Standup comic gets ‘Pegger’s-eye view of river city

Woman took ‘meaningful’ responsibility after disposing of body: lawyer

A woman who was threatened with death if she didn’t help dispose the body of a Mexican man murdered in the basement of a North End home should serve no more jail time, a judge has been told.

Devlin Langlois, 25, has pleaded guilty to accessory after the fact to murder in the March 2025 killing of 28-year-old Diego Moscoza.

“By pleading guilty, Ms. Langlois has already taken meaningful accountability for her actions,” defence lawyer Joshua Rogala told King’s Bench Justice Candace Grammond at a sentencing hearing Monday.

He urged the judge to sentence Langlois to the equivalent of 14 months already served, plus two years supervised probation.

‘We’ll stand for the children’: crowds gather for Orange Shirt Day in Winnipeg

A sea of people clad in orange shirts and waving flags marched through downtown Winnipeg to honour those who survived and died in residential schools.

Standup comic gets ‘Pegger’s-eye view of river city

Yours truly tracked down Rumor's feature act Gilson Lubin at the secret comedy condo on Grant Avenue where they put up headliners. Unlike a lot of comedians who sit there watching TV, this lively former MTV host has been running all over town with amateur comics. "Winnipeg has spoiled me. I've been to house parties, and eight clubs including, let's see, Alive, Republic, Noir, Red Cactus, and Bar Italia."

Plus, a local comic gave Lubin a private driving tour of River City.

"I love it here and I'm really surprised by the diversity," he says. Gilson moved to T.O from St. Lucia at 13. "I practised before I came," he says. "I'd stick my hand in the freezer and say, 'That's not bad.'"

When I talked to Lubin, he was trying to cook his first steak -- at age 34. "I think I'll phone my mom," he said proudly, grease crackling loudly in the pan. Lubin needs high-energy food. He recently hit The Cavern's Sunday night open mic with feisty host John Duff and got in line with 20 young Winnipeggers to do the allotted five minutes. "I was talking with one kid, Marcel Williams, saying to him, 'Everyone should be confident onstage.' This kid was pumped. So he goes up before me, and totally destroys! I'm going onstage a little after him, and another kid Paul (Rabliauskas) says, "Hey, Gilson, are you worried about the competition?'"

Netminder no stranger to heavy workload as Jets new No. 1 readies for regular-season start

Stuart Skinner is quick to admit that he wasn’t always wired this way.

As the Winnipeg Jets new starting goalie prepares for his fifth NHL season, Skinner conceded that the accountability aspect that is now synonymous with his character took some time to build up.

“As I grew up and got older, you go through certain things in life that either build character or make things worse for you. It depends on your choice and your decision,” Skinner said during a recent conversation with the Free Press. “I learned it through trial and error. I learned that, sometimes, it’s hard to get honest with yourself… For me, it’s definitely been a road for me to get to a place like this.

“It definitely is one of my pillars. Accountability is so important because that brings you into a spot of what you’re going to do next. It’s easy to let yourself off the hook. I’m more in the business of putting myself on the hook.”

Port of Churchill signs agreement with Dutch port

Arctic Gateway Group, operator of the Port of Churchill, has signed an agreement with the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands to attract business and strengthen supply chains linking Western Canada and Europe.

The agreement enables the two ports to work together to develop new trade in critical minerals and energy products, connect Canadian producers with European buyers, and identify opportunities to improve the supply chain from Western Canadian resource projects through Churchill and into European markets.

The Port of Rotterdam is Europe’s largest port and home to more than 3,000 businesses across its industrial complex, serving as a major gateway for critical raw materials and energy.

Meanwhile, the Port of Churchill has been identified as a transformative national strategy for Canada and is emerging as a northern trade corridor connecting Western Canada’s resources to global markets.