The Wrap: Murder conviction overturned, doctor recruitment, Dominique Rey
Plus: the science of the slapshot

Manitoba’s highest court has overturned a Winnipeg man’s conviction for murdering his mother when he was 16 years old, ruling the sentencing judge made critical errors in her instructions to the jury.

A jury in 2022 convicted the now 21-year-old man of second-degree murder in the 2019 bludgeoning death of his 51-year-old mother.

Dean Pritchard reports from the law courts.

Doctors Manitoba has reported the province’s biggest net increase in the number of physicians practising around the province, but despite the boost, it retained the second-lowest physicians per capita rate in Canada.

The net gain of 133 doctors, from May 2023 to April 2024, surpassed the previous high of 83 in 2014.

Malak Abas looks at what’s behind the trend and what it means for health care in Manitoba.

New Winnipeg Jets defenceman Colin Miller fired a 165 km/h slapshot in a game last January — the fastest recorded puck in three years of data tracking by the NHL.

He had eight shots measuring more than 160 km/h; the league average is zero.

Mike McIntyre investigates how the journeyman player is able to blast the biscuit better than any of his peers.

Women’s lives and identities have long influenced Dominique Rey’s art, which has been exhibited in solo and group shows throughout Europe and North America.

The theme carries on in Motherground, a meditation on the many contrasts of motherhood. Rey works with the bodies of mother and child as one and distinct from each other; presence and absence; joy and grief.

Jen Zoratti talks to Rey about her work ahead of the exhibition’s opening tomorrow at WAG-Qaumajuq.