Kristin Annable

Feb 5, 2025 | cbc.ca | Kristin Annable

Manitoba·NewFive contractors in the Brandon area must pay tens of thousands of dollars in fines after pleading guilty Wednesday to conspiracy offences in a bid-rigging scheme involving Manitoba Housing renovation projects. 5 Brandon-area men charged by Competition Bureau in 2022Kristin Annable · CBC News · Posted: Feb 05, 2025 4:42 PM EST | Last Updated: 4 minutes agoFive Brandon-area contractors pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiracy charges.

Jan 21, 2025 | cbc.ca | Kristin Annable |Caroline Barghout

Two anonymous letters first tipped the Manitoba government off to possible collusion by contractors vying for dozens of public housing projects more than a decade ago, according to search warrant documents — but charges against the people accused could now be stayed because the process has taken so long. The search warrant documents, obtained by CBC, shed light on years-long investigations, which led to five Westman-area contractors being charged with federal conspiracy offences in 2022.

Dec 2, 2024 | xpresschronicle.com | Kristin Annable

Manitoba premier Wab Kinew says the province will stop incarcerating people who have tuberculosis following a CBC investigation that revealed a Manitoba woman spent a month in jail after she was detained to treat the infectious disease. “I read the story this morning. I reached out to the two most senior people in the government and I said, ‘Get me an order ensuring that nobody is ever jailed for having tuberculosis again,'” Kinew said Monday following the publication of CBC’s report.

Dec 1, 2024 | cbc.ca | Kristin Annable |Caroline Barghout

A woman from northern Manitoba with no criminal charges spent a month in jail after public health officials ordered her detained to treat her tuberculosis, even though she wasn't infectious at the time. Geraldine Mason, 36, was arrested under the Public Health Act on Oct. 27 and initially ordered to spend three months at the Winnipeg Remand Centre or Women's Correctional Centre.

Nov 7, 2024 | cbc.ca | Kristin Annable

ManitobaA provincial court judge says a Manitoba man likely wouldn't have died if proper policy had been followed when he was placed in an RCMP holding cell in The Pas in 2019. John Ettawakapow's 2019 death in holding cell in The Pas was preventable, judge saysKristin Annable · CBC News · Posted: Nov 07, 2024 2:48 PM EST | Last Updated: 1 hour agoJeremy Ettawakapow holds a picture of his father, John, who died in 2019 while he was detained in a cell in the RCMP detachment in The Pas, Man.