Three teens were arrested on Monday after a man in the RM of Victoria was accidentally shot by hunters, Mounties say.

Treherne RCMP received a report of a 66-year-old man with a gunshot wound at his residence on Road 53 North at around 10:45 a.m.

When officers arrived, one of the residents said emergency medical services had already taken the man to the hospital in stable condition with a gunshot wound to the arm, the RCMP said in a news release Wednesday.

The man was released from the hospital later in the day.

LONDON — President Donald Trump ’s threat to bring a billion-dollar lawsuit against the BBC has cast a shadow over the British broadcaster’s future, but it could also be a bluff with little legal merit.

The president’s lawyer sent the threat to the BBC over the way a documentary edited his Jan. 6, 2021, speech before a mob of his followers stormed the U.S. Capitol.

Trump’s history of suing news media companies — sometimes winning multimillion-dollar settlements — is part of a long-running grievance against the industry he describes as “fake news” that has often focused a critical eye on his actions.

But Trump faces fundamental challenges to getting a case to court, never mind taking it to trial. He would also have to deal with the harsh glare of publicity around his provocative pep talk the day Congress was voting to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election that Trump falsely alleged was stolen from him.

WINNIPEG — The recent suicides of two on-duty Manitoba RCMP officers have renewed calls to address burnout and revamp the force’s policing model.

The union representing RCMP members confirmed one officer died by suicide in September and a second suicide death occurred last month.

Both Mounties were on duty when they died.

“Suicide and related rates in RCMP are just so incredibly high,” said Bobby Baker, the prairie director for the National Police Federation.

SELKIRK — There’s no such thing as an easy game at the Manitoba men’s curling provincials — even if you’re a nine-time champion and the No. 1 seed like Reid Carruthers.

The 24-team event kicked off Wednesday inside the Selkirk Recreation Complex and Carruthers survived a major scare in the afternoon by outlasting three-time provincial club champion Andrew Wickman 8-7 in extra ends.

Wickman, down 7-6 at the time, missed by a hair on an extremely difficult draw around a guard at the end of the 10th that would’ve scored two for the win. Wickman — who entered the week with a career 8-10 record at provincials in five previous trips — started the day with a 7-3 win over Greg Todoruk. Carruthers had a bye as one of the top seeds.

“Manitoba provincials are just so hard. It’s always hard. It doesn’t matter who you play,” said Team Carruthers lead Connor Njegovan.

WINNIPEG — The NDP wants Manitoba’s elections commissioner to investigate the Progressive Conservatives over the sale of the Tory party’s former headquarters in downtown Winnipeg.

In a complaint to commissioner Bill Bowles, the New Democrats said there would be a “clear violation” of the Election Financing Act if proceeds from the eventual sale of 23 Kennedy St., which is owned by a corporation, are transferred to the PCs.

“Despite this, (Tory Leader Obby) Khan has publicly stated that it is the Progressive Conservative Party’s intention to illegally receive the proceeds of this sale,” Evan Krosney, the NDP’s provincial secretary, wrote in the letter to Bowles on Friday.

Krosney asked Bowles to investigate Khan’s public comments. The complaint cited a CBC News report that quoted the PC leader as saying property owner Nocorp Investments Ltd. is a trust that intends to donate the sale proceeds to the Tories.

WINNIPEG — Despite an 80 per cent increase in hip and knee replacements done annually in Manitoba over the past decade, too many patients have to wait too long to get one, says the surgeon leading the charge to solve the problem.

A record 7,056 joint replacement procedures were completed across the province in 2025. In 2016, there were 3,933.

Shared Health provincial surgery specialty lead Dr. Ed Buchel said the boom in hip and knee replacements is thanks in part to outpatient surgeries that have ramped up exponentially.

“Out of all the cases that were done in 2016, there were four. Not even one per cent of cases were done as outpatient,” said Buchel.“We’re at 64.9 per cent in the last calendar year.”