First-ever virtual surgery performed

Eligible Manitoba farmers impacted by heavy rain and flooding earlier this year will see AgriStability enhancements.

The government is waiving 2025 late-filing penalties for affected farmers in communities that declared states of emergencies. Producers outside those areas may appeal for a waiver of late-filing penalties, if they were affected by flooding and missed the June 30 deadline.

The maximum interim payment available to farmers enrolled in the 2026 AgriStability program has increased to 75 per cent from 50 per cent of the final payment.

Farmers who’ve already received an interim payment will automatically be topped up to the 75 per cent level.

Human intelligence has proven a challenge to characterize, including to what degrees it is fixed or variable, inherited or nurturable, and unitary or multiple. In action, it might look like the deft distillation of information in context to arrive at efficient explanations and understandings, leading to reliable (dependable) predictions and effects.

In areas such as science and mathematics, theories or models with these traits are described as elegant, connoting seemingly effortless style and class in other contexts.

For most of us, artificial intelligence is a black hole containing mysterious processes while inhaling all available microchips, water and energy.

Despite the prowess and ingenuity behind AI, it is certainly not elegant from the perspective of energy. Perhaps the internet universe, like our own, leaves little choice if wanting to enter into it. Nevertheless, of the tremendous amounts of electricity AI consumes, most (about 90 per cent) is wasted in the form of heat loss. (See “Waste heat utilization of data centers based on heat pump technology from the perspectives of supply and demand: an overview,” at science.direct.com, which addresses how this heat might be used.)

A 23-year-old man has been linked to a string of commercial thefts at Polo Park shopping centre totalling more than $27,000.

In July, the Winnipeg Police Service began an investigation regarding a string of retail thefts to a number of businesses. Investigators determined a man was involved in a number of thefts including:

Between June 29 and July 4, a man attended a store five times and stole merchandise valued at $4,805Between July 16 and July 20, a man attended a store five times and stole merchandise valued at $22,985July 21, a man attended a store and stole merchandise valued at $123All incidents were captured on security cameras and reported to police. Officers identified a 23-year-old man as a suspect and on July 21 arrested him. He's been charged with nine counts of theft under $5,000 and two counts of theft over $5,000.

He remains in custody.

DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: When I was a young bisexual guy going to university and working in bars at night, I was surrounded by new people — guys and girls all the time.

There were a lot of great late-night parties after work, and I always had my eye on somebody new. I was never lonely in those days. Where did all that fun and happiness go?

Now I’m a few years older with a career and don’t need a job as a bartender to help support me. But it seems like there’s nobody around to meet, other than at bars.

Also, I’m realizing that while there are lots of straight people out there looking for fun and relationships, it’s hard to convince them that I could be true to them alone, being bisexual. But I’m true to whomever I’m with — and I only want one lover at a time.