A look back at 2024 in pictures in Manitoba

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Family members of Jeremy Skibicki's victims expressed relief to the media after a judge found him guilty of four first-degree murders.

Photo : - / Prabhjot Singh Lotey

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Trial of Jeremy Skibicki, Carman murders, solar eclipse, fight against zebra mussels and even horse races, - looks back at the news of 2024 in pictures.

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Former Montreal Canadiens players faced the La Broquerie Habs in January to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the community team from this southeastern Manitoba village.

Photo: - / Magalie Chinchilla Chaput

Children's cars in a yard.

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Children's toys in a yard in Carman, surrounded by yellow police tape, in February. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Manitoba have charged Ryan Howard Manoakeesick, 29, with the first degree murder of his three children, his partner and a 17-year-old girl.

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A family walks in front of Fort Gibraltar.

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Without a fence, the buildings inside Fort Gibraltar were more visible this year. The towers maintain the period fort appearance of the place.

Photo : - / Gavin Boutroy

Wab Kinew, head bowed.

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Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew during a ceremony at the grave of Louis Riel in February.

Photo : - / Gavin Boutroy

A field without snow.

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The field of farmer Alain Philippot, in Saint-Claude, finds itself without snow in February. The winter was particularly mild in Manitoba.

Photo : - / Victor Lhoest

Two people are talking on the street

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A member of Winnipeg Transit's community safety team during their officers' first day in the field.

Photo: - / Mario De Ciccio

A skateboarder in the air.

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A snowboarder during the Slush Cup on the last day of the season on the slopes of Asessippi ski resort in western Manitoba. No one managed to cross the pool of freezing water.

Photo : - / Chelsea Kemp

John Mysyk is in front of a green wall used in cinema.

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Since 2000, John Mysyk has owned Chroma Ranch in Île-des-Chênes, where many films are shot using the green wall. Previously, he worked in the music field.

Photo : - / Victor Lhoest

Edward Ambrose wipes away a tear as he and Richard Beauvais, who were switched at birth in 1955, listen to Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew deliver a formal apology in the Chamber of the Provincial Legislative Building, March 21, 2024.

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Edward Ambrose wipes away a tear as he and Richard , who were switched at birth in 1955, listen as Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew delivers a formal apology in the Provincial Legislative Chamber.

Photo: The Canadian Press / John Woods

A flowing stream.

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The Bruce Park Creek joins the Assiniboine River. The Lake Winnipeg Community Monitoring Network uses people to collect samples from different water sources in Manitoba. The samples are then analyzed in the laboratory to measure the concentration of phosphorus, a chemical element that contributes to algae blooms in Lake Winnipeg.

Photo : - / Trevor Lyons

Artists on a bright stage.

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Around twenty Franco-Manitoban artists offered a show in April to celebrate the 50 years of involvement of the Franco-Manitoban Cultural Center in music, in front of around 400 people.

Photo: - / Véronique Morin

Two people watch the eclipse

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Hundreds of people watched the partial eclipse in April at Assiniboine Park.

Photo : - / Victor Lhoest

The new Sea Bears field.

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The Winnipeg Sea Bears and Manitoba have purchased a new modular basketball court that replaced the old court, built in 1955.

Photo: - / Mario De Ciccio

Protesters.

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University of Manitoba students set up a pro-Palestinian encampment on the University of Manitoba campus in Winnipeg in May.

Photo : - / ILRICK DUHAMEL

A dog

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In May, 68 dogs were seized from a home in Manitoba's capital and were taken into the care of the Winnipeg Humane Society.

Photo : - / Kevin Nepitabo

Miss Manito Ahbee and an elder wearing their “regalias”.

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The 19th Manito Abhee Festival at Red River Exhibition Park in Winnipeg. The title of Youth Ambassador, Miss Manito Ahbee, honors the memory of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

Photo : - / Richard Sabeh

A house exploded in the Transcona neighborhood of Winnipeg on June 26, 2024.

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A house exploded in Winnipeg's Transcona neighborhood in June. The cause is still unknown.

Photo : Meaghan Richey/Facebook

A green light in front of the offices of Caisse Financial Group in Winnipeg.

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The members of Caisse Financial Group have approved the merger with Assiniboine Credit Union and Westoba Credit Union. At the end of a vote held between June 6 and 19, they accepted the proposal supported by the board of directors of the credit union.

