Local actor’s Christmas Wish comes true

Local actor’s Christmas Wish comes true

Averie Peters and her parents plan to watch their favourite Christmas movies this year, but they’re also adding a new movie with a familiar face — Averie’s.

The 10-year-old is starring in Hallmark’s Project Christmas Wish, which premières on the W Network throughout Canada on Dec. 26. Averie is playing the role of Max, a little girl who wishes for a Christmas like it used to be.

The movie marks Averie’s first speaking role, but she’s been a background performer in two previous Hallmark movies.

“As parents we’re beyond proud of Averie,” says Kelly Gillson, Averie’s mother. “From the first day on set she was eager to be a part of this movie and learn from everyone around her… it was incredible as a parent to sit back and watch her be confident, in character and able to take direction from the director.”

Election results: School trustees 2026

Below you’ll find live 2026 election results for school trustees in Winnipeg divisions.

We can display results only for wards in which Winnipeg voters cast a ballot; we do not have access to live results reporting for school boards outside of Winnipeg.

Multi-year budget to force councillors, bureaucrats to focus on the big picture

City hall is putting the final touches on the 2019 preliminary budget -- but the real tough job will start after that.

The city is committed to developing a four-year budget beginning with 2020, and having it in place by the end of this year.

It's a process that is filled with uncertainties, trying to balance four successive annual budgets at the same time, using assumptions on revenues and expenses that can change without notice: a provincial government that has frozen funding to city hall at 2016 levels and is reluctant to disclose annual funding commitments or share in unexpected revenues; erratic fuel prices; a possible change in government in Ottawa, which could bring new spending priorities. And in the middle of that four-year span, another civic election where new members of council may have other priorities than those laid out by the current crop of office holders.

Municipal governments across Manitoba are required to approve their annual operating and capital budgets by the end of March each year. But the criticism of decision-making at city hall has been that all the decisions are made on a year-to-year basis, keeping voters happy with an eye on the next election.

Transit driver killed in knife attack on U of M campus

A Winnipeg Transit driver was killed early this morning after he was stabbed by the only passenger on his bus at the University of Manitoba campus.

Irvine Jubal Fraser, 58, was rushed to hospital in critical condition but later died, police said.

The attack occurred at about 2 a.m. in the area of Dafoe Road West and Gillson Street.

Witnesses pointed officers led by the canine unit in the direction of the Red River, where a 22-year-old suspect trying to cross to the St. Vital side was arrested and taken into custody.

Three in-custody fatalities trigger inquests

The province’s chief medical examiner has called inquests into the deaths of three men, including two who died by suicide in correctional facilities earlier this year.

Craig Flett, 32, was found hanging in his cell in the Stony Mountain Institution prison on Feb. 10 this year.

Corrections officers were able to cut him down and tried to resuscitate him, but he later died of a brain injury. Flett was serving a life sentence at the time.

Sebastian Atkinson, a 25-year-old inmate at the Winnipeg Remand Centre, was found hanging in his cell by a linen sheet tied to a metal bar about five feet from the floor.

Hellebuyck’s numbers down, but problems go beyond crease

After hitting a bit of a skid in the last couple weeks of November when they lost four of six games, the Jets have turned it around to win four straight heading into Friday’s matchup against the St. Louis Blues, averaging over four goals per game in the process.

They’ve needed that goal support because, outside of Tuesday’s win over the Islanders, they have allowed three or more against in seven of their last nine games. As it is any time a team allows a lot of goals over a short stretch, many are looking straight at Connor Hellebuyck and expecting him to shut the door, going forward.

Goaltending isn’t that simple, and as I mentioned in mid-November, there were signs this season that Hellebuyck’s performance so far this season was as good and in some ways superior to last season, despite the drop in save percentage.

Things change as time goes on though, and because Hellebuyck’s save percentage since then is an unimpressive 87.8 per cent, it’s probably worthwhile to look at his overall numbers to see what’s going on.