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Manitoba’s Public Utilities Board says it should be regulating how much Winnipeggers pay for water and sewer service. Right now, Winnipeg’s water and sewer utilities “cross-subsidize the city’s general revenue fund by approximately $45 million per year.” This means that about 20 percent of water and sewer revenue isn’t used for water and sewer but ends up in the city’s general coffers.

 The Royal Canadian Mint will make Canada’s last penny today, here in Winnipeg. The ceremonial last strike of the penny starts at 11 a.m. with federal Finance Minister, Jim Flaherty, on hand at the Mint’s coin production facility on Lagimodiere.

Two weekends ago, the play structure at King Edward School on Selkirk Avenue was vandalized so badly that inspectors condemned it, because it’s too dangerous to play on. Now they’re looking to the community to help raise the $120 thousand dollars to rebuild. You can drop off your donations in person, or mail them in to the Winnipeg School Division. They will be giving tax receipts for donations over $10.

At 66 years old, Bruce Cockburn says he’s pleased to get a second shot at fatherhood. The Ottawa folkie and his longtime girlfriend M.J. Hannett welcomed daughter Iona in November. She’s Cockburn’s second daughter — born more than 35 years after his first, Jenny.

Demi Moore has officially moved on from estranged husband Ashton Kutcher after dropping his name from her Twitter account. I always thought it was really lame that her old handle was @MrsKutcher but, finally, now after being separated since November, she’s gone and changed it to @JustDemi.

Mick Jagger has signed on to host the season finale of Saturday Night Live. Reports suggest he will also be the musical guest when he hosts the show on May 19. It’s actually a pretty good line up for the next few weeks: Eli Manning this Saturday and former SNL regular Will Ferrell on May 12.

September 21^st. That is the date the Investors Group Field will be open by and when the Blue Bombers will play their first game in the new stadium against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. The Bombers will play their first five home games of the CFL regular season at the old stadium

Two of the last weekend’s deaths were related. Minutes after the body of a Winnipeg woman was found in her garage on Island Shore Boulevard, her estranged husband drove into oncoming traffic on Highway 205. Her death has been ruled a homicide.

A Winnipeg hockey player is going to jail for an attack on a referee during a rec game. Lance Guimond, 25, admits he sucker-punched the referee, then kicked the man in the helmet with his skate as he lay on the ice, out cold. The impact shattered the victim’s helmet and, because of his injuries, he had to give up reffing.

Federal and provincial officials are concerned about numbers of flood evacuees from Lake St. Martin because those number seem to keep rising. It’s to the point that Ottawa has said 10 per cent of people receiving emergency assistance are not evacuees from the reserve.

A woman in Oakbank found a grasshopper in a can of No Name green beans. Loblaw, the parent company for President’s Choice, offered an apology and a Superstore gift card in return for her troubles.

British pop band Duran Duran would perform at a Hyde Park concert this summer to kick off the 2012 summer games in London. They represent England in a showcase of each part of the United Kingdom.

Two suspicious deaths in Winnipeg yesterday. One at a boarding house on Home Street, where neighbours say there were frequent, loud parties. Another in a home on Island Shore Boulevard where reports say a man died with throat lacerations. In both cases, neighbours say they heard yelling shortly before the police were called.

It’s so sad it hard to believe it’s true. A couple in BC celebrated their anniversary by buying each other tandem hang gliding flights and, while he video tapes, she falls to death seconds after take-off.  Well, now the pilot of the hang glider is facing obstruction of justice because he allegedly swallowed the memory card of an onboard camera.

A bill was tabled in the legislature yesterday that says stores with pharmacies, and that includes places like Safeway and Superstore, won’t be able to sell cigarettes. The reasoning is that pharmacies promote health and selling cigarettes doesn’t. It’s not a new idea; Ontario, Saskatchewan and Alberta already have the same rules in place. Bill 17 would also keep them from selling tobacco in health-care facilities and through vending machines.

Winnipeg is the last city in North America to use film inside photo radar camera, but we’re going to be crawling into the tech age by finally moving over to digital by the end of the year. This means clearer photos of speeders and drivers running red light cameras and less chance of you getting out of the ticket.

If you’re planning on heading to London for the Summer Olympics, health officials say to make sure you’re measles vaccinations are up to date. In a lot of other parts of the world, measles is a serious problem. They’re highly infectious and well, when you get a big group of people together from all over the world – like the Olympics – these infectious diseases can spread pretty easily.

Bono and the Edge did not get a Tony nomination this year for writing the music and lyrics for “Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark”. Neither did Dave Stewart of Eurythmics for the musical version of “Ghost” along with Glen Ballard. Guess they’ll just have to stick with their Grammys and leave the Broadway awards to the theatre people.

