The Wrap: Premier weighs in on liquor strike, a new icy treat, a lifetime with horses and Winnipeg’s Capt. Jack

All but two Manitoba Liquor Marts will be closed this weekend, as the provincewide strike by 1,400 workers drags on.

Premier Heather Stefanson on Friday accused the union representing liquor workers of shrouding “what is really on the table” from its membership. Her comments echo Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries’ stance on the labour dispute.

“I can tell you, our members are well aware what the offer is,” Manitoba Government and General Employees’ Union president Kyle Ross said.

 

The Bridge Drive-In is likely the first Canadian ice-cream shop to sell a new, dairy-free frozen dessert made from lupin, a yellow legume often used in the Mediterranean.

Business reporter Gabrielle Piché talks with BDI, lupin-industry stakeholders, food sciences experts and frozen-treat tasters about the vegan soft-serve option.

Horse training is a lifelong hobby for 80-year-old Doug Mustard. Ever since Assiniboia Downs opened in the spring of 1958, Mustard has been there. During the racing season, he and his family live in a trailer on the Downs grounds, rising every morning at six to care for the horses.

“I’d rather be here at the track doing nothing than doing the same on the chesterfield,” he says.

If you’ve spotted Todd Douglas about town, you probably took notice. He’s spent the last nine years impersonating affable Pirates of the Caribbean scoundrel Jack Sparrow — right down to a shoulder-strap bandolier, leather boots and bead-strings clipped to his hair and beard — at everything from birthday parties to restaurant launches to Blue Bomber games to bar mitzvahs.

David Sanderson sits down with the swashbuckling scallywag.