Garth Brooks joins lineup of entertainers at Biden inaugural

Manitoba minerals will be on display in London, England, next month.

The Mining Association of Manitoba Inc. plans to travel to Resourcing Tomorrow — Europe’s largest mining event — with a handful of companies and a new marketing video.

Attendees at the Central Canada Mineral Exploration Convention, held at the Victoria Inn in Winnipeg, got a preview Monday.

“Every major economy is looking for secure and reliable critical mineral supply chains,” the video’s narrator states. “The search is over.”

DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: I was at a party with my younger boyfriend, and I overheard him in another room talking loudly with his friends.

They were all bombed, guzzling beer and rating their girlfriends’ looks. I was listening for my guy to chime in. He finally said I was “a five without makeup, a 6 1/2 with it, but her great personality makes up for the rest.”

I can’t believe he would say that to other people, but he was drinking a lot — disgusting. I’m thinking of leaving him. What do you think?

— ‘Five Without Makeup,’ Osborne Village

A Winnipeg man with a history of uttering racial slurs while getting into unprovoked altercations has been charged for several offensive signs placed on the window of his Minto-area home.

Michael Ryan Wallbank, 42, was charged Friday, accused of wilful promotion of hatred displaying hate symbols, after Winnipeg Police Service major crimes investigators executed a warrant at his Ashburn Street home.

Police began investigating potential hate crimes after several area residents complained in early September about the signs posted in the window of the home where Wallbank lives.

After consulting with prosecutors, investigators charged him with the hate offences, police said Sunday. He’s been held in custody.