Winnipeg-based organization resolute in its global mission — protecting children from online pedophiles

More than a century ago, a brick two-storey building near the banks of the Assiniboine River opened as an orphanage. Later, it became a residential school for First Nations children sent hundreds of kilometres away from their homes and families. Today, children are still central to the building's mission. It's here where a dedicated team wages a global battle to protects kids from abuse and exploitation at the hands of sexual predators.

With neurodegenerative disorders, compassion is vital — for those afflicted, their loved ones and caregivers

SELKIRK — Peaceful, meditative music plays in Carol Radway’s room, which her husband Paul Chorney says helps her remain calm.

A giant fluffy blanket, which Radway picked up at a thrift store years ago, serves as a wall-hanging. The room is artfully decorated with some of Radway’s keepsakes, including a collection of earthy and metaphysical jewelry pieces.

The window overlooks other parts of the institutional building. There’s a single bed, a nightstand and a little table; above it, an assortment of family photos from years past and a few more recent depictions of happier days. Radway’s illuminating smile is prominent in all of them.

There’s a lone chair for a visitor. When not in bed, Radway spends most of her time in a wheelchair. She broke her femur a few months ago and hasn’t moved much since.

From backstretch to homestretch to grandstand, it takes a village to keep Assiniboia Downs up and running during race season

Sunrise is still 45 minutes away, but don’t tell that to the 12 horses inside Steve Keplin Jr.’s barn.

A flick of the light switch at 5 a.m. and, like clockwork, the magnificent animals rise in their stalls and poke their heads out, ready to begin their day.

It’s a big one, too. The start of the 2026 racing season has arrived at Assiniboia Downs, with the first of 50 race nights on tap.

Two of Keplin Jr.’s thoroughbreds — Ceepeegee and Steal Your Soul — are set to compete this evening. And the leading trainer from the 2025 campaign is hoping to pick up where he left off.

Working the family farm set up top NHL draft prospect Carels for hockey success

It takes a village to raise a hockey player.

Carson Carels would be the first to tell you his just happens to include hundreds of cows, goats, peacocks, chickens and whatever else might be wandering the 2,000 acres of rolling hills in south-central Manitoba that he and his family call home.

The farm isn’t just where the 17-year-old lives. It’s where he was built.

“It has shaped who I am,” said Carson.

Keeping hope aflame amid darkness and terror

Kyiv still lives, if uncomfortably. It still lives, and even in its worst hour, it still feels like coming home.