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People around the world are celebrating the promise and potential of 2025.
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People around the world are celebrating the promise and potential of 2025.
The Free Press kept a finger on the pulse of New Year’s festivities, sharing a collage of celebrations abroad.
Fireworks explode over the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge during New Year's Eve celebrations in Sydney, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP Image via AP)People take smartphones photos of the fireworks exploding near the Petronas Twin Towers during the New Year's celebrations in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)Perfomers ring in the new year during a count down event held in Beijing, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)Fireworks explode over Victoria Harbour to celebrate the start of 2025 at Tsim Sha Tsui in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)A national flag-hoisting ceremony is held during a New Year celebration at Kim Il Sung Square Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025, in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/Cha Song Ho)Sikh devotees pray while standing in the pond surrounding the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine for the Sikhs, on New Year's Day in Amritsar, India, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Prabhjot Gill)Fireworks explode over the Chao Phraya River during New Year celebrations in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)Fireworks explode at the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, during the New Year's Eve celebration in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)Syrians celebrate the new year after the ousting of Assad regime, in a bar in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)Fireworks spark over the historical site of Giza Pyramids, marking the new year, just outside Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)Drones form the year 2025 next the ancient Parthenon temple at the Acropolis hill during New Year's celebrations in Athens, Greece, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)Fireworks light the sky above the Quadriga at the Brandenburg Gate during New Year's celebrations shortly after midnight in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)People celebrate during New Year's celebrations at Madrid's Puerta del Sol square in downtown Madrid, Spain, early Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)A man dressed as Ded Moroz (Santa Claus, or Father Frost) and other people celebrate the New Year's Day outside Red Square with the Spasskaya Tower and the St. Basil's Cathedral in the background, in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024.(AP Photo)People walk in a square decorated for Christmas and the New Year festivities in Donetsk in Russian-controlled Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)A couple kisses as they celebrate New Year on Cathedral Square in Vilnius, Lithuania, shortly after midnight Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)Dancers from the Berom tribe, dressed in costume, perform during the annual New Year celebration in Vwang, central Nigeria, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)A light show is projected on the Arc de Triomphe as fireworks explode during New Year celebrations on the Champs Elysees in Paris, France, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)Fireworks light up the sky over Elizabeth Tower, also known as Big Ben, and the London Eye in central London during the New Year celebrations Wednesday Jan. 1, 2025. (James Manning/PA via AP)People celebrate as fireworks light up the sky over Copacabana Beach during New Year's celebrations in Rio de Janeiro, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)Revelers celebrate after the ball drops in New York's Times Square, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)People watch New Year's fireworks by the waterfront in Toronto on Wednesday, January 1, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Laura ProctorFireworks explode over the Las Vegas Strip during a New Year's Eve celebration Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/David Becker)
One of the only remaining grocery-store options for people living downtown and in the Exchange District is closing its doors.
Red notices on the windows at Giant Tiger’s Donald Street and Ellice Avenue location advised passersby the store will close on Nov. 7.
Chain spokesperson Jessica Charbonneau said in an email the decision to shutter stores is “not taken lightly and is made with careful consideration and thorough analysis.”
This week, owing to extreme heat and a wild storm with tree-snapping winds, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet had to cancel its full run of Ballet in the Park, a much-loved annual tradition at which people from all over Manitoba can enjoy world-class art in the verdant Assiniboine Park.
Two weeks prior, Rainbow Stage, another jewel of a Winnipeg summer, had to cancel the closing matinee of Jesus Christ Superstar owing to heat and humidity.
And at the beginning of July, Winnipeg Folk Festival attendees baked under scorching temperatures — 47 C with the humidex — to enjoy not just the discovery of music, but the community that has formed in Birds Hill Park on the second weekend of July for over 50 years.
This doesn’t feel great. I do not begrudge cancellations — they are absolutely the correct call for the health and safety of performers and patrons — but I can’t be the only one feeling some existential dread about our summers, and the things that make them special, in the face of a changing climate.
Mistress of the Persian Boarding House is the most enjoyable book I have read in the more than 15 years since I began reviewing books for the Free Press.
Author Marina Nemat’s prose, inspired by her paternal grandmother’s life, flows smoothly, like a babbling brook down a mountain.
Nemat is an Iranian-born Canadian writer and human rights activist known for her bestselling memoirs Prisoner of Tehran and After Tehran: A Life Reclaimed. Arrested at 16 for opposing Iran’s post-revolution regime, she endured torture and forced marriage in Evin Prison before emigrating to Canada in 1991.
Nemat’s grandmothers were both Russian, and she was brought up in a Russian Orthodox Christian family in Tehran. With their Iranian husbands, whom they had married before the Russian Revolution of 1917, both grandmothers fled from Russia to Iran as part of a massive wave of migration.
Pimicikamak Cree First Nation, also known as Cross Lake, remains under lockdown as RCMP Major Crime Services investigate a shooting that left a 42-year-old man dead.
RCMP said officers were notified by local First Nation Safety Officers at about 9:30 p.m. Friday about a seriously injured person on Main Road in the community. Officers found two males at the scene, including one with a gunshot wound.
The 42-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene by EMS. The second male was not injured and did not require medical attention, police said.
Manitoba RCMP Major Crime Services, along with Cross Lake RCMP and Forensic Identification Services, are investigating. Police said the suspect is believed to be known to the person shot and may still be in the community.
Free Press staff2 minute readYesterday at 7:28 PM CDT
Downtown Winnipeg is without a Keg restaurant — for a couple of months, anyways.
The Keg Steakhouse and Bar vacated 115 Garry St. on Wednesday, after more than five decades at the location. It will open in a new Donald Street apartment tower this fall.
Its move comes after years of waiting. The DSM, at 185 Donald St., sat as a partially started apartment block after its developer stopped operating and sought creditor protection in April 2023. The developer began the project in 2019.
Carrington Real Estate took over in 2024. Part of the 14-storey site’s initial plans — pre-Carrington — was for the Keg to occupy the main floor.
I’ve been reading Caroline Fraser. She has a book called Murderland about serial killers that came out last year. Her previous book, Prairie Fires, was a biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder. She’s a new author for me, and I’m going through that biography now. I never read Wilder’s books, but I liked the TV show when I was a kid; it’s one of those books that’s about a person’s life, but also pulls back to get the larger cultural panorama of America, talking about frontier life and and prairie life — it’s really interesting.
Colson Whitehead will launch Cool Machine, the third book in his Harlem trilogy, on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Muriel Richardson Auditorium at WAG-Qaumajuq (300 Memorial Blvd.) in an event presented by McNally Robinson Booksellers.
