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Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Medicure: Q1 Earnings Snapshot
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Medicure Inc. (MCUJF) on Wednesday reported a loss of $483,000 in its first quarter. On a per-share basis, the Winnipeg, Manitoba-based company said it had a loss of 5 cents. The drugmaker posted revenue of $3.8 million in the period. _____ This story was generated by Automated Insights ( using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on MCUJF at Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Business Journals
13-05-2025
- Business
- Business Journals
5 things: Little Whale Swim School opens on Broadway
Welcome to Tuesday, loyal readers. Friendly reminder: You have until Friday to submit nominations for this year's Best Places to Work Awards. We're looking for local employers that have created an outstanding workplace culture. Nomination information is available online. Here's what else you need to know today. Want more local business headlines? Sign up for our morning and afternoon newsletters to get Sacramento business news delivered straight to your inbox. GET TO KNOW YOUR CITY Find Local Events Near You Connect with a community of local professionals. Explore All Events Little Whale Swim School opens on Broadway In 2023, my colleague Jake Abbott told you that locally owned Little Whale Swim School would fill a former bank building at 1331 Broadway in Sacramento. Update: The swim school is now open on Broadway, according to a social media announcement from the business. This is the second location for the indoor swim school, which also has a site at 4106 El Camino Ave. in Arden-Arcade. Anya Hall owns the business. The Broadway swim school was a $2 million project, according to the Business Journal's recent Redefining the Core coverage. Railyards development finally coming to life In the works for decades, the Railyards project north of Sacramento is now showing tangible results. The AJ — a 345-unit, mixed-income project in the Railyards — began leasing in late April. A half-mile west of AJ, dozens of construction worker cars are parked across Railyards Boulevard from the other big project underway in that area — Kaiser Permanente's $1 billion, 18-acre medical center campus. Two more projects are on deck: a new 12,000-seat soccer stadium for Sacramento Republic FC, and adaptive reuse of an existing building to create Paint Shop, a venue for live events. In our latest cover story, Senior Reporter Ben van der Meer has an update on the Railyards project. Entertainment chain replacing former Rite Aid A former Rite Aid space in Roseville is being converted into a new entertainment facility by a chain breaking into the California market. The building at 990 Pleasant Grove Blvd. in Roseville's Veterans Plaza has been vacant since Rite Aid shuttered the site in 2022. Winnipeg, Manitoba-based entertainment company Activate Games, which operates facilities globally that merge technology and physical activity to create live-action gaming experiences, is seeking a permit to remodel a portion of the building. Reporter Jake Abbott explains what Activate Games is planning in Roseville. Local company closes after failing to raise capital Ag-tech company California Safe Soil LLC has shut down its operations and is liquidating its products and planning to auction off its equipment. The 2012 startup developed a process to convert leftover expired food from supermarkets into a low-cost, nutrient-rich soil amendment for farmers. 'We ran out of money. We were making great progress,' said founder Dan Morash. The company ceased operations May 2. Reporter Mark Anderson has details about California Safe Soil's closure. 2 local nonprofits combining to expand services TKMomentum Inc., a Sacramento-based nonprofit providing employment services for people with barriers to work, is being acquired by Odyssey Learning Center Inc., an Orangevale nonprofit known for its programs for individuals with autism and developmental disabilities. All 80 TKMomentum employees will join Odyssey Learning Center when the acquisition is completed July 1, leaders from both organizations said. Reporter Chris Campbell explains what you need to know about Odyssey Learning Center's planned acquisition of TKMomentum. Have a great day, folks. Thanks for reading.
