Winnipeg grows even as people flock to bedroom communities: census

Mayoral race lineup grows to 10 candidates

An electrical contractor has become the 10th candidate to register for the race to become Winnipeg’s next mayor.

Zac Uminski has thrown his name into the competition, after Scott Gillingham signed up to seek re-election as mayor and eight other candidates previously registered.

The father of four said concern about homelessness and addictions sparked his interest in politics.

“My campaign will focus on practical solutions to improve public safety, support families and strengthen the city services,” Uminski said. “We need safer communities.”

Looking back: Fans cheer on the Bombers in past Grey Cup games

The Bombers have appeared in 24 Grey Cup games, winning 10 times since the club's inception in 1930. Though it's been 29 years since their last CFL title, they can always count on diehard fans to cheer them on. 

Emergency rooms need help — now

Triage. It’s an interesting, necessary, and bluntly pragmatic concept, but it’s not for the faint of heart.

It’s a method of determining how and when to treat the injured and the sick, and it has a long (and disputed) history. Many historians credit French army surgeon Dominique-Jean Larrey, who, in Napoleonic France, came up with a classification system to help evacuate and treat injured soldiers by quickly dividing their injuries into three different classifications.

“In the Battle of Jena in 1806, the French army used the triage system developed by Larrey. The system involved categorization into three grades based on the severity of the wounds irrespective of the soldier’s rank: dangerously wounded, less dangerously wounded, and slightly wounded,” wrote researchers Hiroyuki Nakao, Isao Ukai and Joji Kotani in the medical journal Acute Medicine and Surgery.

Triage, in fact, means “breaking into threes,” and there’s a dispute over whether it was originally used to classify coffee beans or wool — but we’re not going any further down that particular rabbit hole today.

Beloved meteorologist to be laid to rest on Blizzard of the Century anniversary

On Monday, March 4, John (Jack) Junson will be laid to rest in a 2 p.m. service at Prairie Spirit United Church, at 207 Thompson Dr., and the timing of the memorial could not be more fitting.

That’s because Monday marks the 53rd anniversary of Winnipeg’s Blizzard of the Century, a storm that was a seminal moment in the career of a man who became one of the longest-serving meteorologists in Canadian history.

“It’s so fitting to have his service on the anniversary of the blizzard,” his daughter, Janeen Junson, 60, said of her father, who died Feb. 14 at Riverview Health Centre at the age of 95. “(The blizzard) was part of who my dad was. He loved being a weatherman. He was very proud of it.”

Her brother, John, 64, said their soft-spoken father would have appreciated the timing, too.

Russian Olympic biathlon champion loses Sochi doping case

GENEVA - Two-time Olympic biathlon champion Olga Zaitseva lost her appeal Thursday against disqualification from the 2014 Sochi Olympics for her part in Russia’s state-backed doping program.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport said its judges upheld the International Olympic Committee’s disciplinary ruling of 2017, which used evidence against Zaitseva from Russian whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov.

Zaitseva’s disqualification from all her Sochi events strips Russia of its silver medal in the women’s biathlon 4x6-kilometre relay. She won — and will retain — her gold medals from the same relay event at the two previous Winter Games in 2006 and 2010.

Her lawyer in Switzerland, Yvan Henzer, said Zaitseva would appeal the CAS ruling at Switzerland’s supreme court. The federal court typically only intervenes if legal process was abused.