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The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority is launching an aggressive campaign to remind health care workers to wash their hands. For those who don't properly clean up, there may be penalties.

An Alberta based company is using temporary foreign workers on a Winnipeg job site because it says it couldn't find local workers. The local carpenter's union says the company is wrong.

The province has said they'll pay for more police officers for Winnipeg. Not everyone thinks that's the best idea. Steve Lafleur is the author of a recent report: More Police Does Not Equal Less Crime.

We talk to city councillor Jeff Browaty who is responsible not only for kiboshing the draft development plan that was prepared for the Corydon neighbourhood but also for the committee tasked with hiring someone to make a new plan.

When you have a neighbourhood that everyone loves, how do you make sure a development plan doesn't screw it up? We talk to the chair of a local residents' association about the enigma of the Corydon neighbourhood.

He's been called a visionary who helps cities put a roof over the heads of the homeless and the penniless. We'll find out what we can learn from him.

From an undercover police operation to the underwater diving unit. We'll meet a Winnipeg police officer who has many firsts under her belt and now she's up for a Woman of Distinction Award.

She studies an endangered species and where she finds her specimens is top secret. Now she's been nominated for a women of distinction award for her work.

Why a nationally-known doctor and columnist credits a simple nutrient with improving his heart health A doctor who had a heart attack opted out of taking drugs to manage his heart health. Why he stakes his life on a simple vitamin.

Today - we travel along the Red River to see how things are looking, after warmer temperatures over the weekend. We begin in Fargo with Deputy Mayor Tim Mahoney.

If you're still putting together your taxes for 2012, expert Evelyn Jacks might be able to help with your chess game against Revenue Canada.

Winnipegger Susan Griffiths is in Switzerland, preparing to end her life through assisted suicide. Today, we're hearing the case for and against legalizing physician assisted suicide in Canada. Ruth Enns lives with disabilities, and she raises the case ag

We're hearing the case for and against legalizing physician assisted suicide in Canada. We heard the case against it, by Ruth Enns. Now - the case in favour. Arthur Schafer is Director of the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of

Maureen Baraneiski was the first Manitoban to get a heart transplant on April 10, 1983. And while she's still here - 30 years later - her family faced the transplant waiting game two more times - with very different outcomes. Maureen and her husband Chuck

Yesterday's provincial budget raised the cost of daily living in Manitoba. The provincial sales tax is going up one percentage point on July 1st. That translates to about $300 more in expenses per family, yet the province will spend more money ... and sti