🚨 Crime & Public Safety
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Thirteen firearms and about 20,000 rounds seized after RM of West St. Paul searches. Manitoba RCMP’s MILET and CBSA information led to searches on Pipeline Road and Griffin Way on Sept. 11 that recovered 13 guns (two sawed-off), altered high-capacity magazines and roughly 20,000 rounds of ammunition; a 48-year-old West St. Paul man and a 38-year-old man were arrested and remanded on multiple firearms charges.
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Rideshare driver, 27, charged with sexual assault after Sept. 27 Weston incident. Winnipeg Police say the 27-year-old driver allegedly assaulted a woman after dropping her at her requested destination in the Weston neighbourhood; she fled the vehicle, phoned police, and the suspect was arrested the next morning at an apartment complex on Kennedy Street and released on an undertaking.
🏈 Sports
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Winnipeg Jets score three five-on-five goals in third, win 3-2 in Pittsburgh. The Jets improved to 2-0-1 on the season after Alex Iafallo, Adam Lowry and Cole Perfetti scored in a chaotic third period and new goalie Clay Stevenson stopped 30 of 32 shots in his sixth NHL start to earn the win in Pittsburgh on Monday night.
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Alex Ovechkin will play nine more games in Canada during his final NHL season. The Washington Capitals captain announced 2026-27 will be his last and will play Canadian games Nov. 10 (Ottawa), Dec. 3 (Edmonton), Dec. 5 (Calgary), Dec. 7 (Vancouver) and others, with his final regular-season Canadian game scheduled for April 8, 2027.
🎨 Community & Culture
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Record 1,725‑lb pumpkin wins Roland Pumpkin Fair, $1,500 prize. Grower Cornie Banman’s 1,725‑lb (782‑kg) gourd beat 20 entries in Roland, set a new provincial fair record and earned Banman a $1,500 prize; Banman said the pumpkin grew as much as 40–50 lbs. per day during peak growth.
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Memorial walk held in Winnipeg for MMIWG2S+ advocate Alaya McIvor. A community memorial walk in Winnipeg honoured the life of Alaya McIvor, a noted MMIWG2S+ advocate and community leader, with local participants gathering to commemorate her work and legacy.
📰 Also Today
- Jets beat Detroit 3-2; Kyle Connor scored two power-play goals.
- Manitoba law would let cannabis stores remove window coverings under new rules.
- Mayoral candidates Vogiatzakis and Klein accuse each other of offering inducements to leave race.
- Man, 27, arrested more than four years after Winnipeg shooting left man with life-altering injuries.
- SCO condemns Winnipeg Sun and mayoral‑candidate CEO for column on residential schools deaths.
- Analysis urges permanent standard time; clocks stay on daylight saving Nov. 1 in Western Canada.
- Two men injured, one critically, in Osborne Village incident.
- RCMP report: 13 guns and 20,000 rounds seized from homes north of Winnipeg.
- Global advocates bring international 2SLGBTQ struggle and solidarity to Manitoba.
