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Flyers, Monarchs look to bounce back after dropping opening-season bids

The Flyers are hoping to improve after an unusual down season by their standards in the Manitoba Junior Hockey League.

Winkler finished fourth in the East Division and were swept in the first round of the playoffs by Niverville.

Head coach and general manager Matt Melo is in his third season with the Flyers and anticipates his team growing throughout the year.

“We’re a young group, I think we’re a strong group, but certainly there’s lots to clean up,” Melo said following a pair of defeats to Steinbach this past weekend to open their season.

Bluesman’s memoir focuses on life before music fame

He was born Colin Munn in Regina in 1964, but he’s best known by the name given to him onstage by his late friend Stevie Ray Vaughan in Ann Arbor, Mich., 20-plus years later — Colin James.

Disgraced former law dean arrested, facing extradition to Canada

Jonathan Black-Branch, the disgraced former dean of law at the University of Manitoba, has been arrested in Europe and is awaiting extradition to Canada on fraud charges, Winnipeg police say.

Black-Branch, who failed to defend himself in a lawsuit filed by the U of M and his disbarment proceedings, was ordered in May 2025 to repay more than $682,000 in misspent expense funds.

Winnipeg police confirmed his arrest and pending extradition Wednesday morning. “The extradition process is ongoing,” police said.

Black-Branch left the university in 2020 amid allegations he had misspent public dollars and schemed to evade oversight while running Robson Hall from 2016 to 2020.

The truth, the hyperbolic truth and nothing but the public accounts truth

The Manitoba public accounts — the final and definitive tabulation of government expenditures and revenues — have always been a difficult story to cover.

Difficult because the public accounts are complex, and explaining what the numbers mean and how they differ (but yet illuminate) the provincial budget is a gargantuan task.

However, the thing that really complicates the job of reporting the public accounts is the hyperbolic claims the government of the day makes about the numbers and what they mean.

In pursuit of the truth, let’s look at the numbers from the 2025-26 public accounts released this week, and some of the claims made by Premier Wab Kinew and Finance Minister Adrien Sala.

Potential Jets backup options include two possible netminder reunions

Kevin Cheveldayoff couldn’t help but make light of the situation.

Near the end of the press conference to discuss where things stand with training camp holdout Connor Hellebuyck, the general manager of the Jets was asked if he felt comfortable with the five goalies who were in training camp.

“You know I can’t have five on the roster,” Cheveldayoff quipped.

Only Cheveldayoff knows for sure how he feels about the organizational depth at the position and whether he’s planning to open the campaign with either Dom DiVincentiis or Thomas Milic in the backup role behind Stuart Skinner.

Klein wants city-run, maintained ‘bridge’ space for homeless people

Mayoral candidate Kevin Klein wants the city to pilot a 24-hour community space for homeless Winnipeggers.

Klein said the space — a building, piece of land or both — would provide washrooms, garbage-management facilities and on-site staff to assess visitors and direct them to housing or other supports.

City council recently rejected a similar proposal — a motion that would have directed the public service to identify potential designated encampment sites with public washrooms and garbage facilities was struck down in June — but Klein said his plan differs because it would include more resources.

“I will pursue a time-limited, professionally managed community, as a bridge to housing and treatment,” he told reporters at his campaign office Thursday morning.