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MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSThe Enviro Team with the Downtown Winnipeg BIZ cleans the bus shelter on Portage Avenue outside of the Portage Place Shopping Centre Tuesday afternoon. They were washing away blood on the benches where a 19-year-old male and a 50-year-old female were seriously assaulted Monday evening.
A history of violence: Police are searching for suspects after two people were seriously assaulted in a bus shelter outside Portage Place Shopping Centre on Monday night. A woman died in hospital after she was found in “medical distress” in the same freestanding shelter, which replaced one attached to the mall, on Saturday. The attached shelter — the scene of drug deals and violence, including an unprovoked attack on a young international student — was destroyed in 2019. Dean Pritchard reports. READ MORE
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The woman at the centre of a probe into racism in the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service said she has been taken to hospital in ambulances before and always felt she received compassionate, timely care. But this time things were different. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press files)
‘I don’t want this to happen again’: The Free Press spoke with the woman at the centre of a controversy regarding the treatment she received from first responders last fall. It’s the first time she has spoken publicly about what happened that night. The consultant hired by the City of Winnipeg to investigate the incident found “implicit racial bias” against the woman and “racial animus” against a paramedic who is a person of colour were likely factors in the actions of firefighters. Ryan Thorpe reports. READ MORE
Body cameras for cops: Altona police officers are now wearing cellphones that act as body cameras. The chairman of the Winnipeg Police Board said cost is the biggest barrier to equipping this city’s police officers with cameras. Joyanne Pursaga reports. READ MORE
Uneasy with added role: The owner of two Fionn MacCool’s locations says having to seat a mother and son at different tables is an example of challenges restaurateurs face because of pandemic restrictions. Malak Abas reports. READ MORE
Closing arguments in case: A judge heard closing arguments Tuesday in the trial of Jerry Kipling, who is charged with a random attack on a teenager in which the claw end of a hammer broke off in the boy’s skull. Dean Pritchard reports. READ MORE
Still on standby: The provincial government has yet to announce the sites for COVID-19 vaccination clinics set to open in the Selkirk and Winkler-Morden areas in only 10 days. Meanwhile, health officials will hold a news conference on the latest virus numbers this afternoon. Danielle Da Silva reports. READ MORE
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On Feb. 24, 1962: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that Canada’s defence minister said the country would use nuclear weapons in the event of a major war. Meanwhile, U.S. president John F. Kennedy and British prime minister Maurice Harold Macmillan reportedly discussed by telephone what their replies should be to the Soviet Union’s push for disarmament talks in March. The Manitoba Medical Association pledged its support to Saskatchewan doctors who opposed the Saskatchewan Medical Insurance Act and was considering ways and means to assist them.
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