Military will get to Manitoba First Nation dealing with water issues on Monday: chief

PIMICIKAMAK - The chief of a Manitoba First Nation in the throes of severe water issues, including flooding and backed-up sewage, says seven members of the Canadian Armed Forces are to arrive in his northern community on Monday.

Pimicikamak Cree Nation Chief David Monias says in a social media post that members are to provide technical assistance, assessments and support related to critical infrastructure and recovery operations.

He says plumbers and other workers are also arriving to help with the water and electrical issues, but the community is having a tough time finding them adequate washrooms and shower facilities.

He says some workers already in the community about 500 kilometres north of Winnipeg are also getting sick due to the lack of clean water.

Province plans for impending intimate partner violence law

Women’s shelters, police and the province are preparing for a long-awaited law that aims to prevent Manitobans from becoming the next victim of an intimate partner.

Manitoba’s Disclosure to Protect Against Intimate Partner Violence Act, which will come into law March 1, will allow someone who believes they might be at risk of violence from a current or former partner to apply for verbal disclosure about the significant other’s documented history of violence.

“By allowing individuals to access information about a partner’s history of violence, people are able to better assess risk and make decisions that may prevent harm before it actually escalates,” Manitoba Association of Women’s Shelters provincial co-ordinator Tsungai Muvingi Van Landeghem said.

“As it is, we’re seeing families or individuals who are going into relationships and then, on the back end of things, learning that there was a history that maybe would have prevented them from actually entering into a relationship with an individual or better preparing themselves,” she said.

Winnipeg pair fourth at Canadian figure skating championship

Before the 2026 Canadian figure skating championships concluded on Sunday in Gatineau, Que., and Skate Canada announced its Olympic Winter Games team, Winnipeg pair skaters Ava Kemp and Yohnatan Elizarov were on the road back to their training base in Toronto.

With their satisfying fourth-place result on Saturday in the rear-view mirror, the duo turned their attention from their senior nationals debut to competing in their first ISU senior championship next week in China.

Kemp, 17, and Elizarov, 22, will squeeze in five days of training before flying to Beijing next Monday for Four Continents — a competition for top athletes from Asia, the Americas, Oceania and Africa.

China’s 2022 Olympic pair champions Wenjing Sui and Cong Han are slated to compete in Beijing before making their second bid for Games gold in Milan-Cortina.

‘One Battle After Another’ and ‘Hamnet’ take top honors at Golden Globes

Paul Thomas Anderson’s ragtag revolutionary saga “One Battle After Another” took top honors at Sunday’s 83rd Golden Globes in the comedy category, while Chloé Zhao's Shakespeare drama “Hamnet” pulled off an upset over “Sinners” to win best film, drama.

“One Battle After Another” won best film, comedy, supporting female actor for Teyana Taylor and best director and best screenplay for Anderson. He became just the second filmmaker to sweep director, screenplay and film, as a producer, at the Globes. Only Oliver Stone, for “Born on the Fourth of July,” managed the same feat.

In an awards ceremony that went almost entirely as expected, the night's final award was the most surprising. While “One Battle After Another” has been the clear front-runner this awards season, most have pegged Ryan Coogler's Jim Crow-era vampire thriller as its closest competition.

But “Hamnet,” a speculative drama about William and Agnes Shakespeare based on Maggie O’Farrell's bestseller, won in the dramatic category shortly after its star, Jessie Buckley, won best female actor in a drama.

Manitoba RCMP officer’s Taser use justified: court claim

Canada’s attorney general says a Mountie was justified in his use of force against a man who claims he has suffered ongoing trauma after he was incapacitated with an electroshock weapon during an arrest.

Visitors join shabbat service to support synagogue tagged with hateful graffiti

Non-Jewish visitors gathered for a shabbat service at a Winnipeg synagogue Saturday to demonstrate unity after it was tagged with hate symbols.

“We support the Jewish community. We wanted to show our support,” Rudy Fidel, pastor of Faith Temple, an evangelical congregation in the city, said before the service.

“It’s most distressing what happened,” wife Gina Fidel said of swastikas being spray-painted on Shaarey Zedek synagogue last week. “That’s why we are here.”

Todd and Kathy Picklyk also thought it was important to attend.

With Cuban ally Maduro ousted, Trump warns Havana to make a ‘deal’ before it’s too late

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday fired off another warning to the government of Cuba as the close ally of Venezuela braces for potential widespread unrest after Nicolás Maduro was deposed as Venezuela's leader.

Cuba, a major beneficiary of Venezuelan oil, has now been cut off from those shipments as U.S. forces continue to seize tankers in an effort to control the production, refining and global distribution of the country's oil products.

Trump said on social media that Cuba long lived off Venezuelan oil and money and had offered security in return, “BUT NOT ANYMORE!”

“THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL OR MONEY GOING TO CUBA - ZERO!” Trump said in the post as he spent the weekend at his home in southern Florida. “I strongly suggest they make a deal, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.” He did not explain what kind of deal.

Canadians join global protests in solidarity with Iranian uprising

MONTREAL - Demonstrations were held in several Canadian cities on Saturday to voice support for the Iranian people as a popular uprising sweeping across Iran neared the two-week mark.

Protesters in Montreal and Ottawa demanded the fall of the Islamic regime and the return of Reza Pahlavi, the son of the former Shah of Iran who has been in exile in the United States for 47 years.

A demonstration was also held in Toronto on Friday.

Katayoon Haghzadeh says she went to the Montreal event to be the voice of the Iranian people currently in the streets and facing down torture and death at the hands of the Iranian regime as they fight for change.

Iranian protests are growing. Israel is watching closely

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel is “closely monitoring” the fallout from widespread Iranian protests, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday, as U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to attack Iran could escalate the protests within the borders of the Islamic Republic into a regional war.

“The people of Israel, the entire world, are in awe of the tremendous heroism of the citizens of Iran,” Netanyahu said at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting. He condemned the killing of civilians and said he hoped to rebuild relations between Israel and Iran once the country was “freed from the yoke of tyranny.”

Netanyahu and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke overnight Saturday about a number of issues, including Iran, according to an Israeli official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

But Israel’s military said there are no new guidelines for civilians to stay close to bomb shelters due to concerns about an attack of Iranian missiles, as there have been in the past when there were concrete threats.