New timeline for Terminator

‘He was shaping a generation of young artists’: Winnipeg director Rob Herriot has died at 60

Prolific Winnipeg director and performer Rob Herriot has died.

Herriot was well known for his work within opera and musical theatre in Winnipeg and across North America. He died Friday at 60 years old. Loved ones described his death as sudden, and the cause had not yet been determined Sunday.

“He was such an enormous part of the opera community locally here in Winnipeg… as a director, he was shaping a generation of young artists in the community,” Manitoba Opera executive director Michael Blais said Sunday. “I think that’s what the real loss is to the opera community, in that way.”

Herriot’s work in Manitoba included directing productions of Cosí fan Tutte, Madama Butterfly, La Bohème, Carmen, and, most recently, The Marriage of Figaro for Manitoba Opera, Cinderella, The Wizard of Oz and Beauty and the Beast for Rainbow Stage, and Three Decembers, The Walk from the Garden and The House Without a Christmas Tree for the Little Opera Company.

Garden City graduate takes volunteer commitment to record-setting level

Rachele Bolisay is marking the end of her high school career with a volunteer log sheet containing more than 1,000 hours worth of entries.

Collège Garden City Collegiate records show Bolisay has racked up 1,048.5 hours of volunteering between September 2022 and her convocation this month.

That’s the equivalent of 43 days, 16 hours and 30 minutes. It’s a record among, at minimum, her graduating class in the Seven Oaks School Division.

“When you volunteer, it actually helps you more than it helps the other people,” the 17-year-old said.

Tip of the cap: Former Bomber Kolankowski says fan response on his return was special

HAMILTON — Chris Kolankowski saw it coming.

He had a feeling he was going to be the odd man out after the Winnipeg Blue Bombers re-signed fellow veteran Canadian centre Tui Eli at the end of December.

“I heard what the details of that were and I was kind of concerned once I saw the numbers,” Kolankowski told the Free Press on Saturday.

Soon after, he got a call from head coach Mike O’Shea that confirmed his hunch.

Ex-CAO’s pay ‘adds insult to injury’

A Manitoba government deputy minister was paid by both the province and the city even though he left his civic position more than a year ago.

New timeline for Terminator

MOVIESBIG RELEASE WEDNESDAY: Terminator Genisys

BIG PICTURE: "New timelines" are becoming the go-to reboot strategy for moribund franchises. Star Trek and X-Men did it. Now Terminator. (I hear Tom Cruise is even planning a "new timeline" in which he isn't a Scientologist and never jumped on Oprah's couch). Kind of cruel to diehard fans, though. It's like Hollywood is saying, "Hey, remember all those 'facts' you're hopelessly devoted to and debate at fan conventions? Well, that entire universe no longer exists. Sorry. Time to finally get a girlfriend, I guess." Terminator Genysis reimagines the original's premise that future John Connor (Jason Clarke), leader of the human resistance, sends Sgt. Kyle Reese back in time to 1984 to protect his mother from a Terminator sent by Skynet. Arnold Schwarzenegger lives up to his one-time promise: He's back. And while his cyborg model was Sarah Connor's foe in the original, Arnie's a good guy in this new, fractured timeline. Alas, it looks like our future machine overlords started cutting costs on their robot models. The faded action hero looks a little worn out, like an IKEA-model Terminator that could fall apart at any moment.

FORECAST: The best reason to see this blockbuster is to watch Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) reinvent Sarah Connor. Clarke deserves the mother of all Mother's Day cards from sci-fi fans. Mother of Dragons and the Mother of Humanity's Saviour from Killer Machines? Certainly my pick for World's Greatest Mom. (Sorry, Mom).

HONOURABLE MENTION: Magic Mike XXL. Don't expect an alternate timeline in which Magic Mike becomes an accountant. This sequel knows what fans are coming back for. Channing Tatum's male stripper takes his G-string down from the mantle for a farewell show with his Kings of Tampa buddies. Watch them flash both skin and fine comic timing.

Feasibility study planned for arena on former Kapyong Barracks site

A First Nations development group is hoping to pull in prospective sports teams with plans to build an arena in south Winnipeg.

The Treaty One Development Corp. is exploring the feasibility of a 6,000-person arena in Naawi-Oodena, the former Kapyong Barracks site, on the southeast side at Taylor Avenue and Kenaston Boulevard.

The hope is to give aspiring athletes a large space to practice, and possibly even bring a junior or professional sports team to Winnipeg, said chief development officer Cody Mercer, who listed the Western Hockey League or National Lacrosse League as examples.

“Not just working for Treaty One, but also in our membership of the seven communities, there’s a ton of athletes, and really we see that when they’re getting to that higher level of hockey or anything like that, they’re having to move away,” he said. “We thought this is an idea that we can try to bring (in) a team.”