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World’s largest snake den in Canada: Over 100,000 red-sided garter snakes come alive every spring

In the Canadian province of Manitoba, the Narcisse Snake Dens is the provincial wildlife management area, which is located in the Rural Municipality of Armstrong. These dens are the winter home of approximately 100,000 red-sided garter snakes. These sinkholes are believed to contain the largest gathering of this species anywhere…

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Dyslexic students have the right to read — and Manitoba has joined other provinces to address this

Disabled students continue to face barriers constructed and enforced by our schools. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization estimates that, globally, children with disabilities are twice as likely to be denied access to education.

The Conversation

The evidence is clear: National pharmacare for contraception can’t wait

Why should women in British Columbia, Manitoba, Prince Edward Island and the Yukon have access to free contraception while the rest of Canadians do not? Our new research, published in the British Medical Journal and JAMA Pediatrics, underscores the urgent need for universal prescription contraception coverage nationwide. Spoiler alert: cost…

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Charlie Kirk’s legacy is the beneficiary of empathy, but he couldn’t stand the term

The grief that attended American political activist Charlie Kirk’s murder was not solely poured out by the political right. Liberal commentators also participated; journalist Ezra Klein expressed grief in an essay for The New York Times (“I was and am grieving for Kirk himself”), while Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew stated…

The Conversation

Suspect among 2 dead in mass stabbing in Canada, 8 injured

A mass stabbing in a First Nation reserve in the central Canadian province of Manitoba has left two people killed, including a suspect

The Independent UK

“Lone Hiking Is Such A Bad Idea”: 29YO Vanishes On Dream Hiking Trip, Police Find Belongings, Dog

Steffen Skjottelvik’s backpack was recovered near a fast-moving river in northern Manitoba, a remote coastal area that's home to wolves and polar bears.

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Indoor farming helps community members bring healthy food to northern Manitoba

Healthy food is hard to come by in northern Manitoba. Food shipped from the south is prohibitively expensive and is often stale, and the climate and soil in the region don’t support much traditional outdoor farming.

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Canada must take action to prevent climate-related migration

As wildfire season begins, the destructive impacts of climate change are being felt across Canada. Several communities in northern Saskatchewan have been issued evacuation orders due to wildfires. In Manitoba, Pimicikamak Cree Nation worked to evacuate hundreds of people as wildfires closed in, while smoke from those fires caused air-quality…

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We design cities and buildings for earthquakes and floods — we need to do the same for wildfires

We live in an age of increasing wildfire disasters because more of us are living in places where wildfires and human development collide. Right now, fast-moving wildfires are forcing mass evacuations and destroying homes across Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia, where entire communities are under threat.

The Conversation

Wildfires force another 1,000 residents from their homes in the Canadian province of Manitoba

Wildfires have forced another 1,000 people to flee their homes in the Canadian province of Manitoba, which is under a state of emergency

The Independent UK

Smoke from Canada’s wildfires reaches Europe amid extreme start to the 2025 fire season

About 200 fires are actively burning in Canada and have consumed about 19,900 square kilometres of terrain, most of it in the last week.

Euronews

Thousands evacuated in 3 provinces as Canadian wildfires threaten air quality into some US states

More than 25,000 residents in three provinces have been evacuated as dozens of wildfires remained active Sunday and diminished air quality in parts of Canada and the U.S. Most of the evacuated residents were from Manitoba, which declared a state of emergency last week

The Independent UK

17,000 people evacuated from homes as Canadian wildfires continue

Manitoba declared a state of emergency with thousands told to flee to safety

The Independent UK

Prairie Canadian city virtually deserted, thousands more evacuees expected as fires rage

Manitoba's premier says the Canadian prairie city of Flin Flon hasbeen virtually deserted and more evacuees were expected as wildfires raged in the province

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Canadian wildfire smoke expected to drift into US and harm air quality two years after New York engulfed by smog

Forecasters in multiple northern states have warned of potential travel and health effects

The Guardian - US

Recent Canadian wildfires are record-breaking – and will threaten US air quality for days

After historic seasons in last two years, blazes continue trend of warm, dry conditions intensified by climate crisis

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‘We can barely breathe’: Canada declares emergency as 17,000 flee ‘largest evacuation’ in ‘living memory’

491,000 acres and counting.

The Independent UK

Canada wildfires: 17,000 forced to evacuate as forest fires rage across Manitoba

Fires force complete evacuation of Flin Flon city near Saskatchewan border after winds shift and pushed flames dangerously close to community

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Thousands To Evacuate As Canada's Manitoba Province Declares Wildfire Emergency

More than 17,000 people in Canada's western Manitoba province were being evacuated on Wednesday as the region experienced its worst start to a wildfire season in years.

The Conversation

‘Cows and plows:’ The settlement over a broken Indigenous treaty shows the urgent need for more transparent governance

Members of the Tootinaowaziibeeng Treaty Reserve (TTR) in Manitoba recently voted to ratify the Treaty 4 Agricultural Benefits Settlement Agreement.

Euronews

Police say two people were killed in massive wildfire in central Canadian province of Manitoba

The central province of Manitoba has declared a state of emergency in its eastern regions to intensify firefighting, evacuation and relief efforts to all affected people and areas.

The Conversation

Living to tell the story: Lawsuit accuses ER doctor of anti-Indigenous racism

On Jan. 15, 2023, Justin Flett arrived at the emergency room at St. Anthony’s Hospital, in The Pas, Manitoba.

The Guardian - US

Canada intercepts people trying to cross border in ‘incredibly cold’ conditions

Nine Venezuelans including children found by police in Alberta with a second group apprehended in Manitoba

The Conversation

Teachers lack resources to meet classroom needs, and absences shouldn’t surprise us

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted schooling on a global scale, challenging teachers with a flood of unmanageable demands.

The Guardian - US

Sifting of landfill to begin in search for Manitoba serial killer victims

Winnipeg effort involves carting waste that may contain remains of First Nations women murdered by Jeremy Skibicki to a purpose-built facility and combing through it by hand

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