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JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSA Health Sciences Centre (HSC) health care worker’s car has been broken into twice at the HSC Tecumseh Parkade.
Parkade break-ins: Staff at Health Sciences Centre say they feel unsafe after a string of vehicle break-ins at the hospital parkade. Malak Abas reports. READ MORE
Intoxication a factor in killing: A judge has ruled a Pukatawagan man charged with second-degree murder in the 2020 killing of a woman the man admitted beating to death is guilty of the lesser offence of manslaughter, citing the accused’s intoxication at the time of the attack. Dean Pritchard reports. READ MORE
Committee targets extremists: The U.S. House committee probing the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol said it is looking closely at ties between far-right armed groups such as the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers and people in former president Donald Trump’s orbit, and their role in the insurrection. The committee is scheduled to hold its next public hearing today. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
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MIKAELA MACKENZIE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILESPremier Heather Stefanson had an eight-hour travel delay Sunday on her way to the premiers summit in Victoria, B.C.
Travel issues plague Stefanson: Manitoba’s premier was late to a summit of the country’s first ministers in British Columbia after an eight-hour delay because of airline staffing shortages. Dylan Robertson reports. READ MORE
Union, chief at odds: The Winnipeg Police Association has taken issue with police Chief Danny Smyth’s description of the current state of crime in the city as normal. “It continues to spiral out of control,” says union president Moe Sabourin. Maggie Macintosh reports. READ MORE
Faith group highlights hydro: The Interchurch Council on Hydropower is reminding Winnipeggers where their electricity comes from, and its effects on ecosystems and people in northern Manitoba, through images of sturgeon stencilled on hydro poles. John Longhurst has the story. READ MORE
On this date
On July 12, 1938: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that aviator Howard Hughes completed the second hop of his round-the-world speed flight in Moscow, after a 1,541-mile flight from Paris that took seven hours and 49 minutes. He planned to take off within an hour, as soon as his aricraft was refuelled, for a 2,287-mile flight to Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. Veteran Manitoba government surveyor W.T. Thompson, 83, had been missing near Sherridan for three days and was feared dead. READ MORE
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