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[blue_gold_84]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/3d-printed-guns-seized-winnipeg-home-1.6832028

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An 18-year-old man is facing numerous weapons charges after Winnipeg police seized 20 3D-printed Glock-style parts, an AR-15-style firearm resembling a toy and various other items used to manufacture 3D-printed guns from a home on Boyd Avenue. 

Police were initially tipped off by the Canada Border Services Agency in January about parts used to complete 3D-printed guns being shipped from China and the United States into Canada to addresses in Winnipeg.

The shipments were disguised as tools and manufacturing equipment, said Insp. Elton Hall of the organized crime division. 

Police said they searched the house on March 31 and seized parts and devices used to make functioning 3D-printed firearms, including:

• 20 3D-printed Glock-style parts, some of which had a Gucci label on them.
• A 3D-printed AR-15-style firearm that looked similar to a toy Nerf gun.
• Close to 100 auto-sears/switches, which are used to convert handguns into fully automatic firearms.
• Three 3D-printed magazines.
• A 3D printer and numerous spools of filament.
• A Type 81 rifle.
• Numerous loose firearm components, including trigger mechanisms, rails and springs.

An 18-year-old man was arrested and charged with numerous weapons and drug offences, including weapons trafficking, unauthorized possession of a firearm, and possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.

This ghost gun **** is pretty unsettling.

[FrostyWinnipeg]

9 minutes ago, blue_gold_84 said:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/3d-printed-guns-seized-winnipeg-home-1.6832028

This ghost gun **** is pretty unsettling.

On the other hand the AR15 disguised as a Nerf gun looks like fun 🤔

[Wideleft]

Love the concept, but the ownership model for health space concerns me.

Winnipeg’s Portage Place set for massive, $500m revitalization

By Skylar Peters  Global News

Posted May 12, 2023 5:00 am

 Updated May 12, 2023 1:51 am

Friday marks a new day in the history of Portage Place.

The beleaguered mall in the heart of downtown Winnipeg – an crown jewel intended to anchor the city’s downtown, filled with ‘For Lease’ signs just a few decades later, is set to get a massive shot in the arm today.

The Province of Manitoba, Shared Health, True North Sports and Entertainment will unveil ambitious plans for the property at a news conference Friday morning.

Global News got an early look.

A healthcare hub

The east end of the property, adjacent to Carlton Street, will become home to two separate healthcare centres.

You’ll be able to visit a walk-in clinic and primary care clinic on the ground floor, which government sources say is designed to take the stress off the nearby Health Sciences Centre and Misericordia hospitals.

Dialysis patients will have a 26,000 sq. ft. facility for their treatment, and others will be able to go their physiotherapy appointments.

The Downtown Winnipeg Health Centre for Excellence will also contain a future Rapid Access to Addictions Medicine (RAAM) clinic.

Rising above it: a 15-storey tower containing the Pan Am Centre for Advanced Musculoskeletal Medicine.

It will contain nearly 50,000 sq. ft. of ambulatory and orthopedic surgery space, a concussion clinic, pain clinic, space for minor injury and sports medicine professionals and more.

The healthcare centres come at a cost of more than $300 million.

“Right in the downtown area: Where people are working, where people are living, where people are part of that community, they’ll be able to have access to those services,” Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson told 680 CJOB’s Richard Cloutier.

Plans shown to Global News ahead of Friday’s announcement show Edmonton Street cutting through the property, allowing a space for patients to be dropped off at the centre.

The two centres promise more than 220,000 sq. ft. of new healthcare space for the city, and province.

A place to live, shop, eat, and connect

The space to the west of the new Edmonton St. greenway will be re-worked to include community services like a dental office, optometry space, pharmacy and more.

“This is really connecting the downtown area, and making it a very welcoming place to come to, and a place where they can get help,” Stefanson says.

The ground floor features space for groups like Service Canada, Newcomer Services, and the Downtown Community Safety Partnership.

The heart of the property will also have plenty of room for a food court and retail stores.

