Today’s top stories
A Crown prosecutor asked for the court to impose a nine-year sentence on a man who was found responsible for the death of his infant daughter roughly a decade ago. READ MORE
The Manitoba government is temporarily allowing some of the private nursing agencies it cut ties with last week to fill vacant shifts in rural areas like Dauphin and Swan River to maintain safe patient care. READ MORE
Jaxon Jacobson could probably use a little less Charles Dickens in his life as he finds his way through a season in which he’s seen the best of times and the worst of times. READ MORE
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Weather
THURSDAY: A mix of sun and cloud with 30 per cent chance of flurries in the morning. Wind north 20 km/h gusting to 40. High -29 C, but falling to -32 C in the afternoon. Wind chill near -46 C. Low -34 C, with wind chill near -48 C. Frostbite in minutes.
FRIDAY: Sunny. High -28 C. Low -34 C.
SATURDAY: Sunny. High -24 C. Low -38 C.
SUNDAY: Sunny. Daytime high -27 C.
Looking Back
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Nancy Greene, from Rossland, B.C., defeated the famed Goitschel sisters of France to win the slalom event in the Silver Jug women’s ski meet in Bad Gastein, Austria.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Britain and France launched supersonic commercial travel with stork-nosed Concorde jets carrying passengers at speeds of more than 1,000 miles an hour. But the planes have not been given clearance to land in the U.S. because of the noise factor, among other complaints.
FORTY YEARS AGO
About 150 members of the Public Service Alliance formed an informational picket line at the gates of CFB Shilo and the Federal Building on 11th Street. The picket was part of one held by the national membership to protest the government’s plan to contract out services.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Brandon’s Mary Cowan recently created, in the memory of her late husband, the John Wilbert (Bill) Cowan Endowment for Strings at Brandon University’s School of Music. One of the most substantial donations the School of Music has ever received from an individual, the scholarship will be presented annually to a deserving student.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
They try not to think about it too much, but soldiers bound for Afghanistan say the threat of enemy attacks still lingers in their thoughts. About 60 members of the 1st Regiment, Royal Canadian Horse Artillery and a dozen soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry left the base just before dawn.
TEN YEARS AGO
A friend says an injured Boissevain woman who crawled up a snowbank to seek help after spending the night in a frigid ditch trying to keep her young daughter warm may never walk again. Kristen Hiebert and four-year-old Avery were going home Sunday night when their car slid off Highway 23 near a bridge approximately one kilometre east of Dunrea and rolled down a steep slope to the frozen Souris River. Thrown from the car into the snow, the pair huddled together for 10 hours as temperatures dipped to -23 C. At dawn, Hiebert dragged herself up the snowbank despite multiple fractures and severe frostbite to her bare feet.
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