Today’s top stories
A local organization is encouraging women to run for city council in next year’s municipal election. READ MORE
A woman involved in a months-long crime spree was spared jail time and instead sentenced to pay $2,000 after the defence described how she “completely turned her life around.” READ MORE
Shelby Brown won’t even pretend that signing to play college is anything but a big deal. READ MORE
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TUESDAY: Periods of snow ending in the morning then a mix of sun and cloud. Wind north 20 km/h gusting to 40. High -3 C. Low -12 C, with wind chill dropping to -20 C overnight.
WEDNESDAY: Sunny. High -7 C. Low -14 C.
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FRIDAY: A mix of sun and cloud. High -9 C. Low -17 C.
Looking Back
SIXTY YEARS AGO
A record 240 Americans killed in Vietnam in one week underlines a new official warning that the war will be long.
Price for Grade A hogs established a 14-year high on the Winnipeg livestock market touching $38.50 a hundredweight, just 50 cents off the all-time high set July 25, 1951.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Students in Grades 8 and 9 at Vincent Massey High School will now be able to advance to the next grade in individual subjects, instead of being promoted on the basis of a completed grade. Brandon School Division trustees approved the proposal last night.
FORTY YEARS AGO
The Canadian Toy Testing Council has selected the machine-washable “Wrinkles the Puppet” as the Toy of the Year for 1985.
A campaign aimed at preventing war toys from arriving as Christmas presents this holiday season is gaining momentum in Brandon.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
There have been whopping increases to the final price outlook for Canadian Wheat Board barley and durum. No. 1 feed barley is up $24 a tonne to $191-$201 before handling and transportation deductions. The pool return outlook for 1995-96 durum increased $20 a tonne for high-quality product, which brings No. 1 durum to $273-$293.
The Brandon Wheat Kings have teamed up with the Brandon RCMP, Brandon Police Service and Dakota Ojibway Police Service in the battle against drug use. The hockey team, the police forces, McDonald’s and Super Thrifty have produced a full-colour poster that encourages youth to stay drug-free.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Crystal meth and marijuana were found in two Brandon high schools during an overnight search with a drug-sniffing dog Wednesday — the first of many such searches as the Brandon School Division steps up its attack on a growing drug problem in schools.
Making people pay for a ride in an ambulance for an overnight stay at another hospital is a “stupid” policy that must be — and will be — changed, Health Minister Tim Sale vowed yesterday. Sale lambasted what has been the practice for his health department for the past six years while taking questions from municipal councillors during the “bear pit” session with cabinet ministers during the Association of Manitoba Municipalities’ annual convention yesterday.
TEN YEARS AGO
Manitoba’s demographics are changing, and quickly. That was the message from Wilf Falk, chief statistician of Manitoba, at the Association of Manitoba Municipalities annual convention at the Keystone Centre Tuesday. Falk estimates the province will grow to nearly 1.4 million residents by 2020, or an increase of approximately 117,000 people from 2013. Much of that growth will be led by First Nations, Métis and immigration.
Planeloads of Syrian refugees will begin arriving in Canada next week but the Liberal government has pushed back its deadline to admit 25,000 of them by at least two months. Immigration Minister John McCallum and several other cabinet ministers and federal officials outlined the broad strokes of Canada’s plan to resettle the refugees at news conferences in Ottawa Tuesday. There will be 10,000 arriving by the end of December, and the remaining 15,000 will be here by the end of February.
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