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Wellington "Duke" DeCoursey founded the newspaper in 1960 after moving to Thompson from Dauphin, Manitoba, where he published the Central Manitoba News.DeCoursey started other local newspapers, including the News of the North and the Birch River Reporter, as well as authoring books on Canada's north and early Alberta.
The D Division is the division of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police responsible for federal policing in Manitoba and, at times, northwestern Ontario. [3] Headquartered in Winnipeg, the division is commanded by Assistant Commissioner Scott McMurchy [4] and consists of 1089 police officers and 438 support staff.
Thompson was incorporated as a town in 1967 on Canada's Centennial Anniversary.In 1970, Thompson gained city status in the royal presence of Queen Elizabeth II. [12]The community was initially planned for a population of 8000, [9] but Thompson grew rapidly to 19,001 residents by the 1971 Census; the population has even been estimated as high as 26,000 residents at the time prior to the ...
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[note 4] Thompson Fire dispatched two paramedics and an ambulance to travel the 97.23 miles (156.48 kilometres) to Ponton, the station closest to the accident site at just over 9 miles away. 6:23 pm - the rail traffic controller notified a Hudson Bay Railway supervisor of an accident south of Ponton that crew were pinned inside the locomotive ...
The Zig Zag Crew in turn sold drugs to other criminal groups in Manitoba, most notably the First Nations gangs such as the Redd Alert, the Manitoba Warriors and the Native Syndicate. [4] The journalist Jerry Langton wrote that in the early 21st century there was "a period of near-hegemony in Winnipeg's organized crime by the Hells Angels ...
The Falcon Lake Incident was an alleged UFO sighting on May 20, 1967, at Falcon Lake, within Whiteshell Provincial Park in the Canadian province of Manitoba. [1] [2] The incident was investigated by various Canadian authorities including the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Royal Canadian Air Force, the Department of Health, Department of National Defence, and American authorities including the ...
Police suspect that Myran was killed on May 4, 2022. [11] [1] [22] Myran's family reports her as missing on September 26, 2022, following reluctance by the family in finding out something may have happened to her. [22] Police allege that Contois was killed either on May 14 or on May 15, 2022. [22]