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Glenboro celebrates medical clinic opening

By Rylee Gerrard 3 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 11:06 PM CDT

GLENBORO — Residents of Glenboro celebrated the official grand opening of the entirely community-funded Spirit Sands Medical Clinic on Friday.

The primary care clinic — which began accepting patients on June 8 — replaced the former 70-year-old medical centre that was in the basement of the current Glenboro hospital.

The new medical facility was driven by a need for more doctors in town, said Alexis Einarson, the vice-chair of the Glenboro Health Auxiliary.

“We decided that a medical clinic would be the most beneficial to recruiting new doctors,” said Einarson, who has been in the role since 2022.

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Atom-Jet gets $1M from Ottawa for expansion

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Atom-Jet gets $1M from Ottawa for expansion

By Abiola Odutola 3 minute read Yesterday at 10:47 PM CDT

A Brandon manufacturer is set to expand its operations and bring more production in-house with the help of $1 million in federal funding.

Atom-Jet Industries received the funding through the Regional Tariff Response Initiative (RTRI) — a program that aims to provide relief to tariff-affected companies.

The business at 2110 Park Ave. is focused on using the funding for expansion, owner Barry LaRocque said Friday afternoon.

“The funding is towards equipment, advanced technology and expansion,” he told the Sun. “It is too early to say whether the expansion would result in further changes to the company’s physical infrastructure beyond the planned expansion.”

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An actor portrays J. R. Foster, a former resident of Brandon, during a past Gossip in the Graveyard event held at Brandon Municipal Cemetery and sponsored by Brockie Donovan Funeral Home. This year's interactive tours are scheduled for Saturday and Sunday. (The Brandon Sun files)

Gossip in the Graveyard fundraiser turns 20 this weekend

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Gossip in the Graveyard fundraiser turns 20 this weekend

By Abiola Odutola 2 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 10:46 PM CDT

Brockie Donovan Funeral and Cremation Services is set to host the 20th edition of its Gossip in the Graveyard fundraiser this weekend.

The annual walking tour, hosted in partnership with the Assiniboine Theatre Company, brings local history to life through actors portraying people buried in the Brandon Municipal Cemetery.

The event has become a community tradition that many Brandon residents look forward to each year, Brockie Donovan after-care and special events co-ordinator Lisa Hammond said.

“We go to the graveside or the gravestone headstone, and the character buried there actually is there to greet all of our guests and tell them stories about their life and how they’ve contributed to Brandon’s history,” Hammond told the Sun Friday.

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A member of the Office of the Fire Commissioner in Manitoba bows his head during a memorial service at the International Peace Garden on Friday, marking the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the United States. (Matt Goerzen/The Brandon Sun)

Ceremony marks 9/11 milestone

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Ceremony marks 9/11 milestone

By Alex Lambert 6 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 11:04 PM CDT

INTERNATIONAL PEACE GARDEN — Hundreds of people on the American side of the International Peace Garden bowed their heads and observed a moment of silence Friday on the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Firefighters, politicians, military members and aviation officials were all part of the 25th annual ceremony at the Peace Garden, held to remember and honour the nearly 3,000 people who died and the heroic acts of first responders.

“Twenty-five years have passed, but the significance of that day has not diminished,” said Dave Schellenberg, the vice-chair of the Manitoba Association of Fire Chiefs.

On Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked four planes and flew two of them into the World Trade Center’s twin towers in New York City and a third one into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., while a fourth one that was targeted at the White House crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. The attacks were orchestrated by al-Qaida.

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Brandon Police Service Chief Tyler Bates speaks with reporters during a media event at the A.R. McDiarmid Civic Complex on Friday. (Rylee Gerrard/The Brandon Sun)

IIU won’t investigate use of force on Cassity Delvenne

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IIU won’t investigate use of force on Cassity Delvenne

By Tessa Adamski 6 minute read Yesterday at 10:29 PM CDT

Manitoba’s police watchdog is not investigating the use of force by Brandon officers on a 24-year-old Indigenous woman while she was resisting arrest in a June incident nine days before she died, the police chief says.

The Brandon Police Service provided the Independent Investigation Unit (IIU) with relevant materials such as photos, dash camera footage, a publicly circulating 45-second video capturing the alleged assault and a video from the woman’s phone, Tyler Bates said during a news conference on Friday.

“The Independent Investigation Unit advised Brandon Police Service that upon review, the matter does not meet its mandate, nor is it in the public interest for the IIU to proceed with an investigation,” he said.

A provincial spokesperson for the IIU declined to comment on why the incident didn’t meet its criteria for an investigation on Friday.

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Prime Minister Justine Trudeau and his Chief of Staff Katie Telford arrive to a caucus meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Justin Trudeau, Katie Telford launch production company at TIFF

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Justin Trudeau, Katie Telford launch production company at TIFF

Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press 3 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 5:56 PM CDT

TORONTO - Justin Trudeau is getting into showbiz.

The former prime minister and his longtime chief of staff Katie Telford launched a production company Friday called Hope and Hard Work, at a swanky rooftop party at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Trudeau, speaking in both official languages, told the gathered guests that the shift to entertainment isn't as radical as some might assume.

"In elections we used to say: whoever tells the best story about who we are and where we want to go wins the election," he said. "And those stories matter now more than ever before. Particularly when it comes to telling Canadian stories, or stories with values that Canadians would recognize."

