Winnipeg police say they’ve suspended the use of Crime Stoppers in light of a massive data breach of the crime-reporting system. The pause comes after CBC reported that 1.5 million tips submitted to Canadian Crime Stoppers programs over the last 25 years were stolen earlier this year.  Winnipeg police say they have been made aware […]

Before he was arrested in a posh Paris suburb, the disgraced dean of Manitoba’s only law school — who fled the country following a 2020 expense scandal — kept a low profile at a German university. Jonathan Black-Branch, 64, was apprehended on April 21 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. He owes the University of Manitoba more than $700,000 […]

Manitoba’s government says it is eyeing new rules to mandate unit pricing in grocery stores in order to shine a light on producers who reduce the size of a product while keeping the price the same. The announcement follows the release of a study that analyzed grocery pricing in the province. Finance Minister Adrien Sala […]

A former Winnipeg police officer who sold drugs to friends and colleagues and took a photo of a dead woman while on duty apologized for “tarnishing” the reputation of the service at his sentencing hearing Tuesday.  Elston Bostock, 49, earlier pleaded guilty to charges including breach of trust, attempting to obstruct justice, drug trafficking and […]

The University of Winnipeg has begun the search for a new leader after terminating its president. The board of regents, the governing body in charge of operations at U of W, removed Todd Mondor following a meeting Monday night. Mondor began what was supposed to be a five-year term on April 1, 2022. “In the […]

Manitoba Education has discreetly dropped Grade 10 exams from its annual system-wide assessment schedule. The evaluations were originally designed to measure strengths and knowledge gaps up to and including Grade 9 content to inform teacher instruction for the remainder of a cohort’s high school career and provincial planning, policy and resource decisions. They never made […]

The Manitoba government has scrapped plans to create a centralized database for student registration, report cards and other information at a cost in excess of $50 million. The Free Press has learned the initiative is not moving forward — unrelated to a series of recent cybersecurity incidents, although the Opposition Tories argue the shelved proposal, […]

Winkler police are again warning residents to be vigilant, as some continue to lose money to fraudsters. In their most recent crime report, the Winkler police said they received multiple reports of scams and attempted scams in the area between Oct. 21 and Nov. 2. In one incident, police say a woman received several texts […]