Poll finds many Quebecers say Canada can deal with Trump better than sovereign Quebec

Netminder no stranger to heavy workload as Jets new No. 1 readies for regular-season start

Stuart Skinner is quick to admit that he wasn’t always wired this way.

As the Winnipeg Jets new starting goalie prepares for his fifth NHL season, Skinner conceded that the accountability aspect that is now synonymous with his character took some time to build up.

“As I grew up and got older, you go through certain things in life that either build character or make things worse for you. It depends on your choice and your decision,” Skinner said during a recent conversation with the Free Press. “I learned it through trial and error. I learned that, sometimes, it’s hard to get honest with yourself… For me, it’s definitely been a road for me to get to a place like this.

“It definitely is one of my pillars. Accountability is so important because that brings you into a spot of what you’re going to do next. It’s easy to let yourself off the hook. I’m more in the business of putting myself on the hook.”

Poll finds many Quebecers say Canada can deal with Trump better than sovereign Quebec

MONTREAL - A new poll says nearly half of Quebecers believe an independent Quebec would have less influence than a united Canada in dealing with the United States. 

That includes nearly 40 per cent of voters for the sovereigntist Bloc Québécois. 

The findings support recent poll results that show the Liberals surging ahead of the Bloc in Quebec. The Bloc could be at risk of winning fewer than the 12 seats they need to maintain official party status after the April 28 election.

Support for Quebec sovereignty has also dropped since U.S. President Donald Trump began threatening tariffs and annexation.

Man who killed two Indigenous women, was accused of killing third, back in prison less than year after statutory release

A Winnipeg man convicted of killing two First Nations women more than a decade ago — with charges stayed in a third slaying — has been sent back to prison less than a year after he left under conditions.

Parole Board of Canada officials revoked 67-year-old Shawn Lamb’s statutory release after a hearing last week.

“Your actions are not beyond your control, yet you continue to wilfully make poor decisions that place the public at risk,” board member Arun Kundu-Thomsen wrote in a decision released this week.

Lamb gained statutory release — a legislated conditional release most federal inmates automatically qualify for after serving two-thirds of their sentence — in November last year and lived in several Ontario facilities for federal offenders.

Time for AI guardrails is right now

The genie is most definitely out of the bottle.