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6/19/2013
Two North Kildonan men are being treated in hospital for stab wounds for trying to help a neighbour.
And one of the good Samaritans says he's lucky to have walked away as healthy as he is.
Mike Koop tells Global news he and his friend saw a man allegedly breaking into their neighbour's car. They jumped in to intervene and Koop was stabbed right under his eye.
"It just felt like I got hit in the face with a hammer and then I stumbled back and realized I was bleeding like crazy out of my face... you don't' expect something like that to happen in your back yard," he says.
His friend was stabbed in the back - he's still in hospital, but is stable.
The car belonged to Koop's neighbour Joelle She tells CJOB she doesn't know how to thank her neighbours.
"I felt quite guilty to be honest with you. I don't know if I'm supposed to say thank you or sorry. I don't know how to, sort of, pay them back," Joelle says.
Police are looking for a suspect - aboriginal in appearance, 17-22 years old, about 6 feet tall and slender with short dark hair.
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6/19/2013
A 19 year old man from the Waywaysseecappo first nation faces a charge of Impaired Operation of a Motor Vehicle Causing Death and dangerous Operation of a motor Vehicle causing Death following a single vehicle accident on the First nation last weekend.
Prairie Montain RCMP say a vehicle, with three occupants went off the road, into some water and became submerged.
Two occupants, a 19-year-old male and an 18-year-old male, were able to escape with minor injuries but a 29-year-old man, was pulled from the water and transported to hospital where he was pronounced deceased. The accused will appear in Provincial Court on August 7, 2013.
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6/19/2013
Manitoba Conservatives are encouraging all Manitobans, who have felt bullied by the NDP government, to join them Thursday at the Legislature for the Rally For Respect.
Opposition leader Brian Pallister says they're standing up for Manitobans and their right to have a say on a tax hike they clearly do not want.
Pallister says the NDP also needs to pay closer attention to families dealing with Autism, stop bullying municipalities and other Manitobans that disagree with government policy and keep its promise not to raise taxes like the PST, an idea they themselves called ridiculous 18 months ago.
The rally starts at 11:30 am.
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6/19/2013
A new report says at least 200-thousand people find themselves homeless in Canada every year.The State of Homelessness in Canada report, finds that on any given night, about 30,000 people are homeless at a cost of $7-billion dollars a year for taxpayers.One of the report's authors, Stephen Gaetz tells CJOB unfortunately there are no concrete numbers for Winnipeg because there are no Point-In-Time counts of the homeless population."In the United States they do this annually across the country every year and one of our recommendations is that the government of Canada support a national Point- In-Time count so that we can see in Winnipeg, who is homeless and what is the scale of couch surfing and that sort of thing."He says that approach would also help down the road to see if the problem is getting better or worse.
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6/19/2013
The hail that pounded the city last week is pushing claims through the roof.
Brian Smiley with Manitoba Public Insurance tells CJOB thousands of requests have come in, with the majority from here in the city.
"It resulted at this point with 2100 hail claims being opened with Manitoba Public Insurance about 90 percent of those claims are coming from Winnipeg customers."
He adds claims are scattered throughout the city.
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6/19/2013
The courts heard a more sympathetic picture of the man charged with dangerous driving causing the death of a young construction worker.
An officer on the stand today said Mitchell Blostien had a clean driving record when he struck a flag person nearly three years ago.
Constable Steven Goetz says the man insisted that he never saw the girl.
However he also failed to slow down in the construction zone.
Brittany Murray was just 21 years old when she was struck and killed on highway 207.
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