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Determined Dane dismisses drought

Nikolaj Ehlers would dearly love to pick up right where he left off when the fifth season of his NHL career came to a sudden halt in March.

What the skilled, speedy Winnipeg Jets forward doesn't want is to pick up where he left off the last time the Winnipeg Jets competed in the playoffs. Or, for that matter, the time before that.

Ehlers suited up for 15 of 17 games during the team's terrific post-season run in 2018 and skated in all six matchups last year in a first-round defeat to the St. Louis Blues, the eventual 2019 Stanley Cup champions. He was goalless in those 21 contests.

But the 24-year-old Dane is coming off a third 25-goal campaign (in just 71 games), including five tallies in his last 11 games and two in the Jets' final three outings. He was flying before the COVID-19 shutdown, exhibiting some chemistry with centre Cody Eakin and right-winger Patrik Laine.

Truckers convoy: How a TikToker, oil advocates and a Wexit organizer helped fire up the ‘Freedom Rally’ that’s heading to Ottawa

A GoFundMe raised more than $3 million to help the truckers with fuel, food and lodging.

Truck driver blew stop sign in Broncos crash

MELFORT, Sask. - Grieving families sobbed Monday as they heard how a semi-truck driver barrelled through an oversized stop sign with a flashing red light and failed to avoid a high-speed crash with a bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team.

An agreed statement of facts about the collision that killed 16 people on the bus and injured 13 more was entered in a Saskatchewan court as part of a heart-wrenching first day of a sentencing hearing for the truck driver. Roughly half of 75 victim impact statements to be submitted by friends and family members were read out.

Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, 30, of Calgary, sat next to his defence lawyers as court heard he was going between 86 and 96 km/h with a load of peat moss when he drove into a rural intersection north of Tisdale last April.

The sun wasn't in his eyes. He wasn't distracted by a cellphone. And he hadn't been drinking or doing drugs. Weather and road conditions were also good, said Crown prosecutor Thomas Healey.

Trial project lauded in the fight against pollution

A city project aimed at reducing water pollution is being deemed a success, despite some challenges in adding it to an aging sewage treatment plant.

The city used strategically placed doses of ferric chloride to reduce the amount of phosphorous, a key algae-promoting nutrient, in effluent leaving the North End sewage treatment plant between June 2024 and September 2025.

The chemical additives increased the removal of phosphorous through the plant’s treatment process. It went from 61 per cent of the nutrient being removed pre-trial, to reach 74 per cent in 2024 and 67 per cent in 2025.

“It’s a success, because we’re removing more phosphorous than we were before … Any improvement in phosphorous removal will help Lake Winnipeg,” said Michelle Paetkau, a senior planning engineer for Winnipeg water and waste.

U of M exhibition brings ancient Roman Egyptian documents to life

Two thousand years ago, people in Roman Egypt wrote letters, kept receipts, made lists and dealt with the everyday bureaucracy of life.

Some of those pieces of ancient life are now on display in Winnipeg.

The University of Manitoba’s “The Ancient Inbox” exhibition opened Monday, featuring papyrus documents dating back as far as 2,000 years and on loan from the University of Michigan Papyrology Collection.

The exhibition, running until Sept. 30, is the first public display of authentic papyrus manuscripts in Winnipeg, according to Dr. C. Michael Sampson, a U of M classics professor and papyrologist.

Travellers who took refuge in Winnipeg during 9/11 give thanks for the kindness of strangers

Twenty years ago on Sept. 11, Bruce and Kathryn Fleming were walking through Logan International Airport in Boston at the same time as 10 terrorists who were hell-bent on destruction and death.

The couple had just visited his parents and were on their way home to West Vancouver via a direct Air Canada flight to Vancouver.

Instead, their pilot was forced to land in Winnipeg after two planes hit the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York City and North American airspace was shut down to non-military planes.

“Parts of that day could have been yesterday,” said Fleming, who now lives in San Antonio. “I can still see the fall in Winnipeg, the leaves falling off the trees. I can picture walking down to the river and the collection of stores at The Forks.