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CTV News
5 days ago
- CTV News
‘Just something we have to do': Steinbach hires private company to assist RCMP in crime prevention
STEINBACH - A Manitoba city is making a drastic move in an attempt to reduce crime. The City of Steinbach, located southeast of Winnipeg, has hired a private security company to help curb a recent uptick in crime. 'Right now, we're extra boots on the ground,' said Brian Brunelle, president of Steinbach Security Services. Brunelle, a former police officer, has two units out nightly to act as extra eyes and ears for the RCMP. 'I think this is a good process for cities, municipalities, especially with shortages in policing,' Brunelle said. The city launched the five-month pilot project to see if it can help reduce crime, which has started to tick up in recent months. 'When I first moved here as a kid, nobody locked their doors,' said Wendy Toews, who has lived in Steinbach for over 50 years. Toews said that has changed and more property crime has been reported. Mayor Earl Funk has noticed the increase as well. 'There's some huge gaps as far as the construction sites, park sites, and just certain areas of our community that seem to get hit harder with vandalism and theft,' he said. Steinbach has a contract with RCMP to provide policing services. Manitoba RCMP said staffing in the Steinbach detachment fluctuates at around 17 officers, and empty shifts are filled by officers from other detachments working overtime. 'Yes, we have shortages, but for the most part, we do fill those shifts,' said Sgt. Paul Manaigre with Manitoba RCMP. 'A lot of members are eager to jump on and help out.' Funk said the security company is a temporary solution, but the city council will examine the project and see if it will become permanent this fall. 'We have to get more RCMP,' he said. 'We need more bodies, more members on the roads, and that's just something we have to do.'
CNBC
15-07-2025
- Business
- CNBC
The next frontier in real estate: Data centers on the moon and space-support infrastructure
As private companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin develop reusable rockets and push aspirations for lunar and Martian colonization, real estate investors are dialing in. Some liken it to the early days of the railroads, when entire towns grew up around new lines. One of the biggest plays is lunar and deep space data centers. Hines, a global real estate investment, development and management firm, recently announced the acquisition of the Titusville Logistics Center, a nearly 250,000-square-foot, Class A industrial property located in Florida's Space Coast submarket. The property is fully leased to aerospace tenants. This is just one example of investors looking to capitalize on the boom in the space exploration sector's real estate needs. "A real revolution has happened in the industry, and as things start to get unlocked, companies are looking for how they can monetize space more broadly, and there's a lot of pieces to that," said David Steinbach, global chief investment officer at Hines. Steinbach points to both infrastructure support here on Earth, as well as real estate development for manufacturing on the moon. It may sound futuristic, but it's already underway. CNBC's Property Play with Diana Olick covers new and evolving opportunities for the real estate investor, delivered weekly to your inbox. Subscribe here to get access today. "We are in the early days of something that will be some major investments, and we're creating these new rails of the future. In this case, it's more into orbit instead of on the ground, but when you think about it that way, think about all the nodes that are going to get developed and created. It's exciting, and I think investors need to be thinking that way," he said. One of those rails is data centers. They are going up at a quick pace all over the world, and at the same time sucking up more energy than most local grids can handle. Putting them in space offers a fully decarbonized energy solution. "There is unlimited power in space because of the sun, there is unlimited cooling with the vacuum of space, and there's unlimited real estate in terms of where you can put these things," said Steinbach. The data centers could be built on the moon and either kept there or launched into space. The data would simply be beamed back to Earth. Several companies are already working on construction methods for the moon, including 3D printing. ICON, a Texas-based construction technology company, is collaborating with NASA on developing 3D printing technology for construction on the moon and Mars. NASA is providing support through its Small Business Innovation Research program. And a California startup called Ethos says it has the technology for a moon-based cement ready to go, making it out of the moon's primary material, anorthosite. "Ethos takes the geological resources on the moon, and it turns them into buildable props," said Ross Centers, the company's CEO. "It's a whole new world waiting to be developed, and we develop it. We turn it into landing pads, roads, foundations for data centers and other great things." Centers said Ethos can also use anorthosite to make raw materials for solar panels, conductors and other materials needed to build data centers and other industrial facilities. And he pointed to the massive proliferation of rocket launches that will only multiply. He calls that his ride. "People are really excited about this vision. This is something that people have been looking for. It's not every generation that you get a whole new continent to unlock," said Centers. Industrial warehouses here on Earth will still serve the space economy, Centers said, providing capacity for all the things that will be transported into space as well as areas for space-driven manufacturing. But the warehouse sector overall is getting softer now, with vacancy rates at 8.5% in May nationally due to tariff uncertainty, according to Yardi Research. That's up 290 points in the prior 12 months. Just 86.9 million square feet of new warehouse space was started as of May, on pace for the lowest annual total since 2018. Steinbach admits that industrial broadly is seeing some headwinds in the U.S., and some submarkets – particularly the distribution centers for big box stores – are feeling that more than others. But he also said there are certain markets that are very undersupplied, and the space-support sector is one of them. That's in both Florida and Texas. Steinbach argued there needs to be more development, more capital going toward construction of the infrastructure necessary to support this space real estate race. But, as with everything else, higher interest rates are holding it back. If rates come down, he said, the capital will come. "I think the capital is looking for great opportunities. They're looking for great returns, and this is one of them," Steinbach said.
