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MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSMayoral candidate Scott Gillingham makes a campaign announcement near the Magnus Eliason Recreation Centre Wednesday.
Help for homeless: Winnipeg mayoral candidate Scott Gillingham said if he’s elected Oct. 26, he would expand Winnipeg’s 24-7 safe space grant, to help people experiencing homelessness. Joyanne Pursaga reports. READ MORE
Calling it quits: A home-care worker nearing his 20th anniversary on the job has quit, saying it’s because of the poor working conditions he and his colleagues were subjected to. Among those, he says, are a lack of scheduled breaks, not getting time off to attend to personal matters, working to exhaustion as a result of staff shortages and no pay increases as inflation rose. Bryce Hunt reports. READ MORE
Losing faith in system: A case in which a police officer was acquitted of assault after a judge acknowledged key prosecutorial decisions were a factor in the ruling has renewed calls for Manitoba Justice to return to using independent special prosecutors in all cases involving police officers. Chris Kitching reports. READ MORE
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Pedal Pub takes customers to breweries, restaurants, and pubs under their own pedal power. The first of its kind in the city, the company has three bikes that seat 15 guests each. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
Pub crawl: Winnipeggers now have the opportunity to join friends for a moving party, as the new Pedal Pub, operating in the Exchange District and Osborne Village, seats up to 15 people on a pedal-powered vehicle that takes them to microbreweries and restaurants. Gabrielle Piché has the story. READ MORE
Trash talk: Residents in Point Douglas are unhappy their neighbourhood is being used for illegal trash dumping. Residents say a local company was caught on video doing so, instead of taking it to the landfill. Joyanne Pursaga reports. READ MORE
On this date
On June 2, 1973: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that Air Canada machinists went on strike for 24 hours in Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton, the beginning of a rotating strike campaign. The Nixon administration formally endorsed an $8-billion, 20-year fertilizer deal between the Soviet Union and Occidental Petroleum Corp., making it the biggest Soviet-U.S. trade pact in history to that point. A weight-reducing fraud case saw three Montreal men fined a total of $1,200 in a Winnipeg court. READ MORE
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