Winnipeg Communauté Nouvelles

The southern Manitoba town of Grunthal is inviting folks to camp there this weekend — refugee style. For $100, you can take your own tent and a sleeping bag to the camp and receive a ration of rice and beans. To cook your ration, you’ll need to collect firewood. To find the firewood, you’ll have to follow instructions in Arabic. For an additional $50, you can take in a "luxury" item such as a pillow.

A group of volunteers from Gretna has stepped up to help asylum seekers that are illegally crossing into Canada. A vacant Manitoba housing unit in Gretna will be used temporarily as a reception centre to house migrants after they are processed at the Canadian port of entry in Emerson. The vacant building will serve as a shelter for up to five days while more room is made for the migrants in Winnipeg, where they will wait for their refugee applications to be processed.

A new program rolling out in Winnipeg gives people who are unable to ride a bike a chance to feel the thrill. Spearheaded by Michael Erlanger, the local chapter of Cycling Without Age (CWA)—a group founded in Copenhagen—offers seniors or others with mobility challenges bicycle-propelled rickshaw rides.

It's a volunteer opportunity that's hard to lick. The Canadian National Institute for the Blind is putting out the call for people in Winnipeg to raise puppies so they can become socialized before being trained as guide dogs. The CNIB, which has been around for 100 years, is launching its first ever program to raise and train guide dogs. It will operate in Toronto, Halifax and Winnipeg.

Winnipeg, MB – The recipients of the 2017 Premier’s Volunteer Service Award were announced and honoured at a private reception with Premier Brian Pallister and during Volunteer Manitoba’s Awards Dinner held last night.

Better Winnipeg is a weekly feature that focuses on people, places and events that make Winnipeg better. WINNIPEG — The section reserved for baby formula at Winnipeg Harvest is difficult to keep stocked. But every December for the past four years, there’s a sudden surge in supplies, thanks to Susan Krepart.