CTV News
12-07-2025
- CTV News
Second pilot identified in fatal Manitoba mid-air crash
Savanna May Royes has been identified as the second pilot that died in a mid-air crash near Steinbach, Man. on July 8, 2025. (GoFundMe) The second pilot in a fatal mid-air crash in Manitoba has been identified. CTV News has confirmed that Savanna May Royes from Ontario was flying the other plane when it was involved in the crash near Steinbach earlier this week. A GoFundMe says Savanna was 20 years old, and her father was a career helicopter pilot. The second pilot had been identified as Sreehari Sukesh of India, according to the Consulate General of India in Toronto. The crash took place Tuesday near Steinbach, just south of the runway at Harv's Air, a flight school. Harv's Air owner Adam Penner said Tuesday the pilots were practicing routine takeoffs and landings at the time of the collision. The Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash. -With files from CTV's Kristen Yu and Jeff Keele.
Yahoo
11-07-2025
- General
- Yahoo
2 student pilots killed in midair collision in Canada
Two student pilots died on Tuesday morning when their single-engine planes crashed in midair south of Steinbach, in the Canadian province of Manitoba. Adam Penner, president of Harv's Air pilot training school, said the two were practicing takeoffs and landings in small Cessna planes. He said they appeared to have tried to land at the same time and collided a few hundred yards away from the small runway. Penner added that the planes are equipped with radios, but it appears the two pilots didn't see each other. Police are releasing few details but said the pilots were pronounced dead at the scene and that there were no passengers. Royal Canadian Mounted Police could not confirm the identities of the victims during an afternoon news conference. 'I don't have that information,' said Manitoba RCMP Cpl. Melanie Roussel. 'There's really limited information right now.' Penner said the flight school, which his parents started in the early 1970s, has students from Canada and around the world training for professional and recreational purposes. The school trains about 400 student pilots a year. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has been notified. Steinbach is about 42 miles south of Winnipeg, the provincial capital. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Fox Sports
10-07-2025
- Sport
- Fox Sports
2025 MLB All-Star Game: Building the Best Athletics Lineup
The Athletics brought you the Bash Brothers, Run Ricky Run, Moneyball, and some epic pitching mustaches. Its origins are in Philadelphia and had a brief stop in Kansas City, but this team thrived in Oakland. It deserved better than getting uprooted from the East Bay. Despite all of this moving around, though, the A's have had sustained success – including nine World Series titles – and produced some tremendous players. Manager: Connie Mack Connie Mack is a rarity on this list, in more ways than one. A player, then a manager who doubled as an executive, but also as a manager with a career record of under .500. Part of that is an issue of volume, however: Mack ran the A's for 50 seasons, from their 1901 inception through 1950. He managed them for 7,466 games: a .484 win percentage only counts for so much when it's attached to eight World Series appearances and five World Series championships. No other A's manager has 1,000 wins — Mack boasts 3,582 of them. Starting pitcher: Catfish Hunter Catfish Hunter debuted for the Kansas City Athletics in 1965 at 19, the year after going pro. It took time — and a move to Oakland — for him to get his feet fully under him, but once he did, Hunter was brilliant. At his peak, he posted a 2.68 ERA over four seasons, winning the 1974 Cy Young with an AL-best 2.49 ERA and MLB-leading 25 wins. Hunter starred in the playoffs: the A's won the '72, '73 and '74 World Series, and he threw 80 innings of 2.24 ERA ball with a 7-1 record in those playoffs. Reliever/closer: Dennis Eckersley Dennis Eckersley revolutionized the closer's role, turning it into a one-inning assignment meant to shut the door on opponents. That his performance and usage spurred on copycats and changed the game is undeniable. Eck pitched in 525 games for Oakland, finishing 456 of them while racking up 320 saves — all first among A's pitchers. His walk rate (1.3) is lowest in A's history, and his K/9 of 9.3 second despite the strikeout-averse era he pitched in. Eckersley won the 1992 Cy Young and MVP as a closer, with a 1.91 ERA and 51 saves. Catcher: Terry Steinbach Terry Steinbach caught some fantastic A's pitching staffs, including the 1988, 1989, and 1990 teams that all made it to the World Series. Steinbach could handle a pitching staff and his defensive work, but he could also hit: he spent 11 years of his career with Oakland, and his 107 OPS+ was even better than it looks. In '87, backstops hit a collective .244/.303/.384 — Steinbach, meanwhile, batted .284/.349/.463. While Oakland won "just" one of three World Series he appeared in, it's hard to blame him: Steinbach hit .281/.340/.382 in the postseason. 