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WINNIPEG — An RCMP officer who punched and hit a Lake St. Martin First Nation man in the face with his Taser acted reasonably, the Independent Investigation Unit has found.

The incident happened in Lake St. Martin First Nation at about 5 p.m. on March 19, 2025.

Gypsumville RCMP went there to arrest a man wanted on a warrant for domestic violence and found a vehicle in a ditch and a man fleeing on foot.

The man ran into a home, where police tried to use a Taser to arrest him.

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Kinew congratulates Democrat winners

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Kinew congratulates Democrat winners

Carol Sanders 4 minute read Yesterday at 10:57 PM EST

WINNIPEG — Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew is celebrating the Democratic party’s stunning victories over Republican candidates — many of whom were hand-picked by President Donald Trump — in Tuesday’s U.S. midterm elections.

Kinew posted a photo on social media of himself with Minnesota senator-elect Peggy Flanagan, the state’s former lieutenant-governor and a fellow Anishinaabe, congratulating her “and all the Democrats for absolutely dominating Trump in the midterms!”

After two years of unified Republican control of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, the Democrats won both by wide margins Tuesday for a Congress poised to reassert itself as a co-equal branch of government ready to challenge Trump.

Manitoba’s New Democrat premier, who has openly mocked and criticized Trump over tariffs and trade issues, took a victory lap on social media Wednesday, saluting his left-of-centre counterparts south of the border.

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Temporary dialysis unit up and running in Dauphin

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Dialysis services in Dauphin were restored on Monday after flooding closed the unit at the hospital in early July.

A temporary dialysis unit is set up inside the Community Health Services building while repairs continue at the main hospital, Prairie Mountain Health said in an update in its November Health Plus newsletter.

Patients who have been receiving dialysis treatment in other hospitals across the region should continue their treatments there “until they receive direct instructions from their care team,” the update said.

“Care teams will work with each patient to determine the treatment location that best meets their individual needs,” the update said.

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One-vote victory challenged in Yellowhead election

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One-vote victory challenged in Yellowhead election

Connor McDowellLocal Journalism Initiative 4 minute read Yesterday at 10:55 PM EST

A mayoral candidate in Yellowhead Municipality has challenged the results of last week’s civic election after losing by one vote.

Jim Garlick, who ran for the top position, filed an application for a judicial recount on Wednesday at the Court of King’s Bench in Brandon.

In an interview with the Sun, he said his main concern lies in the fact that 13 ballots were marked spoiled in such a close race with incumbent mayor Merv Starzyk.

“That’s really an indication to me there could be something missed, either for him or for me,” Garlick said. “Because some of those ballots could have been for me, could have been for the other person, there’s an unknown there. And just because one person or two people see that it’s spoiled, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s spoiled.”

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Students given a ‘beautiful opportunity’ on Take Our Kids to Work Day

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Students given a ‘beautiful opportunity’ on Take Our Kids to Work Day

Rylee Gerrard 3 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 10:59 PM EST

For Manitoba’s annual Take Our Kids to Work Day, roughly 800 Grade 9 students from across the Brandon School Division ventured out into various workplaces across the Brandon area.

At Brandon University, Grade 9 student Abby Allen pictured herself before lunch in a career working as music teacher, but after a STEM lesson in the afternoon piqued her interest, she said she’d consider pursuing biosystem engineering after she graduates.

“It’s a really good thing if you don’t know what you want to be when you grow up,” said Allen, a student from École secondaire Neelin High School.

Students who were unable to go to work with their parents found host spots with organizations such as BU, Assiniboine College, CFB Shilo and Westman Immigrant Services.

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Group home disturbance; dogwalker assaulted

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Group home disturbance; dogwalker assaulted

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BREACHING THE PEACE

A 53-year-old woman in a group home was arrested by the Brandon Police Service after she allegedly tried fighting residents and staff before running into the street naked.

Police were called to the group home on the 2200 block of Rosser Avenue on Tuesday around 1:25 p.m., police said in a news release on Wednesday.

Officers said the woman was intoxicated at the time.

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Air museum acquires 2nd Fleet Finch trainer plane

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Air museum acquires 2nd Fleet Finch trainer plane

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A new plane is set to land at Brandon’s Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum.

The museum announced Wednesday that it has acquired a second Fleet Model 16B Finch, a plane used for training during the Second World War.

The plane is expected to arrive to the museum within a week.

“These aircraft represent an important part of the early training experience of RCAF pilots,” Jeff Bell, chief pilot and head of the museum’s flying committee, said in the press release.

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Man found not guilty of sexually touching daughter

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Man found not guilty of sexually touching daughter

Tessa Adamski 5 minute read Yesterday at 10:50 PM EST

A Manitoba judge acquitted a father accused of sexually touching his daughter over a 10-month period, saying inconsistencies in the victim’s testimony left her with reasonable doubt.

“While I do not believe the accused’s denials and generally prefer the complainant’s evidence where their accounts conflict, I am unable to conclude with the requisite certainty what, if anything, happened,” provincial court Judge Shauna Hewitt-Michta said in a written decision delivered in Virden last month.

The accused, who can’t be identified due to a publication ban, was charged with sexual interference arising from allegations he touched his now 11-year-old daughter inappropriately on multiple occasions between September 2023 and July 2024.

During that time frame, the girl was alternating between living at her mother and father’s homes as a result of a shared custody arrangement since her parents separated when she was three years old.

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BU urged to revoke Sainte-Marie honour

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BU urged to revoke Sainte-Marie honour

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Brandon University is being urged to immediately revoke an honorary doctor of music degree given to singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie in 2011.

The request to the BU Senate by Alex Lacharité, who refers to the singer by her birth name Beverley Jean Santamaria, cites a 2023 investigation by the CBC’s “The Fifth Estate” that found her claims to Indigenous ancestry were false.

“She has since been stripped of her Order of Canada and other honours by the Governor General of Canada, honorary degrees from the University of Toronto and Dalhousie University, Juno Awards, and the Polaris Prize,” Lacharité wrote in email to the university’s senate, president and other officials on Oct. 25.

“Her actions of assuming the identity of an Indigenous person who was adopted into the United States as part of the ’60s Scoop, generally pretending to be an Indigenous person, and taking awards, space, and opportunities from actual Indigenous people were and are harmful to our society and are morally wrong,” he wrote.

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Blue wave crashes over U.S. as voters rebuke Trump with midterm blowout

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Blue wave crashes over U.S. as voters rebuke Trump with midterm blowout

Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press 5 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 5:49 PM EST

DETROIT - The fallout from the Democrat tsunami that crashed over the U.S. Congress was swift on Wednesday, after American voters rejected President Donald Trump's turbulent second term with a midterm election blowout.

In a stinging rebuke of the second Trump administration, Democrats flipped long-held Republican Senate seats in Texas, Maine and South Carolina. The blue wave also washed over House seats and down-ballot votes, sending shock waves throughout the Republican party.

Trump acknowledged Wednesday that his unpopular war with Iran affected the election but maintained he was committed to the military campaign.

Talking to reporters while walking around the construction site of the new White House ballroom, Trump suggested he was open to working with Democrats before later saying he would use his presidential veto to block their agenda.

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