A collection of breaking news briefs filed on Sunday, April 13, 2025
Jets clinch Presidents’ Trophy as NHL’s top team
8:02 PM
The Winnipeg Jets have captured the Presidents’ Trophy as the NHL’s top team during the regular season.
A 4-1 loss by the Washington Capitals on Sunday evening ensured the Jets couldn’t be caught by the time the 82-game campaign officially ends on Thursday.
It’s the first time this has happened in franchise history and ensures Winnipeg would have home-ice advantage through every round of the Stanley Cup playoffs.
Winnipeg entered play on Sunday against the Edmonton Oilers with a 55-21-4 record.
Silver Alert issued for missing 76-year-old
4:04 PM
A 76-year-old Manitoba man has been reported missing Sunday afternoon and RCMP say his family is very concerned for his well being.
Ronald Krieger is about 5-7 tall, with brown eyes. He was driving a 2008, blue GMC Sierra with Manitoba licence plate LKY 553. He left his home in Libau, Man., just after 9 a.m. April 13, and was headed to the Tyndall area, but didn’t arrive.
Selkirk RCMP received a missing persons report at about 12:45 p.m. He “may be confused and disorientated,” RCMP stated in a news release.
Police are asking anyone who has seen him or has any information on his whereabouts tocall 911 or the Selkirk RCMP at 204-482-1222, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-8477 or submit a secure tip online at www.manitobacrimestoppers.com.
Gandhi statue vandalized outside CMHR
1:29 PM
A vandal or vandals targeted a bronze statue of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi outside the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg over the weekend.
Pink paint covered parts of the life-size sculpture, including the face, on Sunday morning, while an offensive message and allegation were spraypainted on the ground around the base of the figure, which is on a walking path at The Forks.
CMHR spokeswoman Amanda Gaudes said the vandalism was reported to Winnipeg police.
“Steps are underway to have the statue and area restored, which we expect to take 24 hours,” Gaudes wrote in an email. “We do not condone acts of vandalism.”
India’s government gave the statue to Friends of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, a charitable organization, in 2004.
The sculpture, created by Ram Vanji Sutar, went on display in its current location in 2010, four years before CMHR opened.
Anil Sedha, vice-president of the Mahatma Gandhi Centre of Canada based in Winnipeg, said a proposal for further beautification and security of the statue is being prepared.
Gandhi statues in other Canadian cities have been vandalized or damaged in recent years. In 2023, a statue was decapitated at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.
Male injured in incident at or near Winnipeg bus station
11:48 AM
A male was taken to hospital after he was injured in an incident that happened at or near a rapid transit station in south Winnipeg early Sunday morning.
City police spokesman Const. Claude Chancy said general patrol officers responded to a report of an injured male near Morley Avenue and Hugo Street at about 12:15 a.m.
The male suffered an upper-body injury which required officers to apply a tourniquet in an attempt to stop bleeding.
A photo posted on social media showed an ambulance parked in front of a Winnipeg Transit bus at Fort Rouge Station. Police vehicles were parked nearby.
Police would not say how the man was injured nor if the incident happened at the bus station.
No one was arrested as of Sunday morning, Chancy said.
The investigation, which is in the early stages, will be carried out by the Winnipeg Police Service’s major crimes unit, he said.
Police were interviewing a number of people.
More details are expected to be released in future days, Chancy said.
