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Manitoba's government said April 19 it will spend $50.7M over 5 years to remediate 153 orphaned and abandoned mines, many of which are in the north.

He grew up in a family of eight in Cape Coast, Ghana, where his father worked as an accountant for a gold mining firm.

The grant-in-lieu system through which mining companies are exempt from property taxes is the death knell of mining towns in Canada without exception.

On April 2, 2007, the tiny northwestern Manitoba town of Leaf Rapids became the first municipality in North America to ban plastic bags.

Instead of interfering with collective bargaining, the PC government should be spending money to ensure remote northern communities have better internet.

"Now that we’ve headed back to the legislature for our spring sitting, I wanted to provide an update from the last months and highlight some of the key issues I’ll be fighting for in the months to come alongside my NDP colleagues."

Services offered by the Churchill Wellness Centre are providing mental health and social inclusion supports for residents and improving health outcomes.

A staffing crunch that left a northern community’s health centre inaccessible for over a month has stakeholders throughout Manitoba’s north demanding better access to resources.

Southern Manitoba and some regions in the north are gripped by bitterly cold temperatures and biting winds for yet another day.

Manitoba Workplace Safety and Health is investigating a beer vendor business after an employee found injured on the job early Tuesday died in hospital in an incident Winnipeg police are treating as a homicide.