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Anti-immigration rally: A rally planned for Winnipeg on Sept. 9 is being organized by a Brandon man with alleged neo-Nazi sympathies and ties to a hate group. One academic said: “We don’t want to see a march by neo-Nazis and white supremacists on the streets of Winnipeg.” Ryan Thorpe reports. READ MORE
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RUTH / BONNEVILLE WINNIPEG FREE PRESSNadia LaRosa works with victims of abuse at Klinic
Reporting sex assaults anonymously: A crisis-support program for victims of sexual assault is trying to revive anonymous report-sharing with Manitoba police. The idea is that investigators might still be able to use details from an anonymous report to help them investigate other sexual assaults — in the case of a serial rapist, for example. Katie May reports. READ MORE
Kinew’s domestic assaults: NDP leadership candidate Steve Ashton demanded Tuesday that rival Wab Kinew provide details about two domestic assault charges against him in 2003 that were stayed. And Ashton encouraged the alleged victim from those charges 14 years ago to come forward and tell her story. Kinew said Tuesday he will respect the need for privacy of the other person involved in the original charge. Nick Martin reports. READ MORE
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Derrick Davis and Eva Tavares. (Supplied)
Phantom appears tonight: Phantom of the Opera begins an 11-day run at the Centennial Concert Hall this evening. This incarnation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical is one of the largest touring productions, with a cast and orchestra of 52 people. READ MORE
White coats galore: First-year medical students will receive the mantle of the profession and recite the Hippocratic Oath at this year’s White Coat Ceremony today at the University of Manitoba’s Bannatyne Campus. The 110 students of the Class of 2021 will be formally cloaked in their first white coats.
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PHIL HOSSACK / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSA cyclist makes his way up Sherbrook Street behind a short strip of protective curbs.
Cycle-lane experiment: The city announced a nine-month pilot project Tuesday using low-profile concrete curbs to lay out protected bike lanes on a short block in the Exchange District and on a 100-metre stretch of Sherbrook Street, south of Cumberland Avenue. Aldo Santin reports. READ MORE
Manitoba short-changed: A leading parliamentary scholar says Manitoba remains short-changed in the Senate until Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fills the province’s last Red Chamber seat. “For a comparatively small province like Manitoba, it’s important to have those voices,” David Smith, a visiting scholar at Ryerson University in Toronto, said. Dylan Robertson reports. READ MORE
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Matt York / The Associated PressPeople protest outside the Phoenix Convention Center, Tuesday, in Phoenix. Protests were held against President Trump as he hosted a rally inside the convention center.
#PhoenixRally: U.S. President Donald Trump held a campaign-style rally in Phoenix, Ariz., in which he talked about illegal immigration, lashed out at perceived enemies, including Republican U.S. Senators and the media, as well as defending his remarks made in the wake of a white nationalist protest in Charlottesville, Va., in which a counter-protester was killed. Trump’s rally was protested by thousands of people criticizing the president. READ MORE
On this date
On Aug. 23, 1992: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that Canada’s first ministers were embarking on a “sales blitz” to promote the new agreement on constitutional reform, which would come to be known as the Charlottetown Accord, to constituents. Canadian soldier Cpl. David Somers returned home to Winnipeg after serving in war-torn Croatia. READ MORE
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