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Manitoba Progressive Conservative Party leadership candidate Wally Daudrich joked to a group of party members this week he could reduce homelessness in Winnipeg by letting polar bears loose downtown.

Daudrich, who operates ecotours to view polar bears east of Churchill, on the coast on Hudson Bay, made the comment as a joke during an appearance at a Winnipeg hotel on Wednesday night.

"We have a homeless crisis here in Winnipeg. I always say where I come from in Churchill, we don't have any homeless people. Anybody take a guess why?" he asked, eliciting laughs.

"When there are serious repercussions for a bad lifestyle, people smarten up very quickly. So my plan is to import 10 polar bears and let them go in front of the Ledge," Daudrich said, referring to the Manitoba Legislature.

tl;dr: Police "Insulted" by insinuations photo radar has been used as a cash cow. Also police: Requirement to restrict photo radar to school zones, construction sites, and locations with demonstrably higher collision rates due to speeding has resulted in a $28M funding gap for Calgary ALONE.

April Woodhouse, 50, was found lying outside on the steps of a house in Pinaymootang First Nation—about 240 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg—not far from where she lived.

In the hospital, she said they were told April had signs of internal bleeding. When Stagg went into the hospital room, she noticed something else.

“I was holding her hand, and I noticed her hands were badly beaten,” she said, adding there were marks on her sister’s body.

When Stagg called RCMP, she was told her sister’s death was not being considered a homicide.

When CTV News first reached out to Manitoba RCMP on Tuesday, a spokesperson said April’s death was a “medical incident.”

However, one day later, RCMP responded to CTV News again. This time the police said an investigation is underway.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25221878

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25218430

Quick vid summarizing it all for those who do not have time to read through

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0M-e9GEn_A

Canada Post is laying off dozens of managers in an attempt to save money after years of severe financial losses, CBC News has learned.

The layoffs include firing three senior executives last month — most notably the company's chief financial officer. Two vacant roles have also been eliminated, resulting in an overall 20 per cent cut to senior management, Canada Post said.

"They're not handling mail or anything like that," he said. "To the public, this will largely be invisible ... this won't impact service," he said.

The Crown corporation, which does not receive taxpayer funding and is expected to sustain itself based on the services it offers, has been bleeding money every year since 2018 — totalling more than $3 billion.

Shannon Proudfoot, Aaron Maciejko, and KJ de Groot recount the moment googly-eyed hockey sticks were stuck in a snowbank to poke fun at Donald Trump and his demand for 24/7 eyes on the border.

Four months after she died in a car crash, Nell Smith, the B.C. teenager known for her collaboration with the Grammy Award-winning rock band The Flaming Lips, has had her first solo album announced.

The album, Anxious, is scheduled to be released by Brighton, U.K.,-based record label Bella Union April 11.

According to the label, profits from the album sales will go toward a memorial fund established to support young, emerging artists.

Smith's parents, Jude and Rachel Smith, told CBC Daybreak South host Chris Walker that listening to the new album was challenging, so soon after their daughter's death.

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It already feels like four years and it's only the start of February 2025.

Politicians across the country have urged Canadians to buy local amid the ongoing threat of a trade war with the United States — something many consumers are already doing.

But for governments themselves, that might be easier said than done.

An IJF analysis has found a quarter of the top 100 suppliers to the federal government in terms of total contract value are headquartered in the United States, three times more than any other foreign country.

. . .

Those 100 contractors — two of which are departments of the U.S. government itself — have been awarded more than $62.5 billion in government business since 2014, the IJF analysis found. That’s compared to about $131 billion for the 57 Canada-based companies that appear in the top 100.

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