Today’s front page
Public health officials have identified the emergency department waiting room at the Brandon Regional Health Centre as the city’s latest possible measles exposure site. READ MORE
The Brandon School Division is set to receive a $5-million increase in provincial funding for the 2026-27 school year, according to a provincial backgrounder. READ MORE
If the Brandon Wheat Kings had any questions about their next wave of young prospects, it’s safe to say the last two weeks have been awfully reassuring. READ MORE
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WEDNESDAY: Sunny. High 0 C. Low -11 C.
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Looking Back
SIXTY YEARS AGO
The population of Canada was estimated at 19,785,000 on Jan. 1, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports.
Consumers are paying about 25 cents more for pork than they were at this time last year. Side bacon sells here for about $1 a pound — only about 15 cents less than T-bone steaks. Pork roasts cost about 80 cents a pound and ham ranges from 79 cents to $1.49 a pound.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
The Canadian Inn Motor Hotel has changed hands and Brandon issues a warm welcome to Fred Hykaway and Tom French, who will take over from Wally and Joyce Bewza.
Terry Baker was recently named queen at the Valleyview Community Centre’s annual winter carnival. Audrey Sawyer was first princess and Doris Christmann was second.
Trevor Fahey has been named director of athletics and chairman of the department at Brandon University.
FORTY YEARS AGO
Russell Madden, 84, of Rivers was one of 12 survivors from Manitoba in a horrific collision of a Via Rail passenger train and a CN freight train near Hinton, Alta., that killed at least 29 people.
The city has banned the use of potentially hazardous asbestos-cement water pipes.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Organizers of a rock concert are preparing to handle up to 20,000 people at the event scheduled for the August long weekend. Classic Rock Weekend, featuring 1970s-type bands, will be held in pasture land at the northeast corner of Lake Minnedosa.
Meetings will be held next week in Russell, Carman and Brandon to gather support for a producer-owned meat-packing plant. Cattle producers in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and the northern United States are being asked to support the project.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Last weekend’s Lieutenant Governor’s Winter Festival doubled the success of last year’s event, with nearly 40,000 pavilion visits compared to slightly less than 20,000 in 2005. “We thought maybe there would be a 10 per cent increase in visits,” festival organizer Tom Keep said yesterday.
Manitoba falls behind the Canadian average when it comes to MRI exams that can identify health problems such as tumours and degenerative diseases. Yet when it comes to CT scans, this province offers more scans per resident than most other provinces, according to the first province-by-province comparison of such diagnostic tests by the Canadian Institute for Health Information. In Manitoba, there are 21 MRI exams for every 1,000 residents, compared with 26 across Canada, according to the study. Alberta has the most at 37 exams, while Newfoundland and Labrador has the fewest at only eight.
TEN YEARS AGO
The Prince Albert Raiders spent 20 minutes being dominated by the Brandon Wheat Kings. They returned the favour for the next two periods as they scored five unanswered goals to beat the Wheat Kings 6-3 at Westman Place on Tuesday. The Wheat Kings (34-16-2-2) still sit first in the Western Hockey League’s East Division, six points up on the Prince Albert Raiders (30-7-5-1).
The woman who became Greg Selinger’s top political adviser in the midst of a cabinet insurrection 15 months ago has resigned a key patronage appointment and been removed from the NDP’s re-election effort amid an internal review of her role in one of the province’s largest unions. Sources tell the Winnipeg Free Press that Heather Grant-Jury has suddenly dropped off the political radar over concerns over possible financial impropriety as education and training director of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 832.
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