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With the spring weather thawing out the city, Winnipeggers are noticing something being left behind by the disappearing snow.

If you have walked the streets and sidewalks of Brandon this spring, you may have noticed a lot of e...

As snow piles disappear in Brandon’s nooks and crannies, a hideous reality is revealed: litter...

Here’s the dirt on Winnipeg streets: they’re filthy....

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With the spring weather thawing out the city -- Winnipeggers are noticing something being left behind by the disappearing snow. Litter lining the streets is leaving Winnipeggers with a lot of spring cleaning to do.

Posted: Apr 29, 2021 4:48 PM CT | Last Updated: April 29 Volunteers with the West Broadway chapter of the Bear Clan Patrol have been picking up hundreds of needles in Winnipegs back lanes in recent patrols, according to one of its leaders. (John Einarson/CBC) A West Broadway resident says neighbourhoods in Winnipegs inner city have become a dumping ground for garbage and discarded needles, and that shes never seen the problem get so bad before.  Angela Klassen, who is one of the leaders of t...

Cleaner streets and healthier surroundings were the results of a two-day clean up drive by members of the Iglesia Ni Cristo in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

  WINNIPEG -- The majority of the snow has melted in Winnipeg and that has unearthed what was lying underneath for the past several months—trash. Take Pride Winnipeg has released its yearly litter index for the city, which measures the amount of trash on city streets on a scale of one to four, with one being no litter and four being a lot of litter. Tom Ethans, who is the executive director of Take Pride Winnipeg, said this is the earliest the organization has finished the index. "Now w...