Overland flooding washes out roads, damages homes across Prairies

By Ian Bickis and Brittany Hobson Emergency teams worked into the early hours Thursday to make sure an expectant mother, a cardiac patient and others were transferred to health facilities across Manitoba after rapid rain and flooding closed the only medical centre in the western city of Dauphin. To the north, where the town of Swan River was battered by rising water levels for the second time in less than a month, the province requested military support from the federal government. Premier Wab Kinew toured both areas Thursday. He said he reached out to Ottawa after Swan River’s mayor requested…