comic actors spin gold from parental rage in Holland, a guns-blazing production full of righteously madcap decision-making at the Tom Hendry Warehouse.

MILAN — The deep-voiced, English-speaking PA announcer and his Italian translator repeated it multiple times throughout Friday’s lavish opening ceremonies, reminding the 75,000 spectators inside San Siro Stadium — and the millions watching around the world — exactly what was unfolding.

A Winnipeg man has admitted responsibility for a drunk driving crash that killed two cyclists on Kenaston Boulevard last summer.

More possible victims of a case of suspected food poisoning at a prominent hotel have come forward.

Some hotly debated zoning changes aimed at speeding up home construction in Winnipeg haven’t triggered a flood of building applications yet, though thousands of housing units are on the way.

MILAN – Canada marched into the Milan Cortina Winter Games — at four different locations — on a colourful and unique Friday night.

Manitoba Hydro and the provincial and federal governments have asked a Manitoba court to toss out a lawsuit launched by Berens River First Nation over a decades-old hydroelectric project it alleges has devastated the Lake Winnipeg environment and fishery.

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The sheriff investigating the apparent abduction of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie’s mother said Friday he was frustrated that a camera at Nancy Guthrie ‘s home wasn’t able to capture images of anyone the day she went missing.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s racist social media post featuring former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, as primates in a jungle was deleted after a backlash from both Republicans and Democrats who criticized the video as offensive.

MONTREAL – Canadian Tire has been ordered to pay just under $1.3 million after pleading guilty to 74 counts of violating sections of Quebec’s Consumer Protection Act related to false advertising.

MILAN — You’ll likely remember the Jamaican bobsled team that dropped jaws and turned heads at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, eventually inspiring the movie Cool Runnings.

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LONDON (AP) — British police on Friday searched two properties linked to ex-ambassador Peter Mandelson as part of a probe into potential misconduct stemming from his ties to the late Jeffrey Epstein.

TORONTO (AP) — Buck Martinez said Friday he is retiring as a Toronto Blue Jays broadcaster after more than 4,000 games dating to 1987.

OTTAWA – Canada’s largest federal public sector union is threatening legal action as the government moves to increase public servants’ in-office time.

The manhunt for a 39-year-old man accused of abducting a 20-year-old woman is over, Pimicikamak Cree Nation Chief Davis Monias wrote in a social media post on Friday.

OTTAWA – The Supreme Court of Canada says there can be an exception to a lawyer’s duty to keep conversations with a client confidential when the lawyer needs the information to defend themselves against a criminal charge.

A federal jury has ordered Uber to pay $8.5 million to a woman who says one of its drivers raped her during a 2023 trip.

ENUGU, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian court has ordered the British government to pay 20 million pounds ($27 million) each to families of 21 coal miners killed in 1949 by security forces during British colonial rule, according to the state-run news agency.

MILAN — Her birth certificate may say Switzerland, but make no mistake: Olympic speed skater Kaitlyn McGregor’s roots are firmly planted in Manitoba.

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A Winnipeg firefighter was injured while battling a blaze in a vacant bungalow on Nairn Avenue early Friday.

OTTAWA – Statistics Canada says the economy shed 25,000 jobs in January but a drop in the number of people looking for work drove the unemployment rate down to 6.5 per cent in the month.

MILAN – The Milan Cortina Winter Olympics officially get underway today with a multi-site opening ceremony spread across northern Italy.

NUUK – Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is set to officially open the new consulate today in Greenland’s capital of Nuuk, where Canadian consular staff have been operating quietly for several weeks.

MUSCAT, Oman (AP) — Oman says it mediated indirect talks between Iran and the United States.