Physical Education/Health Education

Province creates hunting buffer zone on Bloodvein First Nation

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Province creates hunting buffer zone on Bloodvein First Nation

Carol Sanders 3 minute read Monday, Sep. 15, 2025

The Manitoba government is creating a buffer zone restricting where non-Indigenous hunters can harvest moose on Bloodvein First Nation’s traditional lands.

Manitoba Natural Resources and Indigenous Futures Minister Ian Bushie announced the change late Monday as moose season began for game hunting areas 17, 17A and 17B that includes the traditional areas of the First Nation, located 285 kilometres north of Winnipeg.

The community, which established a check stop to prevent illegal drugs and contraband from entering the First Nation, warned “outside hunters” on social media weeks ago that they’re not welcome to take moose on their traditional lands.

The Manitoba Wildlife Federation has questioned the First Nation’s authority to block licensed hunters with a moose tag from the area and called on the provincial government to intervene.

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Monday, Sep. 15, 2025

A moose grazes in a field of canola bordering the Trans-Canada Highway west of Brandon last year. On Monday, the Manitoba Wildlife Federation applied for a judicial review of the province’s decision to reduce the number of available moose tags for four hunting areas in northern Manitoba. (File)

Winnipeg Jewish Theatre’s therapy-set two-hander plays with reality

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Winnipeg Jewish Theatre’s therapy-set two-hander plays with reality

Ben Waldman 4 minute read Monday, Sep. 15, 2025

The public and private perils of online engagement crash through the screen and into a therapist’s office in Job, a nervy drama that explores the power of posts and the ethical responsibilities inherent to our respective postings.

Written by New York’s Max Wolf Friedlich and directed by Calgary’s Jack Grinhaus, the opening production of the Winnipeg Jewish Theatre’s season heads to the races with the brandishing of a starter’s gun in the warped offices of Bay Area psychotherapist Lloyd (Dov Mickelson).

Lloyd’s description of his typical patient — young people who are “hopeless and beyond help” — isn’t exactly inspirational.

Blundstone-booted Jane (Jada Rifkin) seems to have made the cut, having been placed on paid administrative leave after a viral meltdown by her employer, an unnamed tech giant on whose campus she’s enrolled as an adjudicator.

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Monday, Sep. 15, 2025

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Jada Rifkin and Dov Mickelson perform in the Winnipeg Jewish Theatre (WJT) season opener, Job: The Play, and are photographed at a media call Tuesday, September 9, 2025. Reporter: ben

Bus overhaul leaves gaps in service to Grace Hospital, Assiniboine clinic

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Bus overhaul leaves gaps in service to Grace Hospital, Assiniboine clinic

Malak Abas 5 minute read Tuesday, Sep. 16, 2025

Some St. James residents are up in arms after a shift in bus routes cut evening and weekend stops in front of Grace Hospital and nearby Assiniboine Medical Clinic.

As part of the city’s recent Transit overhaul, there are now three feeder routes that stop directly in front of the Booth Drive hospital and within a block of the Lodge Avenue clinic. But they don’t run on weekends and stop in the early evening on weekdays, leaving an unacceptable gap in service, said St. James Coun. Shawn Dobson.

“I can’t fathom you walking in the rain or the cold, all that distance from Portage Avenue up to the hospital, it makes no sense,” he said Monday.

"A frequent express route, the FX3, stops at the nearby Sturgeon Road into the night all week, it’s too far of a walk for seniors and people with medically complex needs, and will only get more difficult for everyone in winter," Dobson said.

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Tuesday, Sep. 16, 2025

RUTH BONNEVILLE / FREE PRESS
Some Winnipeg Transit’s Routes no longer serves the Grace Hospital due to the city’s recent transit network overhaul, the Primary Transit Network, which began service on June 29, 2025. Sept 15th, 2025

Family mourns couple struck on side of Kenaston, man charged with impaired driving

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Family mourns couple struck on side of Kenaston, man charged with impaired driving

Erik Pindera and Scott Billeck 5 minute read Tuesday, Sep. 16, 2025

A man with a prior conviction for drunk driving is accused of being impaired while behind the wheel in a high-speed collision that killed two people on Kenaston Boulevard Saturday night.

