Quest Diagnostics reports cyber breach affecting ‘certain patient records’

MPI gambles with low rate request

It sounds a bit like a gamble from a player in an industry that is almost pathologically averse to gambling.

What’s up: Improv, PettyFest, Hawksley Workman, Spooktacular hike, High Tea with Shakespeare

Outside Joke: Hot TopicWest End Cultural Centre, 586 Ellice Ave.Saturday, 8 p.m.Tickets $25-$30 at wecc.caA ballad about the Alberta referendum results, maybe? A patter song about the local mayoral race, perhaps?

Outside Joke, Winnipeg’s premier musical improv group, presents Hot Topic, an original, one-night-only improvised musical ripped from the headlines. The crew — Andrea Del Campo, Chadd Henderson, Toby Hughes, RobYn Slade, Jane Testar and musical director Paul De Gurse — will be taking audience suggestions from which to spin their always-entertaining, always-hilarous yarns, so might we suggest perusing the Free Press before you head out?

Doors open at 7 p.m.

— Jen Zoratti

Katie Zacharia and the telling of lies

U.S. President Donald Trump’s new press secretary made her debut last week and was almost universally panned and parodied, lasting just five days before being fired.

Henderson crosswalk has glaring safety gap, say researchers months after pedestrian killed

Six months after a fatal collision at a crosswalk on Henderson Highway, two traffic safety researchers question why the intersection remains an outlier that is missing key flashing lights.

The City of Winnipeg is being urged to install “backflashers” to better protect road users moving in all directions at the intersection where a 32-year-old father died in the spring.

“It’s these little, mundane, non-sexy engineering problems that can cause everything right up to fatality,” said Curt Pankratz, an associate professor at the University of Winnipeg who studies traffic engineering and policymaking.

On April 19, shortly before sunrise, Gabe Beardy was struck when he was crossing the six-lane thoroughfare at Neil Avenue.

Klein eyes tax breaks for developers in ‘under-serviced’ neighbourhoods

Kevin Klein promises to seek a federal tax break and a new city incentive to attract private construction of homes and stores in “economically distressed” neighbourhoods if he becomes Winnipeg’s next mayor.

In a Thursday letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, Klein asks Ottawa to work with Winnipeg to develop “community opportunity zones.”

“Many of Winnipeg’s older neighbourhoods continue to struggle with high numbers of vacant and boarded-up properties. These buildings sit empty for years, becoming fire risks, sources of disorder, and barriers to neighbourhood recovery,” Klein wrote.

During a news conference, Klein said he wants the federal government to defer or eliminate taxes on capital gains for investors with qualifying projects in designated “distressed, under-serviced” neighbourhoods. He would work with Ottawa to identify the exact zones where those tax breaks apply, which would be available to Indigenous-led organizations and other groups.

Oliveira, Holm among Bombers’ most outstanding players

No one would use the word “outstanding” to describe this year’s Winnipeg Blue Bombers.And while the Bombers have not lived up to expectations through 17 games, there are a few players who have shined through the ups and downs of the 2026 campaign.