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New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, right, passes former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani ahead of a ceremony commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks at the National September 11 Memorial in New York City on Friday, Sept. 11, 2026. (Barry Williams /The Daily News via AP, Pool)

US marks 25 years since the Sept. 11 attacks

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US marks 25 years since the Sept. 11 attacks

Jennifer Peltz And Ted Shaffrey, The Associated Press 7 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 5:15 PM CDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Americans commemorated the 25th anniversary of 9/11 on Friday, remembering the shock, the dead and the sweeping consequences of the al-Qaida attacks on symbols of U.S. might and prosperity.

The milestone anniversary brought memorial rituals — wreath-laying, flag-flying, moments of silence, vigils and readings of victims' names — and volunteer projects in tribute to a day that about half of U.S. adults remember as the most historic event of their lifetime, according to a new poll. On Sept. 11, 2001, al-Qaida extremists hijacked four commercial jets and crashed them into New York’s World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing nearly 3,000 people.

Elsie Caldwell carried a photograph of her son Kenny Caldwell to the trade center to hear his name and all the others read aloud Friday morning. She last spoke to him that morning a quarter-century ago.

“Mom, I just want to let you know that I love you,” her son told her in a final phone call, she recalled. His remains, like those of many other victims, have never been recovered.

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Health workers who are members of the safe and dignified burial team prepare to bury Abineno Justine, a 38 year old woman who died of the Ebola virus, in Bunia, Congo, Friday, Sept. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Dieudonne Dirole)

Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo has now spread to the country’s seventh province, officials say

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Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo has now spread to the country’s seventh province, officials say

The Associated Press 3 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 8:32 AM CDT

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo, the world's fastest-growing outbreak of the disease on record, has now spread to seven provinces in the African country, local authorities said. And it's showing no signs of slowing down.

According to the governor of the northwestern province of Sud-Ubangi, Jean-Rene Galekwa Vundawe, laboratory tests by Congo’s national research institute found in a sample the Bundibugyo virus, the rare kind of Ebola that caused the current outbreak.

The statement, which was issued on Thursday and reported by local media outlets on Friday, said the sample was from the Bulu health district in Sud-Ubangi. It did not disclose other information about the source of the infection.

The development makes Sud-Ubangi the seventh province affected by the outbreak — and the first in western Congo — a worrisome spread west from what was previously concentrated in the country’s east. A case was detected in Kinshasa in May in a person who had traveled from eastern Congo, but the Congolese capital was not classified as an affected province.

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Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon speaks at a news conference on Sept. 8, 2026. St-Pierre Plamondon told The Canadian Press in an interview that his plans to hold a referendum on sovereignty would cost $130 million. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot

Que. party leaders criticize PQ’s $130 million sovereignty referendum plan

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Que. party leaders criticize PQ’s $130 million sovereignty referendum plan

The Canadian Press 5 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 3:42 PM CDT

MONTREAL - Parti Québecois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon came under fire from his rivals on Friday after revealing that his planned sovereignty referendum would cost at least $130 million.

While three of the five leaders in the campaign argued that there were better ways to spend this money, sovereigntist left-wing party Québec solidaire defended the proposed expense.

In an interview with The Canadian Press, St-Pierre Plamondon had detailed the costs of preparing for and holding the referendum in 2029 or 2030 if his party forms a government.

The referendum budget includes $20 million for studies and consultations in the first years of a Parti Québecois government mandate. Holding the referendum in 2029-30 would cost $110 million, according to the party leader.

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Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks to the media at a cabinet retreat in Banff, Alta., Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

‘Canada is everyone, for everyone’: Carney meets with Alberta remain campaigners

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‘Canada is everyone, for everyone’: Carney meets with Alberta remain campaigners

Kyle Duggan and Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press 4 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 5:50 PM CDT

BANFF - The head of the Forever Canadian group campaigning for Alberta to remain in the federation said Friday Prime Minister Mark Carney has been a "calm" and "reassuring" presence for Albertans.

Thomas Lukaszuk, a former deputy premier of Alberta, said Carney is showing "there is someone at the helm" by standing up for Canadians in trade negotiations with the White House.

Carney shook hands with volunteers from the Forever Canadian campaign on Friday in Banff, Alta. They were invited to the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity on the final day of the federal cabinet retreat.

The prime minister was cheered by about 50 supporters of the Forever Canadian campaign, almost all holding red and white signs and some wearing the maple leaf.

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A woman bikes along the waterfront in Toronto as wildfire smoke fills the city, on Wednesday, July 15, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Laura Proctor

Canada won’t even hit 2030 emissions target by 2050, new study suggests

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Canada won’t even hit 2030 emissions target by 2050, new study suggests

Nick Murray, The Canadian Press 4 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 8:32 AM CDT

OTTAWA - A new study released Friday suggests that Canada is on track to miss its 2030 emissions target under the Paris Agreement — and it won't even reach it by 2050, the year it was supposed to hit net-zero.

The analysis, published by the Canadian Climate Institute, suggests recent climate policy rollbacks by the federal government have put Canada more than 20 years behind schedule on reducing emissions.

Under Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government, Canada promised to bring Canada’s emissions to 30 per cent below 2005 levels.

In 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government increased that target to between 40 and 45 per cent and set a goal of hitting net-zero — where all emissions are captured by nature or technology — by mid-century.

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