On Chief David Monias’s wish list: a water bomber, more hoses and an easier path for residents to become firefighters.

St. Boniface councillor Matt Allard is urging people to make their mental health a priority in the wake of a personal crisis he experienced earlier this month.

VICTORIA – Independent British Columbia legislator Hon Chan says he is not resigning after his assault charges came to light and he was kicked out of the Conservative caucus.

Staff members at Harmony Aesthetics invite you to put yourself on ice.

The local Ukrainian community is organizing a search Friday for a 30-year-old Ukrainian man who hasn’t been seen in more than two months.

CHICAGO — Connor Hellebuyck pulled up a chair in the lobby at the Blackhawks Ice Center with a calmness that is similar to when he stares down a shooter on a breakaway.

A Winnipeg man who continued to provide chiropractic services after he was stripped of his licence has been prohibited by a court from practising until 2029.

Rawley Walker went into “survival mode” when two strangers attacked him, with one ultimately hitting him in the head with a hatchet, on a North End sidewalk Friday.

It’s the ultimate interstellar fashion moment; a vintage-inspired Mary Maxim fox knit, worn by Ryan Gosling’s character in his latest blockbuster Project Hail Mary, has sent the crafting world spinning.

Winnipeg Police Service investigators arrested the alleged leader of a drug-smuggling ring that was trafficking cocaine from the city into a remote, fly-in First Nation in northwestern Ontario late last year, court documents reveal.

Carrying a 300-pound fire hydrant and pulling a 60,000-pound fire truck aren’t in Evan Yaworski’s job description, but his employer might find it nice to know that they could be and he wouldn’t bat an eye.

REGINA – Premier Scott Moe says his government is planning to ask Saskatchewan residents their view on banning social media for children under 16.

HAVANA (AP) — Cuba prepared Monday to receive a sanctioned Russian tanker carrying roughly 730,000 barrels of oil, the first such fuel delivery this year to the island that has been brought to its knees by a U.S. oil blockade.

Manitoba pharmacists say they want to roll up their sleeves for an “all-hands-on deck” approach to the province’s measles outbreak — the worst in Canada.

Manitoba’s police oversight agency says Winnipeg police officers who shot at a stolen truck as it was ramming their SUV, killing a passenger in the vehicle, won’t be charged.

Weekend @winnipegfreepress.com column: Spying on Indigenous peoples is about more than mistrust; it destabilizes the country www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/2026/0...

Hers’s my story on the #NHLJets opening up a four-game road trip with a 4-2 win over the #Avs on Saturday: www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

Helen Guzman was a doctor in the Philippines before coming to Winnipeg in 1966. She completed an internship here and then went on to have a long career at the Municipal Hospitals, now Riverview, doing palliative and oncology care #RIP passages.winnipegfreepress.com/passage-deta....

OGDEN – Canada got back on track at the men’s world curling championship with a 9-2 rout of Poland in Monday’s early draw.

OTTAWA – The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has approved a landmark First Nations child welfare deal between the federal government and First Nations in Ontario, partially ending a decades-long discrimination case.

Newly anointed NDP leader Avi Lewis has found a friend in Premier Wab Kinew, even as tensions rise among provincial New Democrats leaders in Saskatchewan and Alberta who disagree with the federal party’s stance on energy production.

GIMLI – Team Einarson has added Jocelyn Peterman as lead and vice days after overhauling its lineup following a runner-up finish at the world women’s curling championship in Calgary.

MADRID (AP) — Spain has closed its airspace to U.S. planes involved in the Iran war, Defense Minister Margarita Robles said Monday, marking another step in the country’s opposition to the U.S. and Israel’s conflict in the Middle East.

OTTAWA – Major Canadian banks and pension funds have provided tens of billions of dollars to American contractors for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, an investigation by the non-profit Stand.earth has found.

