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'It feels like home': Southwestern Manitoba camp connects language to land

Nestled in a ceremony site east of Southwestern Manitoba's biggest city, a group of language keepers is working to strengthen and grow fluent Dakota, Cree, Anishinaabemowin and Michif speakers.
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Canadian High School Rodeo Finals brings hundreds of athletes to Brandon

About 260 rodeo athletes from across Western Canada have been competing since July 31 the rodeo final ends Saturday. Athletes contend in all types of rodeo sports from bull and bronc riding to barrel racing and team roping, along with goat tying and steer wrestling.

Southwestern Manitoba's biggest city joins provincial nominee program

Eleonor Mascardo, owner of Brandon's Happy Skin Clinic, used the immigration pilot to help secure staff. Mascardo felt embraced by Brandon when she opened in August 2023, but she "couldn't find any right fit locally" for a marketing manager at the multicultural clinic.

Former Brandon University instructor alleges more than half his students used AI to cheat

A former sessional instructor at Brandon University alleges students used artificial intelligence to complete assignments, and is criticizing the university's response to those allegations.

Parks Canada installs almost 2-km curtain to contain zebra mussels in Clear Lake

The curtain will run just under two kilometres from the west side of Riding Mountain National Parks' Boat Cove to Clear Lake's main beach in Wasagaming. The impermeable curtain is trying to contain an area where a zebra mussel and partial shells were found in mid-July by Parks Canada snorkellers.

Public events on hold after whooping cough found in southwestern Manitoba First Nation

Long Plain First Nation chief David Meeches says the discovery of whooping cough in his community of 1,200 has prompted the return of COVID-19-like protocols. He says the goal is to keep children, elderly and immunocompromised community members safe by preventing the spread of the illness.

Manitoba's CFB Shilo sending troops to help with Alberta wildfires

A 2nd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry company contingent of up to 90 troops left for Alberta Friday morning. They're headed to the Jasper area after the Canadian Forces received a request for assistance from the province of Alberta asking for help managing wildfires.

'It really helped us': Official in southwestern Man. laments end of doctor recruitment cost-sharing initiative

A top official in a southwestern Manitoba municipality says he's worried about recruiting future doctors after the provincialregional health authority servicing theareaendeda cost-sharing program for physician recruitment.

Wildfire prompts evacuation of vulnerable people from northern Manitoba First Nation

Marcel Colomb First Nation's chief administration officer Don McCallum says about 50 of the 300 people from the northern Manitoba community, including elders, children and families, have been evacuated to nearby Lynn Lake due to a wildfire.
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Southwestern Manitoba First Nation's powwow a time to reflect after Clear Lake zebra mussel discovery: chief

The discovery of zebra mussels in a southwestern Manitoba First Nation's ancestral territory marks a time for reflection during celebrations of the 150th anniversary of Treaty 4, the community's chief says.