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What’s happening today
Manitoba Opera’s production of Donizetti’s comic masterpiece The Elixir of Love, starring Winnipeg’s Andriana Chuchman as feisty protagonist Adina, continues today at the Centennial Concert Hall, 555 Main St., at 7 p.m.
Holly Harris has a glowing review here.
Jen Zoratti talks to Chuchman about the role, in which she made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 2014, and her illustrious career, here.
For ticket information, click here.
Andriana Chuchman as Adina (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press files)
Today’s must-read
The slaying of a 17-year-old girl in a quintuple homicide in southern Manitoba was a direct result of gross negligence and inaction by Child and Family Services, her mother claims in a lawsuit.
Juliette Hastings accused CFS of ignoring “obvious” warning signs and failing to act on pleas to remove her daughter, Myah-Lee Gratton, from the home of a Carman man charged with killing her, his three children and his partner.
“Ryan Howard Manoakeesick had a known history of physical violence and instability. He had a criminal record,” Hastings’ statement of claim said of the suspect. “It was foreseeable that all residents of the home were at risk of egregious harm or death.” Chris Kitching has the story.
Juliette Hastings (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press files)
On the bright side
Archaeologists in Cambodia have unearthed a dozen centuries-old sandstone statues in a “remarkable discovery” at the Angkor World Heritage Site near the city of Siem Reap, authorities said Wednesday.
The statues — depicting so-called “door guardians” — were discovered last week near the north gate leading to the 11th-century Royal Palace at Angkor Thom, the last capital of the Khmer Empire, said Long Kosal, spokesman for the Apsara National Authority, the government agency that oversees the archaeological park. The Associated Press has more here.
Centuries-old sandstone statues being arranged at Angkor Thom in Cambodia. (Phouk Chea / Apsaras National Authority / The Associated Press)
On this date
On Oct. 30, 1965: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Montreal, CNR shipments of wheat to the Lakehead had increased to the point where the railway had exceeded its daily quota set by the Canadian Wheat Board. British prime minister Harold Wilson said the demand from African nationalist leaders that Britain “attempt to settle all Rhodesia’s constitutional problems with a military invasion is out.” Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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