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Paying for non-existent garage: Ward Fisher doesn’t have a garage. He’s never had one, but he and a previous owner of his Ashburn Street property have been paying taxes on a garage for years. When Fisher called 311 and suggested he get a refund on previous taxes paid in error, he was told no. It’s the owner’s responsibility to ensure the information the city has is free of errors. Aldo Santin reports. READ MORE
Your forecast: If every warm day is a gift at this time of year, Winnipeg will gets many gifts in the days ahead. Today will be mainly sunny, with a high of 13 C. Saturday will be sunny with a high of 15 C. Sunday will be a mix of sun and cloud, with a high of 17 C. And the sunny streak is expected to continue through Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
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SUPPLIEDJetlines could bring up to 250 new jobs to Winnipeg.
Low-cost airline coming: A new airline is coming to Winnipeg, after the federal government announced Thursday a plan to relax the foreign-ownership investment limit for airlines. Jetlines Ltd. plans as many as 64 low-cost domestic and international routes within eight years — 12 of them out of Winnipeg. It intends to make Winnipeg a regional hub with a maintenance operation and crew base, meaning an estimated 60 jobs within three years and 250 by the end of eight years. Mia Rabson reports. READ MORE
$8.2 million for CMHR: The federal government has approved $8.2 million in extra funding to help the Canadian Museum for Human Rights out of a tricky situation. The money covers back payments in lieu of taxes owed to the City of Winnipeg, a payment dispute that goes back almost a decade. Dan Lett and Carol Sanders report. READ MORE
Up next
Open wide: More than 100 Manitoba dental professionals will volunteer on Saturday to provide a day of free dental services to refugee residents in need. They’re prepared to treat up to 300 refugees with cleanings, filling, extractions and simple denture repairs.
Sports Hall of Fame: The 37th annual Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame Induction Ceremonies will honour on Saturday five athletes, two builders, and two teams. The 2016 inductees are: Dr. Cal Botterill, sport medicine builder; Jim Heighton, all-round athlete; Alanna (Yakiwchuk) Hinrichsen, athletics; Joey Johnson, wheelchair basketball athlete; Mike Keane, hockey athlete; Rhiannon Leier-Blacher, swimming athlete; John Reilly, rugby builder; the 1971-74 University of Winnipeg Wesmen volleyball team; and the 1985 Bob Ursel curling team.
Around the water cooler
PHIL HOSSACK / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSSarah Ferrari bites into a honey mustard cricket.
Apocalypse tips: The Manitoba Museum’s latest adult-themed evening on Thursday offered unusual hor d’oeuvres — crickets. A taste-test of insects was one of the many unusual aspects of the program Surviving the Apocalypse, which examined how to survive if the Canadian prairie is struck by disaster such as a super-virus or an alien invasion. Kevin Rollason was there. READ MORE
Cardiac kids: You can tell the Winnipeg Jets fans this morning; check to see whose fingernails have been chewed. For the third time this season, the Jets rallied from a third-period deficit to force overtime, this time against the Washington Capitals. Paul Wiecek was in Washington to report on the Jets’ heart-breaking loss. READ MORE
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#5WordSeduction: Brevity may be the soul of wit, but maybe it can woo as well. How about these pithy propositions? “I got you Chicken McNuggets,” “I never text with emoji,” “I have the Wifi password,” or “I put away the laundry.”
On this date
On Nov. 4, 1915: The Manitoba Free Press reported that Britain and France were sending additional troops to assist Serbia. The total number of Canadian men enlisted since the beginning of the war had reached approximately 175,000. The cost of the war for Canada was estimated at about a quarter of a billion dollars. A Quebec MPP and prominent nationalist leader, Col. Armand Lavergne, wrote in Montreal’s Le Devoir newspaper that he opposed Canada’s participation in any wars of the Empire and that he declined to raise a battalion towards the Canadian Expeditionary Force. READ MORE
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