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Agassiz Youth Centre staff get transfers amid shutdown

PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE — Almost all employees of a Portage la Prairie youth jail that will shut down next month are transferring to other corrections sites, after Manitoba Justice pledged to offer them jobs.

Most staff from Agassiz Youth Centre put the Manitoba Youth Centre in Winnipeg as their first choice when asked to rank three preferred options, said one employee, who asked not to be named.

“Most people were OK with the decisions handed to them, but there was some disappointment if they didn’t get their first choice,” the employee told the Free Press. “A few have looked into other employment options as a result.”

The staff member said more than 20 workers will transfer to the Women’s Correctional Centre in Headingley, a few will go to jails in Headingley and Brandon, and at least one will work at Milner Ridge, about 20 kilometres southwest of Lac du Bonnet.

‘Censorship needs to stop’: suspension lifted for nursing student accused of antisemitic posts

A disciplinary panel has rejected the discriminatory claims underpinning the suspension of a nursing student from the University of Manitoba after she made social media posts condemning the Israeli government and military.

Arij Al Khafagi is once again in good standing with the college of nursing, per a ruling issued Jan. 25.

“Your suspension from the college of nursing is overturned and you are to be immediately reinstated… with all the rights and privileges therein,” states an excerpt from a 17-page letter penned by a panel of staff and students from the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences.

The Jan. 25 decision was delivered about nine weeks after Al Khafagi, then-president of the Nursing Students’ Association, was informed she was being ejected from her program for the remainder of the 2023-24 academic year.

Racist ingredients baked into Manitoba's 150th birthday cake

The steeple’s cross-tipped spire stabbed the sky, rising high above the domed architecture of old St. Boniface College like the outstretched fingers of the faithful grasping for heaven.

The flames worked quickly, their appetite for destruction insatiable as they licked their way up walls and down halls, shattered stained-glass windows and sucked up oxygen like kindling until the small blaze transmogrified into an inferno.

It was 2:30 a.m. on Nov. 25, 1922.

A Jesuit brother awoke in a flash, startled by what he thought was the sound of an explosion. Instead, he found a fire ripping through the oldest post-secondary institution in Western Canada, which had stood on the grounds of Winnipeg’s Provencher Park since 1880.

French tandem cements place among greatest ice dance duos with Olympic gold medal

Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron stayed for another four years after being edged out by Canada’s Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir at 2018 Games.

RCMP defends N.S. shooting response

HALIFAX - Under fire for how they alerted the public to a 12-hour massacre that took the lives of 22 people, the Nova Scotia RCMP defended their actions Wednesday, saying their use of Twitter was effective.

Since the horrific string of killings started Saturday night and stretched into Sunday morning, questions have been raised as to why the province did not use an emergency alert system to transmit warnings to Nova Scotians' cellphones and television screens.

RCMP Chief Supt. Chris Leather said Twitter messages from the RCMP started Saturday at 10:26 p.m., when the Mounties warned of a firearms complaint in Portapique, a tiny village about a 130-kilometre drive north of Halifax.

Leather read from a statement Wednesday making it clear he was aware the RCMP's communication with the public was under scrutiny.