Come for lunch, stay for The Surprise

Come for lunch, stay for The Surprise

MORE zaniness and dramatic moments from the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival come to the Free Press News Café on Tuesday afternoon.

Four more free performances and interviews begin at 12:30 p.m. at the lunch spot at 237 McDermot Ave., where Martin Dockery and Vanessa Quesnelle, stars of The Surprise and Moonlight After Midnight, sit down for an interview and perform an excerpt from The Surprise.

At 1 p.m., local DJ Sarah Michaelson joins Colombian performers Felipe Ortiz and Daniel Orrantia for a short scene from Speechless.

Justin Danyluk, Lorraine James, Reba Terlson and Jazmyn Shell from Winnipeg's Dramatic Theatre perform a scene from their fringe show Vampire Lesbians of Sodom at 1:30 p.m.

Zoo caring for orphaned polar bear cub

The Assiniboine Park Zoo is caring for an orphaned polar bear cub that arrived from Churchill Thursday after conservation officers determined it was incapable of surviving on its own.

The officers found the bear’s dead mother.

Orphaned cubs have a high mortality rate, and a medical team was quickly sent to Churchill to support the cub’s initial needs, the zoo said in a media release.

The team arrived in Winnipeg late Thursday night.

Doctor speaks out, raises alarm over gas plant expansion plans

A retired doctor is raising red flags on Manitoba Hydro’s proposed gas plant expansion in Brandon and the health-related consequences of climate change.

Rural residents ‘outraged’ property owner charged after shots fired during confrontation with alleged thieves: MLA

A rural Manitoba MLA says he has heard from constituents who are “shocked and outraged” that a 66-year-old man is facing charges after he fired shots at a group of people accused of stealing from his property.

Executive exodus continues at Shared Health with three recent departures

Manitoba’s provincial health authority is looking for its fourth chief financial officer since 2023 and additional replacements after the recent departures of three executives.

The trolls inside the Conservative tent

The Conservative Party of Canada has a troll problem. And it’s coming from inside the tent.

Once, trolls existed only in imagination. They were figures of mythical proportion, big and small. They lived solitary lives under bridges, in caves, or forests. They were considered dim-witted and mean. Best avoided.

Today, they are real, unavoidable, and ubiquitous on social media. They are anything but solitary. There are tribes of them out there and tribal is how they think and post. As for dim-witted and mean, others can opine but they are uniformly mean and dismissive.

Mean to anyone who disagrees with their views. Dismissive of any view but their own. They distribute questionable, at best, facts and opinions grounded in hostility towards anything or anyone deemed disagreeable or heretical to their world view.