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Athletes Unlimited softball commissioner Ng excited as sport surges, league prepares for expansion

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Athletes Unlimited softball commissioner Ng excited as sport surges, league prepares for expansion

Cliff Brunt, The Associated Press 4 minute read Sunday, Sep. 21, 2025

Kim Ng is excited about how far Athletes Unlimited softball has come in the past year and believes the sport is surging as her league prepares to expand in 2026.

The Athletes Unlimited Softball League’s commissioner is brimming with confidence after the league posted what she called promising numbers in its first year. This was the first time Athletes Unlimited added a traditional team format after five years of crowning only individual champions.

There were 20 sold-out games in a touring format that visited 10 cities. The AUSL website had 5.3 million views during the season, and the championship series had peak viewership of 347,000 on ESPN. There were 240 million impressions on the AUSL’s social channels.

“I think it went really well,” Ng said. “And we were all just incredibly excited, incredibly thrilled about what we were just able to do, and really, for the future of AUSL.”

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Sunday, Sep. 21, 2025

FILE - Athletes Unlimited Softball League Commissioner Kim Ng, a former Major League Baseball executive, is interviewed at Major League Baseball's headquarters in New York, May 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Early childhood educators give high marks to job satisfaction: poll

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Early childhood educators give high marks to job satisfaction: poll

Maggie Macintosh 3 minute read Monday, Sep. 15, 2025

Despite eight in 10 early childhood educators reporting high levels of job satisfaction, many employers in the sector continue to struggle with staffing shortages.

The Manitoba Child Care Association has released the results of an online survey of its members that took place between Feb. 4 and 18.

Probe Research Inc. led the project — a decade after the Winnipeg-based polling firm conducted an initial workforce survey for the association.

This time around, 830 people, including front-line early childhood educators, centre directors and family child-care providers, submitted responses.

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Monday, Sep. 15, 2025

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49.8 Feature photos on Early Childhood Educators working with kids at Splash Child Enrichment Centre on McGregor Street. More info to follow. Early childhood educator Sharon Desamero sweeps up the locker area at centre. See Mary Agnes Welch story. April 28, 2015

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

New documentary revisits Lilith Fair, gives it the overdue kudos it deserves

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New documentary revisits Lilith Fair, gives it the overdue kudos it deserves

Jen Zoratti 8 minute read Monday, Sep. 15, 2025

In the opening moments of Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery, a new documentary about the pioneering all-women touring festival co-founded by Canadian icon Sarah McLachlan in the late 1990s, there’s a series of TikTok videos fronted by gen Z women expressing wonder and astonishment that something like that ever even existed.

“There was an all-female music festival from 1997 to 1999 — and I am shook to my core,” one woman says.

Ally Pankiw, the film’s director, is not surprised younger generations have never heard of Lilith Fair.

“It was not celebrated for how massive it was,” says the Canadian film/TV writer and director (Feel Good, Shrill). “It was so commercially successful. It changed so many artists’ trajectories and careers. It raised so much money for charity.

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Monday, Sep. 15, 2025

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Lilith Fair finale show in 1998, feauring Diana Krall, Sarah McLachlan, Angelique Kidjo, Lisa Loeb, Sam Bettens, Tara Maclean

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)

Winnipeg Catholics can pay tribute to ‘saint in sneakers’

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Winnipeg Catholics can pay tribute to ‘saint in sneakers’

John Longhurst 4 minute read Monday, Sep. 15, 2025

WHEN Carlo Acutis was made a saint by Pope Leo XIV on Sept. 7, John Paul Marable was very excited.

“We need him more than ever,” Marable said of the Roman Catholic Church’s first millennial saint.

“He’s an example of who we are called to be,” added the third-year education student at the University of Manitoba. “His same desire for the Eucharist and for Christ can live in all of us.”

Marable, a member of the St. Alphonsus parish in East Kildonan, is also excited for another reason; from Sept. 17-29, he will join other Catholics in the province in seeing and venerating a relic of the newly canonized saint who loved playing video games and going to mass.

