Blue Rodeo to play at Assiniboine Park Sept. 5

Manitoba Hydro to replace dozens of electrical substations over 20 years

Manitoba Hydro is promising fewer power outages in Winnipeg once it replaces or converts 41 electrical substations in a project the utility says will last up to 20 years and cost as much as $1.2 billion.

Get to know your Jet: Neal Pionk

“Give it 110 per cent.” “Get pucks in deep.” “One shift at a time.” “Play our game.” “Keep it simple.”

Hockey has a language all its own. Unfortunately, after hearing the same phrases repeated often enough, that language can start to sound a lot like white noise.

So we’re going to try something different.

The Free Press will occasionally sit down with a Winnipeg Jets player at his locker-room stall for a wide-ranging conversation about the stuff you don’t always hear in a media scrum.

Hockey teams scramble after two city arenas put on ice

Instead of ice, Barry Bonni walks onto a dull concrete surface at the Terry Sawchuk Memorial Arena on Thursday.

The arena, as well as the West Kildonan Memorial Arena, have had to close after failing inspections. Predictably, the city’s hockey community is in a tailspin because ice time is so precious.

“We’re now in panic mode,” said Bonni, president of the River East Royal Knights on Thursday. The Sawchuk arena is the team’s home rink.

Bonni, who is a living legend in Manitoba’s hockey community, said the Manitoba Major Junior Hockey League club is scrambling to find ice time.

Blue Rodeo to play at Assiniboine Park Sept. 5

Less than a year after playing the MTS Centre in support of its 13th studio album In Our Nature, Blue Rodeo is coming back to Winnipeg to play the inaugural Sound & Sky Benefit Concert on Sept. 5 at the Lyric Theatre in Assiniboine Park.

Tickets are $24.95 and go on sale at 8 a.m. on Thursday, June 12 at assiniboinepark.ca/tickets. Spirit of the West is also on the bill.

Proceeds from the show will support the Summer Entertainment Series at Assiniboine Park. The series is offered free to the public and relies on sponsorship support and fundraising.

This year’s schedule features more than 30 events, including musical acts at the Lyric Theatre, jazz in the Leo Mol Sculpture garden, art exhibits in the Pavilion Gallery Museum and the perennially popular Movies in the Park and Ballet in the Park.

Disgraced ex-dean landed job at German university after fleeing Winnipeg

Before he was arrested in a posh Paris suburb, the disgraced dean of Manitoba’s only law school — who fled the country following a 2020 expense scandal — kept a low profile at a German university.