Provincial News

WINNIPEG — A Manitoba New Democrat has been removed from the government caucus and is firing back at Premier Wab Kinew.

WINNIPEG — The owner of a pickup truck was injured along with his friend after they jumped into the back of the vehicle as it was being stolen and were launched out when it crashed.

LLOYDMINSTER, Sask. — The victims of a triple homicide in a city that straddles the Alberta-Saskatchewan boundary have been identified as a man and his two adult sons.

Ben Fairbrother, an offensive lineman who was selected second overall in the 1997 CFL draft by the Saskatchewan Roughriders, has died. He was 51. Both the Riders and B.C.

WINNIPEG — Some 250 coloured tacks pepper a large-scale world map among bookshelves at Whodunit Mystery Bookstore. Estonia, Finland, Japan and even Fenwick, Ont.

WINNIPEG — Homicide investigators are now part of a probe into a weekend fire in Winnipeg after two people who were rescued from an apartment in the burning building died in hospital.

WINNIPEG — Climbing up trees, wrangling with ropes and navigating twisted odd-angled limbs may not be everyone's idea of a great day.

GODS LAKE NARROWS, MAN. — RCMP say a toddler has died after he was run over by a pickup truck on the driveway of his home in northeastern Manitoba. Mounties in Gods Lake Narrows were called when the 21-month-old boy was struck Thursday afternoon.

WINNIPEG — Police in Winnipeg say one person has died and three more were injured after a pickup truck smashed into a bus shelter on Portage Avenue during the morning commute. Police say those injured are in stable condition in hospital.

OTTAWA — After 45 days of evidence and legal arguments the criminal trial of "Freedom Convoy" organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber is finally at an end. A verdict could be as much as six months away.