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)
Carol Sanders4 minute readYesterday at 5:04 PM CDT
The province is amending legislation to allow landlords to be penalized if they breach the confidentiality of tenants who break their lease by obtaining a domestic violence certificate.
“Hopefully, now there’s going to be measures in place so that if this happens again, and God forbid it happens again to anyone else, that there would be penalties imposed on landlords who do that,” said one victim whose concerns were published on the front page of the Free Press last month.
Under current legislation, landlords must ensure that any information received from those tenants regarding the termination of the tenancy is kept confidential, but there are no penalties for landlords who violate that section of the act. After hearing from victims put at risk when landlords broke the law by violating their confidentiality, the government announced Monday that it is amending the Residential Tenancies Act to allow for penalties.
The young woman who spoke to the Free Press showed that her landlord copied her alleged abuser in email correspondence that included her personal email address and the domestic violence certificate she obtained in 2025 to end a tenancy agreement early and leave an abusive relationship.
Mike McIntyre7 minute readYesterday at 10:38 PM CDT
The Winnipeg Jets sure looked like a team that was running on fumes Friday night.
Playing for the fifth time in eight days, the club suffered its first regulation loss of the young season — a lacklustre 5-1 showing against the Anaheim Ducks at Canada Life Centre.
While we won’t question the effort, the execution was a different story. Sloppy plays, missed passes, porous defensive-zone coverage and iffy goaltending made this a tough watch for the 13,693 fans in attendance.
“Just some mental things that happened. Obviously some physical things as well,” said head coach Scott Arniel.
Morgan Modjeski3 minute readUpdated: Yesterday at 11:54 PM CDT
It was a record-breaking night for Harvest Manitoba made possible by a genuine Winnipeg hero and his family.
The organization’s annual Empty Bowls Celebrity Auction Dinner on Thursday raised $6.5 million to support Manitobans facing hunger and food insecurity.
And it was a $5-million legacy donation from late city philanthropist Doug Harvey and his family that will see the event go down in the history books as the largest gala fundraising total ever recorded in Manitoba.
“There was literally nothing that lit my dad up more than contributing himself, but even more so, inspiring others to give,” his daughter Lauren Harvey said Friday.
It seems obvious the world’s first trillionaire thought he was helping separatists within the Canadian federation when he encouraged three provinces — Alberta, Saskatchewan and Quebec — to leave Canada.
Unfortunately for Elon Musk, a man suffering from a profound deficit of self-awareness, his comments may only help those who want to keep the country together.
Musk entered the national unity debate on Wednesday, two days after the pro-independence Parti Quebecois was returned to power in Quebec with a minority mandate. The PQ has promised to hold a third referendum on separation at some point in its current term.
Musk — who has a Canadian mother and attended university in Ontario — took to X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter (which he owns) and encouraged Quebec to forge ahead with plans to separate. He said Alberta — which will hold a vote this fall on whether to hold a binding referendum on separation — and Saskatchewan should follow suit.
Kevin Klein acknowledges it’s hard to foresee what he’ll wake up to each morning in the final weeks of a mayoral campaign.
But the seasoned politician, who has served as both a city councillor and a provincial cabinet minister, couldn’t have predicted the events — what he describes as “drama” — that unfolded last Sunday.
Fellow mayoral candidate Mike Vogiatzakis accused Klein’s campaign team of offering him a job to drop out of the race, while a guest writer’s column in the Winnipeg Sun that questioned the deaths of Indigenous children at residential schools, just days after the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, sparked condemnation from a prominent Indigenous organization. (Klein is the CEO of the Klein Group, the company that owns the Sun. He has maintained he is not involved in its operations while running for mayor.)
The Free Press had already been scheduled to join Klein on the campaign trail Monday, intending to document a day in the life of the front-running candidate to unseat incumbent Scott Gillingham, before the controversies hit.
