The Wrap: Historic trees, hotel ransacked in protest, taking side-hustles full-time and provincials still a stiff test

A city committee is considering a request to protect a grove of cottonwood trees in St. Boniface by adding them to the city’s list of historical resources.

Traditionally, the historical resources list has been used to protect Winnipeg’s oldest and most significant buildings from demolition.

A day after a group of people ransacked the basement of the Marlborough Hotel, the building’s front lobby was locked to the public and a security guard was stationed inside.

Dozens of people gathered Sunday in the hotel’s main floor lobby to protest staff’s actions in a video of an Indigenous woman who was restrained with zip-ties.

Police are now investigating the damage to the property at the protests as well as the events in the video, which was circulated widely on social media.

Everyone seems to have a side hustle these days.

Coffeeshop baristas moonlight as internet entrepreneurs, peddling everything from homemade jewellery to clothing and home décor on Etsy. Your student’s teacher could have a part-time gig as a drummer in a local band.

More often than not these side hustles remain just that — but there are some whose moonlighting has been so successful that they’ve been able to make the leap, pivoting from just evenings and weekends to full-time jobs.

The stakes at the Manitoba women’s curling championship might not be as high as they once were.

Jennifer Jones won’t be there, Kaitlyn Lawes can use one of two wild-card spots to get into the nationals and Gimli’s Kerri Einarson also won’t be there as she’s the reigning, defending four-time Canadian champion.

With it no longer being the only road out of the Keystone Province to the national stage, does it make the event any less important?

Absolutely not.