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What’s happening today
🏒 The Winnipeg Jets host the Vegas Golden Knights at Canada Life Centre, starting at 7 p.m.
Today’s must-read
A disgraced former city police constable still awaiting sentencing for a string of corruption offences has now pleaded guilty to selling drugs to friends and other officers, often while on duty.
Elston Bostock pleaded guilty Monday to one count of trafficking drugs — including cocaine, MDMA (ecstasy), psilocybin (magic mushrooms) and illicit marijuana — between January 2016 and November 2024.
“There is no evidence of a profit motive for the drug trafficking; it is akin to social trafficking to friends and colleagues,” Crown attorney Janna Hyman told court, reading from an agreed statement of facts. “The amounts trafficked are personal use amounts for the buyers.” Dean Pritchard has the story.
A former city police constable has pleaded guilty to selling drugs to friends and other officers, often while on duty. (David Lipnowski / The Canadian Press files)
On the bright side
If a cow moos in a barn and no one is around to hear it, could you still understand what it’s trying to say? Researchers at Dalhousie University are hoping to answer that question.
Led by Dr. Ghader Manafiazar, the team at Dalhousie’s agricultural campus in Truro, N.S., has been recording and analyzing cow noises to see whether the animals have different vocal patterns.
Humans can utter words using various inflections and meanings, said Manafiazar, a professor in the faculty of agriculture. His research is trying to determine whether the same holds true for animals. “When they say ‘moo,’ is it different from saying ‘moooooo’?” The Canadian Press has more here.
A cow wearing a recorder and monitor to analyze its vocal patterns. (Dalhousie University / The Canadian Press)
On this date
On Jan. 6, 1944: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the Red Army drove southwestward through Ukraine to within 65 miles of Bessarabia, and Rumanian government, reportedly panicked by the Soviet surge, ordered the civilian evacuation of that disputed border province. Hundreds of British and dominion bombers struck Stettin, Germany’s main Baltic supply port for the northern Russian front. In Italy, Pte. Bob Hawkins of Winnipeg was driving an armoured car on reconnaissance when he was ambushed by a camouflaged German tank; they opened fire on the tank, which fired back, destroying the car. Hawkins and crew were captured by Italian soldiers, one carrying him five miles on his back to base. When Italy surrendered the next day Hawkins was returned to the Canadians. Search our archives for more here.
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