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‘Mom and dad’ Pereira and Michaud lead Team Canada at Kelowna Grand Prix

Lia Pereira and Trennt Michaud’s spirits couldn’t be higher as they begin their fourth ISU Grand Prix season this weekend at Skate Canada International as Team Canada’s top medal prospects.

Fresh off a decisive victory at Nebelhorn Trophy in Germany last month, the reigning world pair skating bronze medallists were riding a wave of confidence and excitement — and feeling “a mom and dad energy” — as they contemplated the assignment ahead in Kelowna, B.C.

“To go out and win our first Challenger (event) was a great confidence boost in our back pocket,” said Pereira, who admitted to a case of jitters before taking the ice in Oberstdorf.

“No matter how many years you do this, you still always get the first competition nerves. We’re just glad we were able to remind ourselves how to handle that and put out two great skates.”

Track records keep falling in fast Tokyo Games

Sweden’s Madelene Sagstrom grabbed the first-round lead with a five-under-par round of 66, the conversation mostly revolved around the 42 C conditions in Tokyo.

Cancelled KXL won't lessen oil dependency: experts

CALGARY - Cancelling the multi-billion dollar Keystone XL pipeline expansion would not only jeopardize thousands of jobs in Alberta, it would also mean the loss of billions of dollars in corporate income taxes, carbon taxes and royalties, according to energy experts.

TC Energy Corp.'s 1,947-kilometre project would carry crude oil from Hardisty, Alta., to Steele City, Neb. From there it would connect with the company's existing facilities to reach the U.S. Gulf Coast – one of the world’s biggest oil refining hubs.

Scrapping the pipeline expansion could threaten the security of supply for those refineries, said Richard Masson, an executive fellow and energy expert at the University of Calgary's School of Public Policy.

Without a pipeline to move bottlenecked bitumen from Canada to U.S. coastal refineries, they'll be forced to import from countries like Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Russia, he said.

New artistic director ready to get to work at Sick + Twisted

After a months-long national search for its next artistic director, Winnipeg’s Sick + Twisted Theatre has found who it’s been looking for in Mandy E. MacLean.

A Maritimer who studied theatre and performance at the University of New Brunswick and at Toronto’s Humber College, MacLean has served in recent years as the artistic and access producer for Toronto’s Crossroads Theatre — a low-barrier, youth-focused company — and as accessibility producer for Ontario’s renowned SummerWorks Festival.

MacLean, who arrived in Winnipeg last month, has long appreciated Sick + Twisted’s core philosophy, developed by former artistic director Debbie Patterson and a strong community of advisers and fellow artists. The company’s overarching goals include changing the way we think about disability in society and to create safe, supportive environments for artists to bring their “full selves” to the work.

MacLean, who was chosen by Sick + Twisted’s selection committee from a field of over 30 applicants, says the new position was intriguing, especially since she worked as an assistant director on the company’s 2025 production of Neither Here nor There, a personal, group-devised exploration of ability and difference that blended mythology, fantasy and reality.

Enjoy your own estate

Back in 1999, a young couple had a vision.

They wanted a safe, beautiful place where they could raise a family, and they searched long and hard to find a suitable place to put down roots.

Eventually, they found a 6.12-acre plot of land in St. Anne, Man.

It had pretty much all the attributes they were looking for — it was peaceful and private, yet only 20 minutes from Winnipeg and a short commute to other centres, like Steinbach.