The Wrap: Skibicki guilty, vintage photos seek owners, MMF’s lake resort
Plus: Behind the scenes with the WAG-Qaumajuq’s conservator

Relief and celebration, tempered by sorrow, marked the mood outside the downtown Law Courts Building as word spread that Jeremy Skibicki had been found guilty of slaying four women.

Defence lawyers had argued Skibicki should be found not criminally responsible and said he was suffering from schizophrenia at the time of the slayings in 2022.

But Court of King’s Bench Chief Justice Glenn Joyal rejected that argument and convicted Skibicki of all four counts.

Joyal said the Crown had proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Skibicki understood the planned and deliberate killings were legally and morally wrong.

Erik Pindera reports from the courtroom, and Malak Abas talks to family, friends and community of the victims about the verdict’s impact.

Dwayne Hynes came upon dozens of envelopes of unclaimed photos from the 1960s while rummaging around in the basement of Empire Drugs on Selkirk Avenue in Winnipeg.

The store used to be a drop-off point for undeveloped film, which would be sent to a film service for processing, before being returned for pickup.

Hynes posted the photos on social media, hoping to find the people in the photos or their relatives.  Five of them have found their homes so far.

Reporter Jordan Snobelen talks with someone picking up some long-lost photos; see pictures that haven’t been claimed (along with their envelopes, which provide some clues) on our website.

A Métis flag is hitched to the club car of Manitoba’s newest resort.

Beyond, golfers drive their carts around a refurbished nine-hole course. Some meander through the recently built pro shop; others grab lunch at the 158-seat clubhouse restaurant. Nearby, work is ongoing to create a 180-site campground.

The $3.2-million development is the Manitoba Métis Federation’s latest project in St. Laurent, a rural community 70 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg.

Business reporter Gabrielle Piché reports.

Vitaliy Yatsevych, 52, is WAG-Qaumajuq’s conservator. His job — and it’s a big one — is to clean, maintain, preserve, repair and sometimes even restore artworks.

It should be as though he was never there. “I try to minimize any of my influence on the artwork,” Yatsevych says.

As a steward of art, a conservator’s work is painstaking and time-consuming, and requires a great deal of patience and keen attention to detail.

Writer Jen Zoratti takes a closer look.