Winnipeg Police Service traffic officers were called to the vicinity of Kenaston and Enterprise Drive around 9:30 p.m. Saturday, where they found a 31-year-old man dead and a 25-year-old woman seriously injured, police spokesman Const. Pat Saydak said Monday.

“Two people are dead because of an impaired driver,” said Saydak.

Paramedics rushed the woman to hospital, in critical condition, but she later died.

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Tuesday, Sep. 16, 2025

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“Two people are dead because of an impaired driver,” police spokesman Const. Pat Saydak said Monday.

Rogers wins gold, sets Canadian record in hammer throw at world championships

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Rogers wins gold, sets Canadian record in hammer throw at world championships

The Canadian Press 5 minute read Monday, Oct. 6, 2025

TOKYO - Camryn Rogers set the tone early in the women's hammer throw at the world athletics championships Monday with an impressive opening toss of 78.09 metres.

Good enough for a world title. Not good enough for Rogers.

The 26-year-old from Richmond, B.C., put the competition out of reach with her second throw of 80.51 metres to claim her second straight world championship gold medal in dominant fashion.

Rogers's winning throw broke her own Canadian record and is the second longest ever behind the world record of 82.98 set by Poland's Anita Wlodarczyk in 2016. Rogers's previous personal best was 78.88 metres.

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Monday, Oct. 6, 2025

Canada's Camryn Rogers reacts after an attempt in the women's hammer throw final at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Monday, Sept. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

New St. B ER great, but where are all the doctors to staff it?

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New St. B ER great, but where are all the doctors to staff it?

Tom Brodbeck 5 minute read Monday, Sep. 15, 2025

When governments announce a major hospital expansion, it’s usually billed as a silver bullet solution to long wait times and overcrowding.

The latest example is St. Boniface Hospital’s newly expanded and renovated emergency department, expected to open officially on Oct. 2. (It was supposed to open next week, but there’s been a delay).

On paper, it looks impressive: more treatment spaces, updated facilities, a modern design intended to improve patient experience.

Here’s the uncomfortable truth: the facelift won’t do much — if anything — to cut ER wait times. If history is any guide, the experience for patients at St. Boniface will look remarkably similar to what it’s been for years — hours-long waits, gurneys lined up in hallways and admitted patients languishing in the emergency department because there’s no staffed hospital bed to move them into.

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Monday, Sep. 15, 2025

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The new emergency entrance to the St. Boniface Hospital includes a ramp that goes down to a garage for ambulances, but it looks like a very tight and possibly impossible turning radius for ambulances to go through the door. Reporter: Maggie Macintosh 241206 - Friday, December 06, 2024.

Letting the Millennium Library be what it can be

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Letting the Millennium Library be what it can be

Editorial 4 minute read Monday, Sep. 15, 2025

After yet another underwhelming response to a tragic incident, it’s fair to ask whether the City of Winnipeg wants to keep the Millennium Library open.

One man killed himself by jumping over the railing of the fourth floor of the Millennium Library — a railing that overlooks a spectacular glass wall and atrium that runs all the way to the main level — and another attempted a similar act of self harm. The city responded by installing foreboding metal construction fencing near the railings.

The city says the fencing is only a temporary measure until a more permanent safety solution can be found.

However, based on the fact the city has failed miserably to deliver meaningful safety upgrades at Millennium, one has to wonder whether that solution will ever come.

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Monday, Sep. 15, 2025

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Security checkpoint at the Millennium Library.

Manitobans raise more than $81,000 for cancer research at Terry Fox Run

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Manitobans raise more than $81,000 for cancer research at Terry Fox Run

Malak Abas 4 minute read Sunday, Sep. 14, 2025

Hundreds of runners, walkers and cyclists flooded Assiniboine Park Sunday to remember Terry Fox’s legacy and honour their own loved ones affected by cancer.

The 45th annual Terry Fox Run kicked off by the park pavilion at 10 a.m. Sunday. Manitoba donors raised more than $81,000 for cancer research this year.

