Winnipeg
Victims’ families anxious ahead of pretrial for alleged Winnipeg serial killer
Pretrial motions for Jeremy Skibicki, accused of murdering 4 women, scheduled to begin Monday morning Donna Bartlett has been trying to put it out of her mind, but the thought of hearing details in a courtroom next week about her granddaughter’s death has been hard to shake. “The closer it gets, the more anxious I get, the more easy to set off,” she said. “Sometimes I just want to break down and cry, and I can’t do that. I got my kids and everybody else — so I try andRead more
New blockade goes up at Winnipeg’s Brady Road landfill as protesters demand search for women’s remains
Poll, CBC Manitoba focus group suggest voters are split on issue of landfill search ahead of Oct. 3 election A new barricade has gone up at Winnipeg’s Brady Road landfill, as calls continue for a search for the remains of two First Nations women believed to be in another Winnipeg-area landfill. Protesters gathered on the main entrance road to the city-owned Brady landfill, at the south end of Winnipeg, on Wednesday, setting up a row of chairs in front of a car parked in the middle of the road. An “Every Child Matters”Read more
17 children, 1 adult injured after walkway collapses during school trip to Fort Gibraltar in Winnipeg
‘It just started cracking,’ says St. John’s-Ravenscourt student who was on walkway Eighteen people, 17 of them children, were taken to hospital after many of them fell about five metres from an elevated walkway at Fort Gibraltar in Winnipeg’s St. Boniface area on Wednesday. Jason Shaw, a Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service assistant chief, said the accident happened shortly before 10 a.m. He said three of the children were taken to hospital in unstable condition, while the remaining patients were in stable condition. The children are 10- and 11-year-olds from St. John’s-Ravenscourt SchoolRead more