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CTV News
13 hours ago
- General
- CTV News
Man dies in custody at provincial correctional centre
A man has died while in custody at the Milner Ridge Correctional Centre. (File image) A 50-year-old man has died while in custody at the Milner Ridge Correctional Centre on Friday, according to Manitoba Justice. The death was reported in a media release by Manitoba Justice, though no information on the cause of death was provided. The province said that no additional information about the deceased person would be released for privacy reasons. The death has been reported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Milner Ridge Correctional Centre is a minimum, medium and maximum-security facility located approximately 20 kilometres southwest of Lac du Bonnet.
RNZ News
5 days ago
- Climate
- RNZ News
Manitoba urges thousands to evacuate as Canada wildfires spread
By Ed White , Reuters A wildfire burning near Lac-du-Bonnet on May 14, 2025 in Manitoba, a province in central Canada experiencing unusually hot, dry and windy conditions. Photo: AFP/Manitoba Government Manitoba declared a state of emergency and urged thousands of people in northern and eastern parts of the province to evacuate, as wildfires spread in Central and Western Canada. Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew said at a news conference that 17,000 people needed to move quickly, including from the city of Flin Flon. Many will be put up at soccer fields and community centers in Winnipeg and other cities, and federal armed forces were arriving to help transport evacuees, he said. "This is the largest evacuation in many Manitobans' living memory and this will require significant resources and co-operation from all levels of government," Kinew said in a statement. Separately, wildfires in Alberta province have prompted a temporary shutdown of some oil and gas production and forced residents of at least one small town to evacuate. Oil producer Cenovus Energy said it was scaling back nonessential workers at its Foster Creek facility in response to the wildfires in northern Alberta. Cenovus' Foster Creek operation is among a number of oil sands facilities operated by companies with assets in the Bonnyville-Cold Lake region. That region was affected on Wednesday by wildfires spanning 2,900 hectares (11.2 square miles) near Chipewyan Lake, a small community in the northern part of the province approximately 130 km west of the oil sands hub of Fort McMurray. Cenovus said it was closely monitoring the evolving wildfire situation and the staffing measure was a precaution. Alberta government officials said on Wednesday there was no current threat to Chipewyan Lake, but residents have been placed on a one-hour evacuation notice as winds could shift. Another blaze, nearly 1600 hectares in size, is burning out of control about 7 km north of Swan Hills, also in the province's north. The approximately 1200 residents of Swan Hills were ordered to evacuate on Monday evening (local time). One oil and gas producer in that area, Aspenleaf Energy, said on Monday (local time) it had temporarily halted operations as a precaution and shut in approximately 4000 barrels per day of oil equivalent production. - Reuters
CTV News
23-05-2025
- Climate
- CTV News
‘It's devastating': Wendigo Road property owners survey extensive wildfire damage near Lac Du Bonnet
Families in the RM of Lac du Bonnet are left picking up the pieces after their homes and cottages were destroyed by wildfires. Joseph Bernacki reports.
CBC
23-05-2025
- General
- CBC
Lac du Bonnet wildfire evacuees return only to find 'barren, black wasteland'
Some residents of the RM of Lac du Bonnet have returned home for the first time since the community was evacuated more than a week ago, only to find nothing but rubble left. The return of between 850 and 1,000 people who were forced to leave the community on May 13 began Wednesday evening as firefighters contained the wildfire near the eastern Manitoba community. Twenty-eight properties in the rural municipality were destroyed according to the RM. The now-4,000-hectare blaze has left vast stretches of land in the community, such as Wendigo Road, unrecognizable. Brad Wood's home on Wendigo Road was one of the properties destroyed by the fire. On Thursday, he was touring the property for a third time since the area opened to residents. Wood said seeing the devastation hasn't gotten any easier. "Every time I get in, I feel even more, I guess, heartbroke," he said. "If you look at the before pictures with the flourishing forest, the vibrant people … you just look at this and just wonder like how does that survive?" Wood built the home himself and he hoped he could move there when he retired. He said construction had just wrapped up last year, and he and his wife were just beginning to enjoy the property when the fire burned it to the ground. "There's several others on the same boat here who'd recently just finished working or were almost completed," he said. "Now you're right back to even worse than starting over." 'It's very different. It's very sad' Paula Johnson, who lives in Grausdin Point, returned Thursday. She said her area was completely missed by the fire. "It's very different. It's very sad," she said. "A lot of people … we knew them and, of course, they lost their places. You almost have survivor's guilt because your place made it and theirs didn't." Residents of Mascanow Drive, Shauman Lane and Sunlee Road were the latest allowed to return to the community. The evacuation order in those areas was lifted on Thursday at 4 p.m. The Lac du Bonnet emergency co-ordinator is asking residents to sign up for the CONNECT emergency alert system before they return home, and to prepare go-kits so they're able to leave with two hours notice. Wood said about 18 homes and cottages on Wendigo Road were destroyed by the fire, in addition to garages, sheds boats, cars and other property. Wood, who worked as a firefighter for 30 years, said he's never seen this level of destruction. He said people who've lost their homes are only beginning to make their insurance claims, and that it may take several years to rebuild. "A lot of us that we're dreaming of retiring here in the future, those aspirations may not come to fruition just strictly because the forest will not come back in that time," he said. "You look out at the lake, it's beautiful. The water's untouched. But you look to the forest behind me, it's just a barren, black wasteland." Some Lac du Bonnet evacuees return to find homes destroyed by wildfire 2 hours ago Duration 2:30 People near Lac du Bonnet are getting their first look at the devastation left behind from a wall of a wildfire in the eastern Manitoba region. After more than a week, some evacuees returning to the area are finding there's nothing left to see, as fire destroyed 28 properties in the area.
CTV News
23-05-2025
- General
- CTV News
CTV National News: 'We are devastated as a community'
CTV National News: 'We are devastated as a community' Wildfire evacuees in Manitoba's Lac du Bonnet are coming to terms with the destruction that left their community unrecognizable. Alex Karpa has more.
