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What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers face the Calgary Stampeders at McMahon Stadium, starting at 8 p.m. Jeff Hamilton is in Calgary and brings you 5 game day storylines and a rundown of the rest of the CFL this week, here.
Antonio Pipkin (centre) will now be playing for Saskatchewan. (Heywood Yu / Canadian Press files)
Today’s must-read
Two years ago, the tallest premier in Canada — and one of its most outspoken — vanished from public life. Most Manitobans last saw or heard from Brian Pallister on Aug. 10, 2021, in Brandon, after he fell victim to a silent leadership coup.
Fast-forward two years to the eve of the upcoming provincial election campaign. The opposition New Democrats argue Progressive Conservative Premier Heather Stefanson and her predecessor’s policies are inextricably linked and equally to blame for the province’s current health-care staffing crisis, record number of overdose deaths and high rate of violent crime. Carol Sanders has the story.
Brian Pallister in August 2021 (David Lipnowski / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On this date
On Aug. 18, 1964: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Manitobans would be spared the impostion of a retail sales tax; premier Duff Roblin, having imposed $20 million in new levies earlier in the week, reportedly had no plans to introduce a provincial sales tax. The boost in provincial taxation was in part driven by the premier’s desire to reduce the burden of local school taxes. In Thompson, top officials of the United Steelworkers of America denied the union had sold out to the International Nickel Company of Canada in recent negotiations. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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