Erik Pindera
Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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Bail reform summit produces ‘significant advancement’: Goertzen
The proposed move to put the onus on those accused of repeated violent crimes to prove they should be released on bail, rather than Crown attorneys arguing they should be kept in jail, “strikes the right balance,” Manitoba’s justice minister says. → Read More
Accused in alleged Acadia offences was substitute teacher
A former Winnipeg junior high teacher accused of multiple sex offences against a young student had worked as a substitute for Pembina Trails School Division. → Read More
Mounties help injured while breaking up wild, social media-fuelled party outside city
An out-of-control house party in the Rural Municipality of Rosser in late February resulted in multiple injuries and thousands of dollars in damage. → Read More
Be careful with crypto, WPS cyber-fraud investigator warns potential investors
Winnipeg police investigators recovered most of the cash one recent cryptocurrency scam victim lost, but warn such frauds are tough to track. → Read More
RCMP await autopsy results after deaths of two 14-year-old girls found outside First Nation home
Two teen girls were pronounced dead after being found outside a home in St. Theresa Point First Nation in the frigid cold early Wednesday in an “unimaginable” tragedy. → Read More
Province announces $12.6M grant program to help seniors buy hearing aids
The province will soon begin to offer grants to certain older Manitobans with diagnosed hearing loss to offset the costs of hearing aids. → Read More
Traffic control at St. James Street Costco on public works committee agenda
The city’s public service could be asked to study whether a traffic light or other control measure should be installed at the entrance to Costco’s St. James Street location. → Read More
Youth firearm arrest raises concerns
The West End arrest this week of a pre-teen accused of possessing a loaded, sawed-off shotgun is “critical, it’s a crisis,” one community activist says. → Read More
West end hopes Transit signs make area more inviting
THE West End Business Improvement Zone is seeking to encourage visitors to the neighbourhood to use public transit, with new digital signs of bus schedules installed at three area locations. → Read More
Bear spray sales records rarely accessed: police
Law enforcement in Manitoba do not regularly request access to retail records of bear spray sales, police authorities say. → Read More
Downtown hotel listed for sale; residents get eviction notices
The Windsor Hotel has been listed for sale. → Read More
Bear spray controls pushed into crime spotlight
Sel Burrows still has the can of bear spray he bought in 2007, ahead of provincial legislation that came into effect in 2009 to strictly regulate the sale of the wild animal deterrent now often used in assaults on Winnipeg streets. → Read More
Foundation launches campaign alerting public to human-trafficking signs
New clothes, jewelry and other unaffordable gifts. Two cell phones. New friends, frequent sleepovers, unexplained injuries. A sudden change in attitude about school and other activities. Falling grades. → Read More
Police seek suspects in Sunday bear spray assaults
Winnipeg police have confirmed multiple victims were injured in a spree of assaults with bear spray linked to a pair of suspects early Sunday. → Read More
Louis Riel Day celebrates interwoven history of Manitoba, Métis
Meghan McLeod does beadwork to connect with an ancestry she did not always know about. “I found out I could bead before I found out I was Métis, that’s the funny part,” said McLeod, while sitting in a beading circle at the Le Musée de Saint-Boniface Museum on Monday. She was there along with three other beaders as part of the museum’s Louis Riel Day festivities, held in conjunction with the… → Read More
String of bear spray incidents ‘may be related’: police
Winnipeg police are investigating a string of violent incidents involving bear spray in the city’s West End and downtown that may have been related. → Read More
Unannounced police drill leads to St. B school lockdown
Winnipeg police are apologizing for a “communication breakdown,” after an armed training exercise near a St. Boniface elementary school caused alarm and resulted in a facility lockdown. → Read More
New urology centre to open next year
A new urology centre, slated to open next March in the former women’s hospital on the HSC campus, got a $1-million boost Friday. → Read More
Justice ministers meeting on bail reform scheduled for March
A meeting on potential bail reform called for by provincial and territorial ministers will happen next month, the office of the federal justice minister says. Manitoba Justice Minister Kelvin Goertzen and Saskatchewan counterpart Bronwyn Eyre had issued a joint letter Thursday morning to federal Justice Minister David Lametti, asking Ottawa to convene a summit as soon as possible. Goertzen said… → Read More
Co-accused in recent homicides has past robbery, theft convictions
One of the Winnipeg men arrested in a linked pair of recent slayings in the inner city was drawn back into crime following his mother’s 2019 cancer death, court has heard. → Read More