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Manitoba is a province of Canada at the longitudinal centre of the country. It is Canada’s fifth-most populous province, with a population estimated at 1,507,057 in 2025. Manitoba has a widely varied landscape, from arctic tundra and the Hudson Bay coastline in the north to dense boreal forest, large freshwater lakes, and prairie grassland in the central and southern regions. Manitoba’s capital and largest city is Winnipeg. (Full article…)

April 13, 2026 – By-elections to the 45th Canadian Parliament

Following victories in three federal by-elections, the Liberal Party of Canada wins a majority government nearly a year after the 2025 Canadian federal election. (Reuters)

April 10, 2026 –

A shooting at the campus bar of Lambton College‘s Sarnia campus in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, kills one and injures two, with the Sarnia campus closing for the day and all activities being suspended. (CBC Windsor)

April 8, 2026 – Protests against the 2026 Iran war

Anti-war protesters gather outside the U.S. embassy in Ottawa, Canada, to protest against the Iran war despite the ceasefire along with the wars in Lebanon and Gaza. (CTV News)

April 6, 2026 – Crime in Mexico

Canadian mining company Vizla Silver confirms nine of the ten workers abducted from a silver mine in Concordia Municipality, Sinaloa, Mexico, in late January, are dead. (Reuters)

March 29, 2026 – 2026 New Democratic Party leadership election

Avi Lewis is elected leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party. (BBC)

March 26, 2026 – 2026 FIFA World Cup, Iran at the FIFA World Cup

The Iranian sports ministry bans the men’s national football team from travelling to “hostile countries”, placing the team’s participation in this year’s FIFA World Cup tournament in doubt, which is being held in Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Sports minister Ahmad Donyamali previously stated that Iran will not play in this year’s World Cup. (Reuters)

Canadarm (right) during Space Shuttle mission STS-72

Canadarm or Canadarm1 (officially Shuttle Remote Manipulator System or SRMS, also SSRMS) is a series of robotic arms that were used on the Space Shuttle orbiters to deploy, maneuver, and capture payloads. After the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, the Canadarm was always paired with the Orbiter Boom Sensor System (OBSS), which was used to inspect the exterior of the shuttle for damage to the thermal protection system. (Full article…)

Canadian cuisine consists of the cooking traditions and practices of Canada, with regional variances around the country. First Nations and Inuit have practiced their culinary traditions in what is now Canada for at least 15,000 years. The advent of European explorers and settlers, first on the east coast and then throughout the wider territories of New France, British North America and Canada, saw the melding of foreign recipes, cooking techniques, and ingredients with indigenous flora and fauna. Modern Canadian cuisine has maintained this dedication to local ingredients and terroir, as exemplified in the naming of specific ingredients based on their locale, such as Malpeque oysters or Alberta beef. Accordingly, Canadian cuisine privileges the quality of ingredients and regionality, and may be broadly defined as a national tradition of “creole” culinary practices, based on the complex multicultural and geographically diverse nature of both historical and contemporary Canadian society. (Full article…)

Slotin’s Los Alamos badge photo

Louis Alexander Slotin (/ˈsloʊtɪn/ SLOHT-in; 1 December 1910 – 30 May 1946) was a Canadian physicist and chemist who took part in the Manhattan Project. Born and raised in the North End of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Slotin earned both his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from the University of Manitoba, before obtaining his doctorate in physical chemistry at King’s College London in 1936. Afterwards, he joined the University of Chicago as a research associate to help design a cyclotron. (Full article…)

• … that Jackson Findlay is a fourth-generation Canadian Football League player?
• … that as a teenager in a B’nai B’rith camp in Canada, Holocaust survivor and future Canadian ambassador Fred Bild learned English from his camp counselor, future actor William Shatner?
• … that, after an attempt to sell the Tokamak de Varennes to Iran failed, it became a display at the Canada Science and Technology Museum?
• … that the literary heritage of Nova Scotia includes the first newspaper and the first literary journal in Canada?
• … that the Canadian Joint Forces Command was created based on operational lessons from the war in Ukraine?
• … that journalist Jacques Poitras spent a month repeatedly crossing the “Imaginary Line” separating New Brunswick and Maine in order to publish a book about it?
• … that Cuban swimmer Rafael Polinario had to defect to Canada instead of Spain after Fidel Castro’s brother got on his plane?

The Lionel Conacher Award is an annual award given to Canada’s male athlete of the year. The sports writers of the Canadian Press (CP) first conducted a poll to determine the nation’s top athlete, of either gender, in 1932. Separate polls for the best male and female athletes were conducted beginning the following year. The CP formalized the poll into an award in 1978, presenting their winner a plaque. It was named after Lionel Conacher, a multi-sport champion whom the news organization had named its top athlete of the half-century in 1950. The award is separate from the Northern Star Award, in which a select panel of sports writers vote for their top overall athlete. (Full article…)