Winnipeg bestsellers

Today’s horoscope

MOON ALERT: There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions today. The moon is in Sagittarius.

ARIES (March 21-April 19)

You want adventure and stimulation — something interesting! You might also make practical plans related to the law, medicine, higher education or publishing. Yet, you feel playful, even though relations with someone close to you might be strained.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

Global spy games heat back up

In 2013, whistleblower Edward Snowden exposed a massive dragnet of U.S. surveillance programs built to intercept the data and communications of targets worldwide. By comparison, human intelligence work suddenly seemed clumsy and antiquated. Perhaps even unnecessary.

Yet espionage is now making a comeback. Governments are rediscovering the value of covertly undermining rivals and dealing with risks abroad before they pose security threats at home.

Israeli and American forces swiftly decapitated Iran’s leadership in March thanks to Mossad agents penetrating the regime in Tehran and tracking officials’ daily movements beforehand. Russian and Ukrainian operatives have staged at least 150 assassination attempts on each other’s soil since 2022.

North Korean spies are using fake IT credentials and AI-generated profiles to get hired at Fortune 500 companies. The goal: steal trade secrets and divert lucrative tech salaries toward Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program.

Winnipeg bestsellers

HARDCOVER FICTIONAll My Puny Sorrows, Miriam Toews. Fiction. $29.95. Us Conductors, Sean Michaels. Fiction. $26.00. Alphabetique, Molly Peacock. Fiction. $27.95. Gray Mountain, John Grisham. Fiction. $34.00. Abattoir Blues, Peter Robinson. Mystery. $29.95.

HARDCOVER NON-FICTIONCity Beautiful, Randy Turner. Regional Interest. $29.95. Conversations with a Rattlesnake, Theo Fleury & Kim Barthel. Psychology/Recovery. $26.95. Rise to Greatness, Conrad Black. Canadian History. $50.00. How Not to Calm a Child on a Plane, Johanna Stein. Parenting. $23.00. You Are Here, Chris Hadfield. Science. $29.95.

PAPERBACK FICTIONPut on the Armour of Light, Catherine Macdonald. Mystery. $17.99. Keep It Cold and Other Good Advice, Fred D. Anderson, et al. Fiction. $15.00. The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, Heather O'Neill. Fiction. $22.99. The Evolution of Alice, David A. Robertson. Fiction. $19.95. The Rosie Effect, Graeme Simsion. Fiction. $19.99.

PAPERBACK NON-FICTIONYou Might Be From Manitoba If... Dale Cummings. Humour. $19.95. About Canada: Poverty, Jim Silver. Canadian Issues. $17.95. The 2015 Prairie Garden: Grasses and Succulents, Prairie Garden Committee. Gardening. $17.95. Find Momo, Andrew Knapp. Pets. $14.95. Haunted Winnipeg, Matthew Komus. Regional Interest. $19.95.

Sisters among 137 to begin doctor journey at U of M

Not everyone enters medical school with a built-in study buddy.

Sisters Maya and Dana Jalal joined 135 of their classmates to don white coats and mark the beginning of their journey through the University of Manitoba’s Max Rady College of Medicine Wednesday morning.

Maya, 22, and Dana, 21, were accepted into medical school at the same time.

“Thankfully, we both got accepted in the same area, same time. So we decided we’d rather go together than apart,” Maya said. “It’ll be nice seeing different perspectives during our studies. We are siblings, but we each have our own perspectives, our own lived experiences.”

Mole Mobile on move for your dermatological needs

This weekend, the Mole Mobile will set up shop at three Winnipeg Walmart locations. The mobile clinic will have certified dermatologists on site to screen suspicious-looking moles or lesions for skin cancer.