Billie and Bond, Mitch’s mom and Winnipeg boy dies of flu

Up first on Faces is alternate singer Billie Eilish, 18  We’ve caught her smiling even though she usually twists her pleasant features into sinister stares for her young audience. But now Billie is on contract to write and sing the theme song of the next James Bond movie, No Time To Die. Billie says she is honoured. At centre, Bonnie Marner, Mitch’s mom, who confesses to City News she never thought about her son, now 22, being a huge star. She just wanted him to have fun. Bless you, Bonnie. At right, shocking news that a young Winnipeg high school student and air cadet, Blaine Ruppenthal, 17, has died in hospital from the this year’s intense strain of Influenza A.