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What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Architecture Foundation launches a new book, Henry Kalen: Photographer. by Alison Gillmor, Serena Keshavjee and Susan Algie. McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park, 7 p.m., and livestreamed on McNally Robinson’s YouTube channel.
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Jeremy Skibicki acted out of hatred and a drive to “fulfil his deviant sexual urges” when he killed four Indigenous women and repeatedly defiled their corpses, prosecutor Renee Lagimodiere told court Monday as lawyers for the Crown and defence made their final arguments in the trial of the admitted serial killer.
Skibicki has pleaded not guilty to four counts of first-degree murder in the May 2022 slayings of three Indigenous women — Rebecca Contois, Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran — as well as a fourth unidentified woman, known as Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe or Buffalo Woman, who police believe was slain in March 2022.
Skibicki has admitted to killing the women but argues he should be found not criminally responsible by reason of mental disorder, specifically schizophrenia. Dean Pritchard has the story.
King’s Branch Justice Glenn Joyal oversees accused serial killer Jeremy Skibicki’s trial. (Court sketch by James Culleton)
On the bright side
African elephants call each other and respond to individual names — something that few wild animals do, according to new research published Monday.
The names are one part of elephants’ low rumbles that they can hear over long distances across the savanna. Scientists believe that animals with complex social structures and family groups that separate and then reunite often may be more likely to use individual names.
“If you’re looking after a large family, you’ve got to be able to say, ‘Hey, Virginia, get over here!’” said Duke University ecologist Stuart Pimm, who was not involved in the study. The Associated Press reports.
A new study demonstrates that elephants respond to individual names. (George Wittemyer via The Associated Press files)
On this date
On June 11, 1936: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that through the single men’s relief commission, unemployed men in Manitoba would have the opportunity to obtain railway jobs in conjunction with the federal co-operative employment plan, CPR and CN; around 1,000 people were expected to be hired. In Winnipeg, additional job opportunities were on the horizon as the sanitary board awarded contracts for the construction of a sewage disposal project worth $106,711. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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