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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 13, 2025, Winnipeg, Manitoba SPONSORED CONTENT WE’RE THERE FOR YOU COMMUNITY PROFILE L to R: Louis Ludwig, Sherri Walsh, Susan Loewen, Jackie Murray, Todd Mondor, Danielle Dunbar. Seated L to R: Marfisia Bel, Ida Albo, Scott Gillingham, Kenny Boyce. Javier Schwersensky, President and CEO of the UWF joins Dr. Todd Mondor, President and Vice-Chancellor of UWinnipeg to present Dr. Albo with the Duff Roblin Award. L to R: Joe Martin, Sally Ann Martin, Gary Doer, Ginny Devine, Richard Cloutier, Meeka Walsh, Bruce Miller, Javier Schwersensky, Michelle Pereirra. L to R: Richard Cloutier, Gary Doer, Scott Gillingham, Kenny Boyce. Past and present University of Winnipeg Foundation staff members. . Dr. Joe Martin. Elder Sharon Pelletier.Sherri Walsh, Chair of the University of Winnipeg Foundation’s Board of Directors.Renée Cable, Minister of Advanced Education and Training. O n November 6, 2025, over 250 guests gathered at the Metropolitan Entertainment Centre to celebrate local hotelier and businesswoman, Dr. Ida Albo, OC as the 17th recipient of the Duff Roblin Award. Donors, sponsors, and community members from across Manitoba helped raise over $100,000 during the evening in support of the University of Winnipeg’s (UWinnipeg) Duff Roblin Scholars Fund, UWinnipeg’s Tuition Waiver Fund, and the Wii Chiiwaakanak Learning Centre. First held in 2007, this annual tradition honours the legacy of former Premier and patron of education, Duff Roblin. At the end of each dinner, the Duff Roblin Award is presented on behalf of University of Winnipeg Foundation (UWF) and UWinnipeg to an outstanding Manitoban who has demonstrated exemplary citizenship and a lifelong commitment to their community. The UWF and UWinnipeg greatly appreciate the efforts of our donors, sponsors, Duff Roblin Award Dinner Committee Co-chairs, volunteers, and UWF staff members in making this special evening a spectacular success. Thank you! Over $100,000 raised at the 17th Annual Duff Roblin Award Dinner To find out more about the UWF and how we help support students on their post-secondary journey, visit us at www.foundation.uwinnipeg.ca PLATINUM SPONSOR John and Bonnie Buhler Foundation GOLD SPONSORS Price Industries The Free Press The Fort Garry Hotel, Spa and Conference Centre CORPORATE SPONSORS The Gail Asper Family Foundation Princess Auto Health Sciences Centre Foundation Inferno Pictures Manitoba Hotel Association RBC Royal Bank Charles Coffey, O.C. 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INSIDE Arts and Life C1 Business B5 Classifieds D7 Comics C5 Diversions C6-7 Horoscope C4 Miss Lonelyhearts C4 Obituaries D6 Opinion A6-7 Sports D1 Television C4 Weather B8 What’s Up C2 COLUMNISTS: Dan Lett A5 Stephen Borys A7 Jeff Hamilton D1 READER SERVICE ● GENERAL INQUIRIES 204-697-7000 CIRCULATION INQUIRIES MISSING OR INCOMPLETE PAPER? Call or email before 10 a.m. weekdays or 11 a.m. Saturday City: 204-697-7001 Outside Winnipeg: 1-800-542-8900 press 1 6:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. Monday-Friday.; 7 a.m. - noon Saturday; Closed Sunday TO SUBSCRIBE: 204-697-7001 Out of Winnipeg: 1-800-542-8900 The Free Press receives support from the Local Journalism Initiative funded by the Government of Canada In a court deposition, she said under oath that she didn’t believe Trump had any knowledge of Epstein’s misconduct with underage girls. And in her recently released memoir, she described meet- ing Trump only once, when she worked as a spa attendant at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla., and did not accuse him of wrongdoing. Giuffre wrote that she was intro- duced to Trump by her father, who also worked at the club. She described Trump as friendly and said he offered to help her get babysit- ting jobs with parents at the club. Trump “couldn’t have been friendli- er,” Giuffre wrote. Other members of Epstein’s house- hold staff also said in sworn depositions that, while Trump did stop by Epstein’s house, they didn’t see him engage in any inappropriate conduct. White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said Democrats “selectively leaked emails” to “create a fake narra- tive to smear President Trump.” Trump, writing on his Truth Social platform, said Democrats “are trying to bring up the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax again because they’ll do anything at all to deflect on how badly they’ve done” on the government shutdown “and so many other subjects.” “There should be no deflections to Epstein or anything else, and any Republicans involved should be focused