Minnesota’s two largest export markets push for NAFTA renewal

Minnesota's two largest export markets are touting the benefits of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which may be headed for a renewal in Washington as early as next month. Canadian Consul General Paul Connors and Mexican Consul Gerardo Guerrero, who spoke Tuesday at a Minnesota Chamber of Commerce breakfast, have been on the road pitching the value of NAFTA to Minnesota factories, farmers and workers.

Troubled trek: Asylum-seekers’ journey took them through frozen fields to Winnipeg homeless shelter

Majeed Haruna Agure has been living over the past month in the Booth Center, a large homeless shelter in Winnipeg. Agure, who is seeking refugee status in Canada, walked in January over the border between Manitoba and North Dakota to complete a journey he started in Brazil.

Booming Lentil Prices Are Back After Canadian Harvest Washout

In the middle of 2016, prices for the pulse crop had plunged from record highs on the outlook for large global harvests. Now, the curry-and-soup food staple has rebounded more than 40 percent since August after rain and snow damaged a bumper crop in Canada, the world's top exporter.

MPs told local reporting required to overcome Canada’s news blues

The publisher of a small southern Manitoba family of weekly newspapers made an appeal for back-to-basics local reporting Thursday to a group of MPs examining Canada's beleaguered news industry. The gruff, to-the-point testimony by Ken Waddell of the Neepawa Banner, Neepawa Press and River Banner helped ground a Commons committee inquiry mired in months of often contradictory hearings.

A dozen Canadian women head south on a mission: Help Dems defeat Donald Trump

Mie Larson, left, and Cheryl Conley-Strange, pose for a photo at the provincial legislative building in Winnipeg, Man., on Oct. 20, 2016. They're part of a group of a dozen Manitoba friends, now headed down to help the Democrats in a crucial region of the crucial swing state of Florida.