1B: Jimmie Foxx For 11 seasons, Jimmie Foxx played for the Athletics. He had what was a borderline Hall of Fame career just in those years before he even exited his peak: 61 wins above replacement, 1,492 hits, 302 home runs, 1,075 RBIs, and a .339/.440/.640 line. Despite heading to Boston afterward, Foxx still ranks second among A's in WAR, and if not for Al Simmons would be first in all three slash stats, as well. As is, he's only behind Mark McGwire in homers, and if anyone bests his 175 OPS+, they'll be a Hall of Famer, too. 2B: Max Bishop Max Bishop was overshadowed by Jimmie Foxx, but he had plenty to offer the Philadelphia A's, too. He led the majors in walks with 128 in 1929, allowing him to post a .398 on-base percentage despite a down batting average year (.232). He'd amass 1,046 walks in his 10 years with Philly, which was first all-time among A's until Rickey Henderson surpassed him most of a century later. It wasn't just walks: Bishop was a defensive star, decades before there were Gold Gloves to signify that, but in 1931 alone he added over two wins with his glove. 3B: Eric Chavez The "Moneyball" A's deserve loads of credit for changing the emphasis of front offices, but one thing that's sometimes lost is that, in addition to finding undervalued players, like those who could draw a ton of walks, the A's also had the likes of Eric Chavez, who was about as traditionally excellent as you could get. A six-time Gold Glove recipient who hit .280/.357/.513 during his five-year peak, Chavez was a star in the early aughts. As his bat slowed and defense briefly dipped due to injury, that changed, but he was an exceptional third baseman. SS: Miguel Tejada Miguel Tejada won the 2002 AL MVP, picked up his first 968 hits with Oakland, hit almost half of his home runs with them, and batted .270/.331/.460 to go with his quality defense. He played in 1,152 games in a row before a broken wrist ended that streak — one that carried over from his time with the A's into his free agent deal with the Orioles. Tejada was a star for some time, earning 40 wins above replacement from 1999 through 2006, and was a major reason why the "Moneyball" A's succeeded as much as they did. OF: Reggie Jackson Reggie Jackson had experience as "Mr. October" well before he was ever given that nickname. In five playoff years with the A's, he hit .271/.344/.475 with five home runs, 15 RBIs, and 32 hits. He was part of the three consecutive World Series winners in '72, '73 and '74, even earning the World Series MVP in '73. Before ever donning a Yankees' uniform, Jackson hit 269 of his 563 homers with the A's, and batted .262/.355/.496. He led the AL in strikeouts in four consecutive years there, too, but it never seemed to slow him down. OF: Jose Canseco Jose Canseco won the 1986 Rookie of the Year award after exploding onto the big-league scene with 33 homers, and he just kept going up from there: in '88, he led the majors with 42 dingers, a .569 slugging and 170 OPS+, and then led in homers again in '91 with 44. Canseco would bounce around the league for years after his time in Oakland was up, but before then, he put together nine years with 254 home runs — the fourth-most in A's history — and became the first-ever 40 home run, 40 stolen bases player in Athletics' and MLB history. OF: Rickey Henderson Rickey Henderson was an inner-circle, all-time great player who spent 25 years with major-league teams (and quite a few elsewhere afterward on the independent scene). If you got rid of his time with the Yankees, Padres, Mets, Mariners, Red Sox, Blue Jays, Angels, and Dodgers, and left him with just the A's, that itself would be a Hall of Fame-caliber career. In 14 years with Oakland, Henderson hit .288/.409/.430, stole 867 bases — that would be good enough for fifth all-time — and reached base 3,050 times, which would have tied Joe DiMaggio's entire career for 197th in MLB. DH: Mark McGwire Mark McGwire's post-A's career received the media attention, owing to his breaking Roger Maris' single-season home run record with 70 in 1998, but he spent more time in Oakland — 12 years to five with St. Louis — and had himself a hell of a start to a career there, too. McGwire hit 363 home runs for the A's, the most of any of their players, while batting .260/.380/.551. He was one of the Bash Bros. with Canseco, and appeared in three consecutive World Series, with the A's winning in 1989 when McGwire hit .343/.368/.486 against the Giants. Honorable mention Bob Melvin (manager) Tony La Russa (manager) Dave Stewart (starting pitcher) Chief Bender (starting pitcher) Vida Blue (starting pitcher) Lefty Grove (starting pitcher) Eddie Plank (starting pitcher) Rollie Fingers (reliever/closer) Mickey Cochrane (catcher) Gene Tenace (catcher) Mark Ellis (2B) Eddie Collins (2B) Sal Bando (3B) Frank Baker (3B) Matt Chapman (3B) Marcus Semien (SS) Bert Campaneris (SS) Eddie Jost (SS) Joe Rudi (OF) Yoenis Cespedes (OF) Dave Henderson (OF) Al Simmons (OF) Dwayne Henderson (OF) Jason Giambi (DH) recommended Item 1 of 3 Get more from the Major League Baseball Follow your favorites to get information about games, news and more in this topic
