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What’s happening today
Today the world will mark eight decades since the liberation of Auschwitz, the notorious Nazi extermination camps where more than a million people, most of them Jews, were murdered during the Second World War. But as world leaders and Auschwitz survivors prepare to gather at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in southern Poland, a new survey suggests a growing number of Canadians believe the history of the Holocaust has been exaggerated.
Deborah Lyons, Canada’s special envoy on preserving Holocaust remembrance and combating antisemitism (Justin Tang / The Canadian Press files)
As The Canadian Press reports, 89-year-old Auschwitz survivor Miriam Ziegler says “the hatred” in the world makes her fearful history may repeat itself. Read more here.
Today’s must-read
Manitoba’s highest court has granted the province the right to appeal a 2024 decision that ruled the man acquitted of killing Candace Derksen after spending a decade behind bars could continue to sue the provincial government and City of Winnipeg.
Mark Grant’s lawyers first filed the lawsuit in 2019, seeking $8.5 million for wrongful conviction and imprisonment from the province, its attorney general and the City of Winnipeg. The statement of claim has been amended twice.
The province has twice moved to have his claim struck in the Court of King’s Bench, first filing a motion alleging it fails to disclose a reasonable cause of action or is an abuse of process, which was ruled against in 2023, before it again sought to strike the claim under the same grounds in 2024. Erik Pindera has the story.
A police video screen capture shows Mark Grant being interviewed in the 1984 killing of Candace Derksen. (Supplied)
On the bright side
Jim Dao has always wanted to help people, and for 25 years he did that as an RCMP officer. Now that he’s retired, Dao helps people by volunteering.
The 53-year-old Winnipegger is co-chair of the Interlake Sexual Exploitation Educators, a committee based in Selkirk that is dedicated to raising awareness about child and youth sexual exploitation.
“When you retire, you still want to find a sense of purpose in life, and (the committee) has done that for me,” Dao says. Aaron Epp has more here.
Jim Dao, 53, is a retired RCMP officer who volunteers with the Interlake Sexual Exploitation Educators, a committee based in Selkirk that is dedicated to raising awareness about child and youth sexual exploitation. (Mike Deal / Free Press)
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On this date
On Jan. 27, 1939: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that folowing the strangling death of a six-year-old girl, a coroner’s jury was investigating, the child’s father and his housekeeper had been arrested, and the child’s mother sought to regain custody of her five-year-old daughter, who was staying with neighbours. A story published in London newspapers that a bombing at a station in Barcelona had killed members of the International Brigade, which included 70 Canadians, was a complete fabrication according to the international commission tasked with the withdrawal of volunteers from Spain. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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