After 18 years on ‘Canada AM,’ veteran anchor Jeff Hutcheson announces retirement

Jets-linked biometrical hockey skills platform launches

High-performance hockey players may soon choose more paperwork.

Rather, they’ll choose reports — detailed documents breaking down the skills they need to improve upon. True North Sports and Entertainment Ltd., the ownership company behind the Winnipeg Jets, is throwing its weight into a new business producing data-filled analyses.

“This was probably one of the most exciting things I’ve seen in skating in a long time,” said Dave Cameron, head on-ice instructor and program director of Jets Hockey Development.

Cameron, a former WHL and Canadian university forward, has taught young hockey players through Jets programs for a decade.

Crime-weary North End daycare declines cabinet minister’s offer to help with relocation

Manitoba’s minister for early childhood learning offered to help a North End daycare move to a new location after it suffered a break-in, thefts and repeated vandalism in recent months, but the centre says it is staying put.

Gerrie Prymak, a board member for non-profit Woman Healing For Change Inc, which operates the Little Stars Playhouse daycare, said Minister Tracy Schmidt made the offer by phone Wednesday morning after media reports highlighted the incidents.

She said she was baffled by the minister’s offer because the centre’s location on Selkirk Avenue was selected after extensive research was done to find the best spot for the community’s needs.

“We built this place. Why do we have to move? Why can’t you get rid of those derelict buildings behind us?” Prymak said.

Police, street groups looking to extend co-ordinated outreach-first approach to drug-use, trafficking crackdown

Winnipeg police and street outreach groups are discussing how to extend an initiative that tries to link people with addictions and homelessness services, while targeting open drug use and dealing.

Developer ‘anxiously’ awaits judge’s decision on Granite Curling Club construction

The developer of a hotly debated project that would add 110 housing units to the Granite Curling Club’s parking lot has begun investigative work at the site while awaiting a judge’s decision on construction.

While some digging took place at the city-owned property last week, its developer said construction has yet to begin.

“I would call (the digging so far) investigative site work. It’s not preparing in any way for construction, other than to ensure that the reports that are required for any site have been completed,” said Jeremy Read, chief executive officer of UWCRC 2.0 Inc.

A heritage resources impact assessment will determine if the site has archeological significance. That work will check for everything from fossils to unmarked graves, said Read.

Tenants battling landlords find help in short supply from province

For nearly three years, Quincy Houdayer and Avery Helm repeatedly pressed their landlord to address plumbing failures, water damage and other maintenance problems at their West Broadway apartment, with records showing some issues persisted until the couple turned to the Residential Tenancies Branch.

Emails and text messages between the tenants, Clearwater Management and the RTB reviewed by the Free Press document recurring leaks and flooding, periods without heat or hot water, concerns about mould and basement conditions and repeated followups from the couple seeking repairs.

“Most of the experiences we’ve had with them can be boiled down to, like, they either are very dismissive about it, they act like it’s not their problem… or they will just fully, blatantly ignore you,” Helm said, adding that the only way to get Clearwater to respond was to threaten going to the RTB, a provincial government agency.

RTB data obtained by the Free Press also shows 13 orders involving the three-building complex at 193-197 Furby St. in 2026 alone. All but one favoured the tenant, while the remaining order ruled in favour of both the tenant and landlord on different items.