Media-savvy entrepreneur Sean Quigley returns to YouTube as producer, podcaster

Internet fame isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Especially when it happens at age 16 on a global scale.

Pride on the pebble: Keystone Rainbow Curling League celebrates 20 years

Curling associations across the country are struggling to retain members — and then there’s the Keystone Rainbow Curling League.

Manitoba’s 2SLGBTQ+ curling league officially celebrated its 20th anniversary on Sunday inside its home at the Granite Curling Club.

They started two decades ago with 18 teams, and today that number has exploded to a record-high 45.

“If we were at 47 teams, we would be at capacity for our league at the curling club,” said Brett Nickol, Keystone Rainbow Curling’s director of communications.

Boreal river town Pinawa a summertime delight

Next summer, try floating downstream immersed in boreal beauty. Bounce on a suspension bridge or a buoyant playground. Stroll among tumbling cascades or mid-town deer. Lose your golf balls.

All at pretty Pinawa, roughly a 90-minute drive northeast of Winnipeg.

Floating down the Pinawa Channel is a Manitoba must. Margie and I rent the Dynamic Duo inflatable tube from Pinawa Float and Paddle. Pinawa Unplugged is another option. Don’t fear this adventure just because it ends at Pinawa Cemetery.

The two-to-three-hour journey can be a raucous, jostling event with excited youngsters as flotilla sailors, or a quiet, relaxing drift.

Radiologist’s brilliance complemented by humility, devotion to faith and family

Dr. Ian Sutherland’s curriculum vitae runs 10 pages, a tome that stands as a testament to a lifetime of academic accomplishment and professional recognition.

Over a distinguished 50-year clinical career, the radiologist wore many hats. He nurtured a passion for nuclear medicine, spent years in academia as a professor, led the University of Manitoba’s department of radiology, and later served as vice-president of the Health Sciences Centre.

But those who knew him best — his children, colleagues and members of his church community — remember not just what he accomplished, but the life he built around it.

He was a devoted husband to Eva for more than 60 years, a father of four — three of whom followed him into health care — and a man whose deep Christian faith inspired decades of service and mission work at one of Winnipeg’s inner-city churches.

MTYP’s Gather investigates how COVID-type separation affects connection

Manitoba Theatre for Young People’s latest season begins with a play about two friends navigating a changing world, and it’s all set to take place in a brand-new performance venue inside the colourful complex at The Forks.

After several years of planning, and millions in capital investment, the Richardson Studio Theatre opens its doors for the first time this weekend for Gather, starring Sarah Flynn and Rhea Rodych-Rasidescu and directed by MTYP artistic director Pablo Felices-Luna.

Written by Toronto’s Julia Lederer and Chicago’s Julie Ritchey, Gather tells a warm story that will feel relatable to anyone who persevered through the isolation of the global pandemic.

After their hometown goes into a deep freeze, icing the whole population indoors, two friends set out to rediscover the new landscape.

Work saving endangered butterfly earns Assiniboine Park Conservancy conservation award

The Assiniboine Park Conservancy’s groundbreaking work to save a critically endangered butterfly has earned it a joint conservation award with two other North American zoos.

The Association of Zoos and Aquariums recognized Assiniboine Park Zoo, Minnesota Zoo and John Ball Zoo with the 2025 North American Conservation Award for their collaboration, perseverance, innovation and cross-border co-operation to revive the dwindling population of the Poweshiek skipperling butterfly.

Through the Poweshiek Skipperling International Partnership, the three organizations worked together to save the species from extinction by successfully establishing captive breeding programs in the co-ordinated cross-border recovery efforts.

Conservation scientists developed advanced rearing and reintroduction techniques and conducted cutting-edge field research and genome sequencing to ensure the species isn’t lost forever.

Venture by displaced Ukrainian artisans celebrates national spirit, helps face challenges of building new lives

Serhii Okhrimenko and his wife Yuliia freely admit there wasn’t a lot to see 11 months ago when they opened Kolo Shop inside House of Local, a two-storey operation on Watt Street that is home to a handful of independent businesses.

After all, only five weeks had passed since the couple first set eyes on the vacant space to when they began welcoming customers, barely enough time to give the walls and ceiling a fresh coat of paint, let alone properly stock a gift store.

As they prepare to celebrate their first anniversary, however, their enterprise is bursting at the seams with goods largely produced by people with a narrative similar to their own — Ukrainians who fled to Canada in the weeks and months following the Russian invasion of their homeland in February 2022.

Besides traditional offerings such as handcrafted motanka dolls and gerdan necklaces, they also have whimsical selections along the line of perogy-shaped earrings and blue-and-yellow checkers sets, copying the Ukraine flag.

Building Blocks, Crumbling Foundation: Child Care in Crisis

A six-part investigation into the state of child care in Manitoba, examining the underlying issues that put kids and families at risk.

Landmarks: Exploring unique and iconic Winnipeg locations

Landmarks is a monthly feature in which columnist Alison Gillmor explores unique and iconic Winnipeg buildings and locations.

What’s up: katherena vermette, Brent Butt, DreamPlay Small Concerts, Marissa Burwell, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass

Vermette launches new poetry collectionMcNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park (1120 Grant Ave.)Tonight, 7 p.m.FreeAward-winning Winnipeg author katherena vermette will be joined by a pair of poetic heavy hitters for the launch of her latest collection.

Vermette’s new book, Procession, was published by House of Anansi Press on Sept. 30, and sees the Michif author explore notions of nostalgia, ceremony, ancestry and family throughout generations.

In 2013, vermette won the Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry for North End Love Songs, and for tonight’s launch she’ll be joined by two other local poets whose collections also won the $25,000 top prize — Hannah Green, who took home the award in 2023 for Xanax Cowboy, and Canadian parliamentary poet laureate Chimwemwe Undi, who won in 2024 for Scientific Marvel. Both Green and Undi’s collections were also published by House of Anansi.

The launch gets underway at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson’s Grant Park location. Of note: this event will not be streamed to the store’s YouTube page.

Edgy New York comic gears up for pushing buttons at Winnipeg show

There’s a good chance you haven’t heard of Sam Morril.

There’s a better chance almost everyone you know who’s addicted to Instagram and TikTok has.

The New York standup comedian thrives in a space between edgy online counterculture and traditional mainstream success, with its network TV and Hollywood trappings.

No surprise that the gravelly voiced comic, who relishes barbs that needle both sides of hot-button issues, talks smack about both worlds.