Lightning strikes add 7 more forest fires

Submitted by admin on Mon, 07/30/2007 - 14:35

Lightning has sparked forest fires across the province as wooded areas are drying out due to high temperatures.

Seven new forest fires started in Manitoba on Saturday, including four in the northeast part of the province and two in the area of Bloodvein First Nation, all of which were started by lightning.

IT'S A RECORD - Humidex High In Carman

Submitted by admin on Thu, 07/26/2007 - 15:48

No place in Canada has ever been as hot and humid as Carman was yesterday, at least since Environment Canada started keeping records more than 125 years ago.

The humidex reading topped out at a whopping 53 C yesterday, breaking the all-time Canadian humidex record of 52.1 C set in Windsor, Ont., in 1953.

The humidex is a Canadian invention that measures how the combination of heat and humidity feel to your body.

Protests Draw Nationwide Attention to Aboriginal Rights

Submitted by admin on Tue, 07/03/2007 - 16:26

They marched across bridges, they walked through downtowns, they gave out pamphlets.

Tired of Waiting - New School 15 years overdue, residents say..

Submitted by admin on Fri, 06/29/2007 - 21:07

By Julie Horbal, SUN MEDIA

More than a decade of mouldy school walls, leaking classroom ceilings and such severe overcrowding that a gym locker room became a library has a Manitoba community pleading for help to preserve it's youth.

Chiefs, councillors and community members from Manto Sipi Cree Nation gathered at the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs offices in downtown Winnipeg yesterday to seek public support in their fight against the federal Department of Indian Affairs, which promised them a new school in 1992.

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