Reporter Joshua Frey-Sam and photographer Brook Jones went behind the scenes for a busy day of sports at the University of Manitoba. You can read the full story here.
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Reporter Joshua Frey-Sam and photographer Brook Jones went behind the scenes for a busy day of sports at the University of Manitoba. You can read the full story here.
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Reporter Joshua Frey-Sam and photographer Brook Jones went behind the scenes for a busy day of sports at the University of Manitoba. You can read the full story here.
U of M sports mascot Billy the Bison takes a break from beating the dum to have a selfie taken with basketball fans. Left to Right: Yongxue Lu with her husband Bowen Bu and their nine-year-old son Nemo Bo and Billy the Bison. (Brook Jones / Winnipeg Free Press)The University of Manitoba Bisons host the visiting University of Winnipeg Wesmen in Canada West women's basketball action at the Investors Group Athletic Centre at the University of Manitoba Fort Garry campus on Staurday. U of M student staff Larissa Ngara is all smiles while working as a ticket taker at the game. (Brook Jones / Winnipeg Free Press)U of M student Lnaz Charmand (left) and her friend Nikita Belelie show their enthusiasm for the rivalry between the U of M and the U of W as they arrive for the men's basketball game at IGAC. (Brook Jones / Winnipeg Free Press)Wesmen guard Anna Keinaghan (No. 3) prepares to inbound a asketball pass to a teammate while referee Stacy Hawash is about to blow the whistle. (Brook Jones / Winnipeg Free Press)Bisons guard Lauren Bartlett drives around Wesmen guard Alyssa Doneza during first half action. (Brook Jones / Winnipeg Free Press)Bisons guard Daren Watts, who is a third-year business student from Winnipeg and a graduate of Collège Miles Macdonell Collegiate, stretches prior to the tip off for the men's basketball game. (Brook Jones / Winnipeg Free Press)Wesmen guard Shawn Maranan (No. 5) controls the basketball as Bisons guard Tito Obasoto (No. 7) guards him during second half action. (Brook Jones / Winnipeg Free Press)U of M Bisons basketball alumni player Ian Dickey, who played forward, proudly shows his kids and nephews his name on the Bison Athlete Walkway of Honour. His kids are Hope and Joy and his nephews are Jack Rafferty, Oliver Lowes and Theodore Lowes. (Brook Jones / Winnipeg Free Press)Bisons forward Noah Basarab (middle), who is a third year kinesiology student from Gimli, Man., does a warm-up with his teammates prior to puck drop. (Brook Jones / Winnipeg Free Press)Bisons goaltender Ross Hawryluk, who is a third year general sciences student from Lloydminster, Alta., does a wall toss drill during his pre-game warm-up routing as a way to develop his hand-eye coordination. (Brook Jones / Winnipeg Free Press)Graham Sceviour-Fraehlich (left) provides the play-by-play, while Bisons Sports Information and Social Media Coordinator Mike Still provides the colour commentating during the webcast of Bisons home basketball games. (Brook Jones / Winnipeg Free Press)Bisons forward Cameron Trimble (No. 12) battles for the puck against Griffins alternate captain and defenceman Sean Comrie (No. 7) during first period action. (Brook Jones / Winnipeg Free Press)U of M sports mascot Billy the Bison (left) and Winnipeg Sea Bears mascot Churchill show off their dance moves during a break in action on the court. (Brook Jones / Winnipeg Free Press)U of M sports team mascot Billy the Bison (middle) gives instructions to 13-year-old twin brothers Jeremya Ortiz (left) and Jasaya (right) before their attempt to sink basketballs during a break in action on the court. (Brook Jones / Winnipeg Free Press)
Less than five per cent of heavy-equipment operators in the country are women but that number is trending upward, according to a study conducted by trade magazine Crane & Hoist Canada.
It was reported that in Ontario roughly eight per cent of jobs in the transport and heavy-equipment field are currently held by women. Furthermore, in 2024 almost 20 per cent of graduates at an Edmonton-based heavy-equipment operator training school were female, the article stated.
That brings us to Harmony Guspodarchuk, the first female crane operator in the 70-year history of Western Scrap Metals, a family-owned business at 18 Sutherland Ave.
Three years ago, Guspodarchuk literally stepped into the driver’s seat of a 27,500-kilogram, Liebherr C 924 Heavy Lift Litronic crane. The 29-year-old hasn’t looked back much since.
Omigod, you guys! Rainbow Stage kicked off its penultimate summer production Thursday with a high-octane joy machine bathed in a sea of pink.
Inspired by the 2001 Hollywood film starring Reese Witherspoon, and Amanda Brown’s same-titled novel, the award-winning Legally Blonde: The Musical — featuring a book by Heather Hach, with music/lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin — opened on Broadway in April 2007, followed by a subsequent West End run.
The tale — equal parts cheesy rom-com and potent siren call for female autonomy and empowerment — focuses on quintessential Cali-girl Elle Woods (a pitch-perfect Claire Mac Master). A proud daughter and president of Delta Nu sorority house, she enrols at Harvard Law School to win back her upwardly mobile ex-boyfriend, Warner Huntington III (Duncan Cox).
Laser-focused on marrying a “Jackie, not a Marilyn,” Warner dreams of becoming an American senator, latching onto uber-preppy fellow pupil Vivienne Kensington (Julie Davis), who becomes Elle’s arch nemesis.
Joel Schlesinger6 minute readYesterday at 3:00 AM CDT
Rare earth elements are among the most critical of mined resources for modern economies.
They’re essential in manufacturing specialized magnets used in a host of technologies from wind turbines and electric vehicles to hard drives, smartphones, television screens, and fibre optics. Most notably, however, rare earth minerals are increasingly vital to the defence industry.
These 17 elements — closely related chemically and usually found all together in mineral deposits — have indeed been growing in geopolitical importance as the United States, Canada and other Western nations recognize their dependence on production from China.
It is the world’s largest producer and processor of rare earths, including the most in-demand elements neodymium and praseodymium used to manufacture very light and powerful magnets for an array of technologies, including the most advanced weapons of modern warfare.
Joshua Frey-Sam7 minute readYesterday at 8:27 PM CDT
Beauty. Bliss. Ecstasy.
That is how Aug. 15, 2026 will be remembered in Winnipeg.
What was once a pipe dream in the city’s hoops community became an epic reality on Saturday, when Simon Hildebrandt, who grew up playing on the courts of this very town, made good on a three-pointer from the wing to crown the Winnipeg Sea Bears Canadian Elite Basketball League champions.
A storybook ending to a 98-84 victory over the Brampton Honey Badgers sent a CEBL attendance record of 12,519 fans into pandemonium at Canada Life Centre and capped a Finals run for the ages — one that was fraught with injury, impromptu player exits and unprecedented circumstances.
Morgan Modjeski3 minute readUpdated: Yesterday at 3:09 PM CDT
Residents in the West Kildonan Industrial neighbourhood are calling on the city to install speed bumps in their area after a child was hit and dragged by a vehicle Thursday.
Katelyn Bemister lives near the area where the child — who was hospitalized as a result of the incident and has been upgraded to stable condition — was struck. She says people frequently speed in the area.
“They’re going really fast, and they’re not really paying attention at all to the pedestrians in the area,” says Bemister.
In video supplied to the Free Press by a resident, the child can be seen riding a bike down a sidewalk along the 500 block of North Point Boulevard.
The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority has directed three long-term care centres to make space for hospital patients, citing “exceptionally high demand for care across the health-care system.”
