Shaw president apologizes for glitch during Jets broadcast

A Rocky day on the mayoral campaign trail for Kevin Klein

Kevin Klein acknowledges it’s hard to foresee what he’ll wake up to each morning in the final weeks of a mayoral campaign.

But the seasoned politician, who has served as both a city councillor and a provincial cabinet minister, couldn’t have predicted the events — what he describes as “drama” — that unfolded last Sunday.

Fellow mayoral candidate Mike Vogiatzakis accused Klein’s campaign team of offering him a job to drop out of the race, while a guest writer’s column in the Winnipeg Sun that questioned the deaths of Indigenous children at residential schools, just days after the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, sparked condemnation from a prominent Indigenous organization. (Klein is the CEO of the Klein Group, the company that owns the Sun. He has maintained he is not involved in its operations while running for mayor.)

The Free Press had already been scheduled to join Klein on the campaign trail Monday, intending to document a day in the life of the front-running candidate to unseat incumbent Scott Gillingham, before the controversies hit.

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Shaw president apologizes for glitch during Jets broadcast

The president of Shaw Communications takes full responsibility for the technical glitch that kept its customers from watching almost all of the first period of last night’s Winnipeg Jets game.

“It’s a mea culpa to all of our customers. We screwed that up. It was a technical anomaly, that’s the best I can put it,” said Peter Bissonnette, president of the Calgary-based telecommunications company.

The Jets beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 2-1 for their first win of the season but both goals were scored before the signal was restored. The first goal, in fact, came just eight seconds after the opening face-off.

To appease irate fans, Bissonette said Shaw will extend the free period of the TSN Jets speciality channel by two games. Instead of having to pay as of Dec. 6, the home game that evening against the Phoenix Coyotes will also be free. Shaw will charge $9.95 per month for TSN Jets.

Crime spree lands accused murderers behind bars

Three men have been sentenced to jail terms for a commercial robbery spree in southern Manitoba launched just two weeks after they are accused of killing a 19-year-old man in Abbotsford, B.C.

Twenty-two-year-old Ravdeep Gill of Winnipeg, pleaded guilty Monday to four counts of robbery and Harmandeep Gill, 27, of Brampton, Ont. and Jaskaran Singh, 21, of Surrey, B.C., each pleaded guilty to two counts of robbery for a 10-day crime blitz that targeted gas bars in Swan Lake, Teulon and St. Laurent, and a meat shop in Winnipeg.

Ravdeep Gill was sentenced to four years custody while Harmandeep Gill and Singh each received sentences of 30 months.

According to B.C. media reports, all three men are charged with first-degree murder in a Feb. 1, 2025 killing in Abbotsford that police there described as a targeted hit.