Today’s top stories
Trial dates have been set for a former priest who allegedly sexually assaulted an 11-year-old girl in his congregation in 1970. READ MORE
The Manitoba government is releasing some U.S. liquor products for sale this Christmas season with a plan to donate up to $500,000 in proceeds to local charities. READ MORE
Time will catch up to Andrew Lochhead eventually, but he seems to have a nice head start right now. The 35-year-old Killarney resident, who was named Baseball Manitoba’s senior player of the year last month after an outstanding season with the Border Baseball League’s Cartwright Twins, said he’s finally understanding the sport in a meaningful way. READ MORE
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Looking Back
SEVENTY YEARS AGO
The Brandon Lions Club presented the Brandon branch of the Royal Canadian Legion with 73 girls uniforms valued at $5,000 for use by the Legion’s new Girls Corps.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
A new cattle feedlot operation has been established in Carberry by the J.R. Simplot Co. of Boise, Idaho. To be known as Carberry Feeders Ltd., the feedlot will utilize waste products from the Carnation Foods Co. Ltd. potato processing plant as feed for the cattle.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Access roads to the bison enclosure at Lake Audy, Whirlpool Lake and Katherine Lake, all in Riding Mountain National Park, have been closed for the winter.
FORTY YEARS AGO
Jack Carey, the 64-year-old assistant fire commissioner for Brandon, is retiring Dec. 6. This means for the first time in almost 70 years, there will not be a Carey in the city fire service.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
City councillors learned last night that the proposed pedestrian bridge, part of the first phase of the riverbank enhancement project, will likely cost more than $1 million to construct.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
The Green Party of Canada has a new local candidate after a non-binding vote prompted Dave Kattenburg to withdraw from the nomination process. Brad Bird’s name will appear on ballots in Brandon-Souris when voters go to the polls on Jan. 23. Bird is a writer, trapper and park interpreter from Lake Metigoshe who also gained fame earlier this year by walking all the way from the Manitoba-U.S. border to Churchill during the winter.
TEN YEARS AGO
The head of economics at Brandon University launched an extraordinary public attack Friday on an ambitious plan by BU and Assiniboine Community College to create a new business school. The school would be located at a new campus, likely located downtown, and would include an MBA that administrators say would heavily target foreign students paying high fees. Economics department head Joe Dolecki accused the university of prostituting itself in search of revenue.
Rural Canada stands to lose the most from a Liberal government, according to a Westman MP. Dauphin-Swan River- Neepawa Conservative MP Robert Sopuck is concerned that rural areas are already being taken for granted by the new Justin Trudeau government, which officially got started in Parliament on Friday with the reading of a throne speech outlining the priorities of the government.
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