Leons Headlines Oct 7: One person was rescued from a burning home on Percy Street in Brandon’s east end Tuesday morning & taken to hospital; the fire was quickly extinguished.
-BSD trustee forum at BU last night dominated by discussion about residential schools & the need for increased school funding despite a $5M provincial boost.
-Manitoba’s harvest is now 65% complete, with dry conditions helping farmers finish crops, though wet fields, crop quality and weather damage continue to create challenges.
-MB welcomed a record 11M visitors in 2025, despite wildfire-related tourism losses earlier in the year.
-WPS seize 26kg of cocaine worth $1.5M & $750K cash in south Wpg drug bust.
-RCMP investigation into drug trafficking in Bunibonibee Cree Nation has led to more than 70 charges & 10 convictions.
-MB Premier, facing a new interim opposition leader who doesn’t speak French, answers questions in French only for 2 days, drawing criticism from academics, while he says criticism is an attack on Francophone rights.
-A 30yr old WA state man arrested & charged in connection with the Tumbler Ridge tragedy, accused of providing planning & financial support to the 18yr old suspect.
-Jets score 3-2 road win over Penguins, tonight host Colorado.
-Wheat Kings beat the Giants 2-1, tonight visit Kamloops, gametime 9pm LIVE YouTube.
❄️ Snow still on the menu for Thanksgiving in Manitoba! If you’re in Thompson, you might want to trade the pumpkin pie for a snow shovel because winter is apparently showing up for dinner!
Crista Pike is ALIVE, awake and talking… NOW WHAT?! After an absolutely incredible recovery, Crista is awake and communicating — but her journey is far from over as she faces the next chapter of her recovery and questions about what happens next for the convicted killer.
Massachusetts ice cream shop goes VIRAL for admitting its staff messed up! Instead of hiding a mistake, this ice cream shop put it on Facebook and asked people for PATIENCE and KINDNESS, after all they’re just KIDS! The internet did what the internet does.
Canadian hospitality declares a “TIPPING RECESSION”! Canadians are apparently getting a little less generous with the tip jar, as customers push back against tipping culture and those increasingly awkward percentage screens.
Long-lost family story gets WILD — high school athletes discover they’re SISTERS! Two young athletes thought they were simply teammates and friends, only to discover they shared something much bigger — they were actually sisters!
Still with adoption… an incredible story about the CELEBRITY DAD he never knew he had! Imagine discovering your biological father is someone famous — that’s exactly what happened in this unbelievable adoption story when your Father turns out to be one of the world’s BIGGEST Celebs.
WHAT A MONEY SHOT! At the Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation’s road hockey event in Vaughan Saturday, Toronto’s Wayne Robbins—drawn after raising money for the charity—made a near-impossible shot, sinking a 66 mm ball from 75 feet into a 71.3 mm hole on his first try to win $100,000. and HE DID IT. What happened next is equally impressive!
