WINNIPEG — The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority has directed three long-term care centres to make space for hospital patients, citing “exceptionally high demand for care across the health-care system.”

“Riverview Health Centre, Deer Lodge Centre and Misericordia Health Centre have been asked to identify additional temporary capacity for patients who no longer require an acute-care hospital bed but continue to need an appropriate level of care before they can transition to their next care setting,” a WRHA spokesperson said Thursday.

“This whole-of-system response will help create additional capacity in acute-care hospitals, supporting patient flow and timely access to emergency departments and other hospital services.”

The spokesperson described the measures as part of “standard surge protocol,” atypical and temporary, but did not provide a timeline of how long patients would be staying at the health-care centres.

WINNIPEG — Powerhouse investors may hear pitches on Manitoba mines, silica sand projects and a massive greenhouse in Dauphin during Canada’s first major investors summit.

The Manitoba government is finalizing its list of projects to pitch at the Canada Investment Summit next month.

“The conversations that’ll be had … will be about investments in the billions of dollars,” Premier Wab Kinew said Friday.

“It’ll be one step among many that we take to build a bright future in Manitoba.”

A 24-year-old man is facing multiple charges after Swan River RCMP say he robbed and assaulted a man with a firearm.

The incident was reported on Monday around 4 p.m. by a 21-year-old man who told Mounties he had been assaulted on Aug. 5, RCMP said in a news release on Thursday.

The victim told police he went for a drive with a man who was known to him and was assaulted, robbed, threatened with a gun and left stranded on a back road outside of Bowsman.

The victim gave a description of the suspect and his vehicle to police.

Canada came from behind to defeat Finland 6-3 in the semifinal of the Hlinka-Gretzky cup on Friday.

Canada plays the United States in the gold-medal game today at 6 p.m.

Finland opened the game by outshooting Canada 11-1 on the way to taking a 1-0 thanks to a power play goal scored by Olli Kylmala five minutes into the game. Niklas Borgstrom and Lenni Kokkonen picked up assists on the opening goal.

Calgary native Landon Dupont equalized for Canada with just under two minutes remaining in the opening frame. Kayden Stroeder and Jaakko Wycisk were credited with assists on the play.

WINNIPEG — Severe weather spanning two days in June — hitting both Manitoba and Saskatchewan — has led to at least $840 million in insured losses.

The June 9 and 10 weather is the latest in an increasing number of “catastrophic” events with major insurance payouts, said Rob de Pruis, the Insurance Bureau of Canada’s national director of consumer and industry relations.

The Insurance Bureau didn’t share a breakdown of insured losses by province. Most of the claims cover hail and flood damage, including sewer back-ups, de Pruis said.

At the time of the storm, Manitoba saw grapefruit-sized hail, torrential downpours and at least one tornado. Some rural municipalities declared states of emergencies.

1957 Edinburgh Trophy Final

(Best of nine)

(Games in Quebec City and Montreal)

Quebec beats Brandon 5-1.