Sesame Workshop regains control of Elmo’s hacked X account after racist posts

MMF eyes Brandon for expansion of its real estate holdings

The Manitoba Métis Federation is ramping up its Brandon presence and it’s eyeing buildings downtown.

MMF President David Chartrand said the federation has placed a $2 million offer on two sites Assiniboine Credit Union owns.

It submitted an offer last week for a three-storey office and former branch at 220 10th St., and 1020 Princess Ave., Chartrand said.

Assiniboine Credit Union didn’t respond to an interview request by end of day Saturday.

Sesame Workshop regains control of Elmo’s hacked X account after racist posts

Sesame Workshop regained control of its Elmo account on the X platform Monday after a hacker gained access and posted a string of racist and antisemitic messages.

“Elmo’s X account was compromised by an unknown hacker who posted disgusting messages, including antisemitic and racist posts,” Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind “Sesame Street” and Elmo, said in a statement Monday.

The account was compromised over the weekend and instead of the usual posts of encouragement and kindness, Elmo's 650,000 followers were given antisemitic threats and a profane reference to the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation. Those tweets were soon deleted.

X did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Officials say catastrophic base fire was known ahead of time, allowed to burn

Canada's military says a grass fire that killed four soldiers and sent scores more to hospital with bad burns was known well beforehand but not considered a threat.

Maj.-Gen. Wade Rutland, commander of 1st Canadian Division, says the grass fire was a kilometre away and considered sufficiently under control that training exercises were allowed to continue Saturday afternoon at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright in central Alberta.

However, he said conditions — including a violent, sudden windstorm — sent those flames racing over the Prairie landscape at lightning speed, landing right on top of the soldiers.

"This was a very uncommon occurrence," Rutland told a news conference Sunday.

State Industries, StateMix, StateCraft: trio of Winnipeg firms under one roof, one mantra

Popcorn, rollerblades and the Baha’i faith are all part of Payam Towfigh’s story.

Born in Iran, the 59-year-old is the president and CEO of the State Group, a collection of three companies all headquartered under the same roof in Winnipeg.

They include State Industries Ltd., the manufacturer of polyurethane parts where Towfigh started his career in 1989 while completing an engineering degree at the University of Manitoba. He purchased the company from founder Stan Baldwin three years later.

“I really wasn’t planning to take over State Industries,” Towfigh says, before adding with a smile: “My kids tell me that I’m not very employable since I’ve only had one job in my life.”

Community-based care a move in the right direction

It’s not a case of reinventing the wheel. It’s a case of recognizing how the wheel actually works and realizing that a symptom can be far away from the whole illness.