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What’s happening today
Americans go to the polls in the U.S. general election today, determining who will be the next president and which party holds a majority in the House, and the Senate.
Adam Treusch visits North Dakota and Minnesota, as Manitoba’s neighbours brace for whatever comes after a U.S. election like no other. Read the full story here.
Cass County residents vote at the Fargodome on Friday. (Adam Treusch / Free Press)
Today’s must-read
Whether as a lawyer, judge, commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, senator, or family man, Murray Sinclair is being remembered for bringing reconciliation to the national consciousness to change the lives of Indigenous people in Manitoba and across the country.
Sinclair, whose spirit name was Mizhana Gheezhik (The One Who Speaks of Pictures in the Sky) died early Monday at St. Boniface Hospital surrounded by family. He was 73.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau paid tribute to Sinclair both on social media and in the House of Commons saying he “leaves behind an extraordinary legacy. With his passing, Canada has lost a giant — a brilliant legal mind, a champion of Indigenous rights, and a trusted leader on our journey of reconciliation. On behalf of the Government of Canada, I extend my deepest condolences to his children Dene, Niigaan, Gazheek, Kizhay and Miskodagwaaginikwe, his friends, and his colleagues as well as to Indigenous Peoples across Canada.
“He will be missed.”
Kevin Rollason has the story.
Murray Sinclair in 2021 (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
On this date
On Nov. 5, 1936: The Winnipeg Free Press reported U.S. president Franklin Delano Roosevelt overwhelmingly won re-election, with only two states’ electoral college votes going to his opponent; Democrats also won a record majority in Congress, with the House and Senate seeing what was believed to be the greatest number of Democrats elected in the country’s history. In St. Boniface, a speedy response to radio signals saw the arrest of a suspect 10 minutes after a Royal Bank branch was robbed of $500. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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