Today’s top stories
The head of Brandon’s fire and emergency services is pushing for a new station in the city’s southwest corner and wants it to be operational by 2031. READ MORE
Fairness for Clear Lake is withdrawing its judicial review against Parks Canada following a court delay that pushed the 2025 boat ban hearing to May. READ MORE
The visiting Calgary Hitmen created some distance for themselves in the Eastern Conference playoff race as they rallied with four unanswered goals in the third period to beat the Brandon Wheat Kings 5-4 in Western Hockey League action at Assiniboine Credit Union Place on Friday. READ MORE
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Weather
SATURDAY: Cloudy with 30 per cent chance of flurries and risk of freezing drizzle. Wind southeast 20 km/h gusting to 40. High -3 C, with -19 C wind chill in the morning. Low -7 C, with wind chill near -12 C at night.
SUNDAY: Clearing. High 2 C. Low -6 C.
MONDAY: Cloudy. High 1 C. Low -7 C.
TUESDAY: A mix of sun and cloud. High -3 C. Low -12 C.
Looking Back
SEVENTY YEARS AGO
A one-cent increase in the retail price of milk is being sought by two Brandon dairies.
Enrolment in boy scout troops and wolf cub packs in the Brandon district stands at 772.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Jack Benny and his Love-in-Bloom concert with and for the Tampa Philharmonic Orchestra attracted an audience of nearly 7,000 persons, including Florida Gov. Haydon Burns. Prominent as a guest violinist with the orchestra was Jack Benny’s teacher, Albert Pratz of Brandon College’s School of Music.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
The Grade 5 class at King George School was recently named winner in the name-the-safety-birds contest. The safety birds mounted on the new Brandon City Police safety cars will be known as Safety Sal and Cautious Cal.
FORTY YEARS AGO
Canadian money is a bargain in Mexico. The Royal Bank of Canada was selling 425 pesos for the Canadian dollar today, compared to 359 pesos two weeks ago.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Brandon University will get the $150,000 it wants from the city — but that amount will apparently be spread over three years.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in addressing his party’s failure to elect anyone from Canada’s second- and third-largest cities, employed the kind of tactics that Conservatives once decried in previous Liberal governments. He lured a Vancouver Liberal star, David Emerson, to become his international trade minister and made an unelected Montreal businessman, Michael Fortier, a senator and public works minister in one fell swoop.
The Brandon Police Service will add another weapon to its arsenal now that city council has approved the purchase of 20 Taser-brand electrical stun guns. Council voted last night to buy the Tasers at a cost of $61,000.
TEN YEARS AGO
Jayce Hawryluk had a pair of first period goals as the Brandon Wheat Kings built a 4-0 lead early and went on to beat the Prince George Cougars 8-3 at Westman Place on Friday. John Quenneville had two goals and two assists, Hawryluk had three goals and an assist and Ivan Provorov added four assists for the Wheat Kings.
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights exceeded its own expectations in its first six months after opening, but a still unsettled tax dispute with the City of Winnipeg could put the museum more than $4 million in debt.
A man who terrorized his ex-girlfriend with threats and phone calls been sentenced to two years in jail. Judge Shauna Hewitt-Michta described the offender’s actions as “relationship terrorism.”
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