Facebook can already tell the world about everything that happens while you’re alive; now it can tell people if you plan to be an organ donor too. Starting in the US and UK, just like how you report your birthday or relationship status in your profile, you can tell people if you plan to be donor. It’s a pretty great way to get people that say they want to be organ donors but just never get around to filling out the paperwork.

Imagine calling your insurance adjustor about this one: a Harley-Davidson motorcycle that was swept away in last year’s tsunami in Japan washed up here in Canada, about 64-hundred kilometers away. It’s rusted out, but otherwise in pretty good shape – still inside the large white container the owner kept it in. The owner, who they tracked down through his licence plate, couldn’t believe it either.

Another fire down at the Forks last night that was suspiciously similar to a blaze there last Tuesday. The fire destroyed nine floating docks and damaged five more.

The huge grass fire in Selkirk that needed water bombers to help put out was caused by arson. It started as a grass fire and spread to a metal proce4ssing plant’s scrap yard. According to the province’s website, there were 12 forest or brush fires in Manitoba yesterday, with two considered out of control.

Power was restored to all areas of the Health Sciences Centre building around 4:20 yesterday afternoon, so if your elective surgeries or tests were cancelled, you should be contacted soon. If you have any appointments there today, call ahead to your doctor or clinic to confirm your time and make sure it wasn’t pushed back.

A trial began Monday for former Manitoba police chief, Harry Bakema, accused of obstruction of justice, perjury and breach of trust in a car crash where Derek Harvey-Zenk, an off-duty Winnipeg police officer, ran into and killed Crystal Taman, a mother of two who was driving to work. Bakema has admitted to making mistakes but he insisted they were honest ones and not part of a coverup.

A former Winnipeg police officer has been found not guilty of raping a young model during a photography session. Richard Dow, 57, denied any wrongdoing in the April 2000 incident inside his Southdale home, where he ran his off-duty talent agency business.

Two emerald green tree boa snakes were stolen from a home in the 200 block of Youville Street last Wednesday or Thursday. The male and female are both big – about 1.3 metres long – and bright lime green with big heads. Some other items were stolen too but the snakes are definitely the most noticeable.

Movie Village is not going to be closing! They’re just moving down the street about 100 meters to join Music Trader on Osborne. It does mean a big downsize for Movie Village though – 5000 sq. ft. to sharing 1400 sq. ft. The move will happen in June.

The Merchants Hotel on Selkirk Avenue in the North End is going to be converted into a new retail and housing centre. The North End Community Renewal Corporation will spend six months finalizing its plans for the building, built in 1913 and a hotel since 1933, and it’s surrounding parking lot.

If you’re worried about how much physical activity your children are getting, an Ottawa based study says to get them a pedometer. Kids should take about 12-thousand steps a day to maintain healthy physical activity levels, whether by walking, skating, bike riding or basketball.

We’re spending more money watching movies at home these days. While DVD sales continue to be down, a lot more people are signing up for subscription services like Netflix and we’re buying more Blue-Rays and hardware too.

Grassfires in southern Manitoba Saturday destroyed a few buildings, including a home near Anola. Selkirk firefighters called in water bombers and help from neighbouring volunteer fire departments Saturday night. That large grass fire was finally put out on Sunday afternoon.

The power is back on in South Winnipeg after a hydro pole fire put St. Norbert, South St. Vital, Richmond West, Fort Richmond and Ile des Chenes in the dark. Manitoba hydro crews were still working the problem on Marchand Road early this morning.

Two men were treated in hospital following separate stabbings over the weekend in the North End and Elmwood. Both a 30 year old and a man in his 20s are in stable condition.

The Crown announced Saturday it won’t appeal the Mark Stobbe not-guilty. Stobbe was charged with killing his wife Beverly Rowbotham with a hatchet in their St. Andrews backyard back in 2000.

The RCMP seizing $70,000 worth of counterfeit stuffed animals, T-shirts, and toys after raiding two stores at The Forks, one at St. Vital Centre and one at Portage Place. The counterfeit toys included Nintendo, John Deere, Hello Kitty, NHL, Hasbro, Sesame Street and Transformers and were all being sold for retail price or higher.

Do you have pictures of buff bodies up at home or at the gym to inspire you to get fit and lose weight? According to a University of Michigan study, they’re not helping. When you’re really young, these thin photos can help in the short term, but for most people they just remind them of what they’ve failed to do.

Many overweight teens have a hard time controlling their diabetes. Nearly half of the newly diagnosed teens failed to manage their blood sugar within a few years and one in five had serious complications.

Earlier this month, Robin Gibbs of the Bee Gees slipped into a coma while battling both colon and liver cancer and was reportedly given a 10% chance of survival. Remarkably, he woke up last week and is doing well enough now to be preparing to leave the hospital.

