Smart, assured Predators respects B-movie qualities

Kuntz qualifies to join two other Winnipeggers at the Manitoba Open

The Manitoba Open will have plenty of local flavour when it tees off this week at Elmhurst.

Three Winnipeggers are in the field of 156, which primarily features PGA Tour Americas members from around the world competing in one of North America’s oldest golf tournaments, starting Thursday and running through Sunday.

Rory Neill punched his ticket earlier this summer by winning the Manitoba Amateur, which comes with an automatic berth. It’s a huge step for the 22-year-old, who is a member at Glendale.

A second sponsor’s exemption went to Ryan McMillan, who gets to play his home course. McMillan, 27, works as an assistant pro at Elmhurst in addition to being the University of Manitoba’s golf coach. He’s also a decorated amateur player, having won back-to-back provincial junior titles in 2017 and 2018. His uncle, Rob, won the Open in 1996.

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Two-time cancer survivor trades blows with angry Lake Winnipeg in epic 12-hour fundraising swim

After 12 hours of wind, waves and a painful shoulder, Jonathon Fenton has finished what he started, making it across Lake Winnipeg.

The 62-year-old two-time cancer survivor completed the roughly 26-kilometre swim Sunday, a year after shoulder problems forced him to stop 16 kilometres into his first attempt.

The swim was the second year of Fenton’s Jonny’s Big Swim fundraiser, which supports the Alberta Cancer Foundation, CancerCare Manitoba Foundation and Health Sciences Centre Foundation.

He raised roughly $48,000 this year, bringing the two-year total to about $90,000.

Smart, assured Predators respects B-movie qualities

PREDATORS is B-movie Nirvana, a dark, serious take on a minor science-fiction classic that respects the qualities that made it a cable-rerun favourite. It's got plot, performances, production values, great casting and tautly choreographed action.

Fanboys will jump foursquare upon this movie.

Produced by Robert (Sin City) Rodriguez, who took a pass at reviving the franchise some years back, and directed by Nimrod Antal, the film assaults viewers (in a good way) from Frame 1. You know you're off to a good start when the movie begins with an unconscious Adrien Brody plummeting through clouds while the alarm wired to his undeployed parachute blares its warning: impact imminent.

That desperate situation is nothing compared with what awaits him on the ground. Brody has landed in a dense jungle with odd trees and bizarre animal life. His companions: a Mexican gangbanger, a silent Yakuza, a Russian infantryman, a sociopath on the FBI's Most Wanted List, a sultry South American sniper, plus assorted stone-cold killers. They all remember a bright light blinding them while they went about their daily death-dealing, then free-fall. Realization dawns. They're in an alien hunting preserve and it's open season on humans.

Officer who shot dog dead after it bit him won’t face charges

A Manitoba First Nations police officer will not face charges for fatally shooting a dog last year, despite the Crown describing the officer’s conduct as “concerning.”

The Independent Investigation Unit of Manitoba announced it would not recommend charges Monday, more than a year after the incident was reported to the police watchdog.

A Manitoba First Nations Police Service officer went to a home in Swan Lake First Nation to make an arrest in June 2025, the IIU said. No arrest was made as the person police were looking for was not there. As the officer was leaving, a dog chained outside bit him.

The officer later returned with a carbine rifle and shot and killed the dog.