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TORONTO – The five finalists vying to represent Canada at the 2027 Eurovision Song Contest have been announced.

WINNIPEG – The Winnipeg Blue Bombers swept the CFL top player awards for the final week of the regular-season, with quarterback Dru Brown, running back Brady Oliveira and receiver Dorian Singer earning the honours.

Wrote about Detroiters and The Lowdown for work. Check out @winnipegfreepress.com arts desk’s favourite shows that missed the NYT top 100. www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

The @winnipegfreepress.com arts and life crew picked some top TV shows of the 21st century overlooked by the recent NYT piece, so of course I chose Malcolm in the Middle, which paved the way for single-camera comedies and is still hilarious: www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

Terrific chat just now with former #NHLJets coach Paul Maurice on a number of local topics -- Connor Hellebuyck, Dustin Byfuglien's return, the Heritage Classic, Nikolaj Ehlers and the current Winnipeg team. Story coming for @winnipegfreepress.com

U.S. and Cuban officials engaged in a stunning shouting match on the floor of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, the latest in a series of public spats between the longtime adversaries over Washington’s escalating economic campaign against Havana.

DALLAS (AP) — Connor Hellebuyck is set to make his debut for the New Jersey Devils when the goaltender starts at Dallas on Tuesday night.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Jackson Chourio set the tone at the plate, Brice Turang sparked an historic offensive outburst and Robert Gasser shut the door on the mound.

An Egyptian court ordered the closure of one of Egypt’s last independent news outlets Tuesday after convicting its editor-in-chief of operating a website without a license in a major blow to the country’s shrinking press freedom.

TORONTO – B.C. Lions quarterback Nathan Rourke is in the running to defend his CFL top Canadian award.

OTTAWA – A new process to review the Indian Act won’t necessarily lead to the controversial legislation’s termination, Prime Minister Mark Carney clarified on Tuesday.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Susan Saint James, who co-starred with Rock Hudson in the 1970s TV crime series “McMillan & Wife” and later co-starred with Jane Curtin in the sitcom “Kate & Allie” in the 1980s, has died. She was 80.

BEIRUT (AP) — Iranian-backed militias carried out a precision strike last month, hitting the pumping stations of Saudi Arabia’s most important oil pipeline. Days later, another attack hit a Saudi military air base, damaging an Italian fighter jet inside a hangar.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will be joined by one of his potential successors on Tuesday as he tries to keep Texas, which hasn’t elected a Democrat to statewide office in 32 years, in the Republican column in next week’s midterm elections.

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Authorities in Utah are holding a news conference Tuesday to pin another decades-old homicide on serial killer Ted Bundy.

Glen Murray has endorsed Winnipeg mayoral candidate Noah Redden in Wednesday’s civic election.

OTTAWA – Negotiations toward a new transatlantic pact between Canada and the European Union don’t include discussions for a full-scale free labour movement, but something more focused, Canada’s EU ambassador said ahead of the Canada-EU summit later this week in Montreal.

OTTAWA – The federal government is set to introduce changes to Canada’s medical assistance in dying law Tuesday to bar people suffering solely from a mental illness from accessing MAID, and to allow for advance directives.

TORONTO – As the federal government prepares to table new legislation that would allow advance requests for medical assistance in dying, the stark difference in opinion between two provinces highlights an ongoing debate about what constitutes true consent among people who have dementia.  

BUNIA, Congo (AP) — The fast-moving Ebola outbreak in Congo has reached 10,000 confirmed cases, government data showed Tuesday, as health authorities race to slow the spread of the disease in multiple African countries.

Polling stations in Israel will close on Tuesday evening, but it could be weeks before Benjamin Netanyahu or one of his opponents will be declared the next prime minister.

PARIS (AP) — High schoolers who have protested for weeks in France about underfunded schools and uncertain futures complain that it’s a frustrating struggle to make themselves heard.

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — At least 62 people have been killed after gunmen attacked a community in northeastern Nigeria, the country’s emergency agency said Tuesday.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republicans are worried that Libertarian candidates could siphon away votes in some of this year’s most consequential U.S. Senate elections, potentially costing them control of the chamber.

A convicted sex offender accused of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman last week — only to be stopped in the process by police officers — has a lengthy history of abusing vulnerable victims.

Drawing on her Afro-Jamaican and Red River Métis heritage, Winnipeg-based ceramic artist PJ Anderson’s richly ornamented sculptural works explore adornment as a form of protection, resistance and self-definition.

TORONTO – Olivia Chow was re-elected as Toronto’s mayor, fending off a challenge from councillor Brad Bradford.

What Aidan Labao once believed was his greatest limitation is becoming his greatest strength.

CentrePort Canada Inc. has formed an alliance with three other inland ports.

Natural Resources and Indigenous Futures Minister Ian Bushie has a potential buyer for Grandpa George’s gas and convenience store at Hollow Water First Nation after offering it to sell it two years ago when he was found guilty of an ethics violation.

The Port of Churchill owners say they’re working with Dubai-based logistics giant DP World Inc. to potentially boost traffic to North America’s only deep water Arctic seaport.

Sal is officially back with his NHL pals and is eager to get back up to speed.

Expectations are rising that the Bank of Canada will indeed raise its benchmark interest rate this week as it considers the effect of higher energy prices on the economy.

Scott Gillingham will raise property taxes 3.5 per cent in 2027, if he’s re-elected as mayor on Wednesday.

A violent altercation outside Winnipeg’s largest homeless shelter turned fatal days later, leaving staff and community members mourning the loss of a man who was well known to them.

A 19-year-old is dead after a collision Saturday in southeastern Manitoba involving a semi-truck and a passenger vehicle.

MONTREAL – A Montreal man who says he is on the run from provincial authorities for housing a raccoon has taken his pet for a rabies vaccination.

An adult day program set to close at the end of the month in Charleswood has been spared.

WINNIPEG – The owners of Manitoba’s Port of Churchill say they’re working with Dubai-based DP World Inc. to potentially boost traffic at the arctic port.

OTTAWA – Canada’s financial intelligence agency revoked the registrations of 82 money service businesses in 2025-26, up from 12 the previous year.

Several Winnipeg School Division buses were forced out of service and a West End elementary school was being cleaned Monday due to incidents of vandalism over the weekend.

PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE – A Mountie in Manitoba has been charged with stopping what he believed to be a fleeing fugitive cyclist by slamming into the suspect with his police cruiser.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Walter Koenig, who played Ensign Pavel Chekov, the youthful Russian navigator on the “ Star Trek ” television series and several movies, has died. He was 90.

Manitoba’s police watchdog has authorized charges against a Portage la Prairie RCMP officer who allegedly hit and injured a man on a bicycle with his police cruiser.

In the increasingly bitter legal standoff between President Donald Trump and media outlets whose reporting he dislikes, a new and crucial third party has emerged: citizens who watch and read the news and need it to do their jobs.

Eric Bauza, the Toronto-born voice actor who breathed fresh life into some of Hollywood’s most iconic cartoon characters, has died at 46.

BRANDON — Asessippi Ski Area and Resort remains optimistic about the coming ski season, but is depending on disaster financial assistance to repair roughly $2.2 million in flood damage, a spokesperson said.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a vocal critic of U.S. President Donald Trump, was reelected Sunday in a result that provides relief to critics of widening U.S. influence in Latin America.

OTTAWA – First Nations leaders meet with Prime Minister Mark Carney and some of the country’s premiers today in what the Assembly of First Nations is calling a historic occasion.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump would prefer that voters not worry about inflation. But it’s hard for them to ignore.