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Police probe weekend vandalism spree as dozens of school buses taken out of service

Vandals used fire extinguishers to damage dozens of Winnipeg School Division buses and an elementary school in a pair of weekend break-ins, disrupting transportation or lessons for potentially hundreds of students.

Several buses were taken out of service, resulting in cancellations or delays on some routes Monday, after 45 parked vehicles were damaged in a lot on Selkirk Avenue, west of Keewatin Street.

“We occasionally will have a fire extinguisher stolen or a little bit of damage, but this was certainly the largest-scale vandalism that we’ve seen in our (transportation) yard,” said Matt Henderson, superintendent of Manitoba’s largest school division.

“The result of that was a number of bus routes had to be cancelled (Monday), which is really problematic. There’s an added stress on families to get their children to school.”

Kamloops residential school discovery challenges the myth of The Good Canadian — again

Canadians became aware of the horrors more than a century ago. But to many the abuses were invisible.

Western inland ports form alliance

CentrePort Canada Inc. has formed an alliance with three other inland ports.

President and CEO Carly Edmundson signed a memorandum of understanding in Ottawa on Monday with Global Transportation Hub Authority, located in Regina; Port Alberta, located in the Edmonton Metropolitan Region; and Prairie Economic Gateway, a shovel-ready collaboration between the City of Calgary and Rocky View County.

The newly formed Canadian Inland Ports Alliance will align on major inland port initiatives, strengthening seaport-to-hinterland connectivity and supporting a more resilient, diversified and competitive Canadian trade network, the alliance announced in a news release.

The four ports have been in conversation since the summer, Edmundson told the Free Press on Monday. The alliance responds to growing pressures facing Canada’s trade and transportation network, including congestion, shifting trade partners, supply chain disruptions, marine gateway constraints and the need for stronger inland capacity.

Man stabbed outside shelter dies days later, manslaughter charges laid

A violent altercation outside Winnipeg’s largest homeless shelter turned fatal days later, leaving staff and community members mourning the loss of a man who was well known to them.

Police were called to Siloam Mission around 10:30 a.m. Saturday Oct. 17 after a fight broke out in the shelter’s parking lot on the 300 block of Stanley Street, leaving a 31-year-old man with stab wounds.

Officers found the man in critical condition and rushed him to hospital, where he remained until his death on Tuesday Oct. 20.

On Monday, police identified the victim as Jereth Joseph James Clarke, a member of Norway House Cree Nation who had been staying in Winnipeg.

Royal Canoe mixes instruments, sounds from frozen source

The members of Winnipeg indie band Royal Canoe are no strangers to working with experimental sounds, but figuring out how to create instruments from ice and make music with them is unlike anything they’ve tackled in the past.

In the last month, the six-piece group has carved blocks of ice into instruments, including a xylophone, kick drum and hi-hat. The sounds they make will be used in reimagined versions of 10 of the band’s songs, which will be performed at two free shows at The Forks on Friday and Saturday.

“We were in (guitarist) Bucky Driedger’s garage during the first week of January. We got a whole shipment of ice and we were just throwing ice around and recording it and scraping it and banging it, but also being mindful of the things we could actually do live, because that’s what people are most interested in, and what we’re most interested in, too,” says vocalist Matt Peters.

Sputnik Architecture had asked the band to be the invited artist at the Warming Huts v2020: An Art + Architecture Competition On Ice. The band was asked to create a concert similar to one performed by Norwegian ice musician Terje Isungset at the Winnipeg New Music Festival in 2019.