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Police chief pulls plug on security shifts at supermarkets, stores

The Winnipeg Police Service is ending its years-long practice of allowing officers to pick up overtime shifts to provide additional security in supermarkets and other stores at retailers’ expense.

Carney’s defence of Lake Ontario carries enormous weight

For centuries on Turtle Island (North America), explorers, map makers, and political leaders have erased Indigenous place names and substituted them — more often than not — with political, ethnocentric, and self-aggrandizing names.

In recent years, a few places on the continent have had Indigenous names re-established, but as of today, few of the original names are “official.”

So, it was no surprise when U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order directing the U.S. Department of the Interior and Board on Geographic Names to take steps within 30 days to officially rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America.”

The move may have been a result of the Canada-U.S. trade war and Trump’s pettiness and ego, but it also fits in perfectly with his career.

Sturgeon Falls safety upgrades to begin Monday

Construction at Whiteshell Provincial Park is set to begin Monday, as a portion of the Trans Canada Trail closed Friday in preparation of safety upgrades at a site where two brothers drowned last month.

The province confirmed Friday that a section of trail running from the southwestern point where it meets Sturgeon Falls Road through to Sturgeon Falls will be closed during the work.

The closure is expected to remain in place for up to eight weeks, depending on progress and weather.

The improvements were announced by the province after brothers Maximo Au Ramirez, 10, and Aaron Au Ramirez, 13, went missing in the fast-moving rapids at Sturgeon Falls on July 18. Their bodies were found days later.

Manitoba introduces $100M in supports to combat U.S. tariffs

The province is responding to the latest U.S. tariffs with more than $100 million in supports for workers, businesses and producers to help Manitoba’s economy “weather the storm.”

“We will support workers, we will support businesses, we will ensure that we have market and trade diversification and build a stronger, more resilient economy,” Business, Mining, Trade and Job Creation Minister Jamie Moses said Friday at the Manitoba legislature alongside Agriculture Minister Ron Kostyshyn.

The latest escalation in U.S. tariffs is expected to impact a wide range of Manitoba industries, the ministers noted, including manufacturing, agri-food, transportation, construction, wholesale trade, aerospace, forestry, steel, machinery, beverages and related supply chains.

The province is working closely with the federal government to support workers, businesses and producers through a period of uncertainty “to ensure that our economy can weather the storm,” Moses said.

Late founder of Canad Inns celebrated with honorary street name

The founder of Canad Inns will be remembered through an honorary street name, alongside his homegrown hotel chain’s Garden City location.

U of M research role expands after $79-M federal injection

The University of Manitoba is playing in a new league.

A $79-million investment will bring five internationally recruited researchers to Manitoba to build “ambitious,” long-term research programs in areas of strategic national importance.

The five researchers will join the U of M thanks to the federal government’s $1.7-billion research talent initiative that’s designed to help Canadian universities compete globally for leading researchers.

The initiative’s flagship program, the Eddie Goldenberg Research Chairs of Canada, provides universities with the funding and resources to recruit world-class researchers, build research teams and pursue large-scale projects in fields considered important to Canada — from Arctic navigation and defence to sustainable mining, health equity and environmental law.