News briefs for Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Fire on East Gate

8:25 AM

Crews battled a fire in the 100 block of East Gate for more than 90 minutes before declaring it under control Tuesday.

Firefighters were sent to the two-and-a-half-storey residence in the 100 block of East Gate at 5:44 p.m. They fought the fire from inside the building, declaring it under control at 7:18 p.m.

The cause of the fire is under investigation, the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service said late Tuesday night.

Woman killed in highway crash

9:28 AM

A driver was killed on Highway 52 when she lost control of her vehicle and collided with a truck going the opposite direction.

The crash happened at 7:35 a.m. Tuesday near Municipal Road 38E in the Rural Municipality of La Broquerie.

RCMP said a 26-year-old Steinbach woman was travelling eastbound when she tried to avoid debris, lost control of the vehicle and collided with a westbound pickup truck.

The woman was pronounced dead at the scene. The 28-year-old man driving the truck was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, RCMP said. The three passengers in the truck were not injured.

Man fatally shot by RCMP in Portage la Prairie

11:59 AM

An 18-year-old man was fatally shot by an RCMP officer after what investigators described as a “domestic disturbance” in an apartment in Portage la Prairie early Wednesday.

Mounties were sent to the apartment building on Hazel Bay at about 1:05 a.m. and found a female victim safe in another apartment, Manitoba RCMP said in a news release late Wednesday morning.

The RCMP said officers were confronted by the male suspect, who was armed with a weapon, when they went to the suite where he lives.

“The officers deployed their conducted energy weapons,” RCMP said, “and an officer discharged their firearm.”

The man was pronounced deceased at the scene.

One officer suffered minor injuries, the Mounties said.

The Independent Investigation Unit of Manitoba is investigating.

Comedian Daniel Sloss takes the Burt stage July 19

12:54 PM

Scottish comedian and author Daniel Sloss, who has performed in 53 countries, has booked a July 19 date at the Burton Cummings Theatre.

Tickets go on sale May 26 at 10 a.m. at livenation.com and at ticketmaster.ca. Prices weren’t announced.

Sloss, 32, was 17 when he debuted at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival at in 2007 and a year later became the youngest comedian to have a solo show at London’s West End. He is best known for his 2019 HBO special X, which led to a 300-show world tour, as well as two 2018 Netflix specials Dark and Jigsaw. In 2021 Penguin Random House published his book Everybody You Hate is Going to Die.