Today’s top stories
Two Brandon councillors made last-minute proposals on Friday to lower the city’s 6.6 per cent recommended property tax hike ahead of today’s final day of budget deliberations. READ MORE
Brandon Coun. Glen Parker formally apologized on Friday for comments he made in reference to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in a post on the East End Community Centre Facebook page earlier this week. READ MORE
If there were any doubts that Piper Ingalls is the best shooter in Brandon University women’s volleyball history, she did her best to erase them on Friday. READ MORE
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Looking Back
SEVENTY YEARS AGO
The United Nations today published a survey reporting that 10 western powers have shipped $22 million worth of arms to Israel and its Arab enemies since 1951.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Bankruptcies in Canada will reach a staggering $500 million for 1965 when all figures are available.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Joe Thomassen, Ron Cayer and Mike Melnyk — the only three of Brandon’s 10 aldermen who opposed council’s involvement in core redevelopment for a shopping mall — are now planning court action to stop the project.
FORTY YEARS AGO
To date, AIDS has infected some 450 Canadians, about half of whom have died. In the U.S., about 16,000 of the country’s 250 million people have contracted AIDS since it was first identified in North America in 1981.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Close to 800 people, mostly health-care workers and seniors, joined provincial Health Minister Jim McCrae for the Health Care Forum at Brandon’s Victoria Inn.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
A proposed change to the bylaw that governs the Downtown Brandon Business Improvement Association has sparked calls to eliminate the BIA altogether. At a meeting to discuss the rather procedural bylaw change, several downtown business owners took the opportunity to express their distaste for the BIA.
Portage-Lisgar Conservative MP Brian Pallister will have some extra, taxpayer-funded help with him when he stops in western Manitoba next week to suss out how much support is out there for him to become the next leader of the provincial Progressive Conservative party. Pallister, who announced late last week he will tour the province this month to size up support for a leadership bid, said yesterday that staff from his federal MP’s office will assist him as he meets with Manitoba Tories.
TEN YEARS AGO
A boy who helped set a fire that did more than $250,000 in damage and repeatedly threatened to rape a group home worker and female jail staff has been sentenced to six months house arrest. Judge John Combs said that the boy’s history, which includes an intellectual disability, suggests he wouldn’t appreciate the consequences of a jail sentence.
Former radio star Jian Ghomeshi faces maximum penalties that — if convicted — are dramatically different for each charge he faces. While the most he could get for the headline-grabbing sexual assault counts against him is 18 months, the obscure choking charge he also faces carries a theoretical life in prison. The huge gap in potential penalties is largely related to a complex web of decisions and agreements made by the Crown and defence in the run-up to the former “Q” host’s trial, which starts Monday.
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