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Increasing cloudiness today with a 30 per cent chance of showers this morning and afternoon. The high is 21 C and low is 9 C.
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The annual Corn and Apple Festival kicks off today in Morden and runs through to Sunday.
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Today’s must-read
When a robber held a machete to Arishya Aggarwal’s stomach, she felt scared, protective of staff at her clothing store and dismayed by the brazenness of the crime.
Theft and robbery have become common at her family’s stable of businesses in Portage la Prairie, but the latest holdup was particularly upsetting.
“I felt disappointed in the state of our city that someone can walk into your workplace … with a machete in broad daylight, and can openly, confidently steal, knowing that nothing is going to happen to them,” said Aggarwal.
Chris Kitching reports.
Arishya Aggarwal had a machete held to her stomach during a robbery at her family’s clothing store in Portage la Prairie, where she says thefts and robberies have increased. (Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On Aug. 25, 1964: The Winnipeg Free Press reported premier Duff Roblin called a Sept. 30 byelection in River Heights to fill the vacancy caused by Maitland B. Steinkopf’s resignation. A 28-year-old Vancouver man was fined $25 in magistrate’s court after he hurled a milk carton full of beef blood onto the floor of the House of Commons earlier in the week. There were 179 suspected encephalitis cases in Houston, Texas. The disease, carried by mosquitoes, caused 17 deaths in 30 days.
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