We’re rooting for Winnipeg’s Clayton Mozdzen in the European Poker Tour Grand Final this morning. Almost $2 million will go to the winner.

Police in Brandon have made three arrests after reports that a nine-year-old girl was sexually assaulted over the last three years. The assaults were separate incidents involving three different suspects, but with the same child.

Fires started in Assiniboine Forrest yesterday around noon went from the walking path behind Canadian Mennonite University to the pathway south. Firefighters used brooms and had to haul hoses through the woods, since there’s, obviously, not a lot of hydrants in the trees.

The Canadian Institute of Planners announced yesterday that Osborne Village has been voted the Best Neighbourhood in Canada in its Great Places contest. More than 200,000 online votes put our funky Winnipeg neighbourhood over places like Vancouver’s Gastown and Toronto’s Roncesvalles Village.

You’ll be noticing a Buy Manitoba label on some items at Safeway. The new campaign will highlight Manitoba-made food products, which means it’s either made entirely from ingredients from Manitoba or, at least, 85 per cent of main ingredients from Manitoba. All the processing and packaging must also be done in the province.

A standoff in North Kildonan has ended after police, paramedics and fire crews were on hand to deal with a reported gun threat. The 58-year-old man,who was armed and barricaded inside a home, surrendered peacefully and there were no injuries.

The cause of the house fire on McMillian Tuesday was because someone put out a cigarette in a flower pot full of peat moss. It caught fire, spread and caused around $900-thousand worth of damage.

Our military may have to buy their own Viagra soon. The Defence Department currently covers each member for up to six Viagra pills a month at $22 a pop but are considering cutting that perk to save some money.

With our new garbage and recycling pickup will be on the same day each week, starting in July. Garbage pickup will never again be delayed by more than one day because of a holiday.

A new Motley Crue live DVD is on the way. “Motley Crue – Kickstart Live 2011″ will be released on June 5.

Winnipeg city council wants more specifics on a hotel and water-park complex proposed for The Forks before it votes to spend $7 million to subsidize the facility. The water park proposal will now be referred back to council’s downtown development committee for further review.

A Winnipeg man has been sentenced to 100 months in prison for a violent, prolonged attack against his ex-girlfriend. Allan Wishlow claims someone else must be responsible for the attack. The judge rejected that claim, saying it was a sadistic attack and there was plenty of evidence it was him.

$300 million of new freeways was approved by city council yesterday. They voted to extend the Chief Peguis Trail to Route 90 and the William Clement Parkway to Wilkes Avenue, by 2016.

Panty thief, forty-two-year-old James Duerkesen, is going to jail for four years after pleading guilty to 92 charges of break, enter and theft in Mantioba and Alberta. He has been breaking into homes and stealing women’s lingerie for the last 21 years.

The people of Manitoba have decided – of all the crappy roads in the province, St. James Street is the worst. CAA Manitoba counted 35-hundred votes that came in over the 4 week campaign and plan to pass the report to the government.

People who have diabetes, schizophrenia and prostate cancer will soon see more prescription medications covered under the province’s pharmacare program. 179 new drugs will be added to the province’s formulary within the next month, according to the Health Minister.

The first adult mosquitoes of the year should start buzzing in about 14 days. It’s simply far too early to say if this summer will be as mosquito-free as last year, but there is less water on the ground than in a typical April. You can help prevent them by dumping containers, draining eavestroughs, covering rainwater collection-containers and filling low-lying areas

Manitoba Museum executive director Claudette Leclerc received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal Wednesday for her outstanding contributions to arts, heritage and educational organizations in Canada.

Aerosmith bassist Tom Hamilton has accused TV producers of carefully editing band interviews in order to trap frontman Steven Tyler. The bassist says their quotes were taken out of context.

The Beatles first concert in the United States, which hasn’t been seen in over four decades, will be in movie theatres May 17 & 22.

Chris Ethridge, best known for his work with the Flying Burrito Brothers, has passed away at 65.

A boat dock caught fire at The Forks Tuesday evening, sending up thick black plumes of smoke that could be seen across the city.

A fund has been set up to help the three residents of a McMillan Avenue house that was completely destroyed by fire Tuesday morning. Donations can be made via a Facebook group.

Three properties were damaged in a fire on Martin Avenue West Tuesday night. The fire started in a garage  just after 10:30 pm  and spread to a fence, also damaging a vehicle.

Thomas Li scored the first hole-in-one of his life Sunday on the 149-yard seventh hole at Links at the Lake with a 7-iron. Then he hit his SECOND ace two days later on the 267-yard, par 4 third hole with a driver at Cottonwood on Tuesday.

The court will decide if evidence in a drug trial was seized illegally. Const. Brian Boyd, told court he suspected La Mota was being burglarized and felt duty-bound to follow up by going inside the business without a warrant. The owner of the store was then handcuffed and the drugs were found in the basement.

