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A woman is dead after being found in a garbage bin that was reportedly on fire.
Winnipeg police and firefighters responded to the rear of an apartment building at 33 Hargrave Street shortly after midnight on Apr. 6, 2021, after receiving a report of a garbage bin fire.
Chantelle Talarico, 30, was found inside the bin and later died of her injuries.
Members of the Winnipeg Police Service (WPS) major crimes unit are investigating the incident. Police say the fire is not believed to have been intentionally set.
Police are hoping to speak with anyone who may have had contact with Talarico during the evening of Apr. 5, 2021.
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Counterfeit pills that instead contain potentially deadly synthetic drugs are circulating in Winnipeg, police warned on Friday.
Members of the Winnipeg Police Service s guns and gangs unit recently received what police described as reliable information that a number of counterfeit alprazolam pills (a drug sold under the brand name Xanax) were found to contain fentanyl or other unknown synthetic drugs, a Friday news release said.
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The city still doesn t know when essential workers such as bus drivers and police officers will be vaccinated. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press files)
WINNIPEG police officers, bus drivers and other essential city workers still don’t know when they’ll get vaccinated against COVID-19.
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WINNIPEG police officers, bus drivers and other essential city workers still don’t know when they’ll get vaccinated against COVID-19.
Mayor Brian Bowman said Thursday he’s still in the dark, despite pressing the province since early December, on where police officers, bus drivers and other essential civic workers fall on the priority list.