Families old and young took to the 2.5-kilometre route all morning, some with shirts bearing Fox’s iconic visage, others carrying signs and mementos of the people they were running for.

Some came in recognition of someone currently battling cancer, like Jason Wells, who ran for his father.

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Sunday, Sep. 14, 2025

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People take part in the 45th annual Terry Fox Run at Assiniboine Park Sunday.

Manitoba cabinet briefing on landfill search for murder victims not being released

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Manitoba cabinet briefing on landfill search for murder victims not being released

Steve Lambert, The Canadian Press 5 minute read Monday, Sep. 22, 2025

WINNIPEG - A report that could shed more light on why Manitoba's former Progressive Conservative government rejected calls to search a landfill for the remains of two murder victims is being withheld under the province's freedom of information law.

Records obtained by The Canadian Press show senior bureaucrats assembled a presentation for cabinet ministers on a potential search in the weeks before the government decided not to proceed with the idea in 2023.

The contents of that presentation — a 13-page digital slide deck that would reveal for the first time what civil servants told politicians — are not being released under Manitoba's freedom of information law, which one expert says is among the most secretive in the country.

Families of the victims and Indigenous leaders had called on the government of the time to search the Prairie Green landfill, a private operation north of Winnipeg, for the remains of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran.

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Monday, Sep. 22, 2025

Heather Stefanson speaks to media after the completion of the 43rd Manitoba legislature throne speech at the Manitoba Legislative Building in Winnipeg, Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Aaron Vincent Elkaim

The reality of the Canadian criminal justice system

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The reality of the Canadian criminal justice system

Karen Reimer 5 minute read Monday, Sep. 15, 2025

If you are anything like our family and have never been involved with the criminal justice system, I think you will be as shocked as we have been to learn some of this.

It is a rude and cruel exposure to a reality that no one wants to learn during your darkest time of grief.

Jordyn Reimer, a 24-year-old vibrant and innocent victim, was acting as a designated driver on the night of May 1, 2022, when she was killed by Tyler Scott Goodman.

On Nov. 22, 2023, Judge Kael McKenzie handed down a six-year sentence to Goodman for the impaired driving causing death charge and an additional one-year consecutive sentence for failing to stop at the scene. At the time, McKenzie said that no sentence the court can impose would be enough to match the value of a life, that the taking of a life by crime is immeasurable.

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Monday, Sep. 15, 2025

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The family of Jordyn Reimer (from left) Sister, Andrea, Mother, Karen, and father Doug, along with her many friends and supporters of MADD gather at Jordyn’s Memorial Bench on the Transcona Trail to raise awareness about impaired drivers, May 13, 2025.

Stop the online world, I want to get off

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Stop the online world, I want to get off

Russell Wangersky 5 minute read Saturday, Sep. 13, 2025

One day, I won’t need to keep up.

I look forward to that. When I won’t need to know what is happening with tariffs and governments, when I won’t have to fill my morning cup with a daily dose of man’s inhumanity to man, when I don’t have to dig through dross.

I’m just back at work after a few weeks out in a non-media world, realizing after several days I felt like I was coming up from underwater — and that, crucially, I was actually thinking about things beyond the regular churn of news. That I was having thoughts not directly connected to work purposes, that delightful meanderings of mind were still possibly in my weary head.

Thoughts about the domed shape of a sea urchin’s pale-green shell once all of its spines have fallen away; about the feel of small smooth beach rocks as you hold them in place against your index finger and rub them with you thumb. About the distance and weight of the horizon on a grey day, and the slap and lop of small waves on a beach protected by offshore rocks.

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Saturday, Sep. 13, 2025

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Sea urchin shell on moss, Bear Cove, Conception Bay North, N.L.

A Lebanese dancer defies extremist threats and social norms with his sold-out performances

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A Lebanese dancer defies extremist threats and social norms with his sold-out performances

Malak Harb And Kareem Chehayeb, The Associated Press 6 minute read Monday, Sep. 29, 2025

BEIRUT (AP) — Alexandre Paulikevitch put on his white dress and wig and danced his way to center stage, knowing that the extremist groups who had threatened him before his controversial recital might be waiting for him outside the theater.

