A southeastern Manitoba man was found guilty of groping and assaulting his girlfriend on Feb. 20.

Provincial court Judge Donald Slough read his decision in a Steinbach court room after a two-day trial concluded in December. The accused was found guilty to two counts of sexual assault and one count of assault.

The Carillon can’t release the names of the complainant or the accused due to a court-ordered publication ban.

The 20-year-old was called to the stand, dressed in a black suit and wearing sneakers, and listened to Slough’s verdict.

Seine River School Division has asked the province for portable classrooms for next school year after Manitoba’s decision to deny the division’s similar request last year.

Superintendent Colin Campbell told school board trustees Tuesday night the division has requested eight units for the 2026-2027 school year for schools in Ste Anne, La Broquerie, La Salle and St Adolphe.

“These are legitimate needs that we need, like today. It’s important that we are given a fair shot to receive these modular classrooms,” Campbell told The Carillon.

He pointed to the rapid enrollment growth across the division, adding up to roughly two schools’ worth of students, as the biggest need for the extra space. Seine River School Division reported its enrollment grew by over 800 students for all schools from 2020 to 2025, with last year seeing 140 new students joining the division as of November.

Children who experience or witness violence are often impacted in ways that are not always immediately visible. Trauma and prolonged stress in childhood can disrupt normal development and affect behaviour, physical and mental health, learning, and relationships. Understanding how trauma can show up—and how caregivers can respond—can play an important role in a child’s healing.

Signs a child may be struggling

According to children’s counsellor Samantha, children can react to trauma in many different ways. Some may show physical symptoms such as frequent stomach aches or headaches, trouble sleeping, or changes in bladder control like bedwetting. Others may struggle cognitively, including difficulty focusing, poor memory, or challenges at school.

Behavioural and emotional changes are also common. Caregivers may notice increased aggression or impulsivity, defiance, social withdrawal, emotional outbursts, anxiety, or low mood. For children who have experienced ongoing trauma, their nervous system may remain in a constant state of fight, flight, or freeze, which can make it difficult for them to trust others or feel safe in relationships.

After months of relentless opposition from pro-choice organizations, Quebec Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette reluctantly removed a reference to abortion rights from his government’s proposed Quebec constitution.

The clause in question said, “the state protects women’s freedom to have recourse to a voluntary termination of pregnancy.”

It might seem strange that pro-choice advocates would oppose a move to enshrine the right to an abortion. After all, the primary mission of these organizations is to promote abortion rights. But there’s a very clear reason for their opposition to this particular clause—and it had everything to do with being politically strategic.

The reason pro-choice organizations led the charge against a clause enshrining abortion rights was because they knew it would be vulnerable to a legal challenge. Pro-choice advocates prefer the status quo where there is a complete legal void on this issue. This way, they can continue promoting the narrative that abortion is simply healthcare and should be treated like any other medical procedure.

Heartbreak. Anguish. Grief. Despair. Disbelief. After 12 long years of eagerly waiting for best-on-best Olympic hockey, the hockey gods had it in for the clearly superior Canadian squad. Our arch rivals beat us in overtime, proving that sport, like life, isn’t always fair.

Team USA needed a miracle to win their last gold medal in 1980 and they needed another miracle to win Olympic gold in 2026.

Canada was clearly the better team. No rational hockey fan could look at that gold medal game and say the best team won.

If it was a best of seven series, Canada would win decisively. (Speaking of which, let’s have another Summit Series like we had in 1972, only this time it should be Canada versus the U.S. It would be epic.)