Bard’s females get their due in Awaken

Out of step, likely out of government

It appears increasingly likely that voters who want to see safe-consumption sites in Winnipeg will have to wait until a new government is elected.And the longer the Tories swim against the current of public opinion on this issue, the more likely it is that a different government will be unveiled in the fall.

MPI still lacking brain injury expert

Manitoba Public Insurance has failed to hire an independent brain injury expert to probe how personal injury claims are handled, nearly two years after it was recommended.

Several speakers shared their stories about experiences with MPI in relation to brain injury claims on the opening day of the Public Utilities Board hearing into the auto insurer’s general rate application for a 2.38 per cent increase.

Jean-Marc Christophe said he had a concussion after a collision in September 2025. He said he’s had little help from the Crown corporation and it has left him confused and frustrated.

“Before the collision, I worked about 55 to 60 hours a week, worked every day as a courier. I delivered groceries,” he told the board Tuesday. “Trying to navigate this has been very difficult. I don’t have anybody to help me. I have to do it on my own.”

Women’s hockey pioneers face offon PTE stage

You probably haven’t heard of the Preston Rivulettes, but nearly a century ago, they were considered by many to be the best hockey team in Canada.

Not the best women’s hockey team but the best hockey team, period.

Throughout the 1930s, the team was revered for its on-ice dominance, “a smooth-working hockey machine” and the “perennial rulers” of the Dominion Women’s Amateur Hockey Association, per The Canadian Press.

Of the estimated 350 games the club played, historical records show it lost fewer than 10 times.

Peasant Cookery's largely unchanged menu features unpretentious French home-cooking

This Exchange District venue has seen some ups and downs since it opened as Oui Bistro in 2007 and then rebranded as Peasant Cookery in 2010. Passersby will have noticed the fresh fire engine-red paint on the exterior, a change matched inside with new chef Melissa Makarenko.

Recent visits find the cooking sometimes uneven but often very good, especially when it plays to the strengths of the menu (which is largely unchanged), featuring unpretentious French home-cooking with local ingredients and a few contemporary twists.

Take the classic onion soup. The melty cheese is there, all right, but it’s the fundamentals that matter, like the properly deep and dark but still mellow broth that relies on veal stock and the low and slow caramelization of the onions.

The pan-fried chicken livers, cooked just to doneness and still tender, are also good, offset by a robust sauce of tomato and red wine. (More toast, though, please.)

Resumé fib creates unnecessary distraction

Here’s the thing about closets: if they’re of the literal variety — in other words, those tiny rooms in your home in which clothing, linens and assorted household items are stored — they can usually be securely locked so the contents therein are protected.

But if they’re the figurative sort of “closet” in which the embarrassing secrets from your past are concealed, there is very little chance in the current era of cyber-snoop scrutiny that those skeletons will remain behind closed doors.

The discomfiting truth of this 21st-century reality was brought into focus — again — when it was revealed that Conservative party Leader Andrew Scheer was less than truthful in his career resumé’s description of private-sector work experience he accumulated before entering politics.

The profile posted on his party’s official website stated that “Before entering public life, Andrew worked in the private sector as an insurance broker.” The trouble is, he did not. When confronted with fact-checked inconsistencies between the resumé and reality, Mr. Scheer was forced to admit he was never actually a credentialed broker in Saskatchewan, but instead worked in a support role in an insurance office while “the licensed brokers finalized all the transactions.”