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Monday, Sep. 15, 2025

FILE - An image of 15-year-old Carlo Acutis, an Italian boy who died in 2006 of leukemia, is seen during his beatification ceremony celebrated by Cardinal Agostino Vallini, center, in the St. Francis Basilica, in Assisi, Italy, on Oct. 10, 2020. Pope Francis has paved the way for the canonization of the first saint of the millennial generation on Thursday, attributing a second miracle to a 15-year-old Italian computer whiz who died of leukemia in 2006. Carlo Acutis, born on May 3, 1991, in London and then moved with his Italian parents to Milan as a child, was the youngest contemporary person to be beatified by Francis in Assisi in 2020. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg set Emmy record with comedy wins for ‘The Studio’

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Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg set Emmy record with comedy wins for ‘The Studio’

Alex Nino Gheciu, The Canadian Press 5 minute read Sunday, Sep. 14, 2025

After making a career of playing lovable underachievers, Seth Rogen is officially an overachiever: his show "The Studio" set a new Emmy record for the most wins by a comedy, racking up top prizes including best series.

The Vancouver comedian and his longtime collaborator Evan Goldberg dominated the comedy categories at Sunday's awards bash, when they also collected directing and writing trophies for their Apple TV Plus cringe comedy.

“It's getting embarrassing. I really appreciate it, in all honesty,” Rogen said with his trademark chuckle while accepting the best comedy series award.

“I’ll do my best attempt at sincerity here – if you watched our show, if you appreciated our show, if you voted for our show, especially, thank you very much. I'm legitimately embarrassed by how happy this makes me.”

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Sunday, Sep. 14, 2025

This image released by Apple TV+ shows Seth Rogen, left, and Catherine O'Hara in a scene from

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.

First Anishinaabe woman Bar Association president prioritizes mentorship, protecting the rule of law

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First Anishinaabe woman Bar Association president prioritizes mentorship, protecting the rule of law

Melissa Martin 8 minute read Sunday, Sep. 14, 2025

In 1991, when Stacey Soldier was just 15 years old, Manitoba marked a watershed moment. After three years of hearings, the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry released its final report, a searing reckoning with how the province’s police and justice system had failed Indigenous people.

At home in Thompson, Soldier watched news of the inquiry unfold on TV. (“We were only allowed to watch the news in our house,” she says with a laugh.) The Anishinaabe teen was inspired to see an Indigenous judge, then-Justice Murray Sinclair, co-presiding over the proceedings, and was transfixed by the findings.

It felt “thrilling for justice,” she recalls. But it was also a stark lesson in the challenges her people faced to obtain it.

“One thing that the AJI made clear is that this is a system that wasn’t designed to help Indigenous communities and people in any way,” she says, chatting at her law firm Cochrane Sinclair’s Exchange District offices last week.

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Sunday, Sep. 14, 2025

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Stacey Soldier, the first Anishinaabe woman to serve as president of the Manitoba Bar Association, has been mentoring young Indigenous law students.

Blame game after acts of political violence can lead to further attacks, experts warn

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Blame game after acts of political violence can lead to further attacks, experts warn

Nicholas Riccardi, The Associated Press 7 minute read Sunday, Sep. 21, 2025

DENVER (AP) — From the moment conservative activist and icon Charlie Kirk was felled by an assassin’s bullet, partisans began fighting over which side was to blame. President Donald Trump became the most prominent to do so, tying the attack to “the radical left” before a suspect was even identified.

It was part of a new, grim tradition in a polarized country — trying to pin immediate responsibility for an act of public violence on one of two political sides. As the nation reels from a wave of physical attacks against both Republicans and Democrats, experts warn that the rush to blame sometimes ambiguous and irrational acts on political movements could lead to more conflict.

“What you’re seeing now is exactly how the spiral of violence occurs,” said Robert Pape, a political scientist and director of the Chicago Project on Security and Threats at the University of Chicago.

On Friday, authorities announced they had arrested 22-year-old Tyler Robinson of Washington, Utah, in the shooting. While a registered voter, he was not affiliated with any party and had not voted in the last two general elections. Even so, officials said Robinson had recently grown more political and expressed negative views about Kirk.