Winnipeg Free Press
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Winnipeg Free Press
Animated Indigenous series filled with friends of all kinds
Before they became chums, they were strangers with little professional acting experience. Elise Armitage, 17, and James Siegers, 11, are two of the young local voice actors featured in Chums, an animated children's series with an all-Indigenous cast and creative team from Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The show — the second season of which premières on APTN today in Anishinaabemowin, Cree and English — follows a girl named Flies with Eagles and her ragtag group of animal friends as they learn about life on Turtle Island pre-contact. 'Romper is a fast-moving, energetic, but really empathetic bunny. So, pretty much me,' says Armitage, who is of Cree heritage and lives in Miniota, a small municipality 300 kilometres west of Winnipeg. 'Pterry the ptarmigan, he's pretty energetic, probably not as energetic as Romper, but he's a really fun character to voice. Every now and then he'll crack a joke, which is similar to me,' says Siegers, who lives in Oakbank and is a member of the Waskaganish Cree Nation in northern Quebec. Voice acting has been a learning experience for both up-and-comers. Prior to auditioning for Chums, Siegers had worked as a photo double on Crave drama Little Bird and has since appeared on several episodes of sitcom Acting Good — both Manitoba-based productions. Armitage is a former member of the Westman Youth Choir with performance credits in community musical theatre productions. 'It took me a while to really get comfortable in the studio. I was so nervous because I didn't want to screw up or get fired,' she says. SUPPLIED From left: Pterry the ptarmigan, Romper the rabbit, Ira the eaglet, Flies with Eagles and Emiree the baby beaver Siegers also describes his first few days in the recording booth as nerve-racking. 'But after that I was like, 'Oh, this is actually pretty good and fun,'' he says. Their initial reactions to hearing themselves on screen as a ptarmigan and a rabbit ranged, respectively, from 'funny' to 'weird, like in a good way.' Other local youth voice actors include Olivia Sinclair as Flies with Eagles and Zacchary Fontaine as Emiree the baby beaver. The 11-minute episodes are geared towards preschoolers and rooted in Indigenous teachings, with walk-on appearances from a wide cast of wildlife, from squirrels to coyotes to a young goose named Ryan the gosling, who has blue eyes and a swoop of blond hair. Chums is written, directed and produced by Dennis and Eric Jackson, a father-and-son team from Saskatchewan, and executive produced by Winnipeg's Zoot Pictures. Eleven-year-old James Siegers voices Pterry the ptarmigan The show, which made its television debut in spring 2024, has been greenlit for three seasons and picked up by global distributor Serial Maven Studios. The simple 3D design of Chums is also homegrown. Unable to find space at a Canadian animation studio during the height of the pandemic, Zoot decided to build its own. Winnipeg Jets Game Days On Winnipeg Jets game days, hockey writers Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe send news, notes and quotes from the morning skate, as well as injury updates and lineup decisions. Arrives a few hours prior to puck drop. 'We have animators in Saskatchewan and here in Manitoba,' Zoot principal Leslea Mair says, adding the goal is to expand the studio while helping train local animators. 'It's a bit of an incubator for animation personnel and we've had great success with people taking on bigger pieces.' The success of Chums is thanks in large part to the strength of its Indigenous-led storytelling and creative, Mair says. Elise Armitage, 17, is the voice of Romper the rabbit. 'As someone from a settler background, I may have a hand in the story editing or I may have comments, but I don't make the final creative decisions, the Indigenous team does. That's something we have to do in order to have it really ring true.' Eva WasneyReporter Eva Wasney has been a reporter with the Free Press Arts & Life department since 2019. Read more about Eva. Every piece of reporting Eva produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print — part of the Free Press's tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press's history and mandate, and learn how our newsroom operates. Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider becoming a subscriber. Our newsroom depends on its audience of readers to power our journalism. Thank you for your support.
Winnipeg Free Press
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Winnipeg Free Press
Manitoba film industry eyes Trump tariff threat
Those in Manitoba's film industry are waiting to see what will come of U.S. President Donald Trump's recent declaration on foreign film productions. On Sunday, Trump announced he had ordered a 100 per cent tariff on all movies produced outside the United States, claiming the tax would save America's 'dying' movie industry and that films made elsewhere presented a national security threat. While it's unclear how or when the proposed tariff would be applied, ACTRA Manitoba president Alan Wong is concerned about the potential impact on jobs and content. 'There's so many productions shooting around the world and for good reason — what is Emily in Paris going to be if she's not in Paris? Emily in Paris, Idaho?' said Wong. 'It's so nearsighted and narrow-minded and it could really affect our industry a lot.' In a statement released Monday, ACTRA's national board urged Prime Minister Mark Carney to protect the livelihoods of Canadian performers. According to the Canadian Media Producers Association, the value of foreign productions totalled $4.73 billion last year and generated 90,000 jobs across the country. ACTRA Manitoba represents nearly 900 performers working in cinema, television and radio. Local actors have benefited from the Manitoba movie boom over the last decade, spurred on by the province's 65 per cent tax credit for filmmakers on labour costs. Recurring projects from U.S. companies Hallmark and Lifetime have been particularly fruitful, Wong said. 'It would be such a shame to see that go because we've worked for years to develop these relationships,' he said. In 2024, Manitoba hosted 86 film and television productions — 36 per cent of which were national or international — representing nearly $435 million in production budgets, according to Manitoba Film and Music projections. Jeremy Torrie of Manitoba-based White Bear Films wasn't feeling particularly worried about the president's latest trade war threat. 'It is ultimately a wait and see, but business is not stopping,' he said. He is a producer on Silent Night, Deadly Night, a reboot of the 1984 American slasher flick currently being shot in Manitoba with production partners from south of the border. The president's rhetoric wasn't going to get in the way of finishing the movie, Torrie said. 'There's so many productions shooting around the world and for good reason — what is Emily in Paris going to be if she's not in Paris? Emily in Paris, Idaho?'–Alan Wong 'Producers and projects that come to Manitoba, they do it because it makes the right financial sense to do so and we've got great crews and we've got great locations. They're going to continue to do that because the demand for entertainment is not going away.' Other American projects shot locally recently include Nobody 2, starring Bob Odenkirk, and The Long Walk, an adaptation of Stephen King's novella of the same name. Every Second Friday The latest on food and drink in Winnipeg and beyond from arts writers Ben Sigurdson and Eva Wasney. Manitoba Film and Music is monitoring the proposed tariff situation closely. 'We have a resilient local production industry, but we understand this issue creates uncertainty,' chief executive officer and film commissioner Lynne Skromeda said in a statement. Premier Wab Kinew also expressed concern. 'This is a concern because our film and television industry is great for Manitoba's economy and it's great for (local) pride,' he told reporters Monday during a scrum in his office. 'We can drive around Winnipeg or Selkirk or other communities in Manitoba and see shows that are going to be on Netflix, that are going to be on Amazon, shot right here in our great province.' — with files from Carol Sanders Eva WasneyReporter Eva Wasney has been a reporter with the Free Press Arts & Life department since 2019. Read more about Eva. Every piece of reporting Eva produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print — part of the Free Press's tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press's history and mandate, and learn how our newsroom operates. Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider becoming a subscriber. Our newsroom depends on its audience of readers to power our journalism. Thank you for your support.
