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Musical Sustenance: GroundSwell opens 2024-25 season with new works for violin 

This Sunday, September 15th at 7:30pm at St. Andrews River Heights United Church, Winnipeg’s GroundSwell is kicking off their 2024-25 season with a concert called Sustenance. 

After 45 days of evidence and legal arguments the criminal trial of "Freedom Convoy" organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber is finally at an end.

A verdict could be as much as six months away.

"I don’t know in this moment when I will be in a position to give my decision," Justice Heather Perkins-McVey said Friday.

She said "it's a little daunting," given the unusually great volume of evidence and legal questions associated with the case. 

It's an exciting week for the Winnipeg Goldeyes as they advance to the Wolff Cup final after defeating the Fargo-Moorehead RedHawks in a do-or-die game Thursday night. 

The Goldeyes led the entire game, allowing only one run from the RedHawks with a final score of 3-1. 

THE WINNIPEG GOLDEYES ARE THE CHAMPIONS OF THE WEST! 🍾 pic.twitter.com/a8OoAub0aO

Winnipeg police have safely located a missing 24-year-old man. 

The Winnipeg Police Service (WPS) is thanking the public for their assistance in locating him. 

The man had been missing for just over a day. He was located early Friday morning, according to a press release sent out by the Winnipeg Police Service.

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.”

The Winnipeg Richardson International Airport will be abuzz with emergency vehicles on Thursday, but it's nothing to be alarmed about.

The Winnipeg Airport Authority is conducting a live emergency exercise, which will see increased emergency activity at the airport, including emergency response personnel, emergency vehicles, and airport equipment on the airfield.

This will not affect the day-to-day operations at the airport, and if the weather or other operational issues arise, the exercise will be postponed. 

The Winnipeg Goldeyes will return to the field at Blue Cross Park tonight for game three of the West Division Playoffs after losing 5-3 to the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks Wednesday evening.  

The winning team will move on to the American Association Final, where they will take on the Kane County Cougars, who took the East Division series against the Chicago Dogs. 

The Marathon of Hope started with one man, Terry Fox, but Canadians continue to carry on his legacy.

"Terry Fox has impacted so many Canadians," says Carissa Robb, the Director of Community Development in Manitoba and Saskatchewan with the Terry Fox Foundation. "His attitude is what keeps us going. It's incredible for such a young man, how mature he was, his ethics, determination and perseverance, it's admirable and keeps me, and the hundreds of volunteers going year after year."

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.

No one was injured following a fire Wednesday evening in northwest Winnipeg. 

At around 5:50 p.m., crews responded to a single-family bungalow in the 300 block of Leila Avenue, between Aikins Street and Salter Street. 

When they arrived, smoke was coming from the house. Firefighters quickly fought the fire from inside, declaring the fire under control about a half hour later. 

Everyone evacuated safely, while crews rescued two cats from the home. 

The cause of the fire is believed to be accidental, caused by an electrical malfunction.