A veteran Winnipeg officer is expected to go to prison after admitting on Friday to a long list of allegations involving corruption, along with other inappropriate and illegal actions, stretching back years. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I spent two days in Manitoba’s bail courts recently to learn more about who gets released, who doesn’t and why. Lawyers I talked to say recent calls for reform largely miss the real issues they see play out in those courts. Read more here: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

CBC News went to bail court to learn more about who gets released, who doesn’t and why. Good insight on a hot-button issue by @caitlyngowriluk.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The leader of Manitoba’s Opposition is calling recent data on the province’s ankle monitoring “embarrassing,” following a CBC News story that revealed more than half the people released with the devices were rearrested or breached their conditions. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“Staggering” failure rate for ankle-bracelet monitoring in Manitoba, where 60% of people released with them are re-arrested, remove the devices, damage them or let the batteries die. By @caitlyngowriluk.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

More than half the people released with an ankle monitor since those devices were introduced in Manitoba in August 2024 were rearrested or broke the rules of their release while wearing one, recent numbers obtained by CBC News show. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A judge has stayed all charges in the Winnipeg sex assault case against disgraced fashion mogul Peter Nygard, finding his Charter right to a fair trial was breached by police failing to retain records related to allegations stemming from the 1990s. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A judge has stayed all charges in the Winnipeg sexual assault case against disgraced fashion mogul Peter #Nygard, finding his Charter right to a fair trial was breached by police failing to retain records related to allegations stemming from the 1990s. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

An Ontario truck driver who avoided Canadian authorities for more than nine months after allegedly causing a crash that killed a Manitoba mother and her eight-year-old daughter when he drove through a stop sign last year has been granted bail. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Markus Chambers has resigned from his position as board chair and member of the Winnipeg Police Board, ending the tenure of the board's longest-serving chair. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Breaking:  Russell Woodhouse, who was convicted of killing a Winnipeg man more than 50 years ago, is one step closer to having his name cleared following his own death after Canada's justice minister ordered a new appeal in his case. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Authorities allege a man arrested in connection with a human smuggling scheme dropped a family off near the border and told them to walk through a blizzard when their van got stuck in a remote area on the January night they froze to death. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Breaking: A man accused by police in India of helping smuggle a family of four through Canada just before they froze to death on the Manitoba side of the U.S. border more than three years ago has been arrested. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A Manitoba man sentenced to life in prison after sending letter bombs to his ex-wife and two lawyers had a motion for his release dismissed Thursday, during a brief hearing where he repeatedly interrupted and tried to argue with the judge. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Former mayor Sam Katz and a top bureaucrat found to have accepted a bribe from the contractor responsible for Winnipeg’s police HQ are expected to testify during the public inquiry into the project, a lawyer for the inquiry said Wednesday. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A Winnipeg lawyer found guilty of professional misconduct has been disbarred, after a disciplinary panel found the protection of the public and the need to preserve confidence in the integrity of the legal profession "demands his removal." Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A search of a Manitoba landfill for the remains of two women murdered by a serial killer was completed for roughly $18 million — a fraction of estimates originally presented as the top end of possible costs to carry out the project. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Police are asking a court to find a Winnipeg personal care home in contempt, because the home refused to hand over information from a critical incident report conducted after a 90-year-old woman died there following a fall out of bed last October. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A man charged in the death of a mother of four in downtown Winnipeg last year has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"It felt like no one heard us. No one acted. And for the longest time, Ashlee remained unidentified while we were out here, screaming into silence.” Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A veteran Winnipeg officer charged after a police investigation unearthed allegations he trafficked drugs, shared a photo of a dead woman and disclosed confidential information will for now remain in custody after his bail hearing was postponed. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Almost a year after a man convicted of murdering four women in Winnipeg was sentenced, the family of one of those victims — whose identity wasn't confirmed until recently — will get the chance to tell the court how her death affected them. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The parents of a boy found "close to death" from malnutrition have pleaded guilty to negligence, in a case where it took more than two years after a social worker first noticed signs of trouble for authorities to remove him and his siblings. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A Winnipeg woman has been fined $300 for throwing things at a Canada goose that got in her way as she tried to get into her friend's apartment building. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A man who admitted to accidentally shooting and killing his stepson during a family barbecue in a small southeastern Manitoba community almost two years ago has been sentenced to six years in prison. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Former Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard will now be represented by a Winnipeg lawyer on charges of sexual assault and forcible confinement he faces in Montreal. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The sisters of a man killed when a trio of strangers forced their way into his home almost two years ago wept in a Winnipeg courtroom Tuesday as prosecutors described how Cory Roulette's death shattered his family. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The sisters of a man killed when a trio of strangers forced their way into his home almost two years ago wept in a Winnipeg courtroom Tuesday as prosecutors described how Cory Roulette's death shattered his family. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Compensation talks for three First Nations men wrongfully convicted of a 1973 murder in Winnipeg are scheduled to be back in court for mediation. I talked to two of the men earlier this month. Here’s what they had to say. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

