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JOE BRYKSA / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSDr. Thambirajah Balachandra wonders why little effort has been made to find the killer or killers of 16-year-old Velecia Solomon.
Racism doubted: Manitoba’s former chief medical examiner says racism didn’t play a role in Brian Sinclair’s death, but he doesn’t deny seeing it in other cases during his decades-long career. Dr. Thambirajah Balachandra retired at the end of June after almost two decades as the province’s chief pathologist. In an interview, he said it wasn’t racism that led to Sinclair being ignored; it was a symptom of an overcrowded emergency room, with overworked triage nurses. READ MORE
Your forecast: It’s looking like another warm, humid day with a chance of rain. It will be sunny this morning and then it will start to cloud over with a 30 per cent chance of showers this afternoon and a risk of a thunderstorm. High 29. The low tonight will be 13. On Wednesday, it will be mainly sunny with a high of 30. On Thursday, expect a partly cloudy day and a high of 26.
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PHIL HOSSACK / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS“One look at it, I knew it was his shoe, I knew it was him,” Bonnie Bricker said Monday.
Holding out hope: Bonnie Bricker knew when she was shown a photo of a boot floating in the river that it belonged to her 33-year-old son Reid. Bricker describes to Gordon Sinclair Jr. how painful it was to wait two months for DNA confirmation that discovered remains belonged to her son. READ MORE
Morneau confident: Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau is facing a sputtering economy, but he is hopeful that a series of fiscal measures the Liberals have undertaken will help turn things around. “We’re trying to have a significant impact in the second half of the year,” Morneau tells Dan Lett. “We’re going to continue our focus on not only growing the economy but making sure the growth goes to middle-class Canadians who are struggling.” READ MORE
Conduct probed: The Law Society of Manitoba has launched an investigation into the conduct of a former Winnipeg Crown prosecutor who faces criminal charges of having sex with a prostitute. Richard H. Smith, 54, who was dismissed from the Public Prosecution Service of Canada, is accused of obtaining sexual services for consideration as well as helping the woman involved breach a court order by allegedly encouraging her to break her curfew. READ MORE
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John Woods / Winnipeg Free PressCarolyn Bennett, Canada’s Minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs, responds to questions about an inquiry into missing women prior to the Duff Roblin Awards at Fort Garry Place Tuesday.
Apology coming: Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett will travel to Tadoule Lake and Churchill today to deliver a national apology and $33.6 million in compensation for the forced relocation of the Dene people from their traditional homelands 60 years ago.
Torrent of games: The Winnipeg Goldeyes and St. Paul Saints have a lot of baseball to play after a doubleheader was rained out Monday night at Shaw Park.
Around the water cooler
Frank Gunn / THE CANADIAN PRESSShawn Barber reacts as he leaves after being eliminated at 5.65 metres in the men’s pole vault final during the athletics competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday.
No medals: Canadian athletes failed to win a medal Monday at the Olympics as world champion pole vaulter Shawn Barber of Toronto made an early exit from competition. Brandon’s Isabela Onyshko also finished off the podium after a slip up during her routine in the women’s beam final. The 18-year-old wobbled on her first series and then slipped off the beam after attempting a back handspring tuck, finishing with a score of 13.400, good for eighth place. READ MORE
Business split: The Canadian Federation of Independent Business thinks it’s time it revisits the question of Sunday shopping with its Manitoba members. A 2012 poll showed Manitoba CFIB members almost split equally when asked if businesses should be allowed to set their own Sunday hours. Dan Kelly, the president and CEO of the Toronto based-CFIB, says most businesses would be prepared for a “modest” increase in Sunday shopping hours, but before they take a stance it is time to see if opinions have changed in four years. READ MORE
Another delay: New witness accounts of the police shooting that killed 26-year-old Craig McDougall eight years ago have forced another delay for the inquest into his death. The inquest, initially set to begin last week, has now been delayed until November so lawyers can gather more information from witnesses. READ MORE
Trending now
#fav7films: People are tweeting their favourite 7 films, but it’s hard to tell by this point who is serious and who is taking the air out of the hashtag. The Head Start crew is skeptical that “Ernest Goes to Camp” had so many sequels, never mind whether the Ernest ouevre in its entirety deserves to make up most of anyone’s top seven movies.
#OneWordOffMovieQuotes: More movie fun online with mangled film quotes: “Draw me like one of your French fries,” “Say hello to My Little Pony,” and “I coulda been a bartender” are just a few on Twitter.
On this date
On Aug. 16, 1924: The Manitoba Free Press reported that Germany had accepted a French plan for the evacuation of the Ruhr within a year. Rebel forces in Morocco continued their attacks on Spanish positions and had captured several villages. The Winnipeg Free Press began offering free lessons in Ilo, a new international language, which was intended to succeed where previous international languages such as Volapuk and Esperanto had not. READ MORE
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