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DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: My mother is coming to visit and our little kids want her to sleep in their bedroom, where there’s a double bed and a single. My husband thinks this idea is ridiculous and says grandma needs her sleep, but I disagree.

I remember sleeping with my grandma — who’s now with the angels — and she told us grandkids (two girls) some wonderful bedtime stories she made up herself. She even put our names into them, making us the stars of the stories.

The best part was getting into our pyjamas with our grandmother, who showed us the magic cord from the little thing that ran from her near-deaf ear down to the secret battery pocket hidden in the bra of her slip. It made her hear us better in the daytime. We thought, “Wow!”

Not surprisingly my own mother has inherited her mom’s fantastic storytelling talent and who knows what else she has to teach the kids when she’s alone with them? I want them to be close.

There is a condition affecting tens of thousands of Canadians. In 2024, one national measure estimated that almost 120,000 people had the condition. The estimate captures only part of the problem.

A 21-year-old man was killed in an animal attack in northwestern Manitoba on Wednesday.

An investigation into a suspicious death reported on Sapotaweyak Cree Nation is ongoing, RCMP said in a news release Monday.

Officials were called to the scene, located on the southeast shore of Dawson Bay, on Wednesday and found the man dead on a community road.

“Following an autopsy, the preliminary cause of death was determined to be from an animal attack. The type of animal has not been determined,” RCMP said in the release.

A man has been arrested and remains in police custody after being charged with spraying bear spray inside a Henderson Highway hotel in early July. The suspect is also accused of  pointing a gun, chasing people and making violent threats in the hotel's parking lot after a dispute over a VLT ticket at the licensed establishment in the 1000 block of Henderson Highway.

Matthew Joseph Marriott, 33, was arrested Sept. 10, the Winnipeg Police Service stated in a news release Sunday. He is charged with several firearms and weapons offences as well as possession of heroin.

Police say the suspect discharged a canister of bear spray at a 36-year-old man and into the bar area of the Curtis Gordon Hotel before going into the parking lot and pointing a gun at people. The firearm was determined to be an airgun, a Sig Sauer MCX. Officers found it on scene, in a backpack, after the suspect fled. The backpack also contained bear spray a knife and a small quantity of suspected heroin, the news release stated.