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The MJHL's Neepawa Titans swung a deal that adds 20-year-old Ty Kirk to their team for the upcoming season and the Hamiota product couldn't be happier to be playing closer to home.

"It was a really exciting moment," Kirk says about finding out he was being traded to Neepawa. "It was all fast and smooth. Thrilled to be closer to home with my family being able to watch me more, it'll be good."

It’s early — waaay too early — to make any bold declarations and concrete proclamations. Shoot, it’s still June.

Yet, say this about the work-in-progress Winnipeg Blue Bombers two weeks into the Canadian Football League season:

There are just enough flashes of brilliance on offence and special teams — both units backed by a stifling defence — to have everyone in Bomberland sliding to the front of their collective seats wanting to witness much, much more of the 2025 edition.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is calling for de-escalation after the United States carried out strikes against Iranian nuclear sites early Sunday.

Carney issued a social media post saying the U.S. military action was "designed to alleviate" threats posed by Iran, but the situation in the Middle East remains "highly volatile."

He says stability in the region is a priority and is calling on parties to get back to the negotiating table to find a diplomatic solution.

The Irvin Goodon Wildlife Museum in Boissevain is a hot spot to stop this summer.   The museum features the many taxidermy mounts of wildlife from across Manitoba.  

However, the museum also features the model train display of former Boissevain resident Earl Patterson.  

The Killarney Community Events Outdoor Concert Committee is ramping up for their annual Kick Off to Summer outdoor concert, known locally as the town's event of the year.

Canadian country superstar Jade Eagleson and country favorite Steven Lee Olsen will be taking the stage come Saturday, July 5th at the Kick-Off to Summer concert in Killarney next year. 

First Nations youth leaders are warning Canadians can expect a long, tense summer of protests as governments push forward with plans to fast-track major projects — and young people will be leading the charge.

"You will see us in your cities, your city's hubs," said Ramon Kataquapit, a youth councillor with the Chiefs of Ontario and Nishnawbe Aski Nation and a member of Attawapiskat First Nation in northern Ontario.

The Daly House Museum in Brandon has launched their summer program with lots of exciting things for families to participate in!

Check out their poster below!

Dale Friesen has been making his rounds to all the different Canadian Foodgrains partner communities in Manitoba and northern Ontario.  In Manitoba alone, there are about 35 fundraiser projects that include grow projects that equal some 4,000 acres - not to mention community auction sales, concerts and more.

Here in the southwestern corner of the province we are very familiar with the Boissevain-Morton-Whitewater (B.M.W.) Grow Project, and the Killarney Grow Project.  Further west is the Waskada fundraising auction and further still is the Cross Border Growing Project at Kola.

Every year at the end of May the Manitoba Wildlife Federation (MWF) hosts their annual Becoming an Outdoors Woman weekend retreat at Circle Square Ranch.

This year, with 80 registered participants and over 20 instructors, they had about a hundred women come together to learn, to laugh and to enjoy the beautiful outdoors.  It was a hot weekend May 30-June 1st but these gals took the heat in stride as they learned multiple skills in a variety of interests.

Last weekend the Pelican Lake Ag Society hosted their 70th Ninette Fair with success every which way you could look at it; with beautiful weather to an amazing number of attendees, participants and even about 50 volunteers who dedicated their time to helping the two-day fair be a hit!