Dean Pritchard

When Manitoba child welfare authorities arrived at his house, the eight-year-old boy was too weak to stand, so he was lying balled up on the floor, his body emaciated and skeletal, “like he was from A... When child welfare authorities arrived at his house, the eight-year-old boy was too weak to stand, so he was lying balled up on the floor, his body emaciated and skeletal, “like he was from Auschwitz.

Eight-year-old weighed 25 pounds, looked ‘like he was from Auschwitz’
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Shakedowns put North End shops on edge A growing number of business owners in Winnipeg’s North End are pleading for help from law enforcement, claiming they’ve been targeted in a dangerous extortion and arson campaign. They allege that fou...

Shakedowns put North End shops on edge
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Opinion: Winnipeg Folk Festival a chance to recharge, reconnect A couple of choice lyric lines stuck out as I baked under a smoke-filled sky at the Winnipeg Folk Festival’s Big Bluestem stage this weekend.

Plenty of daylight to find amid sea of humanity at Birds Hill Park
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‘Strong message of deterrence’: health care aide who stole $80K from dying patient sentenced to jail time A former health care aide who admitted stealing more than $80,000 from a nursing home patient dying of cancer sobbed uncontrollably as a judge denied her bid for house arrest and sentenced her to six....

‘Strong message of deterrence’: health care aide who stole $80K from dying patient sentenced to jail time
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UPS supervisor sentenced to four years for stealing, selling customers’ electronics Arrested for stealing and reselling $1.3 million worth of Apple electronics, former United Parcel Service supervisor Orville Beltrano offered a host of explanations for his prolific pilfering. His fam...

At the core, Apple thefts about greed: judge
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Sikh religious leader to to explain under oath in Manitoba court where he got his money The provincial Justice Department is putting newly legislated powers to legal test, seeking a court order to force a Sikh religious leader — arrested last year for allegedly stealing hundreds of thous...

From colleague Erik Pindera: Case provides show time for unexplained wealth order
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Sex charges stayed against chief after child testifies she lied
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Beaten, bound woman left to die in frozen dumpster confronts ‘monster’ in Winnipeg courtroom Her limbs bound with zip ties and tape, her body stuffed into a duffel bag, the petite Indigenous woman was tossed into a large metal garbage dumpster on a cold Winnipeg winter night and left to die.

‘I wish you had killed me so I don’t have to keep living like this’
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Winnipeg court grapples with how to handle senior who made 350 calls to 911, went to ER 137 times A Winnipeg senior has spent more than 130 days in jail for making hundreds of phone calls to emergency response services in which she claimed crises that didn’t exist.

Court grapples with how to handle senior who made 350 calls to 911, went to ER 137 times
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Ex-attorney general’s request for second opinion on Nygard prosecution an abuse of process, Manitoba judge decides A Manitoba judge has ruled it was an abuse of process for the province’s attorney general to order an out-of-province review after Manitoba prosecutors declined to lay sex charges against Peter...

Ex-attorney general Goertzen’s request for second opinion on Nygard prosecution an abuse of process, judge decides, but denies defence motion to stay sex charges
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Anti-vax rule-breaker, failed political candidate tells Winnipeg court he’s no racist in defamation case testimony Failed political candidate and anti-vaccination advocate Patrick Allard is suing the NDP and a former candidate for defamation, but Allard was in the hot seat in court Monday.

Anti-vax rule-breaker, failed political candidate tells court he’s no racist in defamation case testimony
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Manitoba judge sentences youth who murdered young father-to-be protecting family to seven years in custody A Winnipeg teen fatally stabbed coming to the aid of his family as they were attacked while walking to their car after a downtown concert had learned just hours earlier he was going to be the father o...

Judge sentences youth who murdered young father-to-be protecting family to seven years in custody
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Despair, what is it good for? With a world in turmoil, hopelessness a call to action Where does one start? From the numbing stupidity of a senseless trade war, to the growing normalization of autocracies and rejection of the rule of law, to the upending of science and expertise for qu...

