The Wrap: Portage and Main poll, Kelsey McKay speaks, pipeline update, curling doubles, and The Lehman Trilogy

Most Winnipeggers are in favour of reopening Portage and Main to pedestrians — a flip in opinion since a plebiscite six years ago when Winnipeggers voted an overwhelming “no,” a new poll suggests.

More than a quarter of those polled in the Free Press-Probe Research survey said they voted against opening the intersection in a 2018 plebiscite, but have since changed their mind.

After a full day of lawyers telling a judge how long he should go to prison, disgraced high school football coach Kelsey McKay stepped up to a microphone late Wednesday afternoon and apologized to the young athletes he sexually abused over the course of a decade.

“I know this hurt and betrayal will affect them all for the rest of their lives,” McKay said reading from prepared notes, his back to several victims and their family members seated in the court gallery.

McKay pleaded guilty last July to nine counts of sexual assault and two counts of luring in relation to nine teenage victims he had coached during his years at Vincent Massey Collegiate and Churchill High School.

Manitobans’ worries about the supply of gasoline in the province are rising after Imperial Oil closed a pipeline south of Winnipeg for several months.

Trucks and trains are now bringing gasoline to the city. But gas stations around Winnipeg have been limiting the sale — or selling out of — gasoline.

Premier Wab Kinew admitted the pipeline shutdown “is a serious issue and it’s one that Manitobans are going to have to learn to live with, all of us together, for the next few months.”

Mixed-doubles curling is like riding a bike to Kadriana and Colton Lott.

The Manitoba couple put the work in to figure the game out and, while they’ve rarely shared the ice the last two years, there’s strong evidence suggesting these two never seem to forget how it’s done.

Indeed, the married couple from Winnipeg Beach form one of the best duos in the country.

Taylor Allen has their story.

None of the stars of The Lehman Trilogy has ever worked for a global financial institution, but they each remember how and where they earned their first paycheques.

Prior to forging full-time careers in theatre and on screen, the actors were getting reviews for much less glorious performances.

Arts writer Ben Waldman talks to the men about their family histories of work ahead of the opening of the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre’s epic production of commerce and company.