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The Manitoba government is taking aim at Sobeys Inc. in a bid to boost local competition. The province said Thursday it would challenge contracts made by the Canadian grocery giant that prevent competitors from setting up shop nearby. READ MORE
A man who put a nurse in a chokehold and tried to stab her with a needle at a Brandon hospital last year has been sentenced to 15 months in jail. READ MORE
Brandon’s Maribell Teeple captured a bronze medal in the floor exercise at the Western Canadian Artistic Gymnastics Championship last weekend, posting a 9.35 in the age 15-plus Level 9 final in Whitehorse, Yukon. READ MORE
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Looking Back
SEVENTY YEARS AGO
Thirty-two of the 50 trees planted last spring by the parks board have been destroyed by vandals.
With a rise of six-tenths of a foot in 24 hours, the Assiniboine River at Brandon today reached the highest level of the 1956 runoff season so far.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Westman Regional Development Inc. chairman A.T. Chapman announced today that the board of directors has unanimously chosen Rod Bailey of Brandon as the general manager for the corporation.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Research done by the Department of Highways shows a reduction in speed limits will not reduce the number of accidents. Eighty per cent of the accidents recorded in the province in 1974 occurred in urban areas where speed limits were 45 miles per hour or lower.
FORTY YEARS AGO
An inferno raging in the devastated Ukrainian atomic power plant at Chernobyl spewed radiation into the atmosphere today amid reports of hundreds of casualties in what could be history’s worst nuclear disaster.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
The Manitoba Police Association has thrown its support behind a movement to put an end to early parole for first-degree murderers.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
A fire that destroyed a 105-year-old church in Minnedosa this past winter was not an isolated act of arson, but part of an international movement with links to a Norwegian “death metal” musician, say justice officials. The allegation was made at a recent court hearing to determine sentencing for one of three people accused of torching the Minnedosa United Church in February. The three people charged in connection with the blaze have made appearances in Brandon court.
TEN YEARS AGO
The track facility at the Canada Games Sportsplex is in need of a major overhaul, as Brandon prepares to host the 2017 and 2018 Legion National Youth Track and Field Championships. A redevelopment proposal will be brought before Brandon City Council on Monday that calls for a new rubberized track to be installed to meet International Association of Athletics Federations requirements.
That shortcut on the way to school or work will cost you the big bucks — if you’re caught. The fine for trespassing on railway property is $215 under the Railway Safety Act. With tracks nestled between residential areas, railway officers say walking across or along lines is an issue in the Wheat City.
Hundreds of rowdy protesters broke through barricades and threw eggs at police Friday outside a Burlingame, Calif., hotel where Donald Trump addressed the state’s Republican convention. Several Trump supporters said they were roughed up, but no serious injuries were reported.
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