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16062026 One-hundred-and-five year old Edith Edmundson laughs while trying on a tiara gifted to her by longtime friend Georgette Ashcroft during her birthday celebration at the Victoria Inn in Brandon, Manitoba on Tuesday. Edmundson turned 105 on June fourth and is celebrating her birthday four times. Festivities started last week in B.C. where Edmundson has been living with her daughter Rhonda Kremko for the last four years. Last Saturday friends and relatives raised a glass to her in Shoal Lake. Her fourth party will be this weekend in Winnipeg. (Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun) Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun Edith Edmundson tries on a tiara gifted to her by longtime friend Georgette Ashcroft during her 105th birthday party in Brandon.

Manitoba-born 105-year-old in midst of four-day birthday extravaganza

AV Kitching 8 minute read Yesterday at 6:54 PM CDT

Reaching a century (plus five) is a milestone so rare it deserves more than a single celebration.

And Edith Cecelia Linds Edmundson is marking her 105th birthday with a bang, returning to celebrate in the province where she lived for 100 years.

With the help of her children Vivian, Rhonda and Derrick, Edmundson organized a four-day cross-country tour that’s seen her party in Langley, B.C., Shoal Lake and Brandon.

She’ll be capping the festivities off in Winnipeg this weekend, joined by 80 of her nearest and dearest who will come to raise a glass to the matriarch of the family.

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Rogers Sports and Media President Colette Watson, left to right, Rogers Communications President and CEO Tony Staffieri, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly speak at a press conference in Toronto on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sammy Kogan

End of NHL broadcasts on CBC raises public access questions, advocacy group says

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End of NHL broadcasts on CBC raises public access questions, advocacy group says

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A media advocacy group says the end of NHL broadcasts on CBC television raises concerns about public access to a cherished Canadian tradition.

Friends of Canadian Media says “Hockey Night in Canada” has been a shared national experience for generations and is calling on policy-makers to consider rules to prevent major cultural and sporting events from moving exclusively behind paywalls.

Sportsnet and the CBC announced Tuesday that NHL broadcasts will not return to the public broadcaster next season, ending a nearly 75-year run on the network.

“Its departure from free television raises important questions about whether Canada should adopt anti-siphoning rules, similar to those used in other countries, to ensure that events of exceptional cultural and national significance remain accessible to all Canadians rather than exclusively to paying subscribers,” Friends of Canadian Media, a non-partisan advocacy group founded in 1985, said in a statement.

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MIKAELA MACKENZIE / FREE PRESS Clothing Bakery incoming items for the vintage clothing store at Blondieճ laundromat on Monday, June 1, 2026. For Ben W story. Free Press 2026

Downtown vintage shop offers up sweet fashions piping hot, fresh from the dryer

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Downtown vintage shop offers up sweet fashions piping hot, fresh from the dryer

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In a sartorial era defined by the destructive environmental impacts of cheaply made, microplastic-laden garments, two Winnipeg clothing entrepreneurs are taking fast-fashion competition to the cleaners one cycle at a time.

Every week, Cholo Barachina and Carj Delera pack several trash bags full of hand-picked, second-hand garments to wash, dry and fold before rebagging and tagging each piece to retail at Clothing Bakery, their Exchange District storefront at 70 Arthur St.

For the two Filipino businessmen, most Monday mornings — the shop’s one-day weekend — are spent at Blondies in the Maples: crisp clothing doesn’t happen without frequent visits to their old neighbourhood laundromat.

“It’s insane how interesting a Tide pod is to us,” jokes Barachina, whose family ran an industrial laundry in Cabuyao Laguna before moving to Winnipeg. “We just switched over to the XL and all we do is smell the clothes once they’re out of the laundry. That’s no lie.”

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Apple Podcasts – Top New Shows

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MIKAELA MACKENZIE / FREE PRESS Cameron (left) and Samson Fellows want to restore the 50/50 transit funding agreement.

Winnipeg musician brings love for the bus to new song with message to province

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Winnipeg musician brings love for the bus to new song with message to province

Eva Wasney 4 minute read Monday, Jun. 15, 2026

A new song released this week by John Samson Fellows comes with a clear call to action: “More buses, more routes, more accessible to everyone.”

The tune, titled 50/50 Funding, praises public transportation and calls on the provincial government to reinstate matching transit funding for Manitoba municipalities.

It was written in support of the Next Stop campaign led by Climate Action Team Manitoba and the Amalgamated Transit Union, which aims to restore the long-standing cost-sharing agreement scrapped by the former Progressive Conservative government in 2016.

Getting on board with a transit-improvement campaign was an easy decision for Samson Fellows.

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Retired Canadian ice dancer Tessa Virtue seen in this undated photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout- Nikki Ross (Mandatory Credit)

Figure skater Tessa Virtue to make off-ice dance debut at Fall for Dance North

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Figure skater Tessa Virtue to make off-ice dance debut at Fall for Dance North

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TORONTO - Before Tessa Virtue ever put on a pair of skates, she was a dancer.

Virtue trained in ballet and contemporary before deciding instead to pursue figure skating at age seven, she said. The decision would set her on a path to becoming one half of the world's most decorated Olympic ice dancing duo.

This October, she's returning to her first love with an off-ice performance at Fall for Dance North, one of Canada's largest dance festivals.

"I've always been curious about what's possible beyond the boundaries that we set for ourselves and ultimately, this project challenged me to ask whether I could still be an artist without the very thing that defined my career," Virtue said by phone from Toronto. 

