Heavy snow expected in southwestern Manitoba Sunday

Environment Canada has issued a snowfall warning for southwestern Manitoba, calling for 10 to 15 cm of snow to fall Sunday.

Snow began falling in southeastern Saskatchewan and southwestern Manitoba Sunday morning and the western Red River Valley and southern Interlake is expected to get snowfall by the afternoon.

The heavy snowfall may reduce visibility. Blowing snow may further reduce visibility in open areas late this evening and overnight due to gusty northeastern winds. For the latest road conditions, visit Manitoba 511.

The snow is expected to taper off overnight.

Twitter pulls check mark from main New York Times account

Twitter has removed the verification check mark on the main account of The New York Times, one of CEO Elon Musk's most despised news organizations.

The removal comes as many of Twitter’s high-profile users are bracing for the loss of the blue check marks that helped verify their identity and distinguish them from impostors on the social media platform.

Musk, who owns Twitter, set a deadline of Saturday for verified users to buy a premium Twitter subscription or lose the checks on their profiles. The Times said in a story Thursday that it would not pay Twitter for verification of its institutional accounts.

Early Sunday, Musk tweeted that the Times' check mark would be removed. Later he posted disparaging remarks about the newspaper, which has aggressively reported on Twitter and on flaws with partially automated driving systems at Tesla, the electric car company, which he also runs.

Price drop expected for Canadian cottages: report

The average cost of a cottage in Manitoba is expected to decrease three per cent in 2023, according to a recent Royal LePage recreational property report.

Trump to deliver remarks Tuesday night after his arraignment

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump will deliver remarks Tuesday night in Florida after his scheduled arraignment in New York on charges related to hush money payments, his campaign announced Sunday.

Trump will hold the event at his Mar-a-Lago club after returning from Manhattan, where he is expected to voluntarily turn himself in. He is expected to be joined in Florida by supporters as he tries to project an image of strength and defiance and turn the charges into a political asset to boost his 2024 presidential campaign.

Trump is facing multiple charges of falsifying business records, including at least one felony offense, in the indictment handed up by a Manhattan grand jury last week, two people familiar with the matter have told The Associated Press. They spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss information that is not yet public because the indictment remains under seal.

Trump has denied any wrongdoing and has blasted the investigation as part of a yearslong “witch hunt” aimed at damaging his candidacy.

‘Mommy, I need you. Please come and get me’: lone survivor of Gilbert Plains crash recovering in city hospital

Trapped in the wreckage of a car pinned underneath a transport truck — and surrounded by four friends who died in the collision — a Dauphin teen repeatedly phoned her mother for help.

Hanna Yurkiw, 15, is in Children’s Hospital in Winnipeg, recovering from serious injuries suffered Wednesday night in a collision in Gilbert Plains. Her parents, Tanya and Darcy, stay almost constantly at her bedside.

“She was saying, ‘Mommy, I need you. Please come and get me,’” Tanya said Friday, sitting in Hanna’s hospital room as monitors beeped in the background.

“She called again when we were on our way (to the scene of the collision, some 30 kilometres west of Dauphin). We knew she was okay because she phoned me multiple times.”

Winnipeg Philharmonic Choir delivers choral masterpiece at WSO concert

Out of heartbreaking loss came a choral masterpiece, with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra in partnership with the Winnipeg Philharmonic Choir presenting Brahms’s “A German Requiem,” last performed on this stage in 2015.

$90 cream and $10 toothpaste: Companies target big spenders

NEW YORK (AP) —

Companies from toothpaste makers to even discounters are adding more premium items like designer body creams and services as they reach out to wealthier shoppers who are still spending freely even in the face of higher inflation and a volatile economic environment.

Think $10 toothpastes and $90 creams on supermarket shelves.

Retailers and consumer product companies felt justified in raising prices to offset higher costs from gnarled supply chains and Russia’s war in Ukraine last year. But as those financial pressures ease, some are looking for new ways to pump up sales and profits by focusing on premium items amid an overall sales slowdown.

Sikh heritage month honours community’s culture, contributions

The sounds of prayer resonated through the rotunda of the Manitoba Legislative Building Saturday afternoon, announcing the beginning of the province’s fifth annual Sikh heritage month.