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The Winkler Flyers play their final pre-season game tonight at home against the Steinbach Pistons. The defending Turnbull Cup champions will open the 2024-25 Manitoba Junior Hockey League season next Friday against the Pistons in Winkler.

The Brandon Wheat Kings wrap up their pre-season schedule with a pair of games against the Regina Pats this weekend. The two teams meet tonight at Westoba Place and Saturday in Regina. The Wheat Kings open the 2024-25 Western Hockey League season Friday, September 20th at home against the defending champion Moose Jaw Warriors.

This Saturday, September 14th, Winkler will be abuzz with excitement as Hometown Ford presents the "Shock and Roll EV Learn and Drive" event. Running from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM, the event promises a comprehensive introduction to electric vehicles (EVs) while also supporting a wonderful local charity.

Air Canada and business leaders are asking Ottawa to be ready to intervene in labour talks with its pilots as time is running out before a potential shutdown, but so far the government has said the two sides need to work things out. 

Airline spokesman Christophe Hennebelle said Thursday that Air Canada is committed to negotiations, but it faces wage demands from the Air Line Pilots Association that it can't meet. 

"The issue is that we are faced with unreasonable wage demands that ALPA refuses to moderate.”

United Way Pembina Valley held their organization’s 2024-25 campaign kick-off this week at the Buhler Active Living Centre – signaling an exciting new chapter for the charity.  

The 2024-25 Manitoba Junior Hockey League season begins next Friday. Head coach Matt Melo will join Clayton Dreger on the Flyers Report which airs Thursdays at 5:15 p.m. on CFAM Radio 950.

The Winnipeg Goldeyes and Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks are going the distance in their American Association West Division Championship Series. The RedHawks rallied for a 5-3 victory over the Fish Wednesday night in Winnipeg. Fargo-Moorhead scored the tying and go ahead runs in the top of the eighth inning and added an insurance run in the ninth. Max Murphy drove in a pair of runs for the Goldeyes. The deciding third game goes tonight (6:30 p.m.) at Blue Cross Park. The winner will meet the Kane County Cougars in the Wolff Cup final.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and members of his inner circle are slated to return to a federal inquiry into foreign interference in coming weeks.

A newly published provisional witness list for the next phase of the inquiry's public work indicates senior government bureaucrats and members of national security agencies will also testify.

Trudeau and key government officials took part in the commission's initial hearings earlier this year on allegations of foreign interference in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections.

It was standing room only at Sunday’s Open House at the Ninette Community Hall to share and ask questions of the proposed AIS (Aquatic Invasive Species) Mitigation Model Info forum.   The model aligns with the one lake-one boat initiative.

On September 7th, baseball players from across Southern Manitoba gathered for a unique opportunity — a one-day baseball event out of a soybean-corn intercrop field.

As part of the Pembina Valley Studio Tour, happening this coming weekend, the Blue House Market is returning for the third year to Altona's Gallery in the Park (GITP). The event will take place Saturday, September 14th inside the Schwartz House.

There will be twenty-one vendors at the market, which is one up from last year, they will be set up on both floors of the Schwartz House and some will even be selling their wares outside on the patio as well!