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Former MLA Kevin Chief opens up about his 18 years of sobriety

Every day starts and ends with a prayer.

In the morning, Kevin Chief asks for the strength and courage to stay sober. At night, he thanks the Creator for another day of sobriety. It’s been 18 years since his last drink. Staying sober is still the most important thing to him.

“You’d have to be pretty close to me to know. And there are people today who know me very well that don’t know,” the 45-year-old father of three says.

“I never meant it to be like that. The anonymity was important to me because I honestly thought I wouldn’t make it, and I thought it’d be embarrassing when I slipped again. So I thought it was better for me to not let people know. And then my sponsor told me, ‘Look, you’ll know when the time’s right. You don’t need to force it.’”

Parole board decision traumatizes Phoenix’s devastated godmother

Kim Edwards sits with pursed lips and crossed arms in the backyard of her Stella Avenue home. Large stacks of documents, letters and newspaper clippings lay scattered around her. Nearly every one of them mentions the name Phoenix Sinclair.

Manitoba sports hall inductee thrilled to see his former athletes join coaching ranks

For Wayne McMahon, it has never been about personal fame and glory. It has always been about helping his young athletes reach their full potential.

The long-time athletics coach reflected on his storied career Monday after being named a 2026 inductee to the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame.

Seeing his athletes achieve their dreams in competition and join the coaching ranks themselves to help the next generation has been one of the greatest rewards from more than five decades of coaching, McMahon said.

His impact on the sport has been far-reaching. He regularly runs into former athletes that have caught the coaching bug across Canada.

Steinbach-born YouTube sensation Alayna Fender woos viewers

For several generations, screen entertainment had two kinds of stars — movie stars, whose larger-than-life efforts on the silver screen produced larger-than-believable paycheques and notoriety, and TV stars, who became rich and famous (and, in showbiz terms, respected) on a decidedly smaller scale.

Sometimes, a star would ascend from one level to the next, burning brighter in the pop-culture consciousness. Occasionally, a major star would transition from big screen down to small, either to dabble temporarily in a well-scripted TV project or, perhaps, more permanently after fading box-office appeal made movie work harder to find.

In recent years, the increase in high-quality television writing has made movement between the two different levels of stardom much more common.

But for those decades, in the pre-digital world, those were the only levels of stardom to which screen actors could aspire. These days, there’s a very viable third option: online stardom.

Lemieux finds home on Jets’ fourth line

Brendan Lemieux's game is rough around the edges, there's no mystery about that.

But adapting that grinding style for success in the NHL may have seemed like a bit of a long shot when the 22-year-old Winnipeg Jets left-winger was suspended for two games after an illegal hit to the head of Florida's Vincent Trocheck on Nov. 2 in Helsinki. The resulting match penalty led to a power-play goal by Keith Yandle, the eventual game-winner in a 4-2 triumph by the Panthers.

Earlier in the game, a power play generated by Lemieux's high-sticking minor on Troy Brouwer resulted in a Mike Hoffman goal that tied the game 2-2.

"I think in a lot of people’s minds it was a huge deal, but it was a learning experience I think," said Lemieux following practice Monday afternoon. "There’s penalties every game… As far as the hit goes, it was unfortunate to get suspended, it cost us the game — the five-minute penalty — but it was the circumstance of the penalty and the hit, all in the same game.

Opposition MLAs decry Campbell’s compensation

Former B.C. premier Gordon Campbell received nearly $600,000 in consulting fees for about five months' work as head of a commission examining Manitoba Hydro megaprojects before stepping down in February 2019, the Free Press has learned.

According to documents obtained through freedom of information legislation, Campbell billed the government for $593,962 for work done between September 2018 and February 2019. His appointment was announced in October 2018.

Campbell relinquished the role a few days after a British newspaper reported he was the subject of a sexual assault investigation being conducted by London police.

In addition to his fees, Campbell's commission racked up more than $76,000 in expenses, pushing the total cost to $670,755.