Jenn Allen
Reporter
Jenn Allen is a reporter at CBC Manitoba. She studied journalism and communications in Winnipeg. You can get in touch with her at: jenn.allen@CBC.ca.
Latest from Jenn Allen
Stranded travellers from Sask. are slowly making it back home, with a pit stop in Winnipeg
Roice Anne Fox and her family are relieved to be back on Canadian soil after spending six days waiting in hotel lobbies in Varadero, Cuba, for a flight to take her home to Saskatchewan. She is not alone as hundreds of Saskatchewan residents wait to be back on Saskatchewan soil.
Canada -Saskatoon |
On the front lines of the fight against 'zombie deer' disease in Manitoba
Chronic wasting disease was detected in Manitoba deer last year. As hunting season gets underway, hunters, biologists and the province are scrambling to prevent the deadly disease from becoming endemic.
Canada -Manitoba |
Home for Christmas? Holiday travel woes hit Winnipeg airport after B.C. storm
Cancellations, delays and stranded travellers have left Winnipeg's airport in turmoil on Thursday — and it couldn't come at a worse time for many hoping to get home for the holidays.
Canada -Manitoba |
Couple with pneumonia left waiting for 6 hours in cold ambulance bay at Winnipeg hospital
A couple in Winnipeg who went to hospital to be treated for pneumonia earlier this week say they were left waiting for six hours in the cold of a hospital ambulance bay.
Canada -Manitoba |
Non-urgent pediatric surgeries postponed at Winnipeg children's hospital amid unprecedented flu season
Non-urgent pediatric surgeries are being postponed in Winnipeg, after the children's emergency department saw a surge in patients critically ill with respiratory illness.
Canada -Manitoba |
Winnipeg protesters block landfill entrance, call for search for other MMIWG after alleged serial killings
The daughters of Morgan Harris along with a group of allies and advocates blocked traffic on Sunday afternoon near the Brady landfill to call for an extensive search of the facility for any missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people.
Canada -Manitoba |
Wolseley Winter Wonderland benches getting vibrant makeover by Villa Rosa students
Benches made by volunteers for the community-led Wolseley Winter Wonderland are getting a vibrant makeover from students at the Villa Rosa pre and post-natal support centre.
Canada -Manitoba |
Winnipeg man who stabbed wife to death in 1994 granted day parole in B.C.
A man who stabbed his wife to death on a busy Winnipeg street in 1994 has been granted day parole for the first time in five years and will be allowed to visit seven municipalities in B.C.’s Fraser Valley.
Canada -Manitoba |
Winnipeg mayor open to possibility of searching landfill for remains of homicide victims
While Winnipeg police have said they won't search a landfill north of the city for the remains of two Indigenous women allegedly killed by Jeremy Skibicki, Mayor Scott Gillingham says he remains open to the possibility.
Canada -Manitoba |
Indigenous leaders and advocates in Winnipeg say the MMIWG crisis is a national state of emergency
More than 100 advocates, allies and surviving loved ones gathered on Sunday at Oodena Circle in Winnipeg to call for a national state of emergency to be declared for missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people.
Canada -Manitoba |