WINNIPEG Winnipeg police is still investigating after two strangers approached a student walking home on Thursday. In a letter from Ecole Van Walleghem School, it said a student from Linden Meadows School was approached by two strangers. It happened in the area of Lindenwoods Drive East and Waterbury Drive after school. The school said the strangers were a man and a woman and they asked the student where they lived. The school said the man was wearing a black balaclava, a black jacket and black sweat pants, while the woman was dressed in all black and had a toque with flaps.
WINNIPEG Another Winnipegger wants answers from the city after his mother was charged thousands of dollars more than usual on her water bill. Gary Henaire said his 83-year-old mother received a water bill for $4,085.64, when she usually receives a bill in the $300 range. Henaire said he checks the meter for his mother and has been helping her with that for several years. The meter was replaced back in 2001 and Henaire said in the 19-year timeframe his mother has used just under 700,000 gallons of water. The bill she got just the other day was for 859 cubic metres, almost 189,000 gallons of water. So roughly 27 per cent of the total usage of the entire time she has had that metre was in the last 104-day billing cycle, said Henaire.
WINNIPEG An affordable housing project in Winnipeg that will give women and their children experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness a place to live has received a boost from the province. All three levels of government are now involved in an affordable housing project that will see 18 modular apartments go up at 260 Toronto St. – the site of a former housing complex owned by the Winnipeg Housing and Rehabilitation Corporation. On Friday, the three levels of government announced the project is getting $624,000 from the province to support the project s mortgage and demolition costs. This in addition to the $4.3 million coming from the federal government s Rapid Housing Initiative.