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BEN MacPHEE-SIGURDSON / COCKTAILS

Capital K shaking up series of cocktail classes

Looking to master your martini, mojito, manhattan or margarita skills? Local distillery Capital K (3-1690 Dublin Ave.) is offering a series of cocktail classes designed for the budding mixologist. Capital K’s Jesse Hildebrand will lead attendees (aged 18 or over) through a crash course on the basics of creating four different cocktails, including recipes to take home to wow prospective party guests. The courses are being offered on numerous Fridays throughout October and November — specifically Oct. 19, Nov. 2, Nov. 16 and Nov. 30 — as well as Saturday, Nov. 17. Tickets for each class are $55 and include four cocktails (so plan a safe way home), recipes and light snacks; they can be obtained at wfp.to/capitalk.

ANTHONY AUGUSTINE / TECHNOLOGY

The Essential Android Apps for 2018

If you aren’t member of the Cult of Apple, the announcement of a new Pixel phone from Google is welcome news. Whether you’ve just picked up a new Android phone or want to know what’s dominating in the app world, Lifehacker has released its annual essential list. From productivity-based tools to apps that help control your smart home or security that keeps you, your information and currency safe, if you have an Android-based phone, this list should be essential reading. If you are in love with Apple, many of these apps have cross-platform versions for other phones. See what makes Lifehacker’s list in 2018 at wfp.to/2018apps.

JILL WILSON / ATTRACTIONS

Lights of the North

RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS files Jesse Hildebrand, Assistant General Manager of Capital K Distillery.
RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS files Jesse Hildebrand, Assistant General Manager of Capital K Distillery.

Canada’s largest Chinese lantern festival has extended its run at Red River Exhibition Park, giving Winnipeggers an extra week to take in the more than 10 acres of towering light displays, performances of Chinese acrobats, Sichuan opera face changing (Bian Lian), fire breathing, plate spinning, kicking bowls, Chinese folk dances and more, with performers from Winnipeg’s sister city of Chengdu. Tickets are $25 at lightsofthenorth.ca; the event runs to Oct. 21.

Lights of the North at Red River Exhibition Park is on until Oct. 21 (Phil Hossack / Winnipeg Free Press files)
Lights of the North at Red River Exhibition Park is on until Oct. 21 (Phil Hossack / Winnipeg Free Press files)

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Canada’s boreal forest is only 2.7 million square kilometres. If we gave each Canadian, including infants and the elderly, a rake, each would only have to clear 6.6 hectares (about 16 acres). Piece of cake! Many, of course, would be raking the more than two-thirds of remote boreal forest without road access. This would boost the employment of highly trained search and rescue workers!

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After hearing submissions from interveners concerned about the gas-turbine plan, Danroth lashed out at the “constant, uninformed criticism” that has not only shaken trust in Hydro but also triggered threatening responses from the public.

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Literally every day over the last 12 to 15 months, perhaps longer than that, I receive emails — often three or four a day — from editors, podcasters, movie producers, marketing promoters and book club presidents. They all want to make me famous and my books international best-sellers. What more could an author want?

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An unknown man "appeared unexpectedly" while the victim, in his 20s, was standing at a bus stop in the first block of Israel Asper Way just after 6:30 p.m. Aug. 1 and stabbed him, the Winnipeg Police Service stated in a news release Sunday.

Police officers provided emergency medical care before the victim was taken to hospital in stable condition.

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Capital K shaking up series of cocktail classes

Looking to master your martini, mojito, manhattan or margarita skills? Local distillery Capital K (3-1690 Dublin Ave.) is offering a series of cocktail classes designed for the budding mixologist. Capital K’s Jesse Hildebrand will lead attendees (aged 18 or over) through a crash course on the basics of creating four different cocktails, including recipes to take home to wow prospective party guests. The courses are being offered on numerous Fridays throughout October and November — specifically Oct. 19, Nov. 2, Nov. 16 and Nov. 30 — as well as Saturday, Nov. 17. Tickets for each class are $55 and include four cocktails (so plan a safe way home), recipes and light snacks; they can be obtained at wfp.to/capitalk.

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