Portage

A man from Haywood left a traffic stop without his car and more than $700 poorer after deciding to disregard the posted speed limit.

According to an RCMP weekly press report, just after 11 a.m. on October 26, a Treherne RCMP officer saw a vehicle moving 123 km/h in a 100 km/h zone on Highway #2 in the Rural Municipality of Norfolk Treherne. The officer then pulled over the driver for a traffic stop.

After a seventh consecutive win on Friday night, the Portage Terriers will take on the Winkler Flyers in a matinee matchup on Sunday afternoon, November 3 at 3:30 p.m.

Winkler boasts a 10-5-0-0 record, and saw two players come away with league-wide player of the month awards, with Will Brophy taking home the Safe Work Manitoba Defenseman of the Month, and Liam Ernst winning the Original 16 Goaltender of the Month.

Among the millions glued to their TV sets Tuesday night watching U.S. election results will be a group of people in Montreal with a particular connection to Democratic candidate Kamala Harris — her high school classmates. 

Kamala Harris lived in Canada

Long before she became an American vice-president and presidential candidate, Harris spent several years in Montreal and attended Westmount High School from 1978 to 1981.

While she doesn't talk much about that time, one of her former classmates believes her high school years helped shaped who she would become. 

The City of Portage la Prairie has adopted a new approach this term by rotating the Deputy Mayor role, something common in other municipalities but new here. Mayor Sharilyn Knox explains that appointing a Deputy Mayor is her responsibility, and she opted for a rotational process.

“We divided our four-year term into eight-month segments, giving every councillor a chance to serve as deputy. The role involves two major responsibilities: representing myself and council when I’m unavailable, and chairing meetings,” says Knox.

The second annual Beef and Forage Conference took place this week in Portage la Prairie, with the first having been in Brandon. Shawn Cabak, a livestock and forage specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, is one of the organizers. He says they had a great lineup of speakers from across the Prairies, as well as some American speakers.

The Portage Terriers extended their season-long win streak to seven games with a 4-0 victory over the Virden Oil Capitals at Stride Place. 

The Terriers opened the scoring in the first period while shorthanded. Decker Mujcin sprung Wyatt Dreger on a three-on-one with Scott Cousins, which ended with Mujcin putting away his first of the night. 1-0 after the first period.

This weekend, Canadians will get an extra hour of shut-eye as clocks "fall back" for daylight saving time. At 2 a.m. on Sunday, clocks roll back an hour, bringing the annual gift of bonus sleep—unless, of course, you have kids, pets, or morning chores out in Portage la Prairie, where cows stick to their own schedule and won’t be reading the clocks.

A man from Winkler had more than just a spare bike tire, leading to a call to the RCMP. 

According to an RCMP weekly press report, on October 26th, the Portage RCMP received a report of a male taking apart bicycles in the alley of the 100 block of Saskatchewan Avenue West. When officers arrived, they located a man with three bicycles.

Police then detained the man to check if the bikes were his. An arrest quickly followed as the bikes were confirmed to be stolen.

Canada's spy service tracked the flow of its intelligence reports across government and studied how other agencies handled them as part of an investigation into leaks of classified information about foreign interference, a newly released memo shows. 

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service described the "tireless efforts" in the memo prepared for staff who were keen for an update on the probe into unauthorized disclosures to the media.