First live ‘murder hornet’ sighted near U.S.-Canada border, say scientists

Asian supermarket T&T to open at Polo Park

Live seafood, more than 150 varieties of baked bread and rows of Asian produce are being promised for CF Polo Park — in two years time.

Police resuming drug-enforcement crackdown, working with outreach community

Winnipeg police are relaunching a drug enforcement campaign in some neighbourhoods Friday after they say a 10-day sweep led to more than 100 arrests and a drop in reported crime earlier this summer.

Police said the renewed initiative, targeting open drug use and trafficking, will continue into November with an outreach-first approach and a partnership with a coalition of community groups in response to criticism of the initial campaign.

“While there was a great deal of support for the enforcement actions we undertook to address public safety issues, there was also criticism about the lack of collaboration,” Winnipeg Police Service Chief Gene Bowers told reporters.

“At that time, I acknowledged that community organizations should have been part of our efforts. Hence, we’re here today.”

No critical incidents, adverse public safety events resulted from July 911 outage, Bell says in report to CRTC

The telecommunications outage that prevented Manitobans outside Winnipeg from contacting 911 for several hours last month did not result in “critical incidents or adverse public safety outcomes,” Bell Canada says.

Bell, which runs Manitoba’s 911 network, issued its post-incident report on the July 22 outage to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on Thursday.

In total, calls to 911 made by 84 people from 11:40 a.m. to 3:25 p.m. could not be routed to the public safety call centre in Brandon. That facility answers 911 calls for most of the province outside Winnipeg.

Officials at the 911 call centre in Brandon advised Bell that, as of Thursday, there had been no reported critical incidents or public-safety issues as a result of the missed calls, the telecom company said in its report.

First live 'murder hornet' of 2021 sighted

OLYMPIA, Wash. - Scientists from the Washington State Department of Agriculture say they've found the first so-called live murder hornet for the year.

In a news release Thursday, entomologists say the Asian giant hornet was seen about a kilometre from the U.S.-Canada border.

They say the hornet was reported by a Whatcom County resident on Wednesday and confirmed the following day where a photograph showed it attacking a paper wasp nest, about three kilometres from where the department eradicated a nest last October.

They say U.S. and B.C. officials will be setting up traps in the area to catch a live hornet, tag it and track it back to its nest.

U of M researchers studying ‘digital legacy planning’ before death

A team of researchers at the University of Manitoba wants adults to take the cloud they leave behind into special consideration when they envision heaven and their afterlife.