Katherine Dornian

2 months ago | globalnews.ca | Katherine Dornian

Tanya Nepinak was last seen in September 2011, and her aunt, Sue Caribou, is still looking for closure. “Sometimes I pretend she’s alive when I’m having a hard time,” says Caribou. “I think of the good things me and Tanya shared. We sang a lot.”Nepinak, a 31-year-old mother of two, is believed to have been murdered and her remains taken to Brady Road landfill. Police searched a portion of the landfill for Nepinak for about week back in 2012, but nothing was found.

2 months ago | globalnews.ca | Katherine Dornian

Pamela Bileski has been in and out of the hospital several times since she was attacked with a knife three weeks ago. The mother of five children says that on March 21, she received a call from her 18-year-old daughter asking her to pick her up from a downtown apartment. She was there hanging out with some female friends and a boyfriend of one of them.

2 months ago | globalnews.ca | Katherine Dornian

For voters in Elmwood-Transcona, it’s going to be a familiar ballot on Election Day. All three candidates for the major parties — the NDP’s Leila Dance, Conservative Colin Reynolds, and Liberal Ian MacIntyre — are the same ones that ran in the September byelection. The NDP managed to hold onto the seat then, but by a narrow margin over the Tories. Malcolm Bird, associate professor of political science at the University of Winnipeg, predicts it will be a tight race once again.

2 months ago | globalnews.ca | Katherine Dornian

The union representing Metis Child, Family and Community Services and Michif Child and Family Services is applying for independent arbitration to end a two-week strike. The Manitoba General Employees Union is asking the Manitoba Labour Board to order an arbitrator to help resolve their contract dispute. The union says the layoffs at both agencies are impeding their right to strike. "Effective today, these employers have laid off 20 per cent of their staff," says MGEU President Kyle Ross.

2 months ago | globalnews.ca | Katherine Dornian

On Jan. 15, 28-year-old Kellie Verwey died in a car crash just outside Portage La Prairie. Police say she was travelling west on Highway 26 when the driver of a pickup truck veered over the centre line, which caused an eastbound vehicle to collide with Kellie's car. She was pronounced dead on the scene. "Our family has lost the spark, the centre of our universe," says her mother, Meechelle Best. Her family describes her as a pillar of her community.