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Sunday, Sep. 21, 2025

The casket containing the body of Charlie Kirk, the CEO and co-founder of Turning Point USA who was shot and killed on Wednesday is removed from Air Force Two at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Equatorial Guinea enforces yearlong internet outage for island that protested construction company

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Equatorial Guinea enforces yearlong internet outage for island that protested construction company

Ope Adetayo, The Associated Press 6 minute read Saturday, Sep. 20, 2025

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — When residents of Equatorial Guinea's Annobón island wrote to the government in Malabo in July last year complaining about the dynamite explosions by a Moroccan construction company, they didn't expect the swift end to their internet access.

Dozens of the signatories and residents were imprisoned for nearly a year, while internet access to the small island has been cut off since then, according to several residents and rights groups.

Local residents interviewed by The Associated Press left the island in the past months, citing fear for their lives and the difficulty of life without internet.

Banking services have shut down, hospital services for emergencies have been brought to a halt and residents say they rack up phone bills they can't afford because cellphone calls are the only way to communicate.

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Saturday, Sep. 20, 2025

A man paddles a canoe in Annobón Island, Equatorial Guinea, Sunday, June 12, 2022. (AP Photo)

Local engineer was a real game changer

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Local engineer was a real game changer

John Longhurst 5 minute read Saturday, Sep. 13, 2025

Forty-seven years ago, George Klassen had an idea that improved the lives of millions of people in Bangladesh. It was for a hand-powered rower pump, a classic piece of simple, inexpensive and appropriate technology that poor farmers could use to irrigate their crops.

Today, an estimated 500,000 rower pumps are still in operation, benefitting more than 2.5 million people in that southeast Asian country — a legacy to Klassen’s vision, curiosity and ingenuity.

Klassen, who died on April 15 in Steinbach, spent his early years in Blumenort (near Gretna) before moving with his parents and 10 siblings to a farm near Steinbach. After graduating from the University of Manitoba with a B.Sc., he taught science and math in Nigeria with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) for three years.

There, he became convinced the best way he could serve people in the global south was by assisting them with practical skills and knowledge. With that in mind, when Klassen returned to Canada he decided to go back to the University of Manitoba to study engineering.

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Saturday, Sep. 13, 2025

Very hungry caterpillars very good for biodiversity

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Very hungry caterpillars very good for biodiversity

AV Kitching 5 minute read Saturday, Sep. 13, 2025

Widely considered a pest and a scourge, a leaf-chomping defoliator dedicated to decimating crops, boring into buds and biting down blossoms as it works to satiate its inexhaustible appetite, a new nature documentary reveals there’s more to the much-maligned caterpillar than meets the eye.

The larval creature takes centre stage in Winnipeg filmmaker Jeff McKay’s documentary feature The Extraordinary Caterpillar.

His hour-long film takes viewers on a journey to understanding why the famously “very hungry caterpillar” is a key player in maintaining biodiversity.

“Caterpillars are right at the centre of the food chain, they are key to the food chain working as it should,” McKay says.

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Saturday, Sep. 13, 2025

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Caterpillars control certain invasive species and in turn are eaten by other animals.

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.

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.

Steinbach, nearby communities flooded in massive overnight deluge

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Steinbach, nearby communities flooded in massive overnight deluge

Chris Kitching 5 minute read Friday, Sep. 12, 2025

Some residents of Steinbach were mopping up and assessing damage Friday after the southeastern Manitoba city was swamped by two months’ worth of rain in about four hours.

An animal rescue charity was hit by catastrophe again when basements and streets flooded almost a year to the day a deluge inundated buildings.

“Last year, they told us it was a one-in-1oo-year event, and here we are 11 months later with the same event,” said Graham Pollock, vice-president of Steinbach and Area Animal Rescue.

He said the organization moved almost two dozen cats and kittens to foster homes after nearly 2.1 metres (seven feet) of floodwater filled the shelter’s basement overnight Thursday.

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Friday, Sep. 12, 2025

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A Steinbach animal rescue charity was hit by a second catastrophe in a year as basements and streets flooded while some communities were inundated by two months’ worth of rain overnight Thursday.
Photos taken Friday morning, September 12, 2025

Kinew stands by cabinet minister dogged by controversy

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Kinew stands by cabinet minister dogged by controversy

Scott Billeck and Carol Sanders 5 minute read Friday, Sep. 12, 2025

Premier Wab Kinew says he won’t remove a cabinet minister over a social-media post she shared that slammed American right-wing activist Charlie Kirk following his assassination on a university campus Wednesday.

