Driven to discover more tasty rural eats

Esteban Jaramillo

How do you decolonize Canada’s museums? It’s a transformation that’s finally getting underway

The Canadian Museum of Human Rights is one of a number of museums across the country working to better their representation of traditionally marginalized groups.

Canada names Beijing flag-bearers, won’t boycott opening ceremony

The two-time Olympic gold medallist in women’s hockey and three-time Olympic short-track speedskating champ are each fine choices in what can be a fraught business for the COC.

Laine blockbuster: Ehlers emotional, Wheeler stoic but sincere

They were joined at the hip, a pair of charismatic and extremely talented young Winnipeg Jets wingers who formed an instant bond and never missed a chance to take a friendly shot at the other. And so Saturday's news that Patrik Laine had been traded to the Columbus Blue Jackets was an especially tough pill to swallow for Nikolaj Ehlers.

"He’s a guy that I’ve had a really good relationship with since my second year, since his first year. We were roommates together on the first road trip. We’ve been brothers since day one, so this is not very fun. It’s part of the business. It’s the way it goes," an emotional Ehlers said following his team's morning skate at Bell MTS Place.

They actually got a chance to say goodbye in person, as the injured Laine was down at the rink when the trigger was pulled.

“I found out like the other guys in there. Me and Patty are ones that we always joke around. You guys know that. We always chirp each other. So there’s a little bit of joking but we also know that we were roommates for three years. We’ve been really good friends for the last five years. So this is tough. This is not much fun. So he’s a guy that I’m for sure going to miss a lot," said Ehlers, who signed a seven-year contract extension with the Jets in 2017.

Driven to discover more tasty rural eats

Last summer, my Arts & Life colleague Erin Lebar and I embarked on a dream assignment: exploring the food scene in rural Manitoba.

For three days we hit the road, wandering our way from the city.

We drove a lot and we ate even more. Kielke with schmaundt fat gravy in Plum Coulee. High tea in Rosenort. Pickerel in Gimli. Mordenite Perogy Soup in, um, Morden. And we both still dream about that banana cream pie in Beausejour.

We published the story on the August long weekend. And you ate it up.

Blue wave in U.S. gives Democrats a choice

The win might not have been completely unexpected, but the size of it certainly was.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s Republican party was handily dismantled by the Democrats in Tuesday’s midterm elections, with the Democrats taking control of both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate.

States including Texas, South Carolina and Kansas elected Democrats, something that hasn’t happened in Kansas, for example, for 94 years. The Democrat who won a senate seat in Kansas, Adam Hamilton, notably campaigned on a moderate platform, promising to listen to all sides. There might be a lesson in that.

An unrepentant Trump said on social media that the loss was because he was not personally on the ballot, “I wasn’t on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE.” He also said that he didn’t view the vote as a rejection of his policies: “We’ve had the greatest two years in the history of the presidency.”