Photo : - / Gavin Boutroy

A field saturated with water.

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In spring 2024, heavy downpours complicated the work of farmers. This field in Sainte-Agathe is waterlogged.

Photo: - / Corentin Mittet-Magnan

Avro Lancaster bombers

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One of the rare Lancaster bombers from the Second World War landed in Winnipeg this year. The bomber, nicknamed VeRA because of its flight initials VR-A, was built in 1945 by Victory Aircraft in Malton, Ontario.

Photo: - / Natalia Weichsel

Demonstrators in front of the Legislative Building.

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Dozens of protesters gathered in front of the Manitoba Legislative Building to celebrate the fall of Bashar El-Assad's regime in Syria on December 8, 2024.

Photo: CBC/Gary Solilak

Wab Kinew and David Chartrand smilingly hold up signed copies of the agreement alongside the chief of the Gambler First Nation. Cameras capture the scene outside in summer in Manitoba.

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Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew and Manitoba Métis Federation President David Chartrand sign a memorandum of understanding for the transfer of approximately 100 hectares of culturally significant land to the Red River Métis, near Saint-Lazare. This is the site where the Métis village of Sainte-Madeleine was located.

Photo : - / Catherine Moreau

A woman brandishes a sword on the back of a galloping horse.

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Alice Edwards of the Society of Tilt and Lance Cavalry Intl. on horseback during one of the demonstrations at the Cooks Creek Medieval Festival.

Photo: - / Natalia Weichsel

About a hundred cyclists blocked the intersection between Wellington Crescent and Academy Street, in Winnipeg, to protest against the road insecurity of which they say they are victims, on July 30, 2024.

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About 100 cyclists blocked the intersection between Wellington Crescent and Academy Street in Winnipeg in July to protest the lack of safety on the roads they say they are victims of.

Photo : - / Prabhjot Singh Lotey

Skylark Park hugs a family member.

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Skylar Park, Manitoba's taekwondo medalist at the Olympic Games, was greeted upon her return from by around 100 people at Richardson International Airport.

Photo : - / Bartley Kives

City of Winnipeg employees during a prescribed fire at the Prairie Nature Museum.

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One of the last intact fragments of tallgrass prairie in Manitoba's capital, the Prairie Nature Museum, is maintained through measures unusual for a municipal park: the tinderbox and the sheep.

Photo : - / Gavin Boutroy

A mustachioed man wearing a cowboy hat looks into the distance in a crowd late in the summer day in Manitoba.

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Every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evening, dozens of enthusiasts go to the Winnipeg Assiniboia Downs racetrack. to attend the horse races which take place from May to September.

Photo : - / Catherine Moreau

A man stands on his boat to supervise the deployment of the containment curtain.

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Crews deploy a curtain almost two kilometers long in Clear Lake in July to contain zebra mussels.

Photo : - / Chelsea Kemp

New Democratic Party candidate Leila Dance celebrates her victory in the Elmwood-Transcona by-election in Winnipeg on September 16, 2024.

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New Democratic Party candidate Leila Dance celebrates her victory in the Elmwood-Transcona by-election.

Photo : - / Gavin Boutroy

Visitors circulate around the giant, illuminated bubbles of the moongarden exhibition with SPECTRA, created by Ana Binta Diallo.

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The moongarden exhibition with SPECTRA was located in the heart of the Nuit Blanche installations, right in the middle of the Bourse district.

Photo : - / Maggie Wilcox

Two fighters fight and the referee is pushed.

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Referee Mary Sanders, shaken when tension escalated between two athletes during a Jiu Jitsu competition, was finally able to separate them. The fight continued.

Photo : - / Victor Lhoest

Bernard Bocquel received his insignia of the Order of Canada from the Governor General of Canada, Mary Simon, on November 20, 2024.

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Bernard Bocquel received his insignia of the Order of Canada from the Governor General of Canada, Mary Simon, at the Manitoba Legislative Building.

Photo: - / Natalia Weichsel

A pedestrian goes around the works.

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Winnipeg's most famous intersection will reopen to pedestrians after 40 years of automobile rule. The demolition of the barriers, all loaded with symbols, is the first stage of the project.

Photo : - / Trevor Lyons

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