News briefs for Tuesday, April 29, 2025

One brother arrested in connection with slayings

5:08 PM

One of two brothers wanted in connection with a double homicide on Alfred Avenue has been arrested.

The Winnipeg Police Service posted on social media Tuesday that Aaron Junior Houle, 27, has been arrested. The WPS did not say where or when that happened.

He was wanted as an accessory after the fact.

Jermain Gage Houle, 24, is still wanted for second-degree murder. Canada-wide warrants were issued for the arrest of the brothers. Both were considered possibly armed and dangerous, police said previously.

Police were sent to a home on the 300 block of Alfred early on Feb. 15. They found Sheldon Derrach Catcheway, 33, outside the home and Shanastene Irene McLeod, 35, inside.

The WPS asked anyone with information about where Jermain Houle is to contact its homicide unit at 204-986-6508, or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 204-786-8477 (TIPS) or online.

Community recycling depot to close Monday

3:54 PM

A community recycling depot will be closed starting Monday to allow for the expansion of the St. James Civic Centre.

The City of Winnipeg encouraged people to take residential recyclables to the nearest 4R Winnipeg Depot or community recycling depot.

Construction is anticipated to begin next month. The civic centre will be closed from about June 15 until fall 2026. The Ab McDonald Arena portion of the facility will be open during its regular ice seasons.

All three levels of government announced $14 million in funding in July 2021 to expand the centre, and the city approved an additional $3 million in October 2023.

Speed reduction coming to bike routes

2:34 PM

Drivers must soon slow down to ease travel for cyclists as the weather warms up.

Reduced speed limits will take effect on sections of four seasonal bike routes, beginning Thursday.

Speeds will drop to the following limits:

• 30 km/h on Lyndale Drive, between Cromwell and Gauvin streets
• 30 km/h on Wellington Crescent, from Academy Road to Academy Road at Maryland Street
• 30 km/h on Churchill Drive between Hay Street and Jubilee Avenue
• 40 km/h on Kilkenny Drive between Burgess Avenue and Kings Drive, and on Kings Drive between Kilkenny and Patricia Avenue.

The speed reductions will remain in effect at all hours through late October.

Police investigating two deaths on Sherburn Street 

1:29 PM

A man and a woman are dead after an incident on Sherburn Street on Monday.

Police were contacted about a domestic incident on the 500 block at 2:08 p.m. and found the pair in “in medical distress.”

Officers gave the two people emergency medical care until paramedics arrived. Both were transported to hospital in critical condition and later died from their injuries, the Winnipeg Police Service said Tuesday.

The WPS homicide unit is investigating.

“There are no suspects outstanding, and investigators do not believe there is any danger to the public,” a news release said.

A police spokesman said it was too early in the investigation to determine whether one person is suspected to have slain the other and then died by suicide, or whether each person killed the other.

Police tape was wrapped around the front of a three-storey duplex on Sherburn Street as well as an adjacent house Tuesday afternoon.

One of the duplex’s front doors appeared to have been kicked in. Two WPS officers sat in a cruiser watching over the scene.

The WPS asked anyone with information about the deaths to contact homicide investigators at 204-986-6508, or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 204-786-8477 (TIPS) or online.

Teen charged with murder in fatal shooting in Misipawistik Cree Nation 

12:23 PM

Charges against a 16-year-old male arrested after a man was fatally shot in Misipawistik Cree Nation this fall have been upgraded to second-degree murder.

Grand Rapids RCMP were sent to a home early on Sept. 23 and found the 23-year-old victim.

The Chemawawin teen was charged with several firearms-related offences, RCMP said the next day. He was eventually released from custody and was arrested again at a home in Sioux Valley First Nation on Friday.

Man arrested after incident at Burger King in Osborne Village

10:54 AM

A man has been charged with multiple offences for causing a disturbance at a fast-food restaurant in Osborne Village on Monday night.

Officers were sent to the Burger King at 244 Osborne St. at about 8:10 p.m. and were confronted by a man behaving erratically inside the restaurant, which was in disarray, police said Tuesday.

Police used a Taser on the man and found bear spray, a pellet gun and about 16 grams of cocaine on him, the Winnipeg Police Service said in a news release Tuesday.

Paramedics checked the man and medically cleared him.

Police were told the man approached the counter aggressively while demanding food and then pulled down transparent barriers, which shattered on the ground.

Employees went to the back office and called police, and the man tried to get into the room until officers arrived, police said.

No staff members were injured.

The 26-year-old man is charged with mischief under $5,000, possession of cocaine and two counts each of possession of a weapon and failing to comply with a probation order. He was detained in custody.

No children aboard school bus that rolled over on Highway 75

9:24 AM

No children were aboard a school bus that rolled over on Highway 75 near Ste. Agathe on Monday afternoon.

The new bus was being delivered to Winnipeg from outside the province.

Officers from the Niverville and St. Pierre-Jolys RCMP detachments were sent to the site of the crash at about 3:15 p.m.

RCMP spokeswoman Cpl. Melanie Roussel said Tuesday that a semi-truck had passed the bus, which, combined with the wind speed at the time, resulted in the bus driver losing control.

Bystanders helped the driver, a 36-year-old man, get out of the bus. He had suffered minor injuries.

Missing man found safe

9:13 AM

A man missing since April 2 has been safely located, RCMP said Tuesday.

Norman Brightnose, 45, of Cormorant was last seen in The Pas.

He was reported missing to RCMP on April 23, and police asked for the public’s help in finding him Friday.

‘Hang tight’: Tory candidate in Kildonan-St. Paul

12:07 AM

Conservative MP Raquel Dancho urged supporters to remain patient as they continued waiting for advanced polling results in a standing-room only event late Monday.

Shortly before midnight, the veteran politician finally addressed a crowd of roughly 50 Conservatives packed into a storefront-turned-campaign-office on Henderson Highway. “If the results hold tight for Kildonan-St. Paul, you’re sending a fighter back to Ottawa,” the 35-year-old told the event.

At the time, about 3 1/2 hours after polls closed, she was holding onto 48 per cent of the vote with 78 per cent of polls reporting.

Dancho thanked scrutineers for their hard work and expressed her disappointment that the Conservatives did not win the election. At the same time, she shared words of encouragement.

“Conservatives, we work our butts off to win elections across the country and we’re going to keep doing that… Don’t give up hope,” she said, noting that the Tories built slowly and steadily under former prime minister Stephen Harper in the lead up to his 2011 majority.