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2/3/2012
Power was out for less than an hour Friday night for about 72 hundred Manitoba Hydro customers in West Kildonan and parts of East Kildonan..
Hydro spokesperson Anita Mitchell says the cause was a pole top fire around 7:30pm..
She says this problem is typical in high humid conditions when moisture can get into hairline cracks of insulators and cause sparks and arcing resulting in the fire and the subsequent outage..
She says crews were able to restore power just after 8 pm..
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2/3/2012
13 people have been arrested and over 1 million dollars in drugs seized after a major operation was executed Friday by the Manitoba Organized Crime Task Force. The operation - called Project Deplete was conducted by Winnipeg Police, Brandon Police and RCMP. The 13 people are from Manitoba and Alberta. All have been charged with possession proceeds of crime and drug trafficking. Drugs seized included cocaine, MDMA and ecstasy. All arrested will appear in court on Monday.
(Photos courtesy of the Winnipeg Police Service)
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2/3/2012
Manitoba's Trade Minister is encouraged by the latest unemployment figures. Unemployment in Manitoba held steady at 5.4 percent last month while the national rate increased. Peter Bjornson says Manitoba has the 3rd lowest unemployment rate in the country. He says strong gains in the private sector over the past year are particularly encouraging. Stats Canada figures show the private sector has seen a jump of 91-hundred jobs year over year, a growth rate of two percent.
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2/3/2012
CJOB has obtained the following audio exhibit played before the jury at the second degree murder trial of Mark Stobbe.
The following is the full phone conversation between Betty Rowbotham and Mark Stobbe after Betty Rowbotham was told by police they believed her sister Beverly Rowbotham was killed in her own backyard in October of 2000.
Stobbe was Beverly Rowbotham's husband and is on trial for her murder.
The Crown has alleged in court he killed her with a hatchet before driving her body to Selkirk and biking home.
Stobbe has always maintained his innocence. He told investigators he had fallen asleep when his wife was out shopping and called police when he woke up in the middle of the night and she wasn't home.
The trial is scheduled to run until the end of March.
Warning: (The conversation does contain some use of profanity.)
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2/3/2012
Time is running out for fans to buy Winnipeg Jets specialty license plates. True North Foundation Executive Director Dwayne Green says there are only 2-thousand left, and they won't be re-ordering more when they run out. Green says they'll re-assess the situation in the fall. 27-thousand plates have been produced.
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2/3/2012
11 community-based organizations in Manitoba will benefit from 400-thousand dollars from the Manitoba government earmarked for the Arts. The Manitoba Theatre for Young People, the Flin Flon Arts Council and the West End Cultural Centre are among the groups on the list. Manitoba's Minister Responsible for Culture, Heritage and Tourism Flo Marcelino says the programs and partnerships support grassroots community revitalization... building vibrant and dynamic communities.
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2/3/2012
Chief Roland Hamilton of the Bloodvein First Nation couldn't be more pleased. Funding has fallen into place, to proceed with the construction of an access road to connect the First Nation to Manitoba's all-season road network. The project itself will create 30 new jobs. There's also expected to be additional business opportunities along the all-season road corridor. Hamilton says it's been a long wait. However he says once completed, the road will benefit anyone wanting to come in and out of the community with reduced costs and waiting times. The Bloodvein First Nation is investing 390-thousand dollars into the project. The remainder of the cost is being picked up by the Federal government and Manitoba's East Side Road Authority.
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2/3/2012
Snowstorms in other major centres are mostly to blame for any delays in arrivals today at Winnipeg's Richardson International Airport. The airport is currently running on a reduced visibility operation status. But a spokeswoman there says the fog isn't having much of an impact.
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2/3/2012
CJOB's Brian Barkley arrived at a crash on the south Perimeter Highway at about 10 o'clock this morning:
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2/3/2012
Perhaps the thickest fog we've seen in the last three days is continuing to hover over the southern half of the province this morning, obscuring traffic on the province's highways...
The provincial highways department warns that some bridges are frost-covered and icy.
The fog is expected to lift by late this morning, or perhaps early this afternoon.
We can expect fog again on Saturday, but it won't be quite as bad, as stronger winds should stir things up a bit.
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