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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 25, 2025, Winnipeg, Manitoba 204-783-8500 1425 Ellice Avenue Monday to Friday 10AM – 6PM Saturday 10AM – 6PM Sunday 11AM – 5PM www.la-z-boy.com/winnipeg SAVE10 % -50 % STOREWIDE MANY ITEMS SOLD WELL BELOW COST L a - Z - B o y C a n a d a h a s c h o s e n W i n n i p e g t o l i q u i d a t e A L L e x c e s s a n d d i s c o n t i n u e d i n v e n t o r y FINAL WEEKEND OVERSTOCK F A C T O R Y A U T H O R I Z E D INVENTORY SELL-OFF Jane Mactaggart, President & Chief Executive Officer, Tundra Oil & Gas is pleased to announce the appointment of Alicia (Ali) Kilmer as Vice President, Strategy & Business Development Ms. Kilmer brings 20 years of engineering and strategic leadership experience in the energy sector, with a focus on reserves, asset development, strategic planning, acquisitions and divestitures, and reporting and governance. Most recently, Ali served as Manager of Strategic Planning & New Ventures at ARC Resources, where she played a pivotal role in driving key strategic initiatives, including reserves evaluation and mergers. She has held various technical and managerial roles, contributing to strategy, capital allocation, business development, production engineering and operational excellence. Ali is most proud of her ability to think strategically, lead teams, and cultivate an inclusive, high-performance culture that drives business results. She holds an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan and an MBA from Queen’s University. She is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA) and has been actively involved in mentoring, energy advocacy initiatives, and community volunteer programs. Tundra Oil & Gas is a wholly-owned business of Winnipeg- based James Richardson & Sons, Limited. Tundra commenced operations in January 1980 and currently produces 38,000 barrels of light crude oil per day. Tundra’s core properties are located within the Williston Basin in Southwest Manitoba and Southeast Saskatchewan. WINNIPEGFREEPRESS.COM ● A13 NEWS I CANADA / WORLD SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 2025 Gould claims Liberals have ‘lost trust’ of Canadians O TTAWA — Liberal leadership contender Karina Gould opened up a soul-searching debate in her party’s caucus after declar- ing Canadians “lost trust” in the Liberals during Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s later years in office. Some lawmakers assembled for the Liberal caucus meeting in Ottawa on Friday bristled at that notion, while others said the party became too insular in recent years. “No, I don’t agree with that at all,” said Housing Minister Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, pushing back against Gould’s argument. “Everyone’s posturing in the way that they think will make them most successful. Do I think everyone’s listening to the prime minister after nine years? Welcome to Canadian politics. You know, politicians get tuned out after nine or 10 years when they’re the leader of a country.” “I don’t think we’ve lost touch,” MP Marcus Powlowski said. MP Pam Damoff, a Gould supporter, said she does think Canadians have “lost trust in a lot of things since the pandemic and what Karina says has a lot of truth — that we need to rebuild trust.” Gould, who is branding herself as a youthful candidate who can rejuvenate the party, said Thursday that Liberals need to be “honest about the fact that Canadians have lost trust in our party, and part of it is because I don’t think we responded to the issues that they were telling us mattered to them.” Immigration Minister Marc Miller said that while he doesn’t share Gould’s viewpoint entire- ly, “given what’s been going on the last couple months, I can understand that sentiment.” “We’ve been inwardly focused and that’s un- fortunate,” Miller said. “We need to be talking to Canadians about what they’re worried about.” MP Anita Vandenbeld, who is backing former finance minister Chrystia Freeland for the lead- ership, said Gould misdiagnosed the problem. “People have lost faith in all politicians,” she said. On Friday, Freeland called for four leadership debates and urged the other candidates to commit to running in the next election under the party banner — no matter who wins. In an open letter to the other candidates, Free- land said that the four debates, two in each offi- cial language, should be held as soon as possible. “It’s really important to give all Canadians a chance to see the candidates in action, to hear what they have to say, to hear what they have to offer Canadians,” Freeland told reporters on Friday. Gould’s campaign replied that she agrees with both of Freeland’s suggestions. Gould resigned from her job as House leader to mount her leader- ship bid, and Trudeau on Friday appointed Steven MacKinnon to replace her in the role. The candidates will be turning their eyes to battleground Quebec this weekend. Industry Minister François-Philippe Cham- pagne has an event planned for Sunday in Shawinigan, Que., former Liberal prime minister Jean Chrétien’s hometown. Champagne is widely expected to endorse Carney at the event. Candidates only have until Monday to sign up new members who can cast ballots, but the party said it won’t have anything to say about member- ship levels until then. When asked Thursday and Friday who sent in the paperwork to run, the party refused to name names. — The Canadian Press KYLE DUGGAN PATRICK DOYLE / THE CANADIAN PRESS Karina Gould is branding herself as a youthful candidate who can rejuvenate the Liberal party. Major storm lashes Ireland, Scotland with hurricane-force winds LONDON — Millions of people in Ireland and northern parts of the U.K. heeded the advice of authorities to stay at home Friday in the face of hurricane-force winds that disabled power networks and brought widespread travel disruptions. Forecasters had issued a rare “red” weather warning, meaning danger to life, across the whole island of Ireland and central and southwest Scotland. Ireland bore the brunt of the storm first, as it was hit with wind gusts of 114 m.p.h. (183 km/h), the strongest since the Second World War, as a winter storm spiraled in from the Atlantic before hitting Scotland. More than a million homes, farms and businesses in the island of Ireland and Northern Ireland were without power as record-breaking wind speeds swept across the island. A further 100,000 customers in Scotland were also reported to have lost power. Ireland’s weather office, Met Eireann, said the 114 m.p.h. gusts early Friday were recorded at Mace Head on the west coast, beating a record of 113 m.p.h. (182 km/h) set in 1945. — The Associated Press Endangered tortoises rescued in Madagascar after sanctuary floods CAPE TOWN, South Africa — A community in southern Madagascar has pulled together to save thousands of criti- cally endangered tortoises swept away from their sanctu- ary in floods this month caused by a tropical cyclone. The 12,000 radiated and spider tortoises that were housed at the Lavavolo Tortoise Center had been confiscat- ed from illegal wildlife traffickers. Flood waters a metre high engulfed the sanctuary. Sanctuary staff, members of the community and even police officers joined together in a rescue operation. Hery Razafimamonjiraibe, the Madagascar director for the Turtle Survival Alliance, which runs the sanctuary, said they were optimistic that they had saved more than 10,000 tortoises, although they still had to do an official count. — The Associated Press ;