Free Press celebrates launch of art exhibit Headlines: The Art of the News Cycle reflects on the Free Press's past and toasts to the future of local journalism Posted: 11:14 AM CST Saturday, Dec. 3, 2022

Faces of the aboriginal community

MatonabbeeBorn in 1737 at the Prince of Wales fort, he was taken in by the chief factor to live there after his father died. He became a "leading Indian" of Churchill and became the middleman between the Hudson's Bay Co. traders and the aboriginal people. He guided Samuel Hearne to the Coppermine River in the Northwest Territories from 1770 to 1772 and was credited with making the expedition a success because he helped the explorers live off the land. He committed suicide in 1782 after he witnessed the French destroy the fort.

Chief PeguisHe was born in 1774 near present-day Sault Ste. Marie before leading his people west to settle at Netley Creek. He was a friend to the Selkirk Settlers and warned Governor Semple about plans by the Nor'westers to destroy the Red River Settlement, advice that Semple ignored, costing him and 20 others their lives at the Battle of Seven Oaks. Peguis later helped Lord Selkirk make treaties with the Cree and Saulteaux and was presented with a treaty medal for his help. He later was given an annual pension from the Hudson's Bay Co. A missionary persuaded Peguis and some of his people to settle in the St. Peter's area north of present-day Selkirk. After being baptized into the Anglican Church, he took the name William King, and his children used the last name Prince. He died in 1864.

Endling wins Amazon’s $60K first novel prize

Ukraine-born, Vancouver-based author Maria Reva has landed another prize for her debut novel Endling, which follows a snail scientist in Ukraine who teams up with a pair of sisters to break up a mail-order bride operation in the country before Russia’s invasion throws them all for a loop.

Reva’s novel, which was published in June 2025 and released in paperback in May 2026, won the $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Award at a June 4 ceremony in Toronto which revealed the winner. Endling also won Reva the $60,000 Writers’ Trust Atwood Gibson Fiction Prize, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction and was long-listed for the Booker Prize.

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On Thursday at 6:30 p.m., retired Concordia University film and sexuality scholar Thomas Waugh will be at the Cornish Library (20 West Gate) to read from his memoir Writing in the Flesh: Essays on My Lives, My Bodies, My Families, My Place, My Movies, published in December 2025 by McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Valieva wins European figure skating title ahead of Olympics

Three years in, All Elite Wrestling has established itself as being the first viable alternative to WWE since the ‘Monday Night Wars’ of the mid-90s.

There's worse ways to go than dying while doing what you love

All comedians dream of leaving them laughing — and that’s exactly what Ian Cognito did.

The British comedian made headlines around the world earlier this month when he dropped dead onstage minutes after joking with the audience about dying.

Cognito, 60, a British comedy veteran whose real name was Paul Barbieri, died during his stand-up show at the Atic bar in Bicester, an English town north of Oxford.

The show’s host, Andrew Bird, told the BBC that Cognito was not feeling well before going onstage, but insisted on performing. He said the comic even joked onstage: “Imagine if I died in front of you lot here.”

New twist in Hellebuyck saga, suspension ends Friday

Connor Hellebuyck has played the reverse Uno card.

What we don’t know is if he has any intention of coming back to friendly Manitoba or if this is simply the latest attempt to put the Winnipeg Jets feet to the flames in an effort to move him to an American market.

Prior to puck drop on Saturday afternoon, when the Jets were getting set to host the Carolina Hurricanes, Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet reported that the three-time Vezina Trophy winner and one-time Hart Trophy winner informed the organization he wanted to return on Oct. 2 and that his holdout has now shifted to a team-imposed suspension that can officially come to an end Friday.

The Jets were able to extend his suspension (for failing to report to training camp) because of a clause in the collective bargaining agreement, Article 15.13, subsection (c)(v), which reads: “If a player who has not received permission to be absent from training camp returns to the club, he shall be subject to a disciplinary suspension of reasonable length.”