The Wrap: Carman deaths inquiry, health funding deals, inside the Jets locker room, get ready to HÉHO! and Mennonite wall clocks on display

Claims that CFS did not act on safety concerns raised by the mother of a teen slain along with four relatives on the weekend have led Premier Wab Kinew to indicate he’s “open to hearing the questions around a potential inquiry.”

“We have a responsibility as government, when terrible things like this happen in our province, to ask the question: what went wrong and, more importantly, how are we going to fix it?” Kinew said at an unrelated news conference.

The mother of 17-year-old victim Myah-Lee Gratton told the Free Press she had warned CFS against her daughter’s placement in a Carman home, based on safety concerns about the man now charged in the mass killing.

Chris Kitching reports.

Manitoba and Ottawa announced a deal Thursday to infuse $633 million into the province’s health system, much of which they say will go toward hiring more front-line workers and improving care for seniors.

Almost $434 million is through a bilateral agreement to support Manitoba’s three-year plan to improve health care. The governments say the funding is to support Manitoba’s goal to hire 400 more doctors, 300 more nurses, 200 paramedics and 100 home-care workers.

About $199 million under a separate agreement is to go toward Manitoba’s five-year plan to bolster home, community and long-term care for seniors.

It is the place where pep talks are made. Where strategy is mapped out. Where laughs and inside jokes and nicknames and funny fights over the music selection are flying fast and furious.

Where post-game victory jackets are handed out. Where media interviews take place. Where friendships are formed. Where success — and setbacks — are shared.

It is the Winnipeg Jets locker room. Hockey writer Mike McIntyre takes you inside for a tour, moving from stall to stall with several players as your guides.

Unseasonably warm winter temperatures have left their mark on the 55th edition of the Festival du Voyageur.

The winter drought in Manitoba has made snow scarce for sculptors, and icy displays on Provencher Boulevard have partially melted. But with recent colder temperatures, the grounds at Fort Gibraltar are frozen rather than muddy.

“Winnipeggers are great at making the most of whatever weather conditions are thrown at them,” says Joel d’Eschambault, one of 200 artists who will perform at the festival.

Alan Small highlights a few must-see acts.

Fifteen Mennonite wall clocks are on display at the Manitoba Museum in an exhibition developed by the Kroeger Heritage Clocks Foundation, in partnership with the Mennonite Heritage Museum.

The prized possessions were made between the late 1700s and early 1900s in workshops across Ukraine and carefully transported to Manitoba by the Mennonite diaspora.

Beyond providing rhythmic structure to the day, they represent Mennonite stories of migration, ingenuity, art and life.