US Figure Skating director Raith steps down, Baker promoted

Students join striking U of M profs in show of solidarity

STUDENTS say they are willing to make sacrifices as they stand in solidarity with striking faculty members at the University of Manitoba.

Many of them joined picketing professors and staff members at a rally at the U of M administration building Thursday despite being caught in the crossfire in the protracted dispute.

“Students are by far and away the ones most affected. We are the collateral damage,” said University of Manitoba Student Union president Brendan Scott.

Scott described the situation at the university as dire, as the longest strike in its history drags on.

CBC series digs into Cold War hockey showdown

Fifty years ago today, Winnipeg played a part in one of Canada’s greatest cultural touchstones.

Safety review calls for improved security at Siloam Mission

A safety review of Winnipeg’s largest homeless shelter is recommending improvements to security for staff, volunteers and community members after what its leadership acknowledged has been a challenging year.

The Siloam Mission report, which has not been made public, was discussed during a town hall Thursday night at the Millennium Centre on Main Street, where shelter leaders laid out what they described as a road forward for the organization.

Interim CEO Lisa Cefali, who was brought in at the end of May following the departure of Sonia Prevost-Derbecker after three tumultuous months in the job, said she could see the toll turmoil had taken when she arrived May 29.

Employees alleged Prevost-Derbecker made derogatory remarks about Indigenous people, people struggling with substance use and the downtown neighbourhood surrounding the mission’s Princess Street headquarters.

The dangers of growing government debt

What a difference a year makes. The federal government’s economic update was released one year ago to the day Mark Carney became prime minister. What was front and centre in Canadian politics has now been reduced to a passing reference.

It was 162 words. That’s it. That is the sum total contained in the spring economic update on renegotiating the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement. That reference takes up barely a third of a page in a 150-page update tabled in Parliament.

Even then, there was no actual update provided. Just a banal note that “the government is working to ensure that the review of CUSMA continues to provide predictable and favourable conditions for Canadian trade and investment with the United States and Mexico.”

The explanation can be found in this other sentence: “In an uncertain world, Canada focuses on what it can control.” That means U.S. President Donald Trump, tariffs, and trade with America. The government is admitting it cannot control any aspect of CUSMA negotiations. This is remarkably, if backhandedly, honest.