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WINNIPEG – A suspect has been arrested in Winnipeg in an assault that police say happened when a man broke into a secure area of a University of Manitoba residence and entered a woman’s room.

The Winnipeg Police Service says the 46-year-old suspect was arrested when a person reported seeing someone late Friday night who matched a description that investigators released only hours after the incident occurred earlier that day.

He faces various break-and enter-charges, along with charges of sexual assault, robbery, and overcoming resistance by attempting to choke, suffocate or strangle another person.

Police earlier said they responded to the report of break, enter and assault at 4:45 a.m. Friday in a student housing complex on the premises of the University of Manitoba on Dafoe Road.

Officers met with a woman who reported an intruder entered her room and assaulted her, and that she managed to fight him off while calling for help.

Police say university security staff were alerted and police were contacted, and that the woman was treated for injuries and was in stable condition afterward.

Const. Dani McKinnon said Saturday the suspect was known to police, but she would not confirm if he was the same person with a similar name and age as a man who was the subject of a sex-offender notification by the Manitoba government in May.

The province’s justice ministry had warned at the time that an inmate was being released from Stony Mountain Institution on a sentence of being unlawfully at large. It said he had a lengthy criminal record including convictions for sexual assault with a weapon, armed robbery, breaking and entering to commit theft, theft, assault and numerous breaches of recognizance.

The warning said that while he’d participated in treatment programming in the past, he was still considered high risk to reoffend in a sexual and/or sexually violent manner, and that all females, both adults and children, were at risk.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 26, 2024.

Note to readers: This is a corrected story. An earlier version said the suspect was arrested Saturday morning

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SASKATOON – Saskatchewan Party Leader Scott Moe says some incumbent governments in Canada have had it rough heading into election season, but he’s confident his party will hold onto power.

Blaine Higgs of New Brunswick’s Progressive Conservative Party was defeated by Liberal Party Leader Susan Holt in a landslide election last week, while voters in British Columbia saw a tight race between David Eby’s NDP and John Rustad’s Conservative Party.

Moe says it’s shaping up to be a tough race in Saskatchewan as well, but he and his 61 candidates are focused on their party’s plan to create a strong economy and a bright future.

Moe has said his Saskatchewan Party, if re-elected Monday, would bring broad tax relief and a promise to continue withholding federal carbon levy payments to Ottawa.

The politician hailing from Prince Albert didn’t have any planned campaign stops Sunday, but spent Saturday rallying supporters at an event in Saskatoon.

Early voting ended on Saturday, and polls are closed until Monday.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 27, 2024.

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VANCOUVER – The District of North Vancouver has declared a state of local emergency and ordered three homes evacuated in the Deep Cove neighbourhood over concerns debris left behind from last weekend’s atmospheric river could pose a safety risk.

A statement late Saturday from the district says that during the heavy rain, debris filled the channels of Ostler and Panorama Creeks “limiting their capacity to withstand future heavy rainfall events.”

The district says it’s ordering the evacuations out of an abundance of caution after geotechnical consultants advised that the extent of debris could pose a “life safety risk” to adjacent properties.

The District of North Vancouver was hit with 350 millimetres of rain last weekend and six properties were initially ordered evacuated, but those orders were lifted on Friday.

The weather system drenched B.C.’s south coast, triggering a mudslide and localized flooding that killed at least three people.

The district says the decision to declare a state of local emergency and a mandatory evacuation order is not taken lightly, and that residents of those properties are eligible to receive emergency support services.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 27, 2024.

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