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Premier Heather Stefanson pleaded in a private letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to intervene at the Emerson border blockade just days before she publicly opposed his decision to enact the federal Emergencies Act against protesters.
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Today's Ross column: I’ve seen plenty of politicians act like jerks before, but it has been a long time since I’ve seen anything as cruel as what I witnessed on Thursday morning.
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Four Brandon Wheat Kings successfully interceded to help a distressed man who was contemplating suicide on the First Street bridge Tuesday evening.
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OTTAWA – Maxime Bernier says he will run in what he predicts will be a “two-horse race” for a federal seat in a coming byelection in rural Manitoba.
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After announcing that the province will be expanding its rapid testing efforts to include teachers in the new year, Brian Pallister gave his most vigorous and emotional defence of his government's efforts to contain COVID-19 yet.
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UPDATE: The Sun was able to confirm that PPC leader Maxime Bernier plans to attend Tuesday's BSD board meeting. More context is provided in the original article.
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Tuesday’s Brandon School Division board meeting is bound to be a lengthy affair, with 31 delegations scheduled to speak in response to a recent proposal to ban books featuring LGBTQ+ content from local libraries.
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In a Western Hockey League season like no other, the Brandon Wheat Kings’ unsung heroes don’t wear jerseys.
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The onus is on Manitobans to reduce their own risk of contracting COVID-19, Premier Heather Stefanson said Wednesday.
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They’re all chasing the same dream, but situations couldn’t be more different for Austin, Tanner, and Camryn Clyne.
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Michael Ferland helps coach kids at the Brandon Wheat Kings hockey school at Westman Place
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Brandon city councillors will hear about a proposal to name a local street after former Brandon Wheat King Don Dietrich on Tuesday.
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Chad Leslie received the opportunity he’s sought for a long time in October, but it certainly didn’t come the way he hoped.
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Now here's a photo: 2016
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MVP Nolan Patrick, 17, raises the Ed Chynoweth Cup
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Once in a while Clear Lake seems to show off — its surface freezes as smooth as glass, and almost as transparent as a window — and this was one of those years.
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Jesse Matas skates across the crystal clear ice covering Clear Lake on a beautiful Monday …
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Patrick Law has introduced a junior mentorship program at the Minnedosa Golf and Country Club, where juniors can play for free on Mondays after 5 p.m., with an adult mentor to help them learn the sport, the rules and be a positive influence.
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Pizza Express head honcho Gus Vasilarakis was named the Business Person of the Year by the the Brandon Chamber of Commerce.
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In his first Brandon rally as leader of the People’s Party of Canada, Maxime Bernier asked Westman supporters to "vote for their values" in the upcoming federal election.
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Souris teacher cracks top five in voting for the National Hockey League’s Future Goals Most Valuable Teacher award.
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BOISSEVAIN — After 27 seasons spent on the bench mentoring the Boissevain Broncos basketball community, Keith Forsyth quietly retired from the sport with 1,224 games coached to his name.
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Today's editorial: As we watch a potential health-care disaster unfold before our eyes yet again, we are witnessing a conscious decision by the premier not to show leadership when the province needs it most.
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Even though the COVID-19 outbreak grows increasingly complicated by the day, members of the Brandon Bear Clan continue to hand out supplies and check up on the city’s less fortunate.
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For a lot of 16-year-old hockey players, the thought of lining up against guys up to five years older than you might seem intimidating. Not for Grady Lane.
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There were familiar faces everywhere for Calder Anderson last Friday when the Moose Jaw Warriors forward played his first regular season game in his hometown last week.
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Minnedosa will be home to the province's first floating, inflatable water park this summer. Read more at The Brandon Sun.
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Avery Braybrook takes a shot on net while playing hockey on a creek rink in Virden on a warm Tuesday. (Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun)
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Manitoba curling legend and world champion Lois Fowler died on Thursday. She was 68. The Brandonite was a true pillar of her curling community as an athlete, mentor, builder and volunteer.
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Remembering Gladwyn Scott: Manitoba sports icon Gladwyn Scott has died at age 90. The Hamiota product, who lived in Carberry for many years, was inducted into six halls of fame over the years after decades of service.
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The community of Cardale boasted a dynamic bantam and midget baseball team in the early 1970s that grabbed headlines in Manitoba, earning them a call to the Manitoba Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Monday morning.
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Trent Sambrook’s first year of Manitoba Junior Hockey League action was the most fun he’s ever had.
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BREAKING: The
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Some things never get old. Greg Cameron of Boissevain was inducted into the Manitoba Baseball Hall of Fame on Saturday for the third time, but this time solely on his own merit.
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Rhonda Pardy has spent 18 years parlaying Brandonites’ love of coffee and donuts into business success. She was recognized on Thursday evening as the Brandon Chamber of Commerce’s Business Person of the Year.
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It’s been said that behind every great man is a greater woman. Ken Schneider says that behind every coach is a greater manager.
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Dexter Whittle knew it would be a transition on the ice if he made the Western Hockey League’s Everett Silvertips this season. The 17-year-old rookie defenceman from near Virden couldn’t have imagined how big it would be off the ice too.
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Five red fox kits peer out from an opening to their den west of Brandon on Friday. The young kits have yet to grow their orange fur. Red fox kits are also born with blue eyes that change to brown or yellowish orange as they mature. (Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun)
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A man who died near Oak Lake Beach last week is being remembered as a great outdoorsman and an extremely caring person.
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MINNEDOSA — An almost 50-foot-long blanket of poppies was laid around the Minnedosa cenotaph on Sunday.
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DELORAINE — For the love of the game, Neil Franklin continues to umpire baseball and fast pitch, plus also finds time to coach U15 girls’ fast pitch — at age 69.
