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JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSCommunity member, Sabrina, speaks at a community gathering organized to talk about community issues at William Whyte School in Winnipeg’s North End Wednesday.
Conversation about crime: People packed a school in the North End Wednesday night for a community meeting about the recent surge in killings around the city. Ryan Thorpe reports. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Mainly sunny with a high of -6 C, wind from the west at 10 km/h and wind chill as low as -22 this morning.
What’s happening today
Austin Cloes points to a photo of relatives Rhonita Miller and her family, who were killed in Mexico, on a computer screen Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, in Herriman, Utah. Drug cartel gunmen ambushed three SUVs along a dirt road, slaughtering at least six children and three women all of them U.S. citizens living in northern Mexico in a grisly attack that left one vehicle a burned-out, bullet-riddled hulk, authorities said Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
First funerals: More than 1,000 people will attend funerals for some of the nine Americans shot and killed Monday by drug cartel gunmen in Mexico. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
Food for thought: Winnipeg police Chief Danny Smyth and James Favel of the Bear Clan patrol group will be among the participants at an annual Crime Prevention Breakfast this morning. The Free Press will be there. READ MORE
Sessions set to run: Former U.S. attorney general Jeff Sessions is expected to announce he is entering the race for his former U.S. Senate seat in Alabama. Democratic Sen. Doug Jones won Sessions’ seat in the deeply Republican state in a special election in 2017. READ MORE
In case you missed it
MIKAELA MACKENZIE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILESBlue Bombers quarterback Zach Collaros.
Collaros getting comfortable: All signs point to Zach Collaros getting the start at quarterback for the Blue Bombers against the Stampeders in a playoff game in Calgary on Sunday. Jeff Hamilton reports. READ MORE
Accused killer found in closet: One of four men accused of murder was found hiding in a closet at the crime scene hours after police arrived, court heard Wednesday. Dean Pritchard reports. READ MORE
Not much to cheer: In a recent poll, NHL players said Winnipeg was the city they least enjoy visiting. In his latest column, Mike McIntyre says Jets fans should be more worried about the team’s play on home ice. READ MORE
On this date
On Nov. 7, 1951: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that portable classrooms would be in use in Winnipeg for the first time in the coming year, to alleviate overcrowding in the city’s schools. The keeper of one of Winnipeg’s most notorious betting houses, Irving “Fats” Wiener, was fined $200 and costs in a city police court. A city engineer warned that Winnipeg’s 65-year-old City Hall was not safe and that city councillors continuing to use the building did so at their own risk. Great Britain announced it would cut its spending abroad by $980,000,000 a year to halt a startling drain on it’s gold-dollar reserves. READ MORE
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