Cameron MacIntosh

Senior reporter

Cameron MacIntosh is a senior reporter with CBC national news based in Winnipeg. He has spent most of his career in Western Canada while covering stories across the country and abroad for CBC News.

Latest from Cameron MacIntosh

Dress code: How a Winnipeg codebreaker cracked one of the 'world's top unsolved messages'

For a decade, cryptology fans had been trying to solve something called the "Silk Dress cryptogram." Earlier this year, a Winnipeg academic figured it out.

Filmmaker dodges pucks for intimate look at Canada's winter tradition

Manitoba filmmaker Randy Frykas sets out to document "Outdoor Hockey Life" in a new YouTube documentary series.
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Little — and expensive — house on the prairie

Forty per cent of people renting in rural Manitoba are considered to be in “core housing need" — they're either paying too much, living in spaces that are too small for the number of residents or in housing that's in a poor state of repair.

'Extreme drought' is threatening parts of the Prairies, says Agriculture Canada

Drought conditions on the Prairies are threatening crops and water supplies, and raising the risk of wildfires, farmers and scientists said.

This is the plan to vaccinate every adult in every Manitoba First Nations community

First Nations leaders in Manitoba are racing to vaccinate 100,000 people in 100 days to avoid complications with melting ice roads in the spring, and fire season in the summer.

Downtown Bay committee chair looking for a 21st-century vision for 20th-century 'statement piece'

Chair of committee to redevelop Winnipeg's shuttered Hudson's Bay Building believes there is vision and money to reinvent the historic landmark

With gym, pools and other activities closed, backyard ice rinks are booming

What do you do in the middle of a pandemic, when winter weather has arrived and almost every form of recreation is banned? Build an outdoor rink. And that’s exactly what many Winnipeggers are scrambling to do.

Woman who spent years scrubbing explicit video from internet urges tech firms to make it easier to remove

She was only 14 when she was groomed into having virtual sex with an older man she met on social media. The Canadian Centre for Child Protection says she's one of thousands whose images are shared around the world who are finding it hard to report sexually explicit material involving minors and have it removed.

High North Dakota COVID-19 death rate hits home for Canadian family

North and South Dakota are strong Republican states that have resisted mandating public health measures, saying they should be a personal choice, but now cases are spiking and hospitals are overwhelmed. Last week, an analysis by the Federation of American Scientists found that the two states had the highest COVID-19 mortality rates in the world for the seven-day period up to Nov. 21.

Churchill residents rejoice as rail service gets back on track

Full passenger and freight rail service should be restored to Churchill, Man., by the end of the month.