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Over 50 people attended the Winnipeg Fringe Festival show, 'An Improvised John Hughes Movie', on Friday at the Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain. 

We enjoyed this improv show so much the first time on Tuesday that we went back for a second time on Friday. The show used the styles and tropes popular in John Hughes' movies.

With a similar structure to Tuesday's show, audience suggestions were incorporated into the show but led to different results.

A warm and humid air mass will move through the province today, brewing up all the ingredients needed to create severe thunderstorms. 

However, something called "capping" is making it hard for meteorologists to predict exactly what will happen.

"The capping is just a layer of warm air above the surface, about 1-2 km up in the sky," said Crawford Luke, meteorologist with Environment Canada.

Wildfires continue to wreak havoc across northern Manitoba. 

A fire entered the town of Leaf Rapids on Wednesday, causing damage to between five and seven buildings, most of which were abandoned, with only one of those being a residence. 

Fire crews had to retreat to safety in response to the intense wildfire activity. However, they were able to return within the hour, working through the night to keep the blaze contained. 

Across the province, the fire risk is medium to high, with areas to the north of greatest concern. 

A blood drive has been organized following the tragic death of Royal Canoe bassist, Brendan Berg and his partner, Olivia Michalczuk.

The pair died in a head-on crash north of Swan River on July 1. 

The idea was brought to life by Michalczuk's mother, Donna. 

"Olivia received many units of blood after the accident," said Donna in a post on Facebook. "Without the generous blood donations to Canadian Blood Services, we would not have been able to say our last goodbyes before she passed. So….if you think you’d like to do something nice in her honour, please donate."

It is hardly revolutionary for parents to have complicated relationships with their coming-of-age children. What is less common is a teenager taking those complexities and turning them into a piece of theatre that audiences can take in during this year’s Winnipeg Fringe Festival.  

Shakespeare’s axiom, “All the world’s a stage,” rings especially true at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival with performers descending onto its stages from all over the world. That includes The Tempestuous, an amalgam of works by the Bard underscored with a wide range of classical pieces.  

Portage la Prairie RCMP are asking for the public's assistance in locating a man who escaped custody on Thursday.

RCMP say around 9 p.m. on Thursday, they were informed by the Manitoba First Nation Police Service that a suspect who had been arrested earlier in the day had escaped custody.

The suspect, 26-year-old Bryon Roulette of Winnipeg, is handcuffed and believed to be shirtless with blood stains on his shoes. He was also wearing greyish brown shorts. 

He was last seen in the 500 block of 5th Street SE in Portage la Prairie at around 7:30 p.m. 

Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, two leaders of the Freedom Convoy protest, are scheduled to be sentenced for mischief on Oct. 7 in an Ottawa courtroom.

In addition to lengthy prison sentences, the Crown wants to seize Barber's truck, which was used in the protest.

A forfeiture hearing on that matter is scheduled for Sept. 12.

Ontario Court Justice Heather Perkins-McVey said Thursday she wants to rule on the mischief sentence and truck forfeiture at the same time so that she does not deliver "piecemeal" decisions.

Ash and embers rained down on the northwestern Manitoba town of Leaf Rapids when an out-of-control wildfire entered the community Wednesday evening resulting in the damage of one home and several abandoned buildings. 

Firefighters have been in the community for weeks establishing fire guards, managing vegetation and setting up value protection on critical infrastructure, but "intense fire behaviour" that ramped up over the course of a few hours prompted crews to temporarily leave the town. 

Three workers who were trapped in a remote northern British Columbia mine have been rescued after more than 60 hours underground.

Red Chris mine operator Newmont Corp. said the three men were safely bought to the surface at about 10:40 p.m. on Thursday.

It said Kevin Coumbs, Darien Maduke and Jesse Chubaty — contractors for B.C.-based Hy-Tech Drilling — were in good health and spirits after being trapped underground by two rockfalls on Tuesday morning.

"This was a carefully planned and meticulously executed rescue plan," the company said in a statement.