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Winnipeggers encouraged to share civic thoughts through interactive poetry project

Jen Zoratti 4 minute read Yesterday at 4:54 PM CDT

Jennifer Still wants you to help write the story of our city — what is, what was and what could be.

Winnipeg’s poet laureate for 2025/26 has just launched The Story of Winnipeg, a citywide poetry project in collaboration with the Winnipeg Arts Council and the Winnipeg Public Library.

Each library branch will provide participants with folded, fill-in-the-blank books that Still crafted out of City of Winnipeg maps and archival materials. People can keep their books as keepsakes, or they can send their poems back to Still via the paper mailbox stationed at each library branch in the city.

The collected poems will be shared as part of a public installation in 2026.

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MacIntyre blows dust off Tudor’s role in war

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MacIntyre blows dust off Tudor’s role in war

Ben Sigurdson 7 minute read Yesterday at 5:04 PM CDT

The Irish War of Independence, which saw hundreds killed and wounded in clashes between Irish Republican Army (IRA) forces and Britain’s Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) and the British army between 1919 to 1921, laid the foundation for conflicts that would persist in the republic for decades.

In his latest book, The Accidental Villain: A Soldier’s Tale of War, Deceit and Exile, veteran Canadian journalist Linden MacIntyre shines a light on the much-overlooked major general Sir Hugh Tudor, who commanded British police and military forces in Ireland.

A longtime friend of Winston Churchill, Tudor and his legacy in the military would be forever tainted by the copious bloodshed in Ireland’s conflict.

Tudor’s name came to MacIntyre’s attention while reading about a secret meeting in 1941 between Churchill and then-U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt aboard naval vessels stationed at Placentia Bay, N.L.

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Linden MacIntyre

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                                Linden MacIntyre

Concerts aim to raise funds for suffering Ukrainians

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Concerts aim to raise funds for suffering Ukrainians

John Longhurst 3 minute read 2:01 AM CDT

Those who want to help those suffering from war can do so this weekend at the Friends of the Mennonite Centre in Ukraine fundraising concerts.

The two free concerts, which will feature the Mennonite Faith and Life Male Choir and the Hoosli Ukrainian Male Chorus, will take place at First Mennonite Church in Winnipeg on Saturday, 7 p.m. and at Grace Mennonite Church in Steinbach on Sunday at 3 p.m. Donations for the Mennonite Centre’s work in Ukraine will be accepted.

The concerts will also feature reflections by Olga Rubel, a Ukrainian who manages the Mennonite Centre in Ukraine’s humanitarian work.

“We are grateful for the support,” she said during her visit to Canada. “It lets people in Ukraine know they aren’t alone.”

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The Hoosli Ukrainian Male Chorus performs at the Centennial Concert Hall in 2019.

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                                The Hoosli Ukrainian Male Chorus performs at the Centennial Concert Hall in 2019.

Taylor Swift announces movie of final Eras Tour performance in Vancouver

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Taylor Swift announces movie of final Eras Tour performance in Vancouver

Brieanna Charlebois, The Canadian Press 3 minute read Yesterday at 1:44 PM CDT

VANCOUVER - Taylor Swift fans will soon be able to relive the singer's record-smashing Eras Tour finale in Vancouver last December.

"Good Morning America" announced to its TV audience Monday the release of a new movie, titled "Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour: The Final Show."

It will premiere on Disney+, showing a full concert film of Swift's final stop on the Eras Tour at BC Place.

It will be released alongside a six-episode docuseries about the tour, with the first two episodes premiering Dec. 12.

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Taylor Swift performs during the Eras Tour concert, in Vancouver, B.C., Friday, Dec. 6, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Taylor Swift performs during the Eras Tour concert, in Vancouver, B.C., Friday, Dec. 6, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Nobel laureate Philippe Aghion says creative upbringing shaped his vision of innovation and freedom

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Nobel laureate Philippe Aghion says creative upbringing shaped his vision of innovation and freedom

Oleg Cetinic And John Leicester, The Associated Press 2 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 4:49 PM CDT

PARIS (AP) — France’s Nobel economics laureate Philippe Aghion reflected Monday on the creative roots that shaped his award-winning ideas about innovation and growth.

Aghion paid homage to his family lineage, particularly his mother, Gaby Aghion, who founded the fashion house Chloé, after he was awarded the Nobel memorial prize in economics on Monday. The 69-year-old economics professor's mother was credited with pioneering Parisian ready-to-wear as a freer, more feminine alternative to haute couture.

“I grew up with innovators. I mean, she (my mother) invented luxury ready-to-wear,” Aghion said in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press from his apartment in Paris’ Latin Quarter. He shared this year’s prize with Joel Mokyr of Northwestern University and Peter Howitt of Brown University for research that redefined how technological change drives prosperity.

Nearby, a table piled with books on art and liberty reflected the world that continues to inspire his pursuit of economic freedom.

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France's Philippe Aghion arrives for an interview with the Associated Press after winning the Nobel prize in economics, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

France's Philippe Aghion arrives for an interview with the Associated Press after winning the Nobel prize in economics, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Toby Talbot, leading patron of art house film, dies at 96, report says

Hillel Italie, The Associated Press 6 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 6:29 PM CDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Toby Talbot, a great patron of art house cinema who with her husband, Dan, helped introduce movie lovers to celebrated works from Jean-Luc Godard,Pedro Almodóvar and hundreds of other international filmmakers and to American favorites old and new, has died at age 96.

