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Sunny, with wind becoming south at 20 km/h gusting to 40 this afternoon. High 9 C, wind chill -7 this morning. UV index 2 or low.
What’s happening today
Nickybaby, Jamboree and Meanspath perform at The Handsome Daughter, 161 Sherbrook St., 8 p.m.
Today’s must-read
Two senior police officers and a recent recruit are accused of abusing their positions of power while patrolling the streets of Winnipeg, and face charges that range from theft to interfering with a crime scene.
The Winnipeg Police Service announced details Thursday about an internal investigation into breaches of trust and related allegations involving three members.
Const. Elston Bostock, Const. Matthew Kadyniuk and Const. Jonathan Kiazyk have been put on paid leave. The men are all general patrol officers. Maggie Macintosh has the story.
Deputy chief Gene Bowers (front) and Supt. Cam Mackid announced details Thursday about an internal investigation into breaches of trust and related allegations involving three members. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
Lest we forget
An ocean away from home, in a military cemetery in northern France, Randall McKenzie surveys the rows of stone grave markers cutting lines into the green expanse of Étaples-sur-Mer, a commune off the coast of the English Channel.
Among the more than 11,000 war dead at the Étaples Military Cemetery, McKenzie expects to find his great-uncle, Pte. Oswald McCorrister, who was killed over a century ago fighting in the Great War with the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Forces and interred in the French countryside.
“It’s hard to know what to say about a person that you’ve never really met,” says McKenzie, a Peguis First Nation band member and former naval radio operator for the Canadian Armed Forces. Danielle Da Silva has the story.
Randall McKenzie places a penny on Pte. Oswald McCorrister’s grave in France as a token of his respect. (Supplied)
On the bright side
The Fonz has given a big thumbs up to an Exchange District restaurant — and he’s expressing his love publicly.
Henry Winkler, in Winnipeg shooting the action film Normal, visited Deer + Almond for his second time Wednesday evening. The veteran American actor (Happy Days) later took to social media platform X (formerly Twitter) to profess Deer + Almond is “out of this world Delish.”
The post has since garnered more than 120,000 views. Gabrielle Piché has more here.
Henry Winkler ordered a lobster dish, scallops and schnitzel, according to Deer + Almond’s head chef Mandel Hitzer. (Jessica Lee / Free Press files)
On this date
On Nov. 8, 1966: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Peter Sawatzky of Winkler was convicted of illegally transporting Mennonite immigrants from Mexico; he had driven them from that country in his half-ton truck. In Brandon, premier Duff Roblin said the labour shortage was so serious the provincial industry minister planned to visit Britain and the continent to recruit workers. Winnipeg’s Joanne Holm, 20, was second runner-up in the Miss Canada contest. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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