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‘I don’t think the boys really understand how sick I am’: Coach leads his under-14 team to Soccer nationals after deadly cancer diagnosis
A year ago, they were 13 years old. A year ago, they were the Bad News Bears of Manitoba minor soccer, a motley band of serial losers who would put on their soccer boots and head out onto the pitch praying for a tie, praying for anything other than another 13-0 whooping.
Winnipeg South End United (WSEU) went from not being able to win to never losing, to capturing a city — and then a provincial championship — and earning a trip to Ontario to compete for the national prize.
Julian Avila credits their coach, Riccardo De Thomasis.
“With Riccardo’s help every one of us stepped up our game,” he says. “With Riccardo’s help, we all came together. Riccardo believed in us.” (Peter J. Thompson/National Post)
Explosion, massive blaze at Winnipeg racing fuel warehouse forces dozens from homes
A situation that officials described as volatile and dangerous began to ease late Monday as fire crews started to knock back a massive blaze at a Winnipeg warehouse holding highly explosive fuel used for car racing.
No one was hurt when fire and explosions rocked Speedway International, a company that boasts on its website it is “North America’s No. 1 source for 99.99% racing methanol.” (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christine Morin)
Girl in Chicago: I’ve been to Canada, ‘that part across from Detroit.’ Rob Ford: ‘Winnipeg?’
(Photo: Jeff Haynes for National Post)
Transgender father says breastfeeding support group rules unfairly bar him from becoming a leader
A Winnipeg transgender father says his bid to become leader of a breastfeeding support group was rejected because a man cannot take the role under La Leche League Canada policy.
Trevor MacDonald, who was born female and gave birth to his son, has been breastfeeding the child using a supplemental feeding tube.
Mr. MacDonald was told that “a man cannot become an LLLC Leader,” he wrote on his blog Milk Junkies, which chronicles his breastfeeding experience. He wrote that he understands that he doesn’t fit their parameters, but says their definition is poor and out of date.
“At the time the policy was written, the authors assumed that men wouldn’t/couldn’t breastfeed, so they defined a leader as a woman,” Mr. MacDonald wrote in a blog post on Thursday. “I kinda doubt that many people envisioned my own scenario. I think that the interpretation of the policy should evolve.” (Photo: Dr. Jack Newman)
Winnipeg is bracing for an early mosquito invasion
Winnipeggers might have welcomed this year’s early snow melt, but now they are bracing for its consequence: An early mosquito invasion. The insects are slated to buzz into Winnipeg sooner than usual, so the city’s insect control branch this week launched its larviciding activities, working to kill them before they reach the flying adult, biting stage.
The National Post’s Kathryn Blaze Carlson spoke with city councillor Scott Fielding about life in mosquitoville.
‘Slow the f— down,’ road sign tells Winnipeg drivers
If fines and suspensions don’t work, then maybe a little profanity will? On Sunday, some drivers in Winnipeg were likely surprised to see an electronic road sign instructing them to “Slow The F— Down.”
But Manitoba Public Insurance didn’t just finally snap on lead-footed drivers.
Rather, the sign — used by the provincial insurer under contract — was apparently hacked by a digitally savvy mischief-maker. (Photo: Karen Chapman for the Winnipeg Free Press)
GALLERY: Shelly Rypien, who is the mother of late NHL player Rick Rypien, drops the puck for the ceremonial face off at the Jets’ home opener on Sunday. Todd Korol/Reuters
GALLERY: A wide view of the MTS Centre during the home opener of the Winnipeg Jets. Todd Korol/Reuters
GALLERY: They’re back! The Winnipeg Jets are playing their first game at home. Marianne Helm/Getty Images
OPENING NIGHT: We get into specifics in Day 2 of our preview, with a closer look at all the Canadian teams. Yes, it is the final countdown.
Jets return a missing piece of Winnipeg
Not only have the Winnipeg Jets returned to fulfill the physical role of a National Hockey League team in town, it might not be a stretch to argue the Jets have returned to replace a missing piece of the city itself. Photo: Marianne Helm/Getty Images
The Winnipeg Jets played their first home game, albeit an exhibition one, to a full house on Tuesday. Marianne Helm/Getty Images
Finally… the new Winnipeg Jets jerseys have been unveiled. (Photo: Fred Greenslade/Reuters)
Ice technicians install the Winnipeg Jets logo at centre ice of the MTS Centre. Fred Greenslade/Reuters
As news circulated through the hockey community on Monday night that Winnipeg Jets forward Rick Rypien had been found dead, few took the news harder than his former teammate and friend Jason Jaffray.
