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Police alerted to separate slayings two hours apart

The 25-year-old man accused in a slaying outside a Henry Avenue shelter has a history of armed assault while intoxicated.

City officer cleared in shooting

A Winnipeg police officer was justified when he shot a man, armed with knives, in the thigh last fall, the police oversight agency has concluded.

Police probe Henry Avenue death

One person is dead after an incident outside a Winnipeg shelter Thursday morning.

Wholesaler suing restaurateur over non-payment

A food wholesaler is suing the owner of a Winnipeg restaurant that became a gathering place for COVID-deniers during the pandemic before it closed.

Pratts Ltd. and Pratts Wholesale Food Service Ltd. allege Tuxedo Village Family Restaurant and its owner, Paulina Jojnowicz, owe $11,056.38 plus interest, stemming from a 2018 contract. A statement of claim was filed in the Court of King’s Bench on Jan. 23.

Resign from law society or face disbarment, disgraced city lawyer told

A Winnipeg lawyer and former property manager who admitted to misusing hundreds of thousands of dollars in property trust funds has been told he can either resign from the province’s law society or be disbarred.

Catalytic converter thefts creep up

THE theft of catalytic converters is slowly increasing just months after it plummeted thanks to a new law, enforcement crackdown and tracking program.

Cold keeps doors closed at Steinbach-area schools

All Steinbach and area schools were closed Monday out of concern for the extreme cold, days after seven of them had been shuttered due to threats.

Threats close Steinbach-area schools, prompt international probe

All Steinbach schools and one in a neighbouring community closed Friday after receiving more threatening phone messages.

Transit adds voice to call for national task force

In the latest violence plaguing Winnipeg Transit, police arrested a woman accused of assaulting a bus driver and passengers — and another woman who stepped in to fight her.

Police chief asks for $1.8M to hire more 911 staff

Winnipeg’s police chief wants more funding to hire 911 call operators and dispatchers as call volumes increase and staff burn out.

Police seek man in public choking attack

Winnipeg police are searching for a male suspect after a woman was choked unconscious on a Windsor Park-area street early Saturday.

Police were called to Elizabeth Road and De Bourmont Avenue at about 12:30 a.m., where a woman in her 40s reported being assaulted by an unknown man.

The woman said she had walked west on Elizabeth, then north on De Bourmont, when a man came up behind her. He began to choke her and pulled her to the ground where she lost consciousness, police said Monday.

She fought the man off, once she came to. The suspect fled.

Lawyers in doctor’s sex assault trial to ask for stay of proceedings

Defence lawyers for a rural doctor accused of multiple counts of sexual assault intend to apply for a judicial stay of proceedings, court heard Friday.

Manslaughter conviction in 2020 fatal stabbing

A Winnipeg man has been convicted of manslaughter in a 2020 fatal stabbing precipitated by a verbal exchange over a small amount of cash.

Man pleads guilty to manslaughter, admits stabbing victim in 2021 North End group assault

A man accused in the stabbing death of a 28-year-old man on North End street in 2021 has pleaded guilty for his involvement.

Life sentence, no parole for seven years for 2019 Thompson slaying

The man who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the “horrific death” of a vulnerable woman in Thompson has been sentenced to life in prison.

Doctor’s sex assault trial adjourned for third consecutive day

A rural Manitoba doctor’s trial on nearly two dozen sexual assault charges was adjourned for the third consecutive day Wednesday after court heard key notebooks from the lead police investigator appear to be unrecoverable.

The judge-only trial, scheduled for four weeks, will reconvene in front of Court of King’s Bench Justice Anne Turner Friday afternoon, when the Crown and defence lawyers are expected to discuss the plan going forward.

Dr. Arcel Bissonnette is charged with 22 counts of sexual assault for alleged offences against several female patients when he worked in Ste. Anne, a town southeast of Winnipeg, between 2004 and 2017.

Former officer gets absolute discharge on fraud charge

A now-former Winnipeg police officer who was charged with fraud over $5,000 after receiving long-term disability payments while running a private business was granted an absolute discharge Monday.

Ste. Anne MD’s sexual assault trial adjourned again to locate missing evidence

The trial for a rural doctor charged with sexual assault was adjourned for the second consecutive day Tuesday morning, to give Crown prosecutors time to obtain evidence the defence is seeking from the Sainte-Anne Police Service.

Dr. Arcel Bissonnette is charged with 22 counts of sexual assault for alleged offences against several female patients when he worked in Ste. Anne, a town southeast of Winnipeg, between 2004 and 2017.

He was initially charged in 2020 with six counts, before additional complainants stepped forward and he was charged with 16 more offences in 2021.

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba barred him from practising medicine when he was first charged.