The Lebanese dancer’s sold-out performance to a cheering crowd at a popular Beirut venue had angered fundamentalist movements ranging from the right-wing Christian Soldiers of God to Sunni Islamists.

The fundamentalists say Paulikevitch is “promoting homosexuality" because he wears dresses and corsets and undulates to classical Arabic music in a way which society largely sees as exclusive to women.

Paulikevitch says he’s breaking social norms and reintroducing forms of dance that were commonplace for men as recently as the early 20th century.

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Monday, Sep. 29, 2025

Alexandre Paulikevitch performs at a theatre in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Running down Terry Fox’s dream

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Running down Terry Fox’s dream

2 minute read Friday, Sep. 12, 2025

In an era when today’s endurance feats seemingly defy human limits, his accomplishments still marvel.

In 1980, a curly-haired young man dipped a prosthetic right leg in the Atlantic Ocean in St. John’s, Nlfd., before embarking on a cross-country journey to raise money and awareness for cancer research.

With his signature hop-step running gait, Terry Fox, often only wearing grey shorts, a white cotton T-shirt with the words Marathon of Hope stencilled on the front, and blue adidas shoes, ran an average of 42 kilometres, or the equivalent of a full marathon, for 143 days. In total, he tallied 5,373 kilometres spanning six provinces.

His physical journey ended Sept. 1 of that year just shy of Thunder Bay when the cancer that had claimed his leg at age 18 had returned in his lungs. He died 10 months later, shortly before his 23rd birthday. However, his dream of raising millions of dollars for cancer research never faded.

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Friday, Sep. 12, 2025

Ruth Bonneville / Free Press LOCAL - Terry Fox Walk Two grade 4 students hold sign as they walk with their classmates, grades K - 5 from Riverbend Community School as they take part in the Terry Fox Foundation Walk Friday. (No Names provided) Sept 12th, 2025

Day of free services, entertainment offers heartwarming helping hand to city’s homeless

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Day of free services, entertainment offers heartwarming helping hand to city’s homeless

Malak Abas 4 minute read Friday, Sep. 12, 2025

After three years of homelessness and endless hours walking Winnipeg’s streets, Vineet got a rare chance to put his feet up Friday.

The 49-year-old immigrant from India was one of hundreds of people without homes who received free, hands-on care from volunteers at the Gizhe Waa Ti‑Sii‑Win Service Delivery Expo.

A nurse was checking, cleaning and treating blisters, calluses and toenail issues — small irritants that can quickly become big problems if they get infected, a worry for people exposed to the elements who don’t have regular access to medical care.

“This is something good for me… we walk all day,” said Vineet, who offered only his first name.

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Friday, Sep. 12, 2025

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A nurse checks, cleans and treats blisters, calluses and toenail issues at Salvation Army Weetamah Centre Friday — small irritants that can quickly become big problems if they get infected.

Widespread availability of graphic Charlie Kirk shooting video shows content moderation challenges

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Widespread availability of graphic Charlie Kirk shooting video shows content moderation challenges

Barbara Ortutay And Kelvin Chan, The Associated Press 6 minute read Sunday, Sep. 21, 2025

Immediately after Charlie Kirk was shot during a college event in Utah, graphic video of what happened was available almost instantly online, from several angles, in slow-motion and real-time speed. Millions of people watched — sometimes whether they wanted to or not — as the videos autoplayed on social media platforms.

Video was easy to find on X, on Facebook, on TikTok, on Instagram, on YouTube — even on President Donald Trump's Truth Social. The platforms, generally, said they were removing at least some of the videos if they violated their policies, for instance if the person was glorifying the killing in any way. In other cases, warning screens were applied to caution people they were about to see graphic content.

Two days after Kirk's death, videos were still easily found on social media, despite calls to remove them.

