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After a double-digit increase, gasoline prices in Brandon have spiked to a near-record high. READ MORE
The Manitoba NDP introduced a new private member’s bill on Friday which would prohibit anti-vaccine mandate advocates from demonstrating directly outside of hospitals, COVID-19 testing centres and vaccination injection sites if passed. READ MORE
A year after a mental health crisis led Sioux Valley Dakota Nation to declare a state of emergency, the Nation is looking for federal support in establishing long-term mental health solutions in the community. READ MORE
Fall is here, bringing with it flu vaccine distribution in Westman, and so far demand for the jab appears to remain high in 2021. READ MORE
Weather
SATURDAY: Cloudy. Showers. Risk of thunderstorm. Amount 5 to 10 mm. High 13 C. Low 7 C. READ MORE
SUNDAY: A mix of sun and cloud with 40 per cent chance of showers. High 17 C. Low 3 C.
MONDAY: A mix of sun and cloud. High 16 C. Low 5 C.
TUESDAY: A mix of sun and cloud. High 13 C. Low 6 C.
Looking Back
SIXTY YEARS AGO: A two-way fight for the Brandon mayoralty loomed as nominations for the Oct. 24 civic election closed today. Filing nominations for the post were: Dr. C.E. Webb, a former alderman, and S.A. Magnacca, Brandon realtor. Mayor James A. Creighton filed papers for the one-year unexpired term of Dr. Webb, who resigned with one year still to run in his aldermanic term. Creighton will get the aldermanic seat by acclamation. The appointment of Lyal McGill, a director of the Sun Publishing Co. of Brandon, to an executive position with Overseas Newspapers Ltd., a subsidiary of the London Daily Mirror Group, was announced.
FIFTY YEARS AGO: Defence Minister Donald Macdonald rejected CFB Shilo as an alternative to Suffield, Alta., for British tank training purposes. He said Shilo isn’t big enough. The Brandon fire department was called out this morning to the Cumming and Dobbie coal yard, where a fire caused heavy damage to a machinery maintenance shed. Wayne Boles and his family escaped possible serious injury in a house fire early this morning that caused heavy smoke damage and led to the injury of one city fireman.
FORTY YEARS AGO: Space-age technology has arrived at Brandon University in the form of a talking micro-computer that will soon be part of the everyday learning routine at all levels of education. A purebred Yorkshire boar at the Brandon Hog Testing Station has set a national record. The boar, owned by Garry Chappell of Hamiota, has an index of 175. The last 100-kilometre stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway that Terry Fox covered before cancer forced him to abandon his Marathon of Hope has been renamed The Terry Fox Courage Highway, Ontario Transport Minister James Snow announced.
THIRTY YEARS AGO: Mohawk Oil Co. Ltd. announced yesterday that Manitoba will be the first province in Canada where motorists can buy gasohol at the pumps beginning Oct. 15. Gasohol E-10, a mixture of 10 per cent alcohol and 90 per cent regular unleaded gas will be available to motorists at the same price as regular unleaded gas at 15 stations in Manitoba. Manitoba farmers yesterday staged one of the largest farm rallies ever held in the country. A crowd of between 6,000 and 8,000 filled the front lawn of the Manitoba legislature to protest low grain prices and a lack of government action on calls for an emergency farm aid package worth at least $1 million. In conjunction with the Manitoba farm rally, Simplot Canada Ltd. set up a bread distribution depot at the entrance to the plant yesterday and sold bread at four cents a loaf, the price a farmer receives for the wheat required to produce one loaf.
TWENTY YEARS AGO: The war against terrorism is the “first great struggle” of the 21st century and it will be won, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien told a major NATO conference yesterday. “We have not picked this fight, but we will finish it and finish it well,” Chrétien told delegates to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, which was meeting in Ottawa. Patrician Anne McKinnon, 53, whose singing career began on CBC’s “Singalong Jubilee,” died of lymphatic cancer yesterday in Toronto. She was born in Shilo and spent her childhood in London, Ont., Saint John, N.B., and Halifax, N.S.
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