Manitoba

A Yazidi boy who was held captive for three years by Iraqi militants before being reunited with his family in Winnipeg last year is requesting a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

The town of Churchill in northern Manitoba is saying thank you to everyone who has helped the community since it lost its rail service.

Victoria is the latest Canadian city to move ahead with a ban on single-use plastic shopping bags.

In October, the federal department was slammed for inaction on meeting Canada's 2020 greenhouse gas emissions targets. Today, it said the country has made "good progress" on implementing its first nationwide climate change plan.

Manitoba's premier is giving some more details about a wilderness hike in New Mexico where he broke his arm and became lost.

Manitoba's sustainable development minister says a federal threat to impose a higher carbon tax on the province is misguided and reveals a breakdown of co-operative federalism.

The Manitoba government says it will introduce a carbon tax of $25 a tonne next year and keep it at that rate, defying the federal government's demand for a $50 a tonne rate.

Feeling abandoned by police, the family of a Manitoba Indigenous woman who disappeared in 2008, has been digging through fields, ditches and garbage dumps for any sign of her.

"The process of decolonizing my spirit and finding my way back to my sacred responsibilities had begun," writes National Observer reporter Emilee Gilpin in Vancouver, B.C.

The federal government is threatening to sue the owner of a broken rail line that has left people in the northern Manitoba town of Churchill without a land connection to the outside world.

The troubled inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls continues to face shakeup.

The troubled inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls has named a new executive director.

Auditors general across the country are coordinating a probe into the state of climate change plans in provinces and territories across the country.

First Nations leaders in Manitoba want a greater say in the national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

"It's a new day for the NDP and it's a new day for Manitoba," Wab Kinew declared to cheers following the vote.