Manitoba Museum hires new reconciliation adviser

U of M exhibition brings ancient Roman Egyptian documents to life

Two thousand years ago, people in Roman Egypt wrote letters, kept receipts, made lists and dealt with the everyday bureaucracy of life. Some of those pieces of ancient life are now on display in Winnipeg.

Foster mom pleads guilty to assault that left six-year-old-girl paralyzed

A Winnipeg foster mother has admitted to violently assaulting her ill foster daughter and leaving her paralyzed after the girl resisted the woman’s efforts to provide her with medication, a court has heard.

Marilyn Keno, 26, pleaded guilty Friday to one count of aggravated assault.

Keno remains in custody and will be sentenced at a later date following the completion of a court-ordered pre-sentence report.

The maximum sentence for aggravated assault is 14 years in prison. Crown attorney Alanna Littman and defence lawyer Jeremy Kostiuk did not disclose what sentences they will be recommending.

All sports in the line of fire as summer weather heats up

With such freezing winters, warm weather is usually welcomed with open arms here in the Keystone province. But it’s hard to be grateful for rising temperatures when sunny days turn into torturous heat.

Internationally, athletes have been affected by the rising heat, smoke or storms that viciously blunder through. This year alone the weather has impacted everything from the Tour de France to the men’s FIFA World Cup.

Locally, the U18 Football Canada Cup had to delay multiple games well into the night and there have been repetitive tarp deployments during Winnipeg Goldeyes games.

Jared Ladobruk, executive director of Golf Manitoba, has seen the impact over the last couple of years.

Manitoba Museum hires new reconciliation adviser

Manitoba Museum has appointed Tabitha Harper as museum adviser on Indigenous relations and reconciliation, a new post created, in part, to acknowledge the role the museum has played in colonization and to demonstrate its commitment to advance decolonization, reconciliation and repatriation in all facets of its work.

Raised in Kinonjeoshtegon First Nation, located on the west shore of Lake Winnipeg 255 kilometres north of Winnipeg, Harper, 27, attended high school in Winnipeg before graduating with a diploma from Red River College Polytechnic’s social innovation and community development program with a major in Indigenous social entrepreneurship.

“I’m truly honoured and thankful to have been selected as the museum adviser on Indigenous relations and reconciliation. Each day that I am here I feel more excited and confident about learning and applying my knowledge as a First Nations woman,” she says.

“However, I can’t help but think of my parents, grandparents, and my ancestors who gave many sacrifices for me to be here today — it’s a balance of grief and gratitude.”

Hayden Panettiere, who starred in ‘Heroes’ and ‘Nashville,’ dies at 36

Hayden Panettiere, a onetime child star who soared to fame in the TV shows “Heroes” and “Nashville” while enduring struggles with alcohol addiction and depression, has died. She was 36.

Police said Panettiere was found unresponsive in an apartment in Greenville, South Carolina, shortly before 2 p.m. Sunday. Lifesaving measures were performed but she was pronounced dead at the scene.

No cause of death has been determined and Panettiere's death remains under investigation. An autopsy found no signs of trauma and police said officers saw no signs of foul play.

The television and film performer, who would have turned 37 on Friday, had been open about her private battles and wrote at length about them in the memoir, “This Is Me,” which came out in May. She described lifelong scars from her early fame, and acknowledged being addicted to alcohol and enduring postpartum depression after the birth of her daughter, Kaya, with Ukrainian boxer Wladimir Klitschko in 2014.