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Imagine four decades in the same job, and almost all of it in the same place. Boissevain’s Barry Lamb started working in radio news for CJRB on May 12, 1980, and celebrated his 40th anniversary of doing just that on Tuesday of last week.
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Jalyn Elmes is a long way from home. In Sweden, to be exact. In August, the Brandonite moved to join Brynäs IF of the Svenska damhockeyligan (SDHL), Sweden’s most elite female hockey league.
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Despite their shock and sorrow, friends and family are paying tribute to local singer and award-winning journalist Diane Nelson, who died in Brandon hospital on Monday.
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Brandon East MLA Glen Simard has been sworn in as Manitoba's minister of sport, culture, heritage and tourism, minister responsible for francophone affairs, minister responsible for the Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries Corporation
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Jalin Adams and Kirsten Brown of
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Never underestimate the importance that confidence plays in elevating the game of an elite athlete. Just ask Riese Gaber.
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When Emma Ramsey made the Westman Wildcats under-18 AAA team three years ago, she learned right away about what the next step in her hockey career could be.
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It’s been about 55 years since Eleanor Muir taught herself how to skate. It was on a pair of raggedy, worn-out hand-me-downs at an outdoor rink in Churchbridge, Sask.
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A semi-truck driver failed to heed the many warning signs placed at both sides of the Canadian Pacific Railway bridge in Kemnay over weekend and demolished their trailer as a result.
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Seventeen years ago today, Brandonite Leah Hextall walked through the doors of CKX Brandon. Now, she's reflecting on just how far she's come in her sports broadcasting career.
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Tony Wilson knows he owes parents Dory and Chrissy more than he can ever repay. The 17-year-old Brandon Wheat Kings forward said above and beyond what they’ve spent to keep him in hockey, he’s always felt supported.
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In today's WTW: Rob and Julie van Kommer pose for a photo next to the giant snowman they built out of silage bales covered in white plastic last week alongside Shatner, a pit bull cross they got through Friends for Furry Friends.
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Logen Hammett grew up watching his hometown Regina Pats. On March 20, the rookie Brandon Wheat Kings defenceman played his first Western Hockey League game against them, suiting up with the Pats’ archival.
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Stacy Dittmer is officially the queen of the mountains. The 41-year-old finished the Scout Mountain Ultra in 28 hours, 49 minutes, 59 seconds to claim first among the six female competitors in the event, held south of Pocatello, Idaho on June 1.
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With all polls reporting in, Kirk Carr has been elected in Ward 1 and Lorraine McConnell has been elected in Ward 2 in the Brandon School Division board of trustees byelection.
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Mark Kolesar is grateful to the game of hockey for not only the experiences it gave him, but also the lessons it taught him.
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In some ways, Jensen Shearer’s loss may ultimately be Assiniboine Community College’s gain.
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A student in Brandon has been recognized for her kindness towards all her peers. Cora McBeth, a Grade 7 student at École Harrison received the Samantha Mason Friendship award from the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in Winnipeg last month.
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Grace Masse of Brandon cleans up garbage along with her two daughters at the site of the former Brandon Indian Residential School on land now belonging to Sioux Valley Dakota Nation just outside Brandon on Monday afternoon. (Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun)
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WINNIPEG — Daryl Ford’s coaching career started in a library. He hardly knew a thing about volleyball when the coach at his high school in Churchill quit and he had to take over.
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Morgan Ramsay’s sports career is now going downhill in a hurry. That’s usually a bad thing, but as part of Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton’s (BCS) development bobsleigh team, it’s the goal. The Rivers native caught on to the sport remarkably fast.
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In 1989, a 16-year-old Ken Pearson was ecstatic when he heard Neepawa would be getting a Manitoba Junior Hockey League team. Imagine his elation if he knew that 30 years later he’d be the face of the franchise.
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With her tongue sticking out, Cassidy Gagnon of Cats Blue dives for the ball during their match against Winman
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Mark Johnston, a consummate hockey and family man who believed in hard work, is being remembered as a sometimes gruff. but ultimately lovable “teddy bear.”
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Hockey plays an awfully big role in Trae Johnson’s house. The young forward from Martensville, Sask., was the second round pick of the Brandon Wheat Kings in the recent Western Hockey League bantam draft with the 35th overall selection.
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Longtime Glenboro-South Cypress Fire Department Chief Steve Bjornson’s legacy will be felt for a long time to come.
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Never underestimate the impact a little confidence can have. Just ask Spokane Chiefs forward Grady Lane.
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It’s going to be pretty hard for Glenboro’s Sophia Anderson to try and top the last two months.
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Conor Geekie was happy to be drafted by the Arizona Coyotes on Thursday in the first round of the National Hockey League draft, and just as happy he was able to share it with his family.
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Lots of lightning tonight. Here is just one of the strikes near
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Carberry-based T&M Olmstead Farms has been named one of this year’s six recipients of the 2021 Royal Manitoba Winter Fair Farm Family Awards.
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Brandonites endured the cold on Wednesday afternoon to protest the province’s planned education reform through Bill 64, the Education Modernization Act.
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Darren Ritchie has resigned as general manager of the Brandon Wheat Kings to take a scouting position with the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League, the club announced Friday morning.
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Chance Toder went for what the doctors called "routine" heart surgery when he was 12 years old. When he finally awoke from a coma, his life — and that of his family — had changed forever.
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Louise Fergusson is only in Grade 11, but she has already determined what a large part of what her future will look like.
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The Brandon Chamber of Commerce reached a major milestone this summer, with the organization’s board of directors now boasting more women than men for the very first time in its history.
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Cole Jordan will have his first chance to play a regular-season game at his hometown Westoba Place when the Saskatchewan club takes to the ice against the Brandon Wheat Kings at 7:30 p.m.
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