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Via Rail strike over: Passenger trains rolling July 26 as locomotive engineers and yardmasters back on the job

A strike by engineers and yardmasters belonging to the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) against Via Rail ended after 48 hours Sunday and passenger trains across the country began rolling again.
NDP not living up to health care pledges: Liberal leader

NDP not living up to health care pledges: Liberal leader

The leader of Manitoba's Liberal party swung through Thompson July 22 as part of his 2009 Northern community tour and says that health care is one of the major themes that came up repeatedly.
Teresa Burrows wins HBC People's Choice Award for 7th Annual Rural and Northern Art Show

Teresa Burrows wins HBC People's Choice Award for 7th Annual Rural and Northern Art Show

The Manitoba Arts Network has announced that the Hudson Bay Company's (HCB) People's Choice Award winner for the 7th Annual Rural and Northern Art Show as Thompson's own Teresa Burrows.

Youth arrested trying to force his way into Ospwagon trailer

Thompson RCMP were dispatched after a report July 25 at 7:20 a.m. of a youth trying to force entry to a residence on Ospwagon Drive in the Old Burntwood Trailer Court, says Sgt. Rob Collen, media spokesman for the detachment.

PoliceReport

777 files 386 prisoners (out of these 160 were lodged under the Intoxicated Persons Detention Act) SOME RECAPS: 2009-07-20: Members received a call from a passing motorist stating there was an intoxicated male walking in the downtown area.
Via Rail strike over: Passenger trains rolling July 26 as locomotive engineers and yardmasters back on the job

Via Rail strike over: Passenger trains rolling July 26 as locomotive engineers and yardmasters back on the job

A strike by engineers and yardmasters belonging to the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) against Via Rail ended after 48 hours Sunday and passenger trains across the country began rolling again.
Nychyporuk: USW Local 6166 backs Ontario union brothers and sisters at Vale Inco in Sudbury and Port Colborne

Nychyporuk: USW Local 6166 backs Ontario union brothers and sisters at Vale Inco in Sudbury and Port Colborne

Murray Nychyporuk, the recently elected president of United Steelworkers Local 6166 representing unionized labour at Vale Inco in Thompson, was at City Centre Mall July 18 to send out a strong message of solidarity with their unionized brothers and s
Vale Inco restructures senior management

Vale Inco restructures senior management

Position of Manitoba Operations president abolished

BIRD BATH

A seagull wades through a temporary pond in Eastwood Park on a soggy Wednesday afternoon.

Skeletal remains identified as missing Oxford House man

Skeletal remains that were found in a wooded area just off a hydro power line east of Thompson have been positively identified as 37-year-old Bernard Carlo Hart. Thompson RCMP received a report that Hart was missing from Oxford House on June 6.
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