Winnipeg News

Winnipeg police have confirmed that Jill Tardiff has been located deceased and that no foul play is suspected. Family of Tardiff told CBC News that it was her body pulled from the Red River on Thursday night. Body pulled from river blocks from search area for missing Jill Tardiff The 61-year-old former principal was last seen in the old St. Boniface neighbourhood of Winnipeg on Sept. [ 123 more words. ] http://ottawainnews.com//family-confirms-jill-tardiffs-bo/

The formerly luxurious cruise ship, MS Lord Selkirk II, will be dismantled and removed from a slough in Selkirk, Man. hopefully by the time the snow fall, the town's mayor says. The ship has sat rotting in the swamp since the 1990s but on Wednesday a Saskatchewan contractor began dismantling the ship. Cleanup of rusting cruise ship halted due to ice [ 273 more words. ] http://ottawainnews.com//ms-lord-selkirk-will-be-gone-by-/

The Canadian Coast Guard's efforts to clean up an eyesore that has vexed people in Selkirk, Man., for nearly a quarter of a century were stalled on Friday by a huge block of ice. The MS Lord Selkirk II was once a cruise ship and a tourist attraction. But since 1991, it has sat in the Red River, rusting and rotting away after it fell into disuse. [ 334 more words. ] http://ottawainnews.com//cleanup-of-rusting-cruise-ship-h/

With more than 34,000 Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Saskatchewan Roughriders fans set to pack Investors Group Field for Saturday's Banjo Bowl, we look back to how one guy's quip set off an 11-year football tradition. The annual matchup between the prairie rivals, held on the weekend after the Labour Day Classic, was around long before the name "Banjo Bowl" was coined. [ 340 more words. ] http://ottawainnews.com//from-the-cbc-archives-bombers-ro/

With several festivals happening in Winnipeg this weekend, motorists should take note of some road closures starting today. ManyFest is taking over downtown starting on Friday evening with live music, food trucks, outdoor movie screenings, a wine and beer garden, a cycling festival and a couple of races. Memorial Boulevard from Broadway to York Avenue is already closed for the festival, but Broadway will be closed from Osborne to Edmonton streets starting at 5:30 p.m. [ 151 more words. ] http://ottawainnews.com//downtown-winnipeg-streets-closin/

A private society almost as old as Manitoba itself has opened its doors to its first-ever female members. The board for the St. Andrew's Society of Winnipeg the oldest continuously active Scottish society in Western Canada approved four applications from women earlier this week. Until now, the 145-year-old society's members had been only men of Scottish descent. Founded in 1871, the year after Manitoba became a province, the society amended its bylaws during in November 2014 to welcome women of Scottish heritage "to participate fully in the promotion and preservation of Scottish culture and tradition in Manitoba." [ 123 more words. ] http://ottawainnews.com//women-allowed-into-manitoba-club/