Warm weather jeopardizes Manitoba ice roads

For many Canadian cities, winter has yet to rear it’s frosty head. Unseasonably warm temperatures across the country have left residents scratching their toques, wondering when the barometer is planning to dip below zero — and stay there for a while. And while many Canadians might enjoy a frostbite reprieve, there’s at least one region [...]

Gimli Manitoba's Inventor's Huge Chainsaw May Slay Ice Jams

A lot of things don’t cut ice with fishing folk up here but local inventor Mike Olyarnick isn’t one of them. Olyarnick invents ice-boring and ice-cut­ting equipment that has made him the toast of net fishers and winter road builders on Lake Winnipeg. Now, he’s set his sights on Red River flood-fighting. The invention is [...]

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