Santiago Arias Orozco
Reporter
Santiago Arias Orozco is a journalist with CBC Manitoba currently based in Winnipeg. He previously worked for CBC Toronto and the Toronto Star. You can reach him at santiago.arias.orozco@cbc.ca.
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18-year-old won't serve adult sentence in 2022 death of Winnipeg father
A now 18-year-old man who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of a 35-year-old father of two in a 2022 group assault will not serve an adult sentence, a Manitoba judge has ruled.
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Manitoba family on 'last big push' in petition for changes to missing vulnerable adults alert system
It's the home stretch for the family of a man who went missing more than a year ago to collect the last signatures for a petition supporting the use of cell phone emergency alerts to find vulnerable adults after they disappear.
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Stretch of Main Street shut down as firefighters battle blaze at boarded-up hotel
Smoke filled the skies over Point Douglas on Wednesday afternoon as crews battled a flames emanating at the boarded-up Sutherland Hotel on Main Street — the latest building to be gutted by flames in Winnipeg.
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St. Boniface Street Links pushes for more hospital-designated beds at shelters after man's death in ER
The death of a man waiting for care in a Winnipeg ER has an outreach organization calling for the expansion of a program that connects unhoused patients with designated shelter beds.
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Motion of contempt claims Lemay Forest protester breached court injunction, blocked access to property
A Winnipeg developer has filed a contempt of court motion against a group fighting to preserve Lemay Forest, arguing a pickup truck on city-owned land continues to block access to the St. Norbert private property.
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Winnipeg firefighter called a hero for fight against massive California wildfire threatening friend's home
A Winnipeg firefighter visiting his girlfriend in California found himself in the thick of the Los Angeles-area fires, battling to save a friend's home and those of her neighbours — including one who calls him a hero after seeing her home still standing amid the devastation.
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Winnipeg firefighters, paramedics off the job for 17,600 hours over 10 months due to psychological injuries
Psychological injuries forced paramedics and firefighters in Winnipeg off their jobs for thousands of hours last year, straining already understaffed essential services. And the fallout is also leading to burnout in on-the-job members, their respective unions and a Canadian expert say.
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'This is sacred land': People camp outside privately owned Winnipeg forest to protest tree removal
People camped outside Lemay Forest in the St. Norbert neighbourhood say they're there in protest of the continued removal of acres of forest on a private property.
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'He gave as long as he could': Winnipeg philanthropist John Buhler dies at 91
John Buhler, a prominent entrepreneur-turned-philanthropist in Winnipeg, is being remembered as a hard-working family man who thought of others before himself.
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'Nobody ever thought we would go back': Displaced Birchwood Terrace tenants can return home
Hundreds of residents forced out of Birchwood Terrace after serious structural deterioration left the apartment complex in unsafe living condition have been given the green light to return home.
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