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Los Brothers Canteen director of operations Ben Castro adds some avocado crema to a platter of fish tacos on Wednesday afternoon in the canteen kitchen at the City of Brandon Sportsplex. Los Brothers took over the canteen at the Sportsplex this year and held a soft opening earlier this week. The canteen will officially open on Friday morning. (Matt Goerzen/The Brandon Sun)

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Councillor named United Way campaign chair

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Councillor named United Way campaign chair

By Rylee Gerrard 3 minute read 10:27 PM CDT

Brandon Coun. Tyson Tame has been named the 2026 campaign chair for United Way West Central Manitoba.

The campaign, called Planting Possibilities, was announced Wednesday afternoon during an event held at the Keystone Centre.

Tame said he felt humbled when United Way approached him to be chair.

“Getting the call was (like), ‘No, you have got the wrong guy,’” he laughed, noting fundraising work done by previous campaign chairs.

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10:27 PM CDT

Girl killed in UTV rollover; cocaine; free child care

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Girl killed in UTV rollover; cocaine; free child care

3 minute read 10:26 PM CDT

GIRL KILLED IN ROLLOVER

A nine-year-old girl died and her 40-year-old father was injured in a rollover involving a utility terrain vehicle in western Manitoba on Monday.

RCMP officers were called to the scene outside a home in the Rural Municipality of Dauphin at about 5:15 p.m.

Police said the father was driving the side-by-side vehicle when it made a turn and rolled. The girl, who was a passenger, died at the scene.

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10:26 PM CDT

Waddell to seek re-election as Cornwallis reeve

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Waddell to seek re-election as Cornwallis reeve

By Rylee Gerrard 2 minute read 10:22 PM CDT

Cornwallis Reeve Mike Waddell is seeking a full term to continue leading the rural municipality.

Waddell, who was elected as reeve in a December 2025 byelection, confirmed his intention to run for re-election on Wednesday in an interview with the Sun.

“I’m following through on what I started in December … and choosing to run again here and now,” Waddell said.

“There’s some great work that’s been started that I want to be a part of continuing,” he said, touting success with development approvals and property investments in the RM.

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10:22 PM CDT

Road crew discovers human remains near Virden

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Road crew discovers human remains near Virden

By Tessa Adamski 2 minute read 10:21 PM CDT

Human remains were found in a ditch last week in the rural municipality of Wallace-Woodworth, Mounties say.

Virden RCMP received a report at about 2:15 p.m. on Aug. 26 that a road maintenance crew had located two pieces of a human skull and a bone while working on Road 57 North, just east of Road 148 West.

The crew was cleaning out ditches following recent flooding in the area and stopped working when they found the human remains, RCMP said in a news release on Wednesday.

Police secured a perimeter around the remains.

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10:21 PM CDT

Family demands police accountability

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Family demands police accountability

By Tessa Adamski 5 minute read 10:16 PM CDT

The family of Cassity Delvenne rallied outside the Brandon police station on Wednesday, calling on officers to take the investigation into her death seriously and alleging that evidence was mishandled.

More than 30 family members and supporters gathered outside the building on Victoria Avenue to honour the 24-year-old Indigenous woman, who was the mother of a five-year-old girl and a student pursuing a psychology degree at Brandon University.

“I refuse to be quiet about the way my daughter’s death was handled,” said Cassity’s mother, Crystal Delvenne.

She turned toward multiple police officers standing outside the building and said, “Do not ask this family to simply trust you. Show us.”

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The Brandon Generating Station — where the gas turbines are expected to be installed — is shown in this file photo from March. (File)

NDP defends involvement of U.S. company in Hydro project

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NDP defends involvement of U.S. company in Hydro project

By Chris Kitching 4 minute read 10:15 PM CDT

WINNIPEG — A U.S. company that donated to Donald Trump’s 2025 presidential inauguration could build Manitoba Hydro’s proposed $3-billion natural gas turbines in Brandon, which has drawn criticism from an environmental group amid the NDP government’s pushback to tariffs.

James Wilt, policy development manager with Climate Action Team Manitoba, said the Kinew government should apply its approach to U.S. alcohol, which was pulled off Liquor Mart shelves, to the turbine proposal.

