Wheat Kings 3, Pats 2 (SO)

First Period

1. Brandon, Muissu 1 (Surkan) 6:14.

2. Brandon, Baumuller 1 (Surkan, McGregor) 15:19.

WINNIPEG — A.W. thought she had found love with Machuor Akau.

That was before Akau put a loaded Luger handgun to the 26-year-old woman’s head last November and told her he should “kill her now.”

Akau shot her, shattering her jaw and embedding teeth in the bones of her mouth and leaving her fighting for her life.

Now A.W. wakes up every morning in pain and sees the scars on her face and neck.

WINNIPEG — Linda Smith first turned to Harvest Manitoba in the early 1990s when her husband became permanently disabled. Now, on a fixed income, she continues to access the food bank to make ends meet.

Smith is one of more than 60,000 Manitobans now relying on food banks each month as demand continues to grow, a new report by Harvest Manitoba reveals.

The organization said in its 2025-26 impact report, released Thursday, that 61,188 people accessed a food bank in the province in March. Nearly half of them were children. The number of people accessing food banks in the province since 2020 has ballooned by more than 150 per cent, including more seniors, like Smith, than ever before.

Smith, a mother of five now in her 70s, first went to Harvest Manitoba in 1991 when he husband was disabled, and then again in the mid 2000s following a major car accident that led to a brain stem injury that forced her out of the workforce.

Brandon Wheat Kings vs Regina Pats

7 p.m. at Assiniboine Credit Union Place.

6:30 p.m. (91.5 FM): 7 p.m. (YouTube)

WHEAT KINGS

Sandy Bay drug trafficking

WINNIPEG — Two women are facing drug trafficking charges after the Manitoba First Nations Police Service launched an enforcement operation in Sandy Bay Ojibway First Nation amid a recent increase in overdoses in the community.

The MFNPS’s Crime Reduction and Enforcement Unit carried out the operation Tuesday, arresting several people and seizing illicit drugs and proceeds of crime.

Police said officers seized about 48 grams of methamphetamine, approximately $2,000 in cash and a digital scale believed to be connected to drug trafficking.

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba Wildlife Federation says hunters are again being refused access to land near Bloodvein River First Nation, a year after leadership told court it would let them through.

The senior policy adviser for the Manitoba Wildlife Federation said he has had five reports of hunters being turned away at a checkstop the First Nation set up last year to stop the flow of drugs and alcohol into the community.

“(Checkstop officers) said they’re not allowing hunters through,” Chris Heald said. “They made that clear, and that was the end of it. This is just a rinse and repeat of last year.”

The wildlife federation took the First Nation to court last year after several hunters were refused access to Crown land during hunting season. The federation argued the checkpoint was unlawful and impedes access to hunters, who have the right to be there under the province’s Wildlife Act.

BRANDON WHEAT KINGS

• Last season: 40-26-2-0, fifth in conference, ninth overall.

• General manager: Marty Murray (fifth season).

• Head coach: Marty Murray (fifth season).