Today’s top stories
Maple Leaf Foods has finalized its spinoff of Canada Packers Inc., making its pork plants in Manitoba and Alberta a separate company. As of Wednesday, the pork processing plant in Brandon became part of Canada Packers. READ MORE
Dauphin’s Court of King’s Bench has dismissed a court action by a Mountain View School Division trustee against several of his colleagues after they voted to pause the return to students singing “God Save the King” daily. READ MORE
Write Munroop Gill off at your own risk. The five-foot-11 guard from Surrey, B.C., is more than used to it. Often the smallest player on the floor, the Brandon University Bobcats rookie has scratched and clawed for every bucket and every opportunity in basketball. READ MORE
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Weather
THURSDAY: Sunny. Increasing cloudiness late in the afternoon. Wind becoming west 20 km/h gusting to 40 near noon. High 25. Low 10 C.
FRIDAY: Cloudy. High 25 C. Low 13 C.
SATURDAY: Showers. High 19 C. Low 8 C.
SUNDAY: Rain. High 14 C. Low -2 C.
Looking Back
SIXTY YEARS AGO
A fire believed to have been started by an arsonist broke out yesterday in David Livingstone School, forcing some 450 students to flee the building. Damage to the school was slight.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Mayor Elwood Gorrie tried to get the Brandon and District United Appeal campaign off on the right foot by challenging former football professional Lefty Hendrickson to a kicking competition at city hall. Even though Gorrie recruited “import” Steve Davis from CFB Shilo as his stand-in, he still lost the bet, and it cost him $50 toward the campaign.
FORTY YEARS AGO
Westman Media Co-operative announced it has applied to the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission to expand services to 10 new communities and add six specialty channels to all communities in the system. The communities are Pilot Mound, Glenboro, Erickson, McCreary, Winnipegosis, Minitonas, Rossburn, Miniota, Shoal Lake and Elkhorn.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Trucks rumbled along Brandon’s newly opened Eastern Access Route. The interim route, which is accessible from either Richmond Avenue or Victoria Avenue East, crosses the Assiniboine River on the new Provincial Trunk Highway 110. The highway currently ends at Highway 457.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Brandon Sun contest winners Ken and Pat Sparrow of Souris headed for dinner last night at Remington’s Seafood & Steakhouse in The Town Centre with Canadian curling champion skips Randy Ferbey and Jennifer Jones and their teams. The Sparrows also won two VIP tickets to the Kings vs. Queens Curling Skins Game at the Keystone Centre today.
TEN YEARS AGO
Brandon-Souris candidates went toe-to-toe at one of the more fiery debates in recent election memory on Thursday night. Nearly 200 people gathered at the Keystone Centre’s amphitheatre to hear incumbent Conservative candidate Larry Maguire, Liberal Jodi Wyman, the Green party’s David Neufeld and the NDP’s Melissa Wastasecoot debate issues that ranged from the legalization of marijuana to the Syrian refugee crisis; missing and murdered aboriginal women to doctor-assisted death; and ideologically flip-flopping to the economy.
Disgraced former broadcaster Jian Ghomeshi pleaded not guilty Thursday to five charges, including four counts of sexual assault and one count of overcoming resistance by choking. The former host of CBC Radio’s cultural affairs show “Q’’ did not speak with reporters as he walked into the courthouse in downtown Toronto where he was arraigned.
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