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Brian Pallister returned to the Manitoba legislature Thursday for the first time in five years since stepping down as premier, to attend the unveiling of his official portrait. READ MORE
A woman testifying in Brandon’s Court of King’s Bench on Thursday said she saw the accused stab one man and heard her admit to stabbing another one after a violent altercation in 2023. READ MORE
The path to beating the Calgary Hitmen is clear for the Brandon Wheat Kings, but that certainly doesn’t make it easy when their Western Hockey League series begins tonight. READ MORE
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Looking Back
SEVENTY YEARS AGO
City engineer Red Underhill ordered a double shift on the work to reinforce the city’s two-mile network of dikes to hold back a possible flood on the Assiniboine River this spring.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
The first all-Canadian space research project in history started early yesterday when a 350-pound scientific instrument was launched on a Black Brant rocket from the Churchill research range.
A proposal to raise the minimum wage in Manitoba to $1.25 an hour has been introduced by Steve Patrick. Present rates are 65 cents an hour in urban areas and 80 cents an hour in rural areas. By Dec. 1, 1966, the rate will be raised to $1 throughout Manitoba.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Petty Officer Robert King, a Grade 10 student at Crocus Plains Regional Secondary School, recently returned from a six-week South Pacific cruise on the Canadian destroyer HMCS Kootenay, where the crew took part in war games with American and British naval units.
FORTY YEARS AGO
The BiWay store in the Rosser Mall had its grand opening yesterday.
Ron Helwer, owner of Shur-Gro Farm Services Ltd., has been chosen by the Brandon Chamber of Commerce as the winner of the fifth annual business person of the year.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
The drive to topple the Canadian Wheat Board’s monopoly over grain exports suffered a major setback. The board’s powers were upheld when the provincial court found two southwestern Manitoba farmers guilty of exporting 96 loads of wheat and barley into the U.S. without obtaining an export licence from the board.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Last night was the grand opening celebration of the Fusion nightclub on Fifth Street with a lingerie fashion show, door prizes and drink specials. The nightclub features dance music — the owners have created a dance club, not a bar — a dress code and video security.
The old barn put up a good fight. The Winnipeg Arena was supposed to go out with a bang using explosives at 7:15 a.m. yesterday. But the demolition was a dud for more than 1,000 people who flocked to the site to witness a piece of Winnipeg’s history implode. When the 200 kilograms of explosives were finally detonated at about 7:25 a.m., there was a huge boom like rolling thunder that sent up billows of debris. It took a demolition crew nearly four hours using steel cables and excavating machines yanking on the steel-reinforced corner pillars to pull the building down at about 10:50 a.m.
TEN YEARS AGO
The Brandon Wheat Kings have dug themselves into a mighty big hole. The Edmonton Oil Kings outscored them in the third period for the second night in a row at Westman Place for a 2-1 victory on Friday, putting them up two games in the best-of-seven quarter-final Western Hockey League playoff series. Edmonton won the series opener 4-2 on Thursday.
The City of Brandon hopes to partner with the business community in order to protect one of its most cherished green spaces, according to general manager of operations Rod Sage. But in its haste to spur new development, residents near the Wheat City Golf Course say the city has knowingly ruined another bit of cherished green space. The city intends to seek proposals from developers on the golf course’s parking lot this spring, Sage said.
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