As one Manitoba landfill search for First Nations women's remains ends, another is set to begin. Here’s a look at how the families of Marcedes Myran, Morgan Harris and Ashlee Shingoose are feeling right now. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A Manitoba hotel owner charged with human trafficking has been granted bail after four of his employees from India reported being underpaid, forced to work 15-hour days and threatened with deportation. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A lawyer previously suspended from practising after being deemed incompetent has now been barred from starting or continuing proceedings in Manitoba's appeals court without permission from a judge, after being deemed a "vexatious litigant." Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A couple who own a Manitoba hotel have been charged with human trafficking following a months-long police investigation, where four employees from India reported being underpaid, forced to work 15-hour days and threatened with deportation. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Two intellectually vulnerable women who beat a man to death have been handed jail sentences that will allow them to serve their time in Manitoba, avoiding longer federal sentences that would have sent them to serve their time outside the province. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Manitoba is looking at moving more than 100 wildfire evacuees from the northern city of Thompson to another part of the province, as it struggles to find enough hotel space for everyone forced out of their homes this spring. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A First Nation on the shore of Lake Winnipeg has filed a lawsuit against Manitoba Hydro, as well as the provincial and federal governments, over a hydroelectric project it alleges has had negative effects on the lake and the community. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

People from more than a dozen Manitoba communities forced out by wildfires this spring have either returned or will start going home in the days ahead, but officials warn that doesn't mean fires in the province are no longer a threat. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Weather experts say Manitoba is expected to see above-normal temperatures this summer, which could increase the risk of wildfire as the province continues to grapple with out-of-control blazes across the region. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A woman who was beaten and abandoned in a dumpster in Winnipeg says she still lives with reminders of that attack — from how she can't stand the sound of duct tape being unwrapped, to the scar on her lower lip from being kicked in the face. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

As Manitoba battles out-of-control wildfires that have forced thousands of people out of their homes, some communities are making plans to allow people to start coming back — but for most, it will still take some time before that actually happens. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

People from some northern Manitoba communities say wildfire evacuees are having a hard time getting expected financial help from the Canadian Red Cross, and in some cases are being told they need to travel to Winnipeg to verify their identity. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Charges have been stayed against a man accused of threatening to post intimate images online unless he was paid money by victims across four provinces. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

As wildfires threaten communities across Canada, thousands of people have been forced out of their homes — but even in the face of mandatory evacuation orders and potential danger, some people may not go willingly, or at all. Read why here: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

One more update on this story this week: Both human smugglers convicted in a case where a family of four froze to death as they tried to walk across the international border from Manitoba in 2022 have now filed notices of appeal. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Update: One of two men convicted of human smuggling last year has filed a notice of appeal, in a case where a family from India froze to death as they tried to walk across the international border from Manitoba in blizzard conditions in 2022. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Two human smugglers have been sentenced to prison for their roles in a scheme to bring Indian migrants to the U.S. from Canada, which led to the deaths of a family of four as they tried to walk across the border from Manitoba in 2022. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I’m in Minnesota today to cover the sentencing of two men convicted of human smuggling in a case where a family of four from India froze to death trying to cross the border from Manitoba into the U.S. in 2022. Read more here: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Clifford Joseph's family didn't express their grief through words at the sentencing of the man convicted of killing him almost four years ago — but they still showed up to court to watch as Eric Wildman was handed a life sentence. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A truck driver whose licence was suspended after police said he refused to do a breathalyzer is challenging the provincial law that saw him temporarily barred from driving, arguing the review process set up by that law makes it unconstitutional. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A man charged with killing three people in a span of roughly six months in Winnipeg has pleaded guilty to three counts of second-degree murder. Story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...