WINNIPEG – NDP Leader Avi Lewis begins his term with the task of rebuilding the federal party in his unapologetically progressive vision, but there is already resistance from the leadership of the Alberta and Saskatchewan branches.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A group of friends in their mid-20s campaigned door to door last week in a small Hungarian city, supporting a political movement that soon could end Prime Minister Viktor Orbán ‘s 16-year grip on power.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said he wanted to take Iran’s oil and suggested American troops could seize the country’s Kharg Island export hub, even as he added in comments published Monday that a deal with Tehran to end the war “could be made fairly quickly.”

HALABJA, Iraq (AP) — To speak with his mother inside Iran, Yaser Fattahi waits in self-exile in Iraq for brief calls arranged by a cousin back home who travels close to the border between the neighboring countries where he can pick up a signal to connect them.

PARIS (AP) — French authorities are investigating a suspected link to Iran after thwarting a bomb attack outside a Bank of American building in Paris on the weekend, the interior minister said Monday.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A strong preliminary magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck near Vanuatu in the South Pacific Ocean on Monday, officials said.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Senior officials in Kyiv are taking a swipe at the head of German defense giant Rheinmetall, whose unflattering comments about Ukrainian drone technology and the role of women in the war against Russia ignited a social media backlash.

When the next disaster hits, the City of Winnipeg hopes to have a detailed plan in place to clean it up.

Brandon resident Scott Kirk’s volunteering journey with Sport Manitoba started in 2019 when he applied to serve as mission staff for the Western Canada Summer Games.

CHICAGO — That was supposed to be the week where the Winnipeg Jets’ playoff dreams went up in smoke.

Premier Wab Kinew expressed his appreciation for newly selected federal NDP leader Avi Lewis and said the two will work together for “a positive vision of Canada.”

WINNIPEG – The next NDP leader will be announced this morning as the party concludes its Winnipeg convention.

HAMILTON – Tate McRae is the leading nominee heading into tonight’s Juno Awards broadcast in Hamilton.

COUTTS – Amid the howling winds of the Sweet Grass Hills lies Border Road, a 14-kilometre ribbon of manicured gravel stretching between the United States and Canada.

You’ve probably seen the latest millennial nostalgia trend circulating on social media.

To say this might go down as a season-saver isn’t hyperbole for the Winnipeg Jets.

WINNIPEG – The NDP leadership candidates made their last pitch to voters Saturday morning in a last-ditch effort to win support from the handful of members who have not voted yet.

The University of Winnipeg has asked the court to toss out a lawsuit filed by its former president over his unceremonious ouster late last year.

CAIRO (AP) — A missile attack on Israel by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen on Saturday raises concern that Tehran’s proxies may again try to block Red Sea shipping routes, as Iran’s chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz keeps another key global trade passage virtually closed.

Lawyers for a man who alleged he was repeatedly sexually assaulted as a child by a now-dead Catholic priest in rural Manitoba and Winnipeg in a 2023 lawsuit recently reached a confidential settlement with the Archdiocese of St. Boniface.

The Alberta government and the father of a Calgary man who was left permanently disabled with severe brain damage after staff at Concordia Hospital in Winnipeg allegedly gave him a “massive overdose” of a powerful sedative while treating him for the flu in 2024 are suing for negligence.

GENEVA (AP) — Swiss food giant Nestlé says about 12 tons, or 413,793 candy bars, of its KitKat chocolate brand were stolen after leaving its production site in Italy earlier this week for Poland.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans wounded in the Iran war has grown beyond 300, with more than two dozen troops injured this week from attacks on a Saudi air base.

PARIS (AP) — French police have thwarted a suspected bomb attack outside a Bank of America building in Paris, authorities said Saturday. One suspect was detained and another escaped.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s navy said Saturday it found two sailboats that had gone missing while carrying humanitarian aid to Cuba.

BEIRUT (AP) — An Israeli airstrike on southern Lebanon on Saturday killed three journalists who were covering the latest Israel-Hezbollah war, their TV stations said.