Talbot died Sept. 15 at her home in Manhattan, The New York Times reported Monday. The cause was complications from Guillain-Barré syndrome, an autoimmune disease.

The Talbots, through their distribution company, New Yorker Films, and such prominent Manhattan theaters as The New Yorker and Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, were a prolific force behind the transformation of movies in the 1960s and '70s from popular entertainment to an art form regarded with the seriousness of literature or painting. Martin Scorsese, Pauline Kael, Wim Wenders and Susan Sontag were among their many friends and customers, turning up for the latest Godard release, a documentary about Sen. Joseph McCarthy or a double feature of Cary Grant movies.

“The New Yorker was a very special place. It was a place of communion, where the customers, the owners, the programmers, and the filmmakers seemed to be part of the same family,” Scorsese wrote in the foreword to Toby Talbot's memoir, “The New Yorker Theater,” which came out in 2009. “Dan and Toby were right there on the front lines, showing films ... distributing films, sticking their neck out on pictures by Godard and Bertolucci and Fassbinder and Straub and Huillet and Oshima and Sembene.”

A voice that broke down barriers: Crowds fill Sarajevo to mourn beloved folk singer Halid Beslic

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A voice that broke down barriers: Crowds fill Sarajevo to mourn beloved folk singer Halid Beslic

Amer Cohadzic, The Associated Press 3 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 4:26 PM CDT

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Tens of thousands of people from across the Balkans poured into the streets of Sarajevo on Monday to bid farewell to Halid Beslic, a Bosnian folk singer whose music and humanitarian work broke down barriers in a region riven by ethnic animosity.

In his native Bosnia, he was highly respected for organizing concerts during the 1992-95 war to raise money for displaced Bosnians. He also won hearts across the region with his refusal to embrace hatred at a time of bloody conflict. His songs about life and love, delivered in his distinctive clear voice, captured a deep sense of longing.

Mourners filled the streets in a funeral procession, many crying as they made their way in silence toward Sarajevo's main cemetery. Beslic died last week at the age of 71 from cancer.

Muhamed Velic, the Muslim cleric who led the funeral service, recalled that Beslic’s voice “reached people’s hearts and his goodness broke barriers and crossed various borders.”

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Thousands of people attend the funeral of popular Bosnian folk singer Halid Beslic, who also was also widely known for his humanitarian work during and after the country's bloody 1992-95 war, in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)

Thousands of people attend the funeral of popular Bosnian folk singer Halid Beslic, who also was also widely known for his humanitarian work during and after the country's bloody 1992-95 war, in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)

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Pope urges Italy to remain open to migrants during rite of passage visit to presidential palace

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Pope urges Italy to remain open to migrants during rite of passage visit to presidential palace

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ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV thanked Italy on Tuesday for its efforts to combat human trafficking but urged the country to remain open to welcoming and integrating migrants as he took part in a pomp-filled meeting with the Italian president.

Leo completed the rite of passage for every new pope by travelling across Rome to the Qurinale Palace for a meeting with President Sergio Mattarella. Escorted by the presidential horse honor guard into the palace courtyard, Leo thanked Italy especially for its welcome of pilgrims during the 2025 Holy Year, which has seen millions of extra tourists pouring into the Eternal City.

Wearing his formal red cape and brocaded stole, Leo thanked Italy for its “generous assistance” to migrants and its efforts to combat human trafficking.

“I encourage you to keep alive your attitude of openness and solidarity,” he said. “At the same time, I wish to emphasize the importance of constructive integration of newcomers into the values and traditions of Italian society, so that the mutual gift realized in this encounter of peoples may truly enrich and benefit all.”

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Pope Leo XIV, left, is welcomed by Italian President Sergio Mattarella as he arrives at the Quirinale Presidential Palace in Rome, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025. At right Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Leo XIV, left, is welcomed by Italian President Sergio Mattarella as he arrives at the Quirinale Presidential Palace in Rome, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025. At right Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

The Latest: Gaza ceasefire holds as questions loom over next steps in US plan

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The Latest: Gaza ceasefire holds as questions loom over next steps in US plan

The Associated Press 6 minute read Updated: 6:29 AM CDT

After the release of the last living hostages and Palestinian prisoners, the tenuous ceasefire in Gaza was holding Tuesday while questions remain over other key parts of a U.S. plan for the region.

The long list of uncertainties includes when Hamas will return to Israel the bodies of the 24 hostages believed to be dead in Gaza, and Israel’s insistence that a weakened Hamas disarm. The future governance of Gaza is unclear.

Israeli military said troops in the northern Gaza Strip had “opened fire to remove the threat” of several people approaching them on Tuesday across the “yellow line” and not complying with orders to stop. It didn’t immediately comment on any casualties in the incident. Part of the ceasefire agreement is that Israel would pull back in Gaza to the line where it was in August, before its latest offensive.

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A worker cleans the ground at the plaza known as hostages square, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

A worker cleans the ground at the plaza known as hostages square, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Suspected militants shot and killed a police officer guarding a team of polio workers in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, the latest in a series of attacks on vaccine teams in the country.

The attack took place in the Matta area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, once a stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban, a day after Pakistan launched a weeklong nationwide vaccination campaign to immunize 45 million children.

Local police official Javed Khan said a team of female polio workers was administering drops to children in a house when “terrorists riding on a motorcycle opened fire" and killed the officer. He said that a search operation was underway to locate and apprehend the assailants.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemned the assault in a statement and vowed stern action against those responsible.

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