Above it, the existing Prairie Theatre Exchange and YMCA will be joined by a community centre/drop in space complete with a basketball court, and an outdoor community garden overlooking Portage Ave.

The westernmost portion of the property will see another large tower rise above the existing structure – this one full of homes.

Details on how many residences, and the portion of homes designated as affordable housing, are unclear.

And the building contains something the downtown area has been lacking for years.

Adjacent to the lobby near the Portage Ave. entrance: a 20,000 sq. ft. grocery store.

Plans, partners, and a start date

True North’s real estate arm will purchase the mall from the Forks North Portage Partnership, which represents the city, province, and federal government.

A report sent to city hall earlier this year gave True North a year to do due diligence on the property – and noted the minimum purchase price would be a little more than $34 million.

The ambitious plan will result in 569,000 sq. ft. of floor space being added to the property – more than double the mall’s current amount.

1,000 existing underground parking stalls will be retained.

A government source tells Global News the plans will run in the $500-600 million range. True North Sports and Entertainment will put up the money for the healthcare portion of the property – more than $300 million – and the province will lease the space.

All three levels of government will be involved in the build, particularly the housing component, and the Richardson family is also a part of the group working to transform the mall.

Premier Stefanson will be joined by True North CEO Mark Chipman, President of the group’s real estate arm, Jim Ludlow, and new Shared Health CEO Lanette Siragusa for a formal announcement at 9:30 a.m. Friday.

 

[Tracker]

This is still a maybe, but very welcome.

[FrostyWinnipeg]

Magic mushroom dispensary sprouts in Osborne Village

[Tracker]

1 hour ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

Magic mushroom dispensary sprouts in Osborne Village

I've heard that to make customers happier, they have on staff a fungi.

[Super Duper Negatron]

Thought this sounded like a great idea. Hope it works out great for the kids in the program.

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2023/05/31/education-through-engagement

[Wideleft]

Hope everyone recovers fully.

16 children, 1 adult injured in fall at Fort Gibraltar in Winnipeg

3 children taken to hospital in unstable condition, Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service chief says

CBC News · Posted: May 31, 2023 11:51 AM CDT | Last Updated: 13 minutes ago

 

Seventeen people, 16 of them children, were taken to hospital after they fell 15 to 20 feet at Fort Gibraltar in St. Boniface, emergency officials said Wednesday.

"Today at 9:55 a.m., we received a 911 call at Whittier Park for a school group that fell," Jason Shaw, a Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service assistant chief, told reporters on Wednesday.

Three of the children were in unstable condition; the other 13 children and the adult were in stable condition, he said. The children are 10 and 11 years old.

Emergency responders and health-care providers will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. CT outside the Children's Hospital. CBC will livestream the news conference on this page.

The children were St. John's-Ravenscourt School students on a field trip, CBC has confirmed.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/fort-gibraltar-winnipeg-injuries-1.6860519

[iHeart]

Man what a scary incident 

[FrostyWinnipeg]

https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/new-costco-location-coming-to-winnipeg-1.6442308

3 for West Winnipeg, 1 for East Winnipeg...seems fair :@

 

[GCJenks]

8 minutes ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/new-costco-location-coming-to-winnipeg-1.6442308

3 for West Winnipeg, 1 for East Winnipeg...seems fair :@

 

When this has been talked about before it would mean the closing of the too small, too congested St James location.

Still waiting to hear more about a potential North Winnipeg location rumoured to be going between Main and McPhillips just inside the Perimeter.

[JCon]

14 minutes ago, GCJenks said:

When this has been talked about before it would mean the closing of the too small, too congested St James location.

Still waiting to hear more about a potential North Winnipeg location rumoured to be going between Main and McPhillips just inside the Perimeter.

I was expecting this to be an announcement of a new warehouse around Sage Creek. 

This will help ease the pressure on St James. Then, when that facility is no longer viable, they will rebuild further north. I wonder if they tie into the Chief expansion? 

