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‘Women were shortchanged.’ Why bobsledding’s idea of equality doesn’t add up

When female bobsledders pushed for an Olympic four-woman event, they got a solo discipline instead: monobob. Now they’ll race for the same number of medals as men, but with fewer sledders. Not the progress they were looking for.

Winkler pastor mourns father who died in Ontario ICU

In his 58 years living in Winkler, Abe Reimer was rarely alone.

He had grand- and great-grandchildren, including triplets on the way. He was well-known and well-loved in the close-knit southern Manitoba community.

His son never could have imagined that he would die alone in a Thunder Bay ICU.

“He said to me, ‘I never thought I’d get COVID,’” Larry Reimer, a pastor who currently serves as the chaplain at Boundary Trails Health Centre, told the Free Press. “My assumption is that maybe him and his group that talked and shared, and his friends and peers, probably didn’t believe COVID was real in a lot of ways. And it wasn’t hitting any of them.”

New TV shows help home hibernators

We’ve made it. It’s the middle of January, the month I affectionately refer to as the armpit of the year (November is the other one).

Many of you are in full-on hibernation mode, which means you need things to watch.

The latest instalment of Don’t Sleep on This — a semi-regular series in which the Free Press Arts & Life department provides (spoiler-free) recommendations of the TV shows you should watch — is brought to you by the letter S. We look at a soapy figure skating drama, a life-affirming comedy and a banter-filled crime drama.

City, RM of Macdonald working on fire services sharing agreement

A major blaze that caused millions of dollars of damage to businesses just outside city limits is raising questions over how far Winnipeg fire services should extend.

On June 30, flames destroyed ReGen Composites and other businesses in a McGillivray Boulevard complex in the Rural Municipality of Macdonald, just a few hundred metres outside Winnipeg.

“The line on the map for those business owners... did matter that day. But they should be really looking to their (rural municipal) government and asking those questions there,” said Coun. Sherri Rollins (Fort Rouge-East Fort Garry), the chairperson of Winnipeg city council’s protection and community services committee.

While some businesses pay for Winnipeg fire services, no such agreement is in place for the RM of Macdonald or any other rural municipality, Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service spokesperson Kristin Cuma said in an emailed statement.