COVID-19 by the numbers By: Winnipeg Free Press Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Tuesday, Apr. 7, 2020 Last Modified: 5:10 PM CDT Tuesday, Apr. 11, 2023 Updates

Grain latest Port of Churchill shipment

Prairie grain will soon ship out of the Port of Churchill for the first time in at least five years.

Starting Friday, grain will be moved to the northern Manitoba port from The Pas, via the Hudson Bay Railway. Few details were provided Wednesday.

A global agricultural company, based in Canada, will send its grain to international markets via the deep-water port. The first ship should leave Churchill at the end of August or beginning of September, said Chris Avery, president of Arctic Gateway Group, the port’s owner.

Arctic Gateway Group is talking with other companies also looking to ship grain, Avery added.

Manitoba Miracle forward signs five-year contract with club

Cole Perfetti is betting on himself. And the Winnipeg Jets are counting on him to take the next step in his development.

In what has been an interesting off-season to date, general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff knocked another important item off his to-do list as the Jets agreed to terms with Perfetti on a five-year contract that carries an average annual value of US$6 million.

Perhaps the most important part of this transaction was that it allowed the two sides to avoid going to arbitration next Monday, which would have been bad for business for both parties.

Although it’s easy to say that it’s just business, a one-year term in arbitration, no matter the amount, would have left neither side satisfied and it would have meant Perfetti was just one year away from the opportunity to explore unrestricted free agency.

COVID-19 by the numbers in Manitoba

The Winnipeg Free Press is tracking the status of COVID-19 in Manitoba, as reported by provincial and federal health authorities.

Sheriff’s officer dies in collision with train

Manitoba’s premier says the “service and sacrifice” of a sheriff’s officer who died in a train collision near Portage la Prairie on Tuesday morning will “never be forgotten.”

RCMP were called to the collision between a van and the train on Road 40 West, west of Portage, on Tuesday at 8 a.m.

RCMP say it appears a Manitoba Sheriff Services van collided with the train, causing it to roll and land in the ditch.

The driver, a 27-year-old man from Portage, died at the scene, while a passenger received minor injuries and taken by paramedics to hospital as a precaution.

‘Senseless killing’ of man he’d just met worth at least 15 years in prison: judge

With a trail of criminal convictions behind him, Dartanian Packulak had been out of custody two months when he shot and killed 23-year-old Everett King, a man he had just met watching an ultimate fighting match at a North End home.

Packulak, 24, was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 15 years on Tuesday, after being convicted by a jury of second-degree murder in December.

“There is no evidence to refute the inference that this was a completely senseless killing of an unarmed person,” said Court of King’s Bench Justice Shawn Greenberg. “Mr. Packulak’s criminal history and attitudes show a person who appears to simply be incorrigible.”

Court was told King was at a Mountain Avenue home on Sept. 10, 2023, watching a televised UFC match with friends when another man arrived with Packulak, who was a stranger to others in the house.