Trooper the windup act at Summer Winds festival

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Trooper the windup act at Summer Winds festival

Canadian classic-rock legends Trooper headline the Summer Winds Family Music Festival at the Victoria Beach Community Centre July 18 and 19.

Trooper is the windup act on July 19, with the Blackout City Kids, Luciano and two tribute acts, the Lucky Stones and Rubber Soul also on the bill, which starts at 4 p.m.

The Neil Young’uns headline the schedule on July 18, which begins at 6 p.m. with Emily Green, Dylan & Jessie Thomas, the Crooked Fifth, the Buster McCoy Band and Until Red.

Weekend and Saturday tickets sell for $50, while Friday night tickets go for $25. They can be purchased online at www.summerwindsfest.com.

MPI still lacking brain injury expert

Manitoba Public Insurance has failed to hire an independent brain injury expert to probe how personal injury claims are handled, nearly two years after it was recommended.

Man pleads guilty to manslaughter for chasing, stabbing man downtown

An intellectually disabled man who drunkenly chased down a man he had been arguing with and fatally stabbed him in broad daylight admitted to manslaughter on Wednesday.

Matthew Gerald Tomack Pelletier, now 38, chased Ricky Dwayne Mancheese, 49, down Kennedy Street before stabbing him six times in front of his wife on the sidewalk between Sargent and Cumberland avenues, at about 11:50 a.m. on June 11, 2024.

Pelletier, who police arrested the next day, was charged with second-degree murder, but instead pleaded guilty to the lesser offence of manslaughter in front of Court of King’s Bench Justice Joan McKelvey on Wednesday.

“This type of incident on Winnipeg streets is all too common and must be strongly deterred,” said McKelvey.