“It was not immediately obvious whether Instagram for example was just failing to remove some of the graphic videos of Charlie Kirk being shot or whether they had made a conscious choice to leave them up. And the reason that it that was so hard to tell is that, obviously, those videos were circulating really widely,” said Laura Edelson, an assistant professor of computer science at Northeastern University.

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Sunday, Sep. 21, 2025

FILE - Charlie Kirk speaks at Texas A&M University as part of Turning Point USA's American Comeback Tour on Tuesday, April 22, 2025, in College Station, Texas. (Meredith Seaver/College Station Eagle via AP, File)

Kemp and Elizarov intend to keep the party going

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Kemp and Elizarov intend to keep the party going

Laurie Nealin 5 minute read Friday, Sep. 12, 2025

On a 10-point scale, just how excited are ascending pairs skaters Ava Kemp and Yohnatan Elizarov as they contemplate what lies ahead this Olympic season?

“Ten,” Elizarov said without hesitation. “I’m very excited. I think it’s going to be a good season.”

Kemp concurred.

“Yeah, I would say 10. Last season showed us when we sat and watched others compete, we were eager to compete and wanted to, but couldn’t,” she said, referring to her back injury that sidelined the pair for several months last fall before they rebounded to claim their second Canadian junior title.

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Friday, Sep. 12, 2025

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It’s the third time in four seasons that Winnipeg duo Ava Kemp (right) and Yohnatan Elizarov have qualified for the final as one of the six top-ranked junior pairs in the world.

Road through popular dog park proving divisive

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Road through popular dog park proving divisive

Joyanne Pursaga 5 minute read Friday, Sep. 12, 2025

Users of a large and popular city dog park fear renovations that will cut a road through the expansive property will transform the serene space into a busy traffic route.

By contrast, the city expects the updated park would serve more people and make better use of its entire property.

Frequent visitors to the 48-hectare off-leash dog area in Kilcona Park, adjacent to Highway 59 in the northeast quadrant of the city, say it’s a well-loved spot that the road would disrupt.

“Putting a big road through that… park, it just seems so intrusive. It’s beautiful just the way it is, there’s prairie wildflowers, there’s wildlife,” said Tom Moody.

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Friday, Sep. 12, 2025

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Kilcona Park is a 48-hectare off-leash dog area, adjacent to Highway 59 in the northeast quadrant of the city.

Proposed $250-K grant would bolster community centres amid volunteer shortage

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Proposed $250-K grant would bolster community centres amid volunteer shortage

Joyanne Pursaga 4 minute read Wednesday, Sep. 10, 2025

A city funding hike could help community centres pay for staff and programming as they struggle to find volunteers.

A proposal calls for the city to give the General Council of Winnipeg Community Centres a new $250,000 programming and wage subsidy grant, starting in 2026, pending city council approval in next year’s budget.

“We are now … struggling to find volunteers that want to invest as much time as they once did. We’re really looking for additional funding so that we can hire support to help each of the community centres do the right programming,” said Lora Meseman, executive director of the community centre council.

In 2018, there were more than 17,000 community centre volunteers in Winnipeg, which “drastically decreased to 5,576” during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the organization’s 2026 to 2028 business plan.

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Wednesday, Sep. 10, 2025

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Lora Meseman, executive director of the community centre council, is happy about the city’s proposed 2026 funding hike for the General Council of Winnipeg Community Centres.

Number of private agency nurses rises

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Number of private agency nurses rises

Carol Sanders 5 minute read Monday, Sep. 8, 2025

As the province tries to move away from its reliance on private agency nurses, data show the practice continues to increase in Manitoba.

A report Thursday from the College of Registered Nurses of Manitoba shows there were 1,611 nurses working for private agencies in 2024, up from 1,418 in 2023.

“Our fundamental mandate as the professional regulator is to ensure public protection and provide the conditions that work towards supporting and ensuring patient safety,” said college spokesman Martin Lussier.

“When there is a significant shift in the practice of (nurses) that we regulate, part of our work is to assess: does that create new challenges or risks.”

