News briefs for Thursday, December 1, 2022

Valour FC re-signed midfielder Raphael Ohin on Thursday.

Ohin, 27, returns for his fifth season with Winnipeg’s professional soccer club. He missed all of last season with an injury.

Ohin joined Valour after three seasons with WSA Winnipeg of the Professional Development League (PDL).

Diners will return to Winnipeg’s frozen waterways this winter for the 10th anniversary of RAW:almond, a fine-dining pop-up restaurant created by Deer + Almond chef Mandel Hitzer and architect Joe Kalturnyk.

The 22-night event runs from Jan. 26 to Feb. 18, 2023 and features a lineup of 20 renowned local and North American chefs, including Michelin Star recipient Joël Watanabe of Vancouver’s Kissa Tanto restaurant and Gus Stieffenhofer-Brandson, the Winnipeg-born chef behind Published on Main, which was named No. 1 on this year’s Canada’s 100 Best Restaurants list.

The temporary restaurant will be situated at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers with a design inspired by the work of recently deceased francophone architect, Étienne Gaboury.

Tickets for RAW:almond are $225 per seat and can be purchased in-person at The Forks on Sun., Dec. 11. Remaining tickets will be available online at raw-almond.com the following day.

Winnipeg Blue Bombers general manager Kyle Walters spoke to the media Thursday morning.

Walters said no NFL team has reached out about any Bombers player, including star rookie receiver Dalton Schoen, for a workout.

Walters also described head coach Mike O’Shea’s contract extension as a work in progress, despite there being reports that the two sides have agreed to a three-year deal already.

City police say a man charged with killing a woman is now charged with multiple other murders.

Jeremy Skibicki had already been charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of Rebecca Contois, 24, in May.

The Winnipeg Police Service is holding a news conference this afternoon, saying more victims have been identified and that Skibicki has been charged in the additional murders.

The Free Press will have more on this story.

The Manitoba Moose fell to the Milwaukee Admirals 4-3 in a thriller that required a shootout to settle the affair this afternoon at the downtown rink.

The Moose are now 9-5-3 (21 points) on the young campaign and own third place in the central division.

Manitoba’s Alex Limoges, Wyatt Bongiovanni and Jeff Malott scored for the hosts while goaltender Oskari Salminen stopped 38 of 41 shots he faced. Admirals netminder Yaraslov Askarov stopped 35 of 38 shots, including both shots he faced in the skills competition, to nab the victory.

The Moose and Admirals will run it back on Saturday at 2 p.m. to close the two-game mini series.

Morgan Wallen, whose rise up the country music charts has defied the COVID-19 pandemic and the use of a racial slur in 2021 that was caught on video, will play Canada Life Centre Sept. 28, 2023.

Tickets go on sale Dec. 9 at livenation.com at 2 p.m. Winnipeg time, but there are several pre-sales scheduled for Dec. 8 at 2 p.m. Ticket prices have not been announced.

Wallen, who was a contestant on Season 6 of The Voice talent show,  apologized for using the racial slur shortly after the incident was broadcast on the gossip website TMZ.

In the meantime, his 2020 album Dangerous has made Billboard history, being the longest-running album by a solo artist on the top-10 album charts, surpassing Adele’s 21 and Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA.