Dustin Byfuglien gets warm welcome at alumni game
Ken Wiebe 8 minute read Preview
Dustin Byfuglien gets warm welcome at alumni game
Ken Wiebe 8 minute read Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026
To say that Dustin Byfuglien wasn’t a fan of the spotlight is an understatement of epic proportions.
The guy with the personality that was larger than life preferred to keep that side of him mostly contained behind the hallowed halls of the Winnipeg Jets locker room.
Since he unexpectedly stepped away from the game in the fall of 2019, Byfuglien has limited his rare interviews to discussions about fishing, happily leaving the NHL game in his rearview mirror.
But on Saturday morning, there was Byfuglien standing in the newly-renovated Jets’ dressing room, holding court with a group of reporters hanging on his every word prior to the alumni game that was part of the 2026 Heritage Classic.
Winnipeggers unhappy with city leadership, but mostly unwilling to do anything about it
Dan Lett 5 minute read Preview
Winnipeggers unhappy with city leadership, but mostly unwilling to do anything about it
Dan Lett 5 minute read 12:54 PM CDT
This is not an endorsement (not my job) nor is it a prediction (predictions are for suckers) of what will happen Wednesday in Winnipeg’s mayoral race. It is, however, a call to arms for voters.
The latest Free Press-Abacus Data (formerly Probe Research) poll, published this past weekend recorded a noticeable decline in support for the two theoretical front-runners (Scott Gillingham and Kevin Klein, respectively) and an increase from modest to significant for just about everyone else.
Gillingham saw his support from decided voters drop from 55 per cent to 36 per cent. Klein, the former city councillor and MLA, saw support drop from 23 to 19 per cent.
And what of the rest? Business owner Mike Vogiatzakis, who generated most of his headlines in this campaign by engaging in NHL-grade trash-talking with Klein, was up three points to 14 per cent. And Noah Redden, the 27-year-old software developer, saw his support jump by 10 points, from four to 14 per cent.
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MPI cuts off public parking downtown to prioritize staff mandated to return to office
Chris Kitching and Morgan Modjeski 5 minute read Preview
MPI cuts off public parking downtown to prioritize staff mandated to return to office
Chris Kitching and Morgan Modjeski 5 minute read 6:00 AM CDT
Some commuters who work in downtown Winnipeg are frustrated after finding out they’re losing access to monthly parking spots in lots owned by Manitoba Public Insurance.
The Crown corporation has acquired parking spaces, currently managed by Impark for its staff, and is adding desks and renovating some floors at its Cityplace headquarters to prepare for more employees to return to the office full time, sources told the Free Press.
MPI, which owns the Cityplace complex and parkades within the tower and at 266 Hargrave St., is eliminating daily parking and reducing the number of non-MPI monthly parkers to “prioritize” parking availability for employees who work at the headquarters, spokeswoman Kristy Rydz said.
The changes will come into effect Nov. 1 for the 266 Hargrave parkade and Dec. 1 for the Cityplace tower parkade. The lots will become card-access only.
A Winnipeg woman who helped dispose the body of a slain Mexican man under threat of death from his killers has been ordered to serve another 8½ months in jail.
Devlin Langlois, 25, had pleaded guilty to accessory after the fact to murder in the March 2025 killing of 28-year-old Diego Moscoza in a Selkirk Avenue house.
Court of King’s Bench Justice Candace Grammond, in a written ruling delivered Friday, rejected a recommendation by Langlois’s lawyer Joshua Rogala that she be sentenced to the equivalent of nearly 16 months of time served.
Grammond said she accepted that Langlois feared for her life. However, she made no effort to help Moscoza when he was gravely injured and his killers were not present in the home and had not yet threatened her.
