Funny man Rick Mercer invaded Canwest Park on Saturday to try his hand at becoming the next player on the Winnipeg Goldeyes. As you can likely guess, it didn’t go so well. The host of the popular CBC television show “The Rick Mercer Report” was in Winnipeg with a film crew to learn everything from [...]

Here’s how you don’t win an election. Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz took part in a charity soccer game Monday afternoon with city councillors and immigrant youth. It was going well until he smoked a kid in the face with his foot. That’s kind of frowned upon in the soccer community. Watch: Video courtesy of Global [...]

Posted by Sarah Klein Rumor’s Comedy Club will host one of Canada’s up and coming comedic superstars next week in a comedy concert series. Jon Dore has been making a name for himself over the years, appearing on CTV’s “Canadian Idol,” The Comedy Network and in his own “Comedy Now!” TV special. Dore will play [...]

Submitted photo by Winnipeg cartoonist Dan Phelps

A high school journalist in the U.S. is being commended for his hardball questions aimed at Arizona State Senator John Huppenthal in a recent interview. Keith Wagner sat down with Senator Huppenthal to ask about the massive budget cuts to Career and Technical Education funding, in which Huppenthal voted to cut. The Senator is currently [...]

Submitted photo by Winnipeg cartoonist Dan Phelps

The Roller-Riffic Ladies of the Winnipeg Roller Derby League will provide the jokes for what’s sure to be a hilarious night of laughter on Wednesday as the N.E.W. Comedy Projekt takes over the Green Brier Inn. The show begins at 8:30 p.m. and admission is $5. Show up before 7:45 p.m. and you’re in the [...]

$2 million will buy many things, including a controversial fake lake. Submitted photo by Winnipeg cartoonist Dan Phelps

One grouchy meter maid in Santa Monica, California didn’t have any patience for a Los Angeles television station on Tuesday during a live car segment. KTLA reporter Gayle Anderson was handed multiple parking tickets while doing a live hit during the morning show. Although being told parking had been paid for, the public servant still [...]

You’d think a hammer would shatter a window on the first whack, but this news reporter found out it’s not as easy as it appears. Good thing he wasn’t doing this live. Watch:

We’re only in May, but some jokester at Birds Hill Park is already thinking about December. These red stickers can be seen on the nose of multiple deer crossing signs, including the one above on Hillside Road. With this great weather we’re currently experiencing, please, no one make us think of snow! But, if you [...]

Local media personalities and Bison football athletes stuffed their faces Wednesday in the 6th Bison Sports Media Wing Off at Smitty’s Restaurant and Lounge on Pembina Highway. Watch: Derek Taylor of the “Fox Soccer Report” was the champion last year with 31 wings, but had his work cut out for him against Michael Elves of [...]