Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau again tests positive for COVID-19

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.

Another embarrassing loss: Arniel

RALEIGH — No sticks were smashed. No walls punched. And nary a naughty word was uttered.

Instead, the Winnipeg Jets filed off the ice here at Lenovo Center on Sunday afternoon much like they’d just played the preceding game against the Carolina Hurricanes — with no emotion, no passion, no urgency.

You’d have thought yet another loss, this one in truly humiliating fashion and a ninth consecutive overall, might have triggered something.

Anything.

Child care gap: 77K spaces needed to reach national benchmark

The province needs at least 77,000 more child care spaces to meet the national access benchmark — and a plan for getting there, the Child Care Coalition of Manitoba said Tuesday.

Licensed spaces currently serve only about 22 per cent of Manitoba’s estimated 207,336 children aged 12 and younger, the coalition said in a news release.

For Manitoba to reach the national benchmark of licensed spaces for 59 per cent of children, it needs 23,000 additional infant and preschool spaces and 54,000 school-age spaces, the release said.

There has been significant progress in recent years with the introduction of $10-a-day child care, thousands of new spaces created, higher wages for staff and increased operating funds for child care centres, the coalition noted. Still, families face long waits and limited options, particularly for parents working evenings, weekends, and rotating shifts, it said.

iPhone started fire, Winnipegger says

The iPhone has long been a hot item, but for one Winnipeg family, it got too hot.

Wally Hill says earlier this month, he, along with his wife and daughter, were watching television, with his daughter's iPhone 6 sitting unplugged on the cushion between them, when the smartphone set the couch on fire.

"It was frightening," Hill said. "It didn't explode... it fizzled and popped open at the back, and then smoke and flames came out the back. It then ignited the cushion."

Hill said he quickly picked up the entire couch cushion, with the burning phone still on it, to move the device to a tile floor in his residence.