Sustained scabies outbreak frustrates families of PCH residents

A months-long outbreak of scabies at a Selkirk personal care home has families upset and the local MLA urging health officials to do more to eradicate the problem.

Tudor House has confirmed it is battling an ongoing outbreak of scabies, which was first declared on Sept. 12.

Dave Ramsay says his 85-year-old father, Neil, moved into the 76-bed facility the day before the outbreak was declared. His dad, who suffers from dementia and is unable to stand or walk independently, contracted scabies several days later.

He has been in and out of isolation since, and was reinfected with the skin infestation in mid-December. His roommate has also been infected multiple times.

Contractor’s bid made ‘no sense,’ WPS HQ project manager testifies

A key manager of the Winnipeg Police Service headquarters project raised early concerns about cost estimates proposed by its main contractor, a public inquiry into the project heard Monday.

Carney pledges $2 billion for Ukraine, more sanctions four years after invasion

OTTAWA - Four years after Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Prime Minister Mark Carney is promising $2 billion in military aid and more sanctions on Russia.

Carney says the new sanctions will target 100 vessels in the "shadow fleet" which are involved in attempts to evade sanctions on Russian oil sales.

Moscow invaded Ukraine in 2014, taking control of Crimea and claiming other parts of the country, before launching its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022.

Carney says Canada will support Ukraine "for the long haul" and that Russia is failing to meet its military, strategic and economic objectives.

WestJet, Air Canada among Canadian airlines resuming service to Mexico

OTTAWA - Canadian airlines are flying in and out of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, today after widespread violence led them to temporarily suspend service since the weekend.

Air Canada, Air Transat, WestJet and Porter Airlines have all announced they will be resuming flights to and from the popular western Mexican resort city, with WestJet also offering service to Guadalajara and Manzanillo.

Tourists and locals in multiple regions of Mexico were told to shelter in place to escape violence that erupted on Sunday after the death of a notorious cartel leader as part of a Mexican government operation.

More than 26,000 Canadians in Mexico have registered with Ottawa.

Drug relapse preceded mass killing: witness

Days before allegedly killing five people inside a Langside Street crack house, Jamie Felix suffered a drug relapse that prompted his girlfriend to end their three-year relationship, a jury heard Monday.

The 41-year-old woman testified she found Felix smoking drugs in her car with a stranger in downtown Winnipeg on Nov. 17, 2023. After returning to their apartment, Felix confessed he had pawned his laptop computer to buy drugs.

Felix walked out of the apartment a short time later and the woman didn’t try to stop him, as she had every other time he relapsed, she said.

“I came to the realization that I needed to let Jamie go because we were back in that cycle again,” said the woman, who cannot be identified due to a publication ban. “I knew that I needed to follow through with my decision.”

Eby says it looks like OpenAI could have prevented ‘horrific’ Tumbler Ridge killings

VICTORIA - British Columbia Premier David Eby said it "looks like" OpenAI had the opportunity to prevent the recent mass shootings in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., in which nine people died, as pressure piled on the artificial intelligence firm over its handling of interactions with 18-year-old shooter Jesse Van Rootselaar.

The firm has been summoned to Ottawa on Tuesday to explain why it didn't go immediately to police after its internal safeguards flagged worrisome interactions between the shooter and its ChatGPT chatbot at least seven months ago.

Eby — who is also calling for national standards for AI companies on reporting potential threats — said Monday there would be a public accounting by the company to explain why it only reported its concerns to police after the Feb. 10 killings by Van Rootselaar, who shot dead her mother, half-brother, five school pupils and a teacher's aide, then herself.

"From the outside, it looks like OpenAI had the opportunity to prevent this tragedy, to prevent this horrific loss of life, to prevent there from being dead children in British Columbia," he said. "I'm angry about that."