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Monday, Sep. 8, 2025

Nurses clocked about 36,547 overtime hours per month in 2022, an increase of about 50 per cent compared to 2020. (Winnipeg Free Press files)

Onslaught of sports betting ads make gambling seem enticing to youth, doctors say

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Onslaught of sports betting ads make gambling seem enticing to youth, doctors say

Nicole Ireland, The Canadian Press 4 minute read Friday, Sep. 19, 2025

TORONTO - Doctors are calling for restrictions on sports betting ads, saying they are setting youth up for a future of problem gambling.

An editorial published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal on Monday says the ads are everywhere during sports broadcasts and that the legalization of online gambling has made every smartphone a potential betting platform.

Editor Dr. Shannon Charlebois says even though betting sites say they're only for people 19 years of age and older, youth are being inundated with advertising that equates enjoying sports with betting.

She says child and teen brains are still developing and the constant exposure to gambling messages normalizes harmful behaviour that they can carry into adulthood

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Friday, Sep. 19, 2025

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott (4) throws a pass under pressure from Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Nolan Smith Jr. (3) in the second half of an NFL football game Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Alberta bans sexual images in school library books under revised order

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Alberta bans sexual images in school library books under revised order

Jack Farrell, The Canadian Press 6 minute read Friday, Sep. 19, 2025

EDMONTON - The Alberta government made good Monday on its promise to revise its school book ban, stating that from now on written descriptions of sex are OK, but images and illustrations of sex are not.

Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides told reporters that visual depictions had been the government's main concern from the start.

When asked by reporters why the government wasn't concerned with written descriptions of explicit sexual material, he said, “An image can be understood and conveyed at any grade level with any degree of comprehension.

“Whereas, of course, vocabulary and understanding progresses and develops throughout the school year."

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Friday, Sep. 19, 2025

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith speaks at a press conference in Edmonton on Oct. 31, 2024.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson

Caring for our communities with even small gestures

Carina Blumgrund 6 minute read Monday, Sep. 8, 2025

There’s something that keeps returning to my thoughts as I move through my daily routines, something that sits quietly in the spaces between errands and conversations. It’s about the small things we often don’t notice, the everyday necessities that most of us take for granted.

Carney surprises many with appearance at long-distance trail race

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Carney surprises many with appearance at long-distance trail race

Rob Drinkwater, The Canadian Press 3 minute read Sunday, Sep. 21, 2025

Politicians typically do most of their running on campaign trails, but Prime Minister Mark Carney surprised many people when he competed in a long-distance trail run in southern Ontario on the weekend.

Carney was entered in the 26-kilometre event in the Haliburton Forest Trail Race, an annual event held about 160 kilometres north of Toronto, which also has longer distance categories, with the longest being 100 miles (160 kilometres).

"It has a reputation as one of the harder trail runs in Canada," organizer Tegan Legge said in a phone interview, noting the course features steep hills and an occasional rock face that competitors must scramble up.

"A 'crushing course' is what we hear, but we take that as a compliment."

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Sunday, Sep. 21, 2025

Prime Minister Mark Carney takes part in the 26-kilometre event in the Haliburton Forest Trail Race in southern Ontario as shown on Saturday Sept. 6, 2025 in this handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout - Haliburton Forest-David Sweeney (Mandatory Credit)

Province targets almost $200K in seized cash

Erik Pindera 3 minute read Sunday, Sep. 7, 2025

Justice officials are going after the nearly $200,000 in cash seized earlier this year from a Winnipeg man accused of running a high-level methamphetamine and cocaine trafficking operation.

Winnipeg Police Service organized crime investigators raided two houses and an apartment in mid-May and seized a whopping 43 kilograms of methamphetamine, just under two kilos of cocaine and cash, Insp. Josh Ewatski told reporters this summer.

George David MacFarlane, 49, was arrested and charged with drug trafficking offences as well as possessing the proceeds of crime on May 15, the same day as the raids. Police let him out on an undertaking due to his poor health. The allegations have yet to be heard in court.

Organized crime detectives began looking into allegations he was dealing drugs at the multi-kilogram level in April and put him under surveillance, watching him attend all three residences, alleged to be his stash houses.

October 9, 2025

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