Out Of Left Field (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
by Keith Borkowsky , The Curling Guy There's plenty on the line this week in Prince George, B.C., where 24 of the top Canadian teams battle to determine the four men's and four women's teams that advance to the Canadian Olympic Trials. So much, that there's rumours that some may retire if they don't advance. For those that may know (and you're forgiven), Canada has a multi-step qualifying process to...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Forwards Arron Asham No. 45. Age: 31 Position: Right wing Height, weight: 5-11, 205 Hometown: Portage-La-Prairie, Manitoba What to expect: A gritty third- or fourth-line winger who is defensively responsible.
The Inquisitr (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
The Manitoba Health Review Board justified the continued detention of Vince Li because he is a significant risk to society. Li was the passenger of a Greyhound bus who decapitated fellow passenger Tim McLean in full view of other passengers last summer while the bus was near Portage la Prairie. The board made public its decision [...]
Cryptozoology Online: Daily News (Free subscription) | 09/05/2009
By CHRIS KITCHING, SUN MEDIA The Winnipeg Sun There's no bull about this theft. In a bizarre whodunnit, someone stole a tank containing $15,000 worth of bull semen from a rural property west of Winnipeg in March. Having exhausted all avenues, RCMP are appealing for tips to solve the theft. "It is a peculiar item to steal," said Const. Stephen Senuita, a spokesman for Portage la Prairie RCMP....
Toronto Sun - News (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
Portage la Prairie RCMP are asking for the public's help to track down a tank that contains about $15,000 worth of semen.
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 08/26/2009
A 69-year-old woman died Tuesday evening when her car collided with a train near where the Yellowhead Highway and the Trans-Canada Highway merge just west of Portage La Prairie, Man.
Toronto Sun - News (Free subscription) | 07/30/2009
The bus Tim McLean was gruesomely beheaded on one year ago tonight near Portage la Prairie has been "dismantled," Greyhound officials confirmed yesterday.
HOLLY'S FIGHT TO STOP VIOLENCE (Free subscription) | 07/15/2009
13/07/2009Two men who were arrested and questioned in connection with the disappearance of 24-year-old Amber-Lynn McFarland have been released without charges.Mounties arrested the two Portage la Prairie men, McFarland’s ex-boyfriend 39-year-old Kelly Garrioch and his friend 40-year-old Graham Saxon, last week.Sources said the two were in surveillance video taken of McFarland at a hotel beer
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 06/06/2009
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, June 6 (UPI) -- A bus in which a mentally ill man dismembered another passenger in Manitoba is still being used for service in Canada, Greyhound officials said. Tim McLean, 22, was fatally stabbed, beheaded, dismembered and cannibalized in front of other passengers last July near Portage la Prairie. In March, Vince Li, 40, was found not criminally responsible because he suffered...
The Globe and Mail - Music News (Free subscription) | 03/19/2009
Chris Hannah was a typical air-force brat with a world view as straight as the runways on the base near Portage la Prairie, Man., where his father flew fighter jets. Then Hannah heard a few punk bands during the so-called second wave that arose in opposition to the neo-con revolution of the eighties.
Morton's Musings (Free subscription) | 03/06/2009
Mental illness not criminal By John Gormley, The StarPhoenixMarch 6, 2009 7:01 AM It should surprise no one that Vince Li has been declared not criminally responsible for the brutal killing of a fellow traveller on a bus near Portage la Prairie, Man., last summer. From the beginning, the sordid tragedy had more to do with mental illness than crime. Tim McLean, 22, who had offered Li an empty seat beside...
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 03/06/2009
No one can be anything but horrified at the murder of Timothy McLean, the 22-year-old man beheaded by a crazed Vincent Li on a Greyhound Canada bus near Portage La Prairie, Man., last July. Canadians’ natural, instinctive reaction to a revolting crime such as this is a desire to expand and then use the state’s power to “lock the guy in prison and throw away the key.” We should...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 02/26/2009
The family of Tim McLean is stepping up its lobbying efforts for victim protection legislation they call "Tim's law." McLean, 22, was brutally killed aboard a Greyhound bus last July near Portage la Prairie.
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 02/17/2009
A Portage la Prairie man could be in a heap of trouble after he found a creative way to get home. According to RCMP, the man called them early Saturday, claiming his vehicle had been carjacked on a rural road. Turns out it was all a story to get a ride back to town.
Extreme makeover under way at cory. (Free subscription) | 01/05/2009
Heads or Tails Black or White. Portage la Prairie Portage Daily Graphic. Klix centre a text decoration none. A book version, it seems, has also. But she has qualified for state meet in the yard butterfly, breaststroke and freestyle and currently has the area's second best time in the breaststroke. Janet has been diagnosed with bipolar disease for nearly eight years and has been undergoing shock loan...
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