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This article was published 15/09/2011 (5438 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
BRAD OSWALD / TV
Blades battles on
Reality TV seldom has to contend with actual, grim reality, but CBC’s competition series Battle of the Blades was forced to do just that after the sudden death/apparent suicide of retired NHLer and third-season contestant Wade Belak. The network and the show’s producers have decided to continue as planned (“We believe he would want us to move ahead,” CBC programming head Kirstine Stewart said in a network release); the series première (Sunday on CBC), titled Game On, will include an extended tribute to Belak.
RANDALL KING / MOVIES
Can you feel the 3D tonight?
The Lion King is the most Shakespearean of Disney musicals. It’s a little bit Hamlet (with the ghost of Simba’s father exhorting him to do the right thing by dealing with his treacherous uncle) and a whole lot Henry IV. (Think of Timon and Pumbaa as Falstaff.) The 3D version opening at Polo Park and St. Vital tomorrow just runs for two weeks in advance of a 3D DVD release in October.
ALISON MAYES / ARTS
This calls for a Cuba Libre
Visions of Cuba by three established painters from that island country are on view until Oct. 8 in the show The Pleasure of Getting Lost at the Mennonite Heritage Centre Gallery on the Canadian Mennonite University campus. Tonight from 7:30 to 9 p.m., the public can meet two of the artists, Jairo Alfonso and Francisco Núñez, and hear them give a translated artists’ talk about their lives and work.
Aaron Peters (centre) looks at local music in his new documentary.
ROB WILLIAMS / MUSIC
Winnipeg rock goes big
Veteran Winnipeg musician Aaron Peters has moved into the director’s chair with his first feature-length documentary, Aaron Peters Presents Winnipeg Rock Part One, featuring 12 different local bands, including High Class Low Lifes, Why, Tinnitus, Trouser Mouth and Five Hundred Pound Furnace, performing and talking about their adventures in the business. The film will be screened tonight for the public at the IMAX Theatre in Portage Place for the last time before the footage and masters are donated to the groups in the movie. Tickets are $15. The screening begins at 9:30. Part Two is already in the works.
CHRIS SMITH / JAZZ
Silver lining
Horace Silver, a co-founder of the Jazz Messengers, helped develop the enduring hard bop style of jazz and composed lasting songs such as Song for My Father and Nica’s Dream. You’ve heard his music whether you know it or not. Trumpeter Derrick Gardner and saxophonist Don Braden pay tribute to that music as the Izzy Asper Jazz Performances season opens with three blues-drenched concerts this weekend at the Berney Theatre: Saturday, 8 p.m., and Sunday, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Tickets, $36, are available by calling 477-7534.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino has improbably managed to turn the success of the recently completed and profoundly challenged World Cup finals into a defeat.
Just two weeks ago, with confetti from the World Cup final still hanging in the air, Infantino unveiled plans for FIFA Forward Enterprise, a US$20-billion company that would run future FIFA events including the World Cup. The entity would sell a US$4 billion stake to a company called Thrive Eternal, which is owned by the family of Jared Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law.
The nature of the proposal and the people who are involved in it sent shock waves through the global football community. Reverberations so severe, they could knock Infantino from his perch atop the footballing world.
Within the week, the 55 member nations of UEFA, the governing body for football in Europe, the 47 members of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and the 41 nations represented by CONCACAF (North America, Central America and the Caribbean) rejected Infantino’s proposal. UEFA went the furthest by unanimously threatening to boycott future FIFA events, including the 2030 World Cup to be hosted in Morocco, Portugal and Spain.
Dean Pritchard4 minute readYesterday at 5:47 PM CDT
A Winnipeg man responsible for a drunk-driving crash that killed two cyclists last summer and left their infant child an orphan has been sentenced to eight years in prison.
Kuldeep Singh Gill was arrested Sept. 13 after fleeing from a high-speed collision on Kenaston Boulevard that killed 31-year-old Egor Popov and his 25-year-old common-law partner Kerry Ashley Bonner.
Gill, 46, pleaded guilty earlier this year to two counts of impaired driving causing death and two counts of failing to stop at the scene of a collision.
Gill, who has a prior conviction for impaired driving, made a conscious decision to drive drunk, knowing it made him a danger on the road, provincial court Judge David Ireland said at a sentencing hearing Tuesday.
MOON ALERT: There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions. The moon is in Taurus.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Resist the urge to get tangled up in financial disagreements with your kids, a friend, a group or a romantic partner. (Actually, anyone who wants to get in a fight with you.) You don’t need this. Focus on social outings. Keep things light.
Re: Giant Tiger to close downtown store (July 31); Giant Tiger decision creates giant void for desperate population downtown (Aug. 1)
The recently announced November closing of the Giant Tiger store at Donald Street and Ellice Avenue is cause for some alarm. As a self-described community-focused, family discount store, the grocery and clothing chain has become an important part of Winnipeg’s downtown fabric, catering to, in Niigaan Sinclair’s words, “… people living less-privileged lives: people working low-paying jobs; those with no fixed address and the homeless population…”
Other existing downtown shopping options have anecdotally been described as too expensive and unaffordable.
DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: Help us. We simply can’t go camping again and have the kind of wild sex we want if we don’t make some changes.
Our cheap older air mattress rolled us both to the middle on our last trip — and not in a romantic way. And it squeaked for anybody nearby to hear. We need an upgrade. Any suggestions?
— Camping Lovers, Whiteshell
Dear Camping Lovers: Hybrid air and foam self-inflating camp mattresses are the way to go for you two. The best camping mattress for sex offers a supportive surface and minimal squeaking.
More than a few of us have been known to complain about the Canadian health-care system: the lack of staffing, the long ER waits, the challenge of finding a family physician, the lengthy waiting lists for specialized tests and surgeries. There’s been an outcry for answers for a long time.
The publication of The Canadian Health Care Guerrilla Handbook: How to Fight for What You Need is welcome news for anyone seeking those answers.
Written by Michael Decter, who served as cabinet secretary in Manitoba before his move to Ontario — and Mike McCarthy, patient advocate and consultant who brings a personal story of living with hemophilia, the book is a must-have, packed with answers to commonly asked questions that will help the reader navigate a complex and fractured system.
The book, written in plain language, talks about how to get what you want and need: a family doctor, diagnostic tests, appropriate medications, a second opinion, long-term care, home care, mental-health care — all of that and more is easily accessible in its 217 pages.
