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What’s happening today
Ontario singer-songwriter Hayden performs at the Park Theatre, 8 p.m. For ticket info, click here.
Hayden is touring in support of his upcoming ninth album. (Supplied)
Canadian electropop singer/songwriter/comic-book artist Lights performs at the Burton Cummings Theatre, 8 p.m. For ticket info, click here.
Today’s must-read
A man charged in a vicious, downtown attack Friday was in court one day earlier, pleading guilty to a previous assault, the Free Press has learned. Multiple people are suspected of confronting the victim, who they did not know, in what a police source described as a “horrific” and “prolonged” assault using multiple weapons before they robbed him of his possessions. Erik Pindera has the story.
The back lane behind the Bell Hotel, pictured on the left, where a person was beaten badly over the weekend. (Mike Deal / Winnpeg Free Press)
On this date
On Feb. 7, 1935: The Winnipeg Free Press reported a judge dismissed the application by the Retail Merchants Association for an injunction to restrain the City of Winnipeg from leasing appliance sales and show rooms in the Boyd building for the municipally-owned Hydro Electric system. In the second day of Manitoba’s 47th annual bonspiel there were 15 extra end games, with two of those going to a 14th end. In London, Ont., a Cincinnati man was convicted on three charges in connection with the abduction of a wealthy London brewer John S. Labatt, and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Search our archives for more here.
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