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CBC Investigates
Two-thirds of Manitoba's Crown prosecutors meet criteria for PTSD, anxiety or depression, survey suggests
Sixty-five per cent of Manitoba’s criminal Crown attorneys who responded to a survey meet the criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety or depression, according to their union.
Failure to properly diagnose brain bleed at rural Manitoba emergency room led to surgery delay: lawsuit
A patient who went for emergency care at a hospital in Ashern, in Manitoba's Interlake region, has filed a lawsuit saying she experienced delays at a time when she needed emergency surgery for what she later learned was a brain bleed.
Pikangikum woman injured after security door suddenly closed on her at Winnipeg airport: lawsuit
A First Nations elder who suffered a fall when a security door suddenly closed on her as she was about to board an aircraft for a flight out of Winnipeg has filed a lawsuit because of the injuries she experienced.
Employee at pilot training school 'seriously injured' after being struck by propeller: TSB
An employee at a company that trains pilots was injured last week when he was struck by the propeller of a small aircraft as a student attempted to start its engine.
Civil court action against former Winnipeg police union president stayed
The former head of the union representing Winnipeg police officers has succeeded in being removed as a defendant in a lawsuit filed by a police officer, a judge has decided.
Woman endured 'excruciating pain' during procedure at St. Boniface hospital, lawsuit alleges
A Manitoba woman is suing St. Boniface Hospital and two staff after undergoing a medical procedure that she says left her screaming out in pain without appropriate use of pain control and anesthetic.
Alberta construction company owed $440K for work on the Leaf at Assiniboine Park: lawsuit
A company that helped build part of a major attraction at Winnipeg's Assiniboine Park has filed a lawsuit to recover money it claims it’s owed from unpaid invoices.
CBC Investigates
Tenant calls for licensing of asbestos testing companies after getting conflicting test results
A Winnipeg tenant who went through an ordeal over conflicting test results for asbestos in her rented home says Manitoba should bring in a law requiring licensing of companies that offer asbestos testing.
Winnipeg retiree who lost close to $650K in fraud scheme sues credit union and bank
A Winnipeg man who says he lost nearly $650,000 in retirement funds to an alleged fraud scheme is suing a credit union and a bank in what the lawsuit calls a case of ‘financial elder abuse’.
CBC Investigates
$175K settlement comes 9 years after woman filed sexism complaint against Winnipeg manufacturer
After nine years of waiting for a decision in a human rights complaint, a Winnipeg woman has been offered $175,000 in compensation, minus some deductions, by Price Industries, her former employer, after she complained about a sexist atmosphere in the workplace.