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Time-travel mystery a hallucinogenic trip

Here’s a spooky premise: A fishing boat, the Rose of Nevada, that disappeared along with its crew 30 years ago, makes a mysterious return — empty but unchanged — to a small village in Cornwall, on England’s southwest coast.

“She’s back,” the boat’s owner says ominously. Even more ominously, he doesn’t sound particularly surprised. It feels as if this has happened before.

There’s something unsettling going on in this strange and singular film. Cornish writer-director Mark Jenkin (Bait, Enys Men) has crafted a ghostly time-travel tale that collapses past and present, leaving his characters — and the audience — in haunting emotional and moral quandaries.

If the film’s sense of time can be deliberately hazy, its sense of place is very clear. All three of Jenkin’s features have been set in Cornwall, and there’s an intimate, immediate sense of connection to this coastal town, which is depressed and dwindling, its inhabitants beset by economic precarity. The harbour is deserted, the pub is empty, shop windows are boarded up and the young people are leaving. It seems as if the disappearance of that boat and crew broke not just the men’s grieving families but the whole community.

Asian supermarket T&T to open at Polo Park

Live seafood, more than 150 varieties of baked bread and rows of Asian produce are being promised for CF Polo Park — in two years time.

Police resuming drug-enforcement crackdown, working with outreach community

Winnipeg police are relaunching a drug enforcement campaign in some neighbourhoods Friday after they say a 10-day sweep led to more than 100 arrests and a drop in reported crime earlier this summer.

Police said the renewed initiative, targeting open drug use and trafficking, will continue into November with an outreach-first approach and a partnership with a coalition of community groups in response to criticism of the initial campaign.

“While there was a great deal of support for the enforcement actions we undertook to address public safety issues, there was also criticism about the lack of collaboration,” Winnipeg Police Service Chief Gene Bowers told reporters.

“At that time, I acknowledged that community organizations should have been part of our efforts. Hence, we’re here today.”

Emergency rooms need help — now

Triage. It’s an interesting, necessary, and bluntly pragmatic concept, but it’s not for the faint of heart.

It’s a method of determining how and when to treat the injured and the sick, and it has a long (and disputed) history. Many historians credit French army surgeon Dominique-Jean Larrey, who, in Napoleonic France, came up with a classification system to help evacuate and treat injured soldiers by quickly dividing their injuries into three different classifications.

“In the Battle of Jena in 1806, the French army used the triage system developed by Larrey. The system involved categorization into three grades based on the severity of the wounds irrespective of the soldier’s rank: dangerously wounded, less dangerously wounded, and slightly wounded,” wrote researchers Hiroyuki Nakao, Isao Ukai and Joji Kotani in the medical journal Acute Medicine and Surgery.

Triage, in fact, means “breaking into threes,” and there’s a dispute over whether it was originally used to classify coffee beans or wool — but we’re not going any further down that particular rabbit hole today.