Caitlyn Gowriluk
Reporter
Caitlyn Gowriluk has been writing for CBC Manitoba since 2019. Her work has also appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press, and in 2021 she was part of an award-winning team recognized by the Radio Television Digital News Association for its breaking news coverage of COVID-19 vaccines. Get in touch with her at caitlyn.gowriluk@cbc.ca.
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Alberta lawyers who had Manitoba judge tailed lose bid to avoid law society discipline in their province
Two Alberta lawyers who hired a private investigator to follow the Manitoba judge who presided over their case challenging COVID-19 restrictions in 2021 have lost their bid to avoid possible law society discipline in their province.
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Serial killer victim Ashlee Shingoose's parents remember their daughter as a loving person
The parents of a woman recently identified as the previously unknown victim of a Winnipeg serial killer remembered their daughter Thursday as a loving person whose kids meant the world to her — and whose remains they now hope to recover from a Winnipeg landfill as soon as possible.
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Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe now has a name: Ashlee Shingoose was Winnipeg serial killer's 1st victim
After years of police investigation and community anguish, investigators say they've identified the lone unknown victim of a Winnipeg serial killer as Ashlee Christine Shingoose, a missing woman from St. Theresa Point Anisininew Nation last confirmed seen in downtown Winnipeg in March 2022.
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Winnipeg murder trial opens with co-accused testifying for prosecution
The trial of a man charged with second-degree murder in a 2023 homicide began Monday with testimony from one of the man's co-accused, who shed light on what happened the night a 50-year-old man was killed in Winnipeg's West Broadway area.
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Man who used excavator in 'rampage' at water treatment faces more jail time, ordered to pay $1.4M
A man who crashed an excavator into vehicles, equipment and buildings at a City of Winnipeg water treatment plant in 2023 has been sentenced to more jail time and ordered to pay restitution for the more than $1 million for damage he caused.
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No police actions could have prevented fatal shooting of Winnipeg man: inquest judge
The judge who oversaw an inquest into the death of a Winnipeg man killed by police responding to a domestic violence call in 2020 has concluded there was nothing police could have done differently to prevent what happened that day.
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5 years after start of pandemic, experts say Manitoba can still learn lessons from COVID-19
Five years after COVID-19 was first detected in Manitoba, experts say the province still has a ways to go to fully address the effects of the pandemic and set itself up to respond better in future emergencies.
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David Milgaard's sister hopes new commission starts 'as soon as humanly possible' after Winnipeg picked as HQ
The sister of the man at the centre of one of Canada’s most high-profile wrongful conviction cases says she was “absolutely quite amazed” to learn last week that an independent commission being set up to examine similar cases across the country will be headquartered in her home city of Winnipeg.
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5 years after first cases, Manitoba families who lost loved ones to COVID-19 still feel missed moments
Families not being able to be at their loved ones' side as they died was common during parts of the COVID-19 pandemic — and a policy choice one advocate says “really broke people emotionally” and that may have been approached differently in hindsight.
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Man sentenced to 3 years for random kidnapping that left teen with lost 'sense of trust in all people'
A man who pleaded guilty to abducting a teenage girl off the side of a rural Manitoba road as she walked her dog in 2019 has been sentenced to three years in prison, in a case that went unsolved for years.
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