News briefs for Friday, October 28, 2022

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Winnipeg today.

Trudeau is attending the opening ceremony of the Triennial Congress of Ukrainian Canadians and will be speaking there.

Trudeau will also meet with members of the local Iranian community this afternoon.

Selkirk Avenue was closed between Salter and Andrews streets for more than three hours early this morning because of a fire, the Winnipeg Police Service said.

The area was shut down at about 12:15 a.m., police said. The WPS tweeted at 3:44 a.m. that the area had since reopened to traffic.

The Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service has yet to release any information about the fire.

Country music superstar Shania Twain will perform at Canada Life Centre May 14.

Tickets go on sale Nov. 4 at 10 a.m. at LiveNation.com.

The Timmins, Ont.,-raised singer shot to stardom in 1995 with the song Any Man of Mine and the album The Woman in Me.

Her new single, Waking Up Dreaming, which came out in September, is her first new release in five years.

Dauphin RCMP have arrested a man wanted for arson in a retirement facility in the northwestern Manitoba town.

Alexander Koski, 21, of Dauphin, was accused of a break-in at Parkview Lodge early on Tuesday. A small fire was set in a common area, RCMP said. No one was hurt.

Officers found Koski at about 11:30 a.m. Friday near 6th Avenue SW and 2nd Street SW and arrested him.

He’s been charged with arson with disregard for human life and mischief over $5,000.

RCMP in The Pas have identified a body found floating in the Saskatchewan River Thursday as that of a missing woman.

Doreen Head, 36, was reported missing on Oct. 19 after she was last seen in the northern Manitoba town on Oct. 17.

RCMP said her death does not appear to be criminal.

Mounties in The Pas and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner are still investigating.

RCMP seized over 80 firearms and a large cache of ammunition after executing a search warrant Tuesday morning at a home in the Rural Municipality of Reynolds.

A 48-year-old man and a 37-year-old woman were arrested at the home and later released without charge.

“You can own most of these firearms legally with a firearm licence, but there is more to this investigation, and there will be charges… it’s just a question of who with what,” said RCMP spokeswoman Julie Courchaine.

Courchaine said most of the firearms and ammunition were properly stored, “but some were not.”

A continuing investigation will focus, in part, on which weapons were legally purchased and which ones were not, Courchaine said.