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What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Jets host the New Jersey Devils in a non-conference matchup at the Canada Life Centre, beginning at 7 p.m.
Today’s must-read
Two women who accused Peter Nygard of rape are renewing calls for a public inquiry into how Manitoba Justice and Winnipeg police handled past complaints of sex crimes against him.
KC Allan and Serena Hickes want an inquiry to further explore, among other things, why charges were not laid in almost all cases reported in Manitoba and whether any systemic changes are necessary.
“Winnipeg was his training ground,” Allan said of Nygard, who is a convicted sex offender after a Toronto jury’s verdict Sunday. Chris Kitching has the story.
The Nygard headquarters in Winnipeg in 2020. (John Woods / The Canadian Press files)
On the bright side
The tiny Caribbean island of Dominica is creating the world’s first marine protected area for one of earth’s largest animals: the endangered sperm whale.
Nearly 300 square miles (800 square kilometers) of royal blue waters on the western side of the island nation that serve as key nursing and feeding grounds will be designated as a reserve, the government announced Monday. The Associated Press reports.
A female sperm whale is seen breaching the water off the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, in 2014. (Handout / Mauricio Cantor / The Canadian Press files)
On this date
On Nov. 14, 1936: The Winnipeg Free Press reported George C. MacLean was swept to victory as mayor of St. Boniface by 492 votes over his nearest opponent, Ald. C.A.L. Murchison. In Madrid, government forces repulsed insurgent attacks in the ongoing Spanish cival war, shooting down multiple rebel aircraft before launching an infantry counteroffensive. The British government was building up its naval forces, it said, to help ensure world peace. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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