Bartley Kives

@bkives.bsky.social

Reporter. Author. Hiker. Paddler. Eater.

Dru Brown threw four interceptions tonight. A cursory Google search suggests the last Winnipeg QB to do that was Zach Collaros, who threw four INTs during the 2024 Grey Cup.

Medal disbursement report card: Carney is giving reluctant wedding reception line vibes. C+ Sheinbaum, all smiles, is a vision of effortless detachment. A- Trump may as well be throwing rolls of paper towel to hurricane victims. 🎃

“Narth encouraged Manitobans to distinguish between the improvement of the port & railway to increase shipping thru Hudson Bay — a plausible project Arctic Gateway has undertaken since its inception — from the more difficult task of building a gas pipeline to Churchill.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Grain shipments through Port of Churchill to resume this summer, Arctic Gateway says | CBC News

The owner of the Port of Churchill says grain shipments through Hudson Bay will resume this summer, ending a five-year period when the port was not used to move the commodity it was designed to store ...

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For posterity’s sake, the Assiniboine River crested Sunday, July 12 at 1,182.53 feet above sea level in Brandon at 18th Street. The record was 1,185.1 feet ASL in 2014.

Annual Winnipeg Folk Fest weekend reminder that the most fair way to measure festival attendance is by average number of paying fans per day. Four days of 15,000-person sellouts = average daily paid attendance of 15,000.