Jets beat Capitals 3-0
9:07 PM
The Winnipeg Jets blanked the Washington Capitals 3-0 Monday night at Canada Life Centre.
Connor Hellebuyck stopped all 23 shots he faced for his fourth shutout of the season.
Neal Pionk, Alex Iafallo and Kyle Connor scored for the Jets, who improve to 41-18-5. The Capitals fall to 30-24-9.
Winnipeg returns to action on Wednesday when they host the Nashville Predators.
Thompson teen accused of robbing store, trying to take Mountie’s gun
2:45 PM
RCMP arrested a teenage boy in Thompson who is accused of attempting to rob a store while armed with a knife, then trying to take a Mountie’s gun.
RCMP were called to the store on Thompson Drive at about 12:15 p.m. on Saturday, where they were told a teen with a knife was behind the counter, stealing items, including more knives, Mounties said.
RCMP found the teen still behind the counter, trying to open the cash register, and tried to arrest him, but he threatened them with the knife and tried to grab an officer’s gun.
The Mountie instead took the teen to the ground, causing him to drop the knife, and got him in handcuffs despite more resistance, RCMP said. A search of the teen found four more knives and a pair of scissors.
A 16-year-old boy from Thompson is charged with robbery with a weapon, two counts each of assault a peace officer with a weapon, assault with a weapon and uttering threats, and one count each of resisting arrest and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose. He was held in custody.
Alleged attempted shoplifter throws coffee, tackles store owner
2:43 PM
Winnipeg police arrested a woman accused of assaulting a business owner after being caught trying to shoplift from a small store in Winnipeg Square mall on Friday.
The store owner asked the woman to leave after spotting her allegedly trying to steal, said Winnipeg police spokesman Const. Claude Chancy.
The woman, angered over the request, threw coffee in the shop owner’s face and assaulted her further, police alleged.
“She was kicked and then tackled to the ground, where she hit her head on the concrete,” said Chancy.
Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service personnel assessed the shop owner, a 47-year-old woman, and cleared her at the scene. Passersby intervened and held the woman for police, who were called in at about 12:20 p.m. on Friday. Two of the men who held her were assaulted too, police alleged.
A 34-year-old woman, whose name hasn’t been released, is to be charged with three counts of assault and one count each of assault with a weapon and assault cause bodily harm. She was released on an undertaking.
All Forks skating trails now closed for season
1:46 PM
The Forks has officially closed all its skating trails for the season.
The trails, which were on land, included rinks under a canopy near the market building and at the CN Stage, with about a kilometre of trail linking them. It opened Dec. 22.
The Forks said that as daytime temperatures have reached above freezing, it made the decision to officially end the skating season Monday.
The downtown attraction’s river trail only opened for nine days amid the unusually warm winter.
The river trail opened Jan. 25, which was the latest launch in history. It closed five days later, then reopened Feb. 13 and closed again four days after that.
Firefighters douse two Selkirk Avenue blazes
1:13 PM
Winnipeg firefighters doused two unrelated blazes on Selkirk Avenue within an hour on Monday morning.
In the first incident, Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service crews were called to an empty one-and-a-half storey house on the 700 block of Selkirk Avenue at about 9:25 a.m., where firefighters got inside and extinguished the flames by about 9:50 a.m. They found no one inside, said the fire service.
At 10:16 a.m., WFPS said, firefighters were called to a two-storey duplex on the 1000 block of Selkirk Avenue, where they found a small fire and smoke in one of the suites, which they quickly put out.
Residents of the duplex got out on their own before firefighters arrived. WFPS said both fires are still under investigation and are not believed to be related.
Bill Nye announces rescheduled Winnipeg date
11:04 AM
Author, inventor and educator Bill Nye, known as the Science Guy, will bring his The End Is Nye tour to the Centennial Concert Hall on May 12 at 7:30 p.m.
The show, in which Nye discusses climate change, natural disasters and how we can make the world a better place using science, was originally scheduled for March 3, but storms in southwestern Manitoba forced the production to postpone.
Tickets are available at https://centennialconcerthall.com/Online/article/BillNye
Customers who purchased tickets for the original show date may use them for the new date.
Bill Nye the Science Guy
University of Winnipeg staff ratify new agreement
10:01 AM
The University of Winnipeg and the University of Winnipeg Faculty Association have ratified a new collective agreement.
The agreement covers 340 academic staff and will last until March 2027.
Bargaining began last fall; UWFA membership voted in favour of the agreement March 7. It’s the sixth collective agreement to be negotiated at the university in the past two years.
The new agreement will be posted on the university’s website once finalized.
Bisons seeded No. 1 for volleyball nationals
7:32 AM
The Manitoba Bisons, coming off their first Canada West women’s volleyball championship in program history, have been named the No. 1 seed for the upcoming U Sports Championship in Hamilton, Ont.
No. 3-ranked Manitoba, which upset the top-ranked UBC Thunderbirds 3-2 in the conference final Saturday night, will play the eighth-seeded Saint Mary’s Huskies in their quarter-final opener Friday at 11 a.m.
The Huskies were finalists in the Atlantic conference. Semifinals are slated for Saturday with the final to be played Sunday.
Other quarter-final matchups include: No. 5-seeded Montréal Carabins vs. No. 4 Alberta Pandas; No. 2 UBC vs. No. 7 McMaster Marauders; and the No. 6 Acadia Axewomen vs. the No. 3 Brock Badgers.
