Pau Gasol elected by Olympic athletes to be an IOC member

A chance to reimagine road safety

Drivers have killed 11 pedestrians on Winnipeg streets in 2022.

Free little libraries dotting the city foster sense of connection, community

Tucked away along a fence on Rossmere Crescent sits a wooden blue and white box filled with books. For those who haven’t seen something like it before, it might look a bit out of place. But for many people in the Fraser’s Grove Park area — and others throughout Winnipeg — these charming little libraries are bringing joy and community spirit to their neighbourhoods, one chapter at a time.

Winnipeg: Home of IG’s past and future

Shortly after IG Wealth Management was established in Canada, our founders chose Winnipeg as the home of our young, ambitious company.

This year, as IG celebrates its milestone 100-year anniversary of helping Canadians achieve financial well-being, we’ve been reflecting on the decisions that shaped our company and the values that continue to define us today.

The decision to establish our headquarters in Winnipeg was a foundational one.

Winnipeg, a city at the heart of our country where people, ideas and opportunity come together, has always been more than a location for IG. The city’s talent, character and sense of community have helped our company grow and thrive for generations. These qualities made Winnipeg the right place to build a business then and they continue to make it the right place to be today.

Inappropriate late-night texts to students costs teachers their jobs

Manitoba’s independent teacher commissioner has cancelled two certificates this month because of inappropriate late-night messaging with minors.

Robert Gregoire is no longer permitted to teach in the River East Transcona School Division or elsewhere in the province after he was found to have called a student “my beautiful” and “princess,” among other pet names he used in online communications over multiple years.

Brady Nurse, who became the subject of a workplace probe after RCMP contacted the Portage la Prairie School Division about his actions, was also recently stripped of his licence.

New consent resolution agreements — public documents outlining agreed-upon facts and consequences in disciplinary cases — reveal the men in both cases repeatedly engaged in boundary-crossing behaviour.

Would Canada actually spy on Cuba?

The Globe and Mail recently ran a series of stories on how “Havana syndrome” negatively impacted a number of diplomats working at the Canadian embassy in Cuba. As of this writing, there has been unusual radio silence on the topic from Mark Carney’s governing Liberals.

The reportage also linked the so-called “sonic attacks” or what the Americans call “anomalous health incidents” (and the attendant concussion-like symptoms) to a Russian high-frequency microwave weapon. More importantly, the Globe maintained that Moscow’s retaliation against Canadian officials in Havana was because of their close co-operation with U.S. intelligence agencies in spying on the Cuban government.

Some of the articles claimed that high-tech satellite gear, which was brought into Cuba covertly by U.S. officials, was installed on the roofs of the residences of Canadian diplomats in Havana. Presumably, Canadian officials — or what are sometimes referred to as officers or agents working under the Global Security Reporting Program (GSRP) within the Department of Global Affairs — were using this satellite technology to collect intelligence on human sources in Cuba.

The secret information was eventually passed on to Canada’s partners in the so-called “Five Eyes” alliance (the U.S., Australia, Britain and New Zealand). It’s worth pointing out that this wouldn’t have been the first time Canadian officials in Cuba were funnelling sensitive intelligence to their U.S. counterparts.