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Pinaymootang Health Centre helps fill health-care gaps for First Nation, surrounding communities
The Pinaymootang Health Centre helps care for thousands of Manitobans every year, but nearly half of its clientele comes from outside Pinaymootang First Nation.
Robot helps bring physiotherapy and rehabilitation services to rural First Nations
Robot and telecommunications cuts down on travel and cost to access physio and rehab services in Pinaymootang and Lake Manitoba First Nations.
Manitoba judge tosses confession of woman accused of manslaughter in toddler's death
A Manitoba judge has thrown out the confession of a woman with a cognitive disability who is charged with manslaughter in the death of her two-year-old stepson.
Pipeline shutdown a 'manageable inconvenience' for Manitoba, not a disaster: supply chain expert
The Manitoba government says fuel trucks have been dispatched to Winnipeg from southern Manitoba after Imperial Oil shut down a pipeline over the weekend — a move one expert says will cause a "manageable inconvenience," but was the right thing to do.
Winnipeg needs to replace police with community-led crisis response teams, groups say
Community-based crisis response programs led by civilians, not police, are gaining traction in Canada and U.S., with more than 100 in operation. Community groups in Winnipeg believe the approach could provide a solution to a rash of police-involved shootings.
Winnipeg man in 'exhausting' fight with MPI over wheelchair, medication coverage after near-fatal crash
Winnipeg's Dan Leveillesays Manitoba Public Insurance is refusing to cover the costs of required equipment and prescriptions for his recovery after he was nearly killed in a collision last summer.
After police shootings in Winnipeg, advocate says crisis workers should respond to more calls
Police and emergency dispatchers need to have more faith that crisis workers can deal with mental health calls instead of taking a police-first approach, one advocate says, after several deaths in recent months following encounters with Winnipeg police.
Winnipeg birthing centre numbers still 50% below target levels set when it opened in 2011
It's been open for more than a decade, but Winnipeg's $3.5-million birthing centre has not been able to reach close to its intended target number of newborns each year, and that number remains out of reach with current resources, its executive director says.
'One is too high': Manitoba, school divisions trying to track hundreds of unaccounted-for students
In fall 2023, the province asked all school divisions in Manitoba to take a deep dive into their attendance records as part of their commitment to addressing the problem of student absenteeism.
Why this Winnipeg teen stopped going to school — and how one organization got him back to class
Leland Moody, 17, was one of thousands of students who the disappeared from Manitoba's education system. Inner City Youth Alive helped him get back to school full time, and is working to get more kids like him back to class.