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Publication Date: July 2, 2025 - 23:09
Manitoba musician, partner dead in highway crash near Swan River
July 2, 2025
The bassist for a Winnipeg band and his partner are dead after a Canada Day crash on a Manitoba highway.Indie pop band Royal Canoe says bass player Brendan Berg died in the crash a day before his 43rd birthday, along with Olivia Michalczuk.RCMP say they responded to a head-on crash on Tuesday afternoon north of Swan River, in western Manitoba.
They work on gruesome scenes of death, sometimes traversing rough terrain to access bodies in various states of decomposition.British Columbia field coroner Leena Chandi said the things that she and her colleagues encounter “are not what most people see, and nobody should have to see that.”
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My parents purchased their burial plots nearly forty years ago. My mother likes to pull out the story about what a great deal they got because the plots were a cemetery resale—the previous owners, then in the midst of a divorce, wanted to make their separation eternal. Years later, mom says, one of their descendants tried to reverse the deal and buy back the land. To which my father said, “Fuck him.”
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