Santiago Arias Orozco

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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.

Latest from Santiago Arias Orozco

Trump's treatment of Zelenskyy a 'disgrace' and 'embarrassment,' Manitoba Ukrainian says

A heated clash between U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has left some in Manitoba's Ukrainian community in outrage and dismay. 

Manitoba Grade 12 students slipped in advanced math, French in 2024 provincial exams

Grade 12 students in Manitoba slipped in provincial advanced math and French test scores last year, compared to the four most recent testing years.

Manitoba school divisions tabling property tax hikes for 2nd year in a row

At least four of Winnipeg's six English-speaking school divisions and one in western Manitoba are tabling property tax hikes to raise revenue to cover wage settlements, growing student enrolment and increasing capital expenses.

Possible human remains found at Manitoba landfill where search underway for slain First Nations women

Potential human remains have been found at the Prairie Green landfill, according to experts on site who have been searching for Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran, two of the four women murdered by serial killer Jeremy Skibicki in Winnipeg in 2022.

'Their mutual talent was to love': Family honours adventurous, loving couple who died after house fire

Ted and Dawn Allan had different tastes — he was a "fitness freak" and she did ballet — but their family say the Winnipeg couple had a mutual talent for love that was key to their 60-year relationship until they died in a fire at their Fort Garry home in December.

Hundreds rally in Winnipeg marking 3rd anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine

The head of the Manitoba branch of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress says Ukraine needs Canada's support now more than ever.

Women's Health Clinic services disrupted after bursting pipes, falling ceiling tiles and flooding

Services at the Women's Health Clinic have been disrupted for the second time in less than a year as infrastructure problems in the decaying downtown building resurface the need for promised provincial funding that has yet to be delivered to retrofit the site. 

RCMP didn't check site of fatal house fire until relatives found remains: Pinaymootang resident

A Pinaymootang First Nation resident says RCMP dismissed his family's concerns and didn't check for the body of an unaccounted loved one after that person's home was gutted in a fire.

Polar bear club students skip indoor recess, embrace the frosty outdoors at St. Boniface school

Students at General Vanier School are embracing the cold weather, bundling up and stepping outside during recess when they would otherwise stay inside because of the frigid temperatures — an activity that has been running in other schools for years, helping some students focus better inside class.

Most days at Manitoba's largest hospital are 'morally grating,' says ER nurse at HSC

A Manitoba nurse who has worked at the Health Sciences Centre emergency room in Winnipeg for decades is speaking out about the challenges health-care workers face at Manitoba's largest hospital, where patients face day-long waits among 'chaos.'