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Free Press Head Start for Jan. 11
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City councillor Sherri Rollins, who has represented Fort Rouge-East Fort Garry since 2018, has decided to seek the Liberal nomination for Winnipeg South Centre, the seat held by the late MP Jim Carr. Carol Sanders reports.
And it has now been one month since the Millennium Library closed following the slaying of Tyree Cayer inside the building. Some services have been restored, but the main area remains blocked off and security is on site to redirect people seeking entry. Mayor Scott Gillingham has said some security changes will be made before the library fully reopens, as patrons wait for a restoration of services. Malak Abas has the story.
— David Fuller
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Light snow ending near noon, with a high of -6 C and a low of -10.
What’s happening today
Yukon singer-songwriter Gordie Tentrees takes the stage at the West End Cultural Centre at 8 p.m.
Gordie Tentrees
Today’s must-read
A Winnipeg woman suffering from a debilitating disease says the province has reneged on its promise to provide her health coverage, draining her savings and compromising her quality of life. Tyler Searle has the full story.
Emma Cloney, 38, suffers from lipedema, a debilitating condition which causes excess fat growth, and must wrap herself with bandages every day to manage symptoms. (Jessica Lee / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
The hole in the ozone layer is slowly but steadliy healing, according to a new United Nations report. The scientific assessment, conducted every four years, shows the hole should be repaired by 2066. Thirty-five years ago, every nation in the world agreed to stop producing chemicals that damage the layer of ozone in Earth’s atmosphere that shields the planet from harmful radiation linked to skin cancer, cataracts and crop damage. The Associated Press reports.
In this NASA false-colour image, the blue and purple shows the hole in Earth’s protective ozone layer over Antarctica on Oct. 5, 2022. (NASA / The Associated Press files)
On this date
On Jan. 11, 1951: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Britain and India proposed a high-level conference between the United States and Communist China to discuss a Korean peace. The Manitoba milk board refused a request from the Canadian Consumers association for a reduction in price for delivered milk from 18 to 17 cents per quart in the Greater Winnipeg area. The Manitoba branch of the Canadian Manufacturers association said the Manitoba Labour Board should be empowered to declare a strike or lockout unlawful. Search our archives for more here.
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Dean Pritchard:
Son who murdered mother to serve youth sentence
A Winnipeg man who bludgeoned his mother to death in her bed when he was 16 will not serve a life sentence in prison, a judge has ruled.
“There is no doubt the offence was extremely violent and brutal,” King’s Bench Justice Anne Turner said Tuesday, but prosecutors did not satisfy her that the circumstances of the case demanded the now-20-year-old be sentenced as an adult for the crime.
The man stood trial for first-degree murder in the March 2019 slaying, but was convicted by a jury in June 2022 of the lesser offence of second-degree murder.
Turner sentenced him to the maximum youth sentence of seven years custody, three years of which are to be served under conditional supervision in the community.
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Where do you look when somebody says, “In the age of Apaches and laptops, everything I did in the course of two combat tours was recorded, time-stamped. I could always say precisely how many enemy combatants I’d killed. And I felt it vital never to shy away from that number.
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