Winnipeg Free Press
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Winnipeg Free Press
Face to face in our often contentious historical space
Opinion The two men trapped in the elevator were sure to come to blows. That much seemed clear from the first adversarial undertones of their conversation before the stall. One, a young Indigenous man, gregarious and educated. The other, a white lawyer, in a hurry for a meeting. Both on their way to the top floor, both stalled on their journey and brought face to face with their own discomforting assumptions and histories. This is the setting for David MacLeod's Elevate: Manaaji'idiwin, on the mainstage for another week at the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre. Peppered with local references from Children of the Earth High School to Ray 'Coco' Stevenson's Pow Wow Club, the conversations and place names are unabashedly niche: the Winnipeg we inhabit is also frequented by the characters in the elevator. This familiar landscape cultivates intimacy with the audience, trapped, as we are, in the same suspended time and space as the characters. Like Jonesie, the white lawyer who cannot, despite his efforts, silence his young and verbose travelling partner Tallahassee, the audience is brought into this difficult space of Indigenous/non-Indigenous relations, and is along for the ride, for as long as it takes, until the doors open again. This very local play is a product of RMTC's own Indigenous playwriting circle, Pimootayowin, which works to create and develop new plays written by Manitoba-based Indigenous playwrights. It's an endeavour that comes under fire in the themes of Elevate: Manaaji'idiwin itself: why devote resources to Indigenous stories in particular? What makes them so 'special?' I suppose the answer to this is part of the same reason the Jets' NHL playoff towels were sourced from Dreamcatcher Promotions, an Indigenous-owned business. And it's partly the reason for the Indigenous stoles worn by graduates at our universities and colleges. It's why True North Real Estate Development partnered with the Southern Chiefs' Organization to breathe new life into the former Bay building downtown. It's placing Indigenous success at centre stage of what we do in Winnipeg, what we celebrate and how. In other words, it's a way to get us into the elevator together, to confront and challenge some of the assumptions we may make about one another, and to make sure Indigenous folks not only have a voice, but an audience. It's tricky, but fitting, in the homeland of the Métis, the middle of the country, a place of mixing and remixing ideas and ideologies, that there would be some friction in the necessary shoulder-rubbing we must do to find harmony with one another. I walk the line between these Indigenous and non-Indigenous identities. This friction, the drawing of a bow on a string, resonates in me too. I'm a Red River Métis citizen, but of a rather pale variety, and once had an enlightening and impassioned phone chat with a Free Press reader, who asked me just who do I mean when I write the word 'we.' Do I mean 'we' Métis people? 'We' Indigenous people? 'We' Winnipeggers? The reader, Indigenous herself, wanted me to commit, to write from a Métis viewpoint, to write on Indigenous issues from an Indigenous perspective. I told her I'd have to think about that, and about how freely I toss around this word 'we.' Because like in McLeod's work, 'we' does shift, does change depending on what we're doing, where we're going, what we're hoping could happen. Weekly A weekly look at what's happening in Winnipeg's arts and entertainment scene. The truth is I am Métis, and I am also a Winnipegger. I feel at home claiming membership in both communities, and maybe it doesn't matter, in the moment, who 'we' is when I write it on the page. 'We' is just whoever's in the elevator at that moment. And how fortunate is it, that we might be crammed into a theatre, a hockey rink or an elevator with someone we don't recognize as ourselves until we've been there for a while. How we can shift our 'we' because we belong to more than a single identity. How fortunate to live in a place and among people who understand what it is to celebrate one another, to preserve space for creativity, art and enterprise. And not just in self-started playwright circles, but on the mainstage, in the NHL playoffs, and in those passing places like street corners and elevators that bring us to common futures we didn't know were waiting for us. Rebecca Chambers Rebecca explores what it means to be a Winnipegger by layering experiences and reactions to current events upon our unique and sometimes contentious history and culture. Her column appears alternating Saturdays. Read full biography Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider becoming a subscriber. Our newsroom depends on its audience of readers to power our journalism. Thank you for your support.