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Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard arrives at the Toronto courthouse on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022. The Parole Board of Canada recently denied him full parole but granted him day parole for six months. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Tijana Martin

Jacob Hoggard needs professional supervision, board said in denying full parole

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Jacob Hoggard needs professional supervision, board said in denying full parole

Paola Loriggio, The Canadian Press 5 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 6:40 PM CDT

The Parole Board of Canada rejected Jacob Hoggard's bid for full parole this month because it found the former Hedley frontman, now a convicted sexual offender, requires professional supervision.

The board instead granted Hoggard six months of day parole at a halfway house, saying in a ruling released this week that he must test the progress he's made in prison more gradually.

The two-member panel also imposed a number of conditions on his release, including that he report all relationships with girls and women and not be in the presence of sex workers.

Some of the conditions put in place by the board went beyond what was recommended by the Correctional Service of Canada, the document said. 

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WAG-Qaumajuq exhibition offers fresh perspective on history of Indigenous representation in art

Ruth Bonneville / Free Press Marie-Anne Redhead, assistant curator of Indigenous and contemporary art at Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq says she ‘wanted to highlight Indigenous perspectives on these artworks to really see these people as people,’ with Reframed.

Odd pairing of Kraft Dinner and cheesecake a hit for city bakery

RUTH BONNEVILLE / FREE PRESS Linda Peters, manager at Goodies Bake Shop, says the Kraft Dinner cheesecake is the most fun collaboration the shop has ever done.

Love, music and the return of a weird noir

Apple TV Colin Farrell and Laura Donnelly finally return in Sugar, two years after a cliffhanger left fans with some big questions.

Manitoba’s removal of PST from some groceries doesn’t amount to much

CONRAD SWEATMAN / FREE PRESS Samia Leake and her mother shop at Save-on-Foods; the pair would not have saved very much under the upcoming PST extension.

Mahler ruminates on life, loss and music in beautifully bleak historical fiction The Last Movement

Moritz Nähr photo / Wikimedia Commons The Last Movement takes place on the deck of a ship, where composer and conductor Gustav Mahler sits, hoping to see something interesting while reflecting on the past.

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Puzzles Palace is home to your favourite word games and brain teasers. Enjoy seven Sudokus, five crosswords (including the Thomas Joseph and Premier) as well as two new puzzles: Word Sleuth and Plus One.

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Environment

FILE - A shepherd watches livestock near Khi Solar One, a solar thermal plant that converts the sun's light energy into electricity, outside Upington, South Africa, in the Northern Cape province, Aug. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)

Africa’s clean energy projects face financing barrier from credit rating rules

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Africa’s clean energy projects face financing barrier from credit rating rules

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Nairobi, KENYA (AP) — Billions of dollars have been pledged for Africa’s clean energy transition, yet many renewable energy projects across the continent are still failing to get off the ground as countries struggle with soaring financing costs driven by a financial rule known as the “sovereign ceiling," experts say.

Analysts and development finance specialists say the rule, which ties the creditworthiness of projects to the sovereign rating of the country where they operate, is making commercially viable renewable energy projects appear far riskier to international investors than they actually are.

Sovereign ratings hinder financing

Of Africa’s 54 countries, only Botswana and Mauritius currently hold investment-grade sovereign ratings.

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Faith

Samuel Kuule, a nurse and survivor of the first Ebola Bundibugyo strain in 2007, stands at Kikyo Health Centre IV in Kikyo Trading village, Bundibugyo District, Uganda, Wednesday, June 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

Africa’s Ebola outbreaks complicated by victims who prefer traditional healers over hospitals

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Africa’s Ebola outbreaks complicated by victims who prefer traditional healers over hospitals

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BUNDIBUGYO, Uganda (AP) — Whenever Ebola comes, some of the afflicted choose the road to the nearest hospital. Others take the path to the shrine of a traditional healer, often with devastating consequences.

Many view the onset of hemorrhagic fever as a spiritual affliction and seek out herbs and prayers instead of going to the hospital. This is the case now in Congo, which is suffering its seventeenth outbreak of Ebola since 1976, when the virus was first identified in the rich Congo Basin ecosystem.

Five decades later, the virus continues to mystify many of the sick in Africa while turning religious leaders into first responders in a deadly emergency. The current outbreak’s victims include health workers without protective gear as well as pastors and worshippers who gathered while Ebola was spreading, according to humanitarian workers and others who spoke to The Associated Press.

Ebola spreads through close contact with sick or deceased patients’ bodily fluids. The current outbreak is particularly worrisome in a region where many are distrustful of health workers and refuse to seek medical care.

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FILE - The bust of President Franklin D. Roosevelt stands in front of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, N.Y., on Nov. 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

A look at presidential libraries as the Obama Presidential Center opens to the public June 19

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A look at presidential libraries as the Obama Presidential Center opens to the public June 19

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NEW YORK (AP) — Whenever historian Geoffrey Ward visits the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum to do research, he finds himself caught up in the spirit of FDR himself, the sense of landed contentment and cheerful disarray that helped define his public image.

"It feels like you're stepping back into his world," Ward said of the grounds in Hyde Park, New York, that once were home to the Roosevelt family. “The library and home collections reflect all his many interests — stamps, coins, birds he shot and had stuffed as a boy, model ships, children’s books, books about naval history, the pony-drawn sleigh he rode in as a child, and on and on.”

Since FDR helped launch the modern system of presidential sites in the late 1930s, a network of museums and research facilities has grown nationwide, overseen in part by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) but otherwise as varied as the men they honor. They are set everywhere from the scenic Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum in California's Simi Valley to the small-town setting of the Herbert Hoover Library and Museum in West Branch, Iowa, to the vast Obama Presidential Center that opens to the public on June 19, Juneteenth, in Chicago.

Historian Douglas Brinkley, who says he has visited all of the post-FDR libraries, calls them vital hubs for lectures, research, school tours and tourists.

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