Nahanni Fontaine, who recently had to apologize over her criticism that an ASL interpreter had shared a stage with her and blocked her view of the audience, will remain families minister, the premier said Friday.

“It would be too easy to show her the door,” Kinew said, adding he doesn’t believe in cancel culture. “People need to be brought along and shown… we need to be showing empathy and compassion to people even when we don’t agree with them.”

Kinew said he spoke to Fontaine earlier in the day and asked her to apologize after she shared another person’s post on Instagram one day earlier that said: “Charlie Kirk was a racist, xenophobic, transphobic, Islamophobic, sexist, white nationalist mouthpiece who made millions of dollars inciting hatred in this country.”

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Friday, Sep. 12, 2025

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Families Minister Nahanni Fontaine

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.

Anything but sweet: outage spoils dozens of litres of parlour’s ice cream

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Anything but sweet: outage spoils dozens of litres of parlour’s ice cream

Kevin Rollason 3 minute read Thursday, Sep. 11, 2025

The owner of an ice cream shop was licking her wounds Thursday after dozens of litres of icy treats melted away, causing profits to go down the drain.

Patty Mikos, the longtime co-owner of Dairy Delight on St. Anne’s Road, arrived at work to find 10 tubs of 11.4 litres of hard ice cream melting inside a freezer that had been off for hours because of a hydro outage.

The ice cream was tossed into a garbage bin with other perishable food products, including hamburger.

“We had to throw out all the meat — about 50 pounds today,” Mikos said. “You don’t want to risk it when it comes to meat.”

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Thursday, Sep. 11, 2025

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Ten tubs of Dairy Delight’s ice cream — 11.4 litres each — were spoiled after a pickup truck drove into a hydro pole on St. Anne’s Road, causing a 15-hour power outage.

Bewildered and ‘in horror,’ Toronto man fights fake news that he shot U.S. influencer Charlie Kirk

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Bewildered and ‘in horror,’ Toronto man fights fake news that he shot U.S. influencer Charlie Kirk

Sharif Hassan, The Canadian Press 4 minute read Friday, Sep. 19, 2025

TORONTO - Michael Mallinson had never met Charlie Kirk, nor had he ever heard the name of the American right-wing commentator who was shot dead in broad daylight at a Utah college event on Wednesday.

But the retired Torontonian has done some research about him after his death.

"I gather that he appeals to young conservatives. I'm an old socialist. I guess that's the best way I could put it," Mallinson said in a phone interview.

They would never have come across each other, but a piece of viral online misinformation has tied Mallinson to Kirk's story. Now the former banker, 77, is fighting to make the truth understood: he is decidedly not the person who put a bullet in the controversial commentator's neck.

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Friday, Sep. 19, 2025

A well-wisher adds flowers to a makeshift memorial set up at Turning Point USA headquarters after the shooting death at a Utah college on Wednesday of Charlie Kirk, the 31-year-old founder and CEO of the organization, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025, in Phoenix. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP - Ross D. Franklin

Telus drops the gloves with Rogers over alleged ad blocking on its media platforms

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Telus drops the gloves with Rogers over alleged ad blocking on its media platforms

Sammy Hudes, The Canadian Press 6 minute read Wednesday, Sep. 17, 2025

TORONTO - A Canadian telecom giant is asking the national regulator to call one of its competitors offside, saying it has been unfairly blocked from advertising on the other company's media platforms.

It's a battle between Telus Corp. and Rogers Communications Inc. that also extends to the ice, with the former alleging that Rogers has used its position as Canada's dominant TV rightsholder for NHL games to interfere with Telus' long-standing sponsorship of the Calgary Flames.

The issue was outlined in a complaint filed by Telus in June and posted to the CRTC's website Tuesday. It alleges Rogers has been engaging in "anticompetitive behaviour" that violates regulatory rules.

Rogers disputes that characterization, however, saying Telus' advertisements aim to harm its reputation and therefore don't comply with its content standards.

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Wednesday, Sep. 17, 2025

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