only on opening up our Country, and fixing the massive damage caused by the Democrats!” Trump wrote. In July, Trump said he had banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago because his one-time friend was “taking people who worked for me,” including Giuffre. The women, he said, were “taken out of the spa, hired by him — in other words, gone.” “I said, ‘Listen, we don’t want you tak- ing our people,’” Trump told reporters. Asked if Giuffre was one of the em- ployees poached by Epstein, the pres- ident demurred but then said Epstein “stole her.” Shortly after Democrats released the Trump-related emails, committee Re- publicans countered by disclosing what they said was an additional 20,000 pag- es of documents from Epstein’s estate. Among them were a trove of emails written over several years by Epstein, including many where he commented — often unfavourably — on Trump’s rise in politics and corresponded with journalists. The release resurfaces a storyline that had shadowed Trump’s presiden- cy during the summer when the FBI and the justice department abruptly announced that they would not be releasing additional documents that in- vestigators had spent weeks examining, disappointing conspiracy theorists and online sleuths who had expected to see new revelations. In one 2019 email to journalist Mi- chael Wolff, who has written exten- sively about Trump, Epstein wrote of Trump, “of course he knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine to stop.” In an April 2, 2011, email to Max- well, a former Epstein girlfriend now imprisoned for conspiring to engage in sex trafficking, Epstein wrote, “I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is Trump. Virginia spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc. im 75 % there.” Maxwell replied the same day: “I have been thinking about that.” Leavitt said the person referenced in the emails is Giuffre, who had accused Britain’s then-Prince Andrew and other influential men of sexually exploiting her as a teenager and who died by sui- cide in April. Andrew, who recently was stripped of his titles and evicted from his royal residence by King Charles after weeks of pressure to act over his relationship with Epstein, has rejected Giuffre’s allegations and said he didn’t recall meeting her. It wasn’t clear what Epstein meant by saying that Trump was a dog that “hadn’t barked,” but both he and Max- well in other correspondence accused Giuffre of fabricating stories about her supposed sexual interactions with famous men. Leavitt said in a statement that Giuffre had “repeatedly said President Trump was not involved in any wrong- doing whatsoever and ‘couldn’t have been friendlier’ to her in their limited interactions.” “The fact remains that President Trump kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club decades ago for being a creep to his female employees, including Giuffre,” the statement said. “These stories are nothing more than bad- faith efforts to distract from President Trump’s historic accomplishments, and any American with common sense sees right through this hoax and clear dis- traction from the government opening back up again.” Maxwell, interviewed in July by the justice department’s second-in-com- mand, repeatedly denied witnessing any sexually inappropriate interactions involving Trump. “I actually never saw the President in any type of massage setting,” Maxwell told deputy attorney general Todd Blanche, according to a transcript of the interview. “I never witnessed the president in any inappropriate setting in any way. The president was never in- appropriate with anybody. In the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman in all respects.” Giuffre came forward publicly after an initial investigation ended in an 18-month Florida jail term for Epstein, who made a secret deal to avoid federal prosecution by pleading guilty instead to relatively minor state-level charges of soliciting prostitution. He was re- leased in 2009. In subsequent lawsuits, Giuffre said she was a teenage spa attendant at Mar- a-Lago when she was approached in 2000 by Maxwell. Lawyers for Maxwell, a British socialite, have argued she never should have been tried or convicted for her role in luring teenage girls to be sexu- ally abused by Epstein. She is serving a 20-year prison term, though she was moved from a low-security federal pris- on in Florida to a minimum-security prison camp in Texas after the Blanche interview. — The Associated Press EPSTEIN ● FROM A1 ROD LAMKEY JR. / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILES U.S. President Donald Trump attacked Democrats in social media posts Wednesday. ;