And, Costco know a lot more about their business than I do but it seems an odd place. They might draw some from Charleswood but shoppers in South West Winnipeg will stay at McGillvary.  So, they're drawing from St James, West of Winnipeg (like PLAP, etc.) and north west Winnipeg? 

[GCJenks]

2 minutes ago, JCon said:

I was expecting this to be an announcement of a new warehouse around Sage Creek. 

This will help ease the pressure on St James. Then, when that facility is no longer viable, they will rebuild further north. I wonder if they tie into the Chief expansion? 

There are new controlled intersections under construction / improvement just inside the Perimeter on both roads. I had heard it was going to be the keystone of the commercial portion of the development going up in there. I don't think they are willing to wait for this city to extend CPT.

[FrostyWinnipeg]

I was thinking a good location would be perimeter south beside water treatment. Not much room left in Sage Creek

Too bad no Sams Clubs.

 

 

Edited June 15, 2023 by FrostyWinnipeg

[GCJenks]

2 minutes ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

I was thinking a good location would be perimeter south beside water treatment. Not much room left in Sage Creek

 

 

I think on the East end it will be tied to the extension of Abinojii Mikanah. Once that goes out to Plessis and the Transcona traffic can flow there they will also close the Regent location.

[Brandon]

What will be frustrating is that even after they build a few more... the current locations will still be completely full and crazy busy.   

[Tracker]

A couple of years ago I happened to bump into the manager of the Polo Park Store when there. He said that the plans were to first build a store just outside the perimeter near Assiniboia Downs and when the location drew enough business away from the Polo Park location, they would build on McPhillips north of the auto dealers there and close the Polo Park store,

[JCon]

4 minutes ago, Tracker said:

A couple of years ago I happened to bump into the manager of the Polo Park Store when there. He said that the plans were to first build a store just outside the perimeter near Assiniboia Downs and when the location drew enough business away from the Polo Park location, they would build on McPhillips north of the auto dealers there and close the Polo Park store,

Yes, the Downs has been in the works for ages. But, they were also looking near Sage Creek with all the growth and lack of warehouse in the area. 

[FrostyWinnipeg]

30 minutes ago, Tracker said:

A couple of years ago I happened to bump into the manager of the Polo Park Store when there. He said that the plans were to first build a store just outside the perimeter near Assiniboia Downs and when the location drew enough business away from the Polo Park location, they would build on McPhillips north of the auto dealers there and close the Polo Park store,

My uncle swears there was a sign saying Future Costco location on McP by Perimeter.

[Noeller]

and poor ol' Westman just begging for one in Brandon and nada...... Really feel like with all the people in, south and north of Brandon, they'd be worthy of a Costco....apparently not so much. 

[GCJenks]

52 minutes ago, Noeller said:

and poor ol' Westman just begging for one in Brandon and nada...... Really feel like with all the people in, south and north of Brandon, they'd be worthy of a Costco....apparently not so much. 

Will never happen in Westman, they couldn't ever support it, even if it was the only game in town.

https://jordanbean.medium.com/data-driven-growth-the-analytics-behind-costcos-location-footprint-market-strategy-18115b64b759

[iHeart]

man this has to be the worst highway traffic collision since Humboldt (I didn't notice Sard posted it on the RNI thread)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/crash-carberry-manitoba-1.6877826

 

The death toll is now at 15

 

Trudeau and PP posted statements

Edited June 15, 2023 by iHeart

[Rod Black]

21 minutes ago, iHeart said:

man this has to be the worst highway traffic collision since Humboldt (I didn't notice Sard posted it on the RNI thread)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/crash-carberry-manitoba-1.6877826

 

The death toll is now at 15

Evidently a handivan with seniors from Dauphin headed to the casino near spruce sands park involved with a semi. 

[Noeller]

absolutely sickening. Feel horrible for all their families. What a horrible tragedy........

[iHeart]

Don't forget, they've been there

https://twitter.com/HumboldtBroncos/status/1669480984692027393