Sulking won’t help rekindle romance with wife

Chef friends bring London's culinary culture home to Winnipeg

The chefs are back in town and they’ve started their own London-inspired catering company.

Michael Robins, co-founder of Sous Sol, and Keegan Misanchuk, former chef de cuisine at Segovia, recently returned home to Winnipeg after several years of cooking in high-profile English kitchens. Their new private catering and pop-up venture, called Two Hands, brings together everything they learned during their culinary exchange and is emblematic of their focus on handmade food done well.

“I was just thinking about cooking,” Robins, 36, says of the inspiration behind the name. “And whether it’s fine dining or anything else, it all starts with your hands… and that’s the thing I love about cooking the most.”

So far, the pair have hosted a handful — pardon the pun — of pop-up events at local breweries and restaurants featuring everything from East London-style bagel sandwiches to Thai barbecue. They’ve also been channelling the British savoury-pie tradition with a recurring event called Proper Pies.

Wiseman leans on pro experience

Todd Wiseman knows what pressure feels like in a sporting arena.

The Port Moody, B.C. resident faced it every summer across an eight-year playing career as a defensive back in the Canadian Football League with the B.C. Lions, Toronto Argonauts and Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

Wiseman, who switched from knocking down passes to knocking down birdies after the 1994 season, is feeling a different kind of weight this week in the Canadian senior men’s championship at Niakwa Country Club, but has managed it well through two rounds.

Wiseman turned in a rather clean three-under 69 on Wednesday, his two bogeys outweighed by five birdies, to grab a share of the lead in the 55-plus national event. Wiseman tied a single-round tournament low to share the 36-hole lead with Winnipegger David White and America’s top-ranked senior amateur Bryan Hoops.

Opening of Bruce Oake Treatment Centre is 'not the finish line, it's the start

The COVID-19 pandemic has been responsible for postponing or cancelling all kinds of projects, but it didn’t affect construction of the Bruce Oake Treatment Centre, which will be finished months before the planned fall opening.

Humane Society urges revamp of rules to curb irresponsible pet ownership

Winnipeg is being lobbied to add strict new limits to its responsible pet ownership bylaw to reduce what some deem a pet “overpopulation.”

A city committee took a step toward studying some of those ideas on Monday.

Jonas Watson, chairman of the Winnipeg Humane Society, told council’s protection and community services committee that too many unwanted or improperly cared-for pets place “a never-ending strain on animal shelters and rescue organizations.”

“One of the most tragic consequences of pet overpopulation is the inevitable euthanasia of unadoptable animals,” Watson told the committee.

Pallister’s education policies crash the party

The University of Manitoba graduated 510 Indigenous students on Saturday, the largest cohort in its history.

Comparatively, in 2011 — the year I started teaching at the U of M — there were 158.

That’s more than three times as many and one of the highest numbers in North America (University of Saskatchewan hasn’t released this year's numbers yet but it is often slightly higher than the U of M).

This means we will have more Indigenous professionals entering the workforce than ever before, and its a number that has been increasing every year for a decade.