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Blue Bombers Grey Cup Moments

The Free Press is celebrating decades of CFL greatness with a special 12-week feature highlighting unforgettable Blue Bomber Grey Cup moments.

Each week we will spotlight a Blue Bomber Grey Cup vistory and the legends who helped bring it home.

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46th Grey Cup Nov. 29, 1958 • Blue Bombers 35 vs. Hamilton Tiger-Cats 28

Winnipeggers have their say after Liberal win

Winnipeg voters weighed in after Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals won a minority government Monday night in Canada’s federal election.

Retired health-care worker Barbara Hill said Tuesday afternoon she expected a minority government — except for the Conservative party.

“(Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre) had all the best policies, I figured everybody would be sick of the Liberals,” said Hill, 75. “Every time you go to the store, everything is so expensive, almost every time you go something’s gone up.”

A voter in Winnipeg South, meanwhile, expected the Tories to be victorious in his riding, and others.

Liberal Chartrand claims victory in longtime NDP-held Churchill-Keewatinook Aski

A progressive stronghold in northern Manitoba was under threat of turning red Monday night, with the Liberal party challenger poised to topple the longtime NDP incumbent.

Churchill-Keewatinook Aski was the only federal riding in rural Manitoba with the chance to change hands, as the other five electoral districts decisively voted Tory blue.

Rebecca Chartrand had collected 48 per cent of votes by 11 p.m. and was set to remove Niki Ashton from the seat she has held since 2008.

Ashton’s fate seemed destined to mirror those of most of her NDP colleagues across the nation, with polls returning similar losses after the party limped into the election with dwindling support.

Dancho poised to keep Kildonan-St. Paul Tory-blue for a third time

Raquel Dancho’s tried-and-true campaign tactics appear to have kept Kildonan-St. Paul blue.

Dancho, 35, is expected to return to Parliament Hill to represent residents of northeastern Winnipeg and surrounding municipalities.

The incumbent Conservative looked to be on her way to securing her third term Monday night, although it was a tighter race than in years past.

With 150 of 208 polls — 70 per cent of them — reporting at 11:10 p.m., she had 49 per cent of the vote.

NDP’s Gazan re-elected in Winnipeg Centre

It’s a three-peat for NDP incumbent Leah Gazan in Winnipeg Centre.

The crowd chanted Gazan’s name at her campaign headquarters on Portage Avenue after she was projected the winner of her riding shortly before 11 p.m. Monday.

“This was a hard night for us as the NDP but here’s the thing: we were in the fight of our life in Winnipeg Centre and you know why we won? We won because we believe in human rights at the centre in Winnipeg Centre,” Gazan told supports. “We believe that we need people holding the Liberal government to account to fight against corporate greed.”

The 53-year-old educator and community organizer was first elected in 2019.

ER doctor takes back Winnipeg riding from Tories

Doug Eyolfson will again leave the emergency room and head to Parliament Hill after taking down Marty Morantz, the Conservative incumbent in Winnipeg West.

“In 2019 when I lost, I vowed that I was going to be back one day, and I never really gave that up,” Eyolfson, 61, told the Free Press at his campaign party event at the Portage Avenue Holiday Inn.

“I always kept working at this while doing my day job, and I had a feeling that one day it was going to happen again. It was worth every moment.”

The doctor, who often spoke to media on the state of Manitoba health care during the COVID-19 pandemic, was the MP for the area for one term, from 2015 to 2019, but lost to Morantz in both of the subsequent elections.

Liberals hang on to St. Boniface-St. Vital

Liberal candidate Ginette Lavack rode to victory in St. Boniface-St. Vital.

Lavack bested Conservative candidate Shola Agboola with 56 per cent of the vote, while Agboola came in a distant second with 35 per cent of the vote.

“We did it. We really did it,” Lavack said from her election night headquarters at Fort Gibraltar in the heart of St. Boniface, flanked by supporters and former MP Dan Vandal.

Supporters roared with applause as Lavack walked in to the tune of Serena Ryder’s Circle of the Sun.