Provincial News

WINNIPEG — Cole Perfetti and Morgan Barron knew it was time the Winnipeg Jets stopped coming slow out of the gate. The team accomplished that with a pair of first-period goals on its way to a 5-0 victory over the Minnesota Wild on Saturday.

WINNIPEG — Connor Hellebuyck made 19 saves for his NHL-leading fourth shutout of the season and 41st of his career to lead the Winnipeg Jets to a 5-0 victory Saturday over the Minnesota Wild, who have lost four in a row.

Eighty-eight-year-old Lorne Collie has been making musical instruments for more than three decades, creations that dazzle for their unique materials as much as their sound.

SWIFT CURRENT, Sask. — Saskatchewan's highest court has given a thumbs-down to an appeal in a legal case involving the use of an emoji.

WINNIPEG — A proposed regional planning framework for Winnipeg and 17 surrounding municipalities is not going ahead. Members of the Winnipeg Metropolitan Region have voted to not forward Plan 20-50 to the Manitoba government for approval.

REGINA — Saskatchewan's Opposition NDP has demanded Health Minister Jeremy Cockrill apologize for breaching conflict-of-interest rules when a window company with family ties did business with the province three years ago.

REGINA — The Saskatchewan Roughriders signed Canadian defensive back Jayden Dalke to a one-year contract extension Wednesday. The six-foot-one, 200-pound Dalke was slated to become a free agent in February. Dalke, of Leduc, Alta.

OTTAWA — Governor General Mary Simon has made 88 new appointments to the Order of Canada. Here is the list of notable Canadians: Companion Pierre Boivin — Montreal (This is a promotion within the order.

BRANDON, Man. — Lynden Lakovic scored twice in regulation time and then scored the only goal of the shootout as the visiting Moose Jaw Warriors edged the Brandon Wheat Kings 5-4 in Western Hockey League action on Tuesday at Westoba Place.

OTTAWA — The federal government has pushed its target to achieve a net-zero electricity grid back 15 years to 2050 as part of new clean electricity regulations announced Tuesday — though officials maintain that target date was always the goal.