While Manitobans can travel outside the province, many are choosing staycations right here at home – a move that is being welcomed by one of Manitoba's lakeside communities.
While there are no fans in the stands for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics this year, Triathlon Manitoba is making sure there will still be plenty of supporters to cheer local athlete Tyler Mislawchuk – albeit nearly 9,000 kilometres away.
With more than 2,000 people evacuated from First Nation communities in Manitoba, community members are collecting donations of food, clothes and toys for the families cooped up in hotel rooms.
Hemp farming is still a fledgling industry, but some proponents believe it has the potential to move from a niche crop to a staple of Canadian agriculture. Across the Prairie provinces, new businesses are popping up to process and market different parts of the plant.
Canada's Sunday's Olympic silver medal in the women's three-metre synchronized springboard, alongside teammate Melissa Citrini-Beaulieu, was like a weight off Jennifer Abel shoulders.
A new study has found that if the world were to meet the targets set out in the Paris Agreement, there would be eight million more jobs globally by 2050, but some fossil fuel-dependant economies such as Canada would actually see fewer jobs.
