‘Swinging’ pool exit need not be splashy

Today’s horoscope

MOON ALERT: There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions today. The moon is in Aquarius.

ARIES (March 21-April 19)

This can be a lovely, friendly and romantic day if you can avoid intense discussions about shared property, inheritances and anything jointly held. Focus on what works. Avoid people who are intent on getting their way – not yours.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

Confronting racism: Photos challenge negative stereotypes

For one night only, KC Adams' anti-racism campaign had a pulse.

The nearly two dozen models who posed for her Perception portrait series were on hand Thursday for its official launch in the foyer of Manitoba Hydro's downtown headquarters. It's hoped they'll give the campaign a life of its own and shed light on Winnipeg's racism troubles.

The goal is to counter common media portrayals of aboriginal people -- as a burden on taxpayers, as victims of crime and poverty, as homeless panhandlers -- and instead show them as the normal, middle-class people that many Métis, First Nations and Inuit people are.

Each model has two pictures -- one where they're not smiling accompanied by a negative stereotype, and another where they're smiling and described as mothers, fathers and business people who are focused on the community.

Driver guilty of ‘mistake’ that killed three men in train collision

MINNEDOSA — Joseph Sinclair told a courtroom packed with grieving loved ones that not a day goes by when he doesn’t think about his dead co-workers, as he accepted responsibility Tuesday for a collision with a Canadian Pacific train that killed the three men in 2020.

“I can’t imagine what you guys went through and are going through,” he said. “All three of them were like family.”

He pleaded guilty to three counts of failing to stop the van he was driving at a marked railway crossing east of Strathclair, in western Manitoba, on Sept. 8, 2020. The van was hit by two locomotives that were joined together.

Passengers Phil Houle Jr., 45, Trevor Bone, 25, and Layne Catcheway, 19, who was Sinclair’s brother-in-law, died at the scene. Sinclair, who is from Dauphin, was injured. The men were employed by Russell Redi-Mix Concrete.

Olympic divers: Beware the flying shammy

When you ask people about digital health care, the complaint that too many digital solutions are built from the top down, comes up a lot, writes Christine Sismondo.

Solely subtracting can’t add up to much

The New England Journal of Medicine recently published the results of the biggest weight-loss drug trial yet. Retatrutide, produced by pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly, was taken by 2,339 adults and dropped the top-dose group an average of 28 per cent of their body weight in 80 weeks. Seventy pounds. Nearly half of them lost 30 per cent or more, which is bariatric surgery territory.

The drug isn’t approved in Canada yet. But it’s coming, and the numbers are going to make current weight-loss drugs seem quaint. So this feels like the right time to say something that’s been bugging me.

A client sat across from me last month, 22 pounds lighter than she was in June and asked why she looked worse.

She wasn’t being dramatic. Her face was drawn. She was tired by 2 p.m. every day. Her hair was thinning and circling the drain at an alarming rate. And she was, by any scale-based measure, winning.

Expectations, finances take hit in return to in-person dining

When East India Company Pub & Eatery opened its downtown Winnipeg doors Friday for the first time in months, it was quiet. Very quiet.

Then, a single customer walked in — and owner Sachit Mehra said it felt like a packed house again.

“That gentleman probably had more care than he’d ever had before,” he joked Tuesday. “Everyone was at the table: ‘Is everything good, is everything alright, can we bring you anything else?’”

That coddled customer would be the only one the Indian eatery would have for the lunch period. Friday night marked a few more visitors, and the Valentine’s Day weekend was steady.