Despair, what is it good for?
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Despair, what is it good for? With a world in turmoil, hopelessness a call to action Where does one start? From the numbing stupidity of a senseless trade war, to the growing normalization of autocracies and rejection of the rule of law, to the upending of science and expertise for qu...

Despair, what is it good for?
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Manitoba Public Insurance fraudster sent to jail, must repay $35,000 Jason Adrian Desjarlais claimed he was so debilitated by a car crash he couldn’t get out of bed on his own or take more than two steps without the aid of a walker. But then he got caught by insurance....

MPI fraudster sent to jail, must repay $35K
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Winnipeg driver gets jail time for killing cyclist in hit-and-run collision A 19-year-old Winnipeg man who was driving more than three times the speed limit when he struck and killed a cyclist on Wellington Crescent has been sentenced to three years in custody and prohibited ...

Driver gets jail time for killing cyclist in hit-and-run collision
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Criticizing Zelensky for not wearing a suit is like blaming a rape victim for “dressing provocatively,” a total red herring.

Just watched great doc on Sly And the Family Stone. Hands up whose first intro to their music was via the Wolf Man on the late great House of Frightenstein?

Prison time justified for ‘gory,’ hateful threats to family, supporters of serial killer’s victim, Crown argues Nicholas Delaney has pleaded guilty to uttering threats after confronting an Indigenous elder and several other people, including family members of Morgan Harris, one of four women murdered by now-con...

Prison time justified for ‘gory,’ hateful threats to family, supporters of serial killer’s victim, Crown argues
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Winnipeg man admits he terrorized woman, then threw her into the trash A Winnipeg man has admitted he subjected an intellectually vulnerable woman to hours of terror and violence and put her bound body into a garbage bin on a freezing winter night. Joey Michael Audy, 36,...

Man admits he terrorized woman, then threw her into the trash
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Speeding driver’s sentencing for fatal Winnipeg collision hears emotional testimony from partner of killed cyclist Rob Jenner set off on his bike for work on June 6, 2024 after celebrating his 61st birthday a night earlier. “It was always the same,” his partner Wendy Van Loon told a Winnipeg courtroom Wednesday. “...

‘That was the last time I saw my Rob’
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Man found guilty in machete slaying of acquaintance he met days earlier

Man found guilty in machete slaying of acquaintance he met days earlier
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Here’s an idea Winnipeg Transit: howabout on the coldest day of the year when an entire route is experiencing a lengthy delay, you let some of your plentiful (and empty) express buses pickup customers who have been waiting 40 minutes and losing all feeling in their extremities?

Jury convicts Stead man of killing neighbour in 2021 A jury has convicted Eric Wildman of murdering his neighbour — that prosecutors said he’d caught stealing from him on his rural Manitoba property — ending a legal odyssey that included a mistrial. Wil...

Jury convicts Stead man of killing neighbour in 2021
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-24C and there is a young man waiting at the bus stop, bare hands drinking a Tim Hortons coffee slurpee. This is the strong stuff we are made of America! Don’t mess with us. WE. ARE. CANADIAN.

Judge sends former bagel shop owner involved in drug ring to prison for 51 months The former owner of a Winnipeg bagel shop has been sentenced to 51 months in prison after he started making dough in the city’s illegal drug trade. Chris Silva, 49, co-owner of Hudson Bagels on Sherbr...

Judge sends former bagel shop owner involved in drug ring to prison for 51 months
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‘Predatory’ attacker spared penitentiary sentence after robbing unconscious man outside bar A Winnipeg man has been sentenced to two years less a day in jail after a “predatory” attack on an unconscious man outside a Winnipeg nightclub that left him with a partially severed tongue and unable...

‘Predatory’ attacker spared penitentiary sentence after robbing unconscious man outside bar
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Accused dragged man into bush ‘to murder him’: witness tells Winnipeg court Once a co-accused in the violent killing of a man she considered a friend, Janine Atkinson no longer has a possible life sentence hanging over her head. On Monday, Atkinson was in a Winnipeg courtroom...

Accused dragged man into bush ‘to murder him’: witness tells court
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Blue Sky, smiling at me, nothing but Blue Sky do I see…. Well, let’s see how this goes