Manitobans, who are 18 and older and who want to be organ and tissue donors can now register online at www.signupforlife.ca. The information will be stored in a secure government database, which can be accessed quickly by doctors. You can still sign your health cards or the blue donor cards given out by Manitoba Public Insurance to get on the list.

The Rock ‘N’ Roll All Stars is an 11-piece supergroup made up KISS’ Gene Simmons, Joe Elliott of Def Leppard, Sebastian Bach, three former members of Guns N’ Roses, and players from The Cult, Alice In Chains, Collective Soul and Black Country Communion. They treated fans to a club show in Buenos Aires Sunday  and you can watch video from the show here.

Metallica plan to bring back their famous Snake Pit for their upcoming European summer trek. Met Club members with floor or front section tickets, depending on venue, are eligible to win passes to watch from the snake pit

The Beatles, Frank Sinatra and Edith Piaf all get the Iggy Pop treatment on the veteran rocker’s new album, Apres, to be released May 9. That’s right – Iggy Pop is going the cover album route.

A new Journey documentary has premiered at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival. “Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey” debuted last Thursday. It’s the story of how the band found singer Arnel Pineda online and into the group.

Winnipeg police shut down a section of Notre Dame early this morning after one man was taken to hospital in critical condition after being stabbed.

Some homes and apartments were evacuated early this morning after a house fire on McMillan Avenue. All five people in the home managed to escape safely, with one taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation.

A former Winnipeg police officer is on trial for sexual assault. The accused, Richard Dow, is a retired officer who also ran a modelling agency.

The Manitoba government will soon require drivers to have booster seats for school-age children. In many provinces, kids have to be in a booster seat until they are at least nine years old or four feet, nine inches tall. Right now, the province only requires child seats for kids who are under five years old or weigh less than 50 pounds.

The plan for a water park at The Forks may not slide. It sounds like councilors’ can’t decide if they want the city to give Canalta Hotels a $7-million subsidy to build a water park at The Forks. The deciding vote is Wednesday.

Stephanne Bissonnette, the man who escaped custody by tying bedsheets together and going through a third story window, has been sentenced to twelve years for his Manitoba crime spree.

 Metallica will be appearing on two upcoming tribute albums. One for Deep Purple and one for Ronnie James Dio that will also feature Anthrax, Rob Halford and Lemmy.

Aerosmith’s bassist, Tom Hamilton says that the band’s new album will be pushed back to September.

Pete Townshend’s autobiography isn’t in stores until October but the book, Who I Am, is already available for pre-order.

If you’re a gamer and a Deadhead, Grateful Dead Game: The Epic Tour, a video game based on 10 especially memorable Dead shows between 1970 and 1990, will be released April 20.

A standoff between Winnipeg police and a possibly armed man ended peacefully around midnight last night. Police began negotiating with the man five hours earlier in the East Kildonan neighbourhood, closing the street to traffic and keeping some neighbours away from their homes.

The fire that destroyed War on Music and Ken Hong Restaurant in Winnipeg’s Exchange District Thursday morning was caused by an electrical failure in the music store, officials say.

A young man died Friday night in a house fire on Sandy Bay First Nation. The body of David Houle, 22, was discovered in the wreck of the house he was visiting.

Winnipeg police have issued more arrest warrants in its ongoing crackdown on the Hells Angels. They’ve already arrested 23 people but have been unable to locate Adam Matthew Wood, 34; Shawn Justin Colbert, 30; Jesse Richard Thomas, 27; and, Jared James Irving, 26.

For the first time, men auditioned for the Blue Bombers cheer squad.  Nearly 100 people auditioned to get one of the 32 spots available, including 12 cheer team spots for men. The Blue and Gold are the third CFL team to add athletic stunts to the on-field dancers.

 It was a big 4/20 turnout at the legislature on Friday. Could have been the weather, could have been no classes Friday, but 2500 people turned out to toke a little and protest

Might want to check your Viagra. 2500 fake Viagra and Levitra pills were found stuffed into rice cookers trying to cross the border. Even though they looked real – inside blister-packs with expiry dates and batch numbers — some had no medicinal ingredients and some had 4-times the amount they should.

Motley Crue singer Vince Neil is set to appear in the season finale of “Ghost Adventures,” the paranormal series airing on The Travel Channel. This Friday, Vince & the paranormal crew investigate The Riviera Hotel, which some say is haunted.

Red Hot Chili Peppers are celebrating their Rock Hall induction with the release of a digital-only EP, We Salute You, on May 1st. It features six songs from previous Hall of Fame inductees who have influenced the band musically: The Ramones, Iggy & The Stooges, Neil Young, David Bowie, The Beach Boys, and Dion and the Belmonts. Tickets for their November 26^th Winnipeg show went on sale Friday.