Lakeland Today

22 hours ago | lakelandtoday.ca | Mario Cabradilla

ST. PAUL – The ACFA Regionale de Saint-Paul hosted its Jazz Art event on May 10, featuring five local artists creating artwork during the evening. Attendees were able to watch the creative process in person while also mingling and listening to jazz music played by the Quatuor Celsius with Pierre Paul Bugeaud. The five artists were painters Elise Proulx, Mary Jane Houle, and Herman Poulin. Poulin is also an award-winning sculptor.

1 day ago | lakelandtoday.ca | Mario Cabradilla

ST. PAUL – Grade 9 St. Paul Education students learned about the consequences of impaired driving during the annual “Choices” program held at the Recreation Centre on May 6. Organized by the Mental Health Capacity Building (MHCB) in Schools Initiative, the long-day event included a mock collision staged by emergency services in St. Paul. Similar events were also held late April in Elk Point for F.G. Miller, Heinsburg School, and Frog Lake School.

2 days ago | lakelandtoday.ca | Mike Stobbe |Geoff Mulvihill

There were 30,000 fewer U.S. drug overdose deaths in 2024 than the year before — the largest one-year decline ever recorded. An estimated 80,000 people died from overdoses last year, according to provisional Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data released Wednesday. That’s down 27% from the 110,000 in 2023. The CDC has been collecting comparable data for 45 years. The previous largest one-year drop was 4% in 2018, according to the agency’s National Center for Health Statistics.

2 days ago | lakelandtoday.ca | Mario Cabradilla

There’s too much AI-generated junk. From Youtube, Reddit, Facebook, Tiktok, or wherever else. You’ve probably seen it. The voice is flat. The script is off. The titles are weird. And yet, somehow, they keep showing up. You didn’t ask for this. No one did. But the algorithm insists: this is what you crave. And people eat it up. It’s fast. It’s cheap. It’s everywhere. One good example are those “HFY” channels in Youtube.

2 days ago | lakelandtoday.ca | Steve Lambert

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government issued an evacuation order for one provincial park and shut down activities in others Tuesday, as dry, hot weather spurred more wildfires. Cottagers, campers, lodge owners and others were asked in the morning to leave Nopiming Provincial Park in the eastern part of the province. Public and private developed areas in other nearby parks, such as Wallace Lake and Manigotagan River, were closed to the public.