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Josh Mathews (left) and his brother, Nathan, are going head-to-head in the provincial spelling bee this Saturday.

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Josh Mathews (left) and his brother, Nathan, are going head-to-head in the provincial spelling bee this Saturday.

Power outage over

Power was restored to north Winnipeg shortly before 6 p.m., ending a two-hour outage over rush hour, a Manitoba Hydro spokeswoman said.

Manitoba Hydro pulled the plug on power, triggering the outage in North Winnipeg today at rush hour to conduct emergency repairs, a spokeswoman for the utility said ...

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