“What we’re expecting is consistency between that position and the upcoming decision around what could ultimately be a $3-billion investment in U.S. technology manufactured deep in Trump country, and from a company that has donated to Trump’s inauguration itself,” Wilt said of Massachusetts-based GE (General Electric) Vernova.

GE Vernova donated US$500,000 to the Trump-Vance inaugural committee, according to U.S. Federal Election Commission records. The company has a gas turbine manufacturing plant in Greenville, S.C.

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Woman, 39, dies after being struck by ATV on First Nation

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Woman, 39, dies after being struck by ATV on First Nation

2 minute read 10:11 PM CDT

A woman was killed and a man was injured after they were struck by an ATV in Wuskwi Sipihk First Nation on Monday.

RCMP were called to the scene around 10 p.m. after receiving a report of an all-terrain vehicle striking two pedestrians in the First Nation, located about 45 kilometres northeast of Swan River.

The pedestrians — a 39-year-old woman and a 34-year-old man — were walking in the community on Porcupine Bay when they were hit from behind by a man driving an ATV, Mounties said in a news release on Wednesday.

The woman sustained most of the impact from the collision and suffered severe injuries, police said.

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People dressed in protective gear lower into a grave the coffin containing the remains of Jeannine Katusabe, who died of Ebola, during a burial service in Bunia, Ituri province, eastern Congo, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Dieudonne Dirole)

Congo’s Ebola outbreak shows no signs of slowing as deaths top 3,000

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Congo’s Ebola outbreak shows no signs of slowing as deaths top 3,000

The Associated Press 1 minute read Updated: 8:34 AM CDT

BUNIA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s Ebola outbreak has killed more than 3,000 people out of over 6,100 confirmed cases, the latest government data showed Wednesday, as the disease is spreading at an unprecedented speed, faster than efforts to track and slow it.

Data from Congo’s Ministry of Health showed the outbreak has recorded 6,186 confirmed cases, including 3,007 deaths since it was declared in mid-May. It remains the fastest-growing outbreak of Ebola ever.

The disease has continued to spread rapidly for several reasons, including conflict in the eastern region of the country where the outbreak is concentrated, attacks on health workers, miners constantly on the move, and inadequate health infrastructure.

The resumption of school in the middle of the outbreak has also raised concerns about transmission in classrooms.

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Updated: 8:34 AM CDT

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Private and military helicopters are deployed to rescue people stranded in areas cut off by flash flooding in Nepal's Nuwakot district, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Canadian families still waiting for answers one week after Nepal disaster

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Canadian families still waiting for answers one week after Nepal disaster

Ian Bickis, The Canadian Press 4 minute read Updated: 6:28 PM CDT

Neeral Patel sent well-wishes to her cousin on his birthday last Wednesday, but she never heard back.

Her cousin Ishan Patel was in Nepal at the time, not far from the border with China, where a devastating flash flood ripped through the valley that same day.

She's calling for a wider international response to help in rescue efforts as the days tick by with no word on her cousin or the three family members he was travelling with.

"We want to give a lot of hope. But with each passing day, it's just getting chipped away, and time is of the essence," said Patel, who lives in Toronto.

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Updated: 6:28 PM CDT

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A man checks his phone as he walks past the Bank of Canada building in Ottawa, Wednesday, July 15, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Bank of Canada holds key rate as it prioritizes ‘multiple risks in play’

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Bank of Canada holds key rate as it prioritizes ‘multiple risks in play’

Craig Lord, The Canadian Press 5 minute read Updated: 2:43 PM CDT

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada stuck to the sidelines Wednesday as governor Tiff Macklem suggested the re-escalating trade war with the United States is not the only risk monetary policymakers are monitoring.

The central bank left its policy rate unchanged at 2.25 per cent for a seventh consecutive decision. The move was widely expected by economists.

The bank has been watching to see whether cost pressures from the war in Iran could spread into other pockets of the consumer basket.

Inflationary risks have only become sharper since the bank's last decision in July, Macklem said Wednesday, with global oil prices still persistently high and no end in sight for the Middle East conflict.

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Updated: 2:43 PM CDT