This morning
Cancer cuts: CancerCare Manitoba must find $2.5 million in annual savings because of the “significant financial pressures” the health-care system is facing. This winter, the Tory government scrapped plans for a $300-million CancerCare building project. Jane Gerter reports. READ MORE
Your forecast: Today will be sunny with a high of 17 C and wind from the south at 20 km/h.
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Most orders denied, dropped: Manitoba courts approved 44 per cent of protection-order applications this fiscal year, in keeping with a trend in which the majority of applications are dismissed or withdrawn. The executive director of Nova House women’s shelter in Selkirk says updating the Domestic Violence and Stalking Act hasn’t curbed a systemic problem. Katie May reports. READ MORE
Filipino fare: Manitoba’s first Max’s Restaurant will be part of a strip mall to be built on St. James Street. Max’s is one of the oldest and most popular restaurant chains in the Philippines, and a spokesman for the family-owned company that bought the franchise rights for Manitoba says it hopes to open up to two more Max’s in the next five years. Murray McNeill reports. READ MORE
Thrill of the throw: In the latest instalment of a semi-regular feature, columnist Jen Zoratti tries axe throwing, which has grown in popularity. “You get to do what you were always told not to do, which is throw sharp objects,” says Dan Blair of Bad Axe Throwing. READ MORE
Around the water cooler
Jason Franson / THE CANADIAN PRESSWinnipeg Jets’ Nikolaj Ehlers (27) is checked by Edmonton Oilers’ Adam Larsson (6)
Quite a trick: Left-winger Nikolaj Ehlers completed a natural hat trick in the third period to give the Jets a win over the Oilers in Edmonton on Sunday night. It was the team’s first win of the season after two ugly losses. Jason Bell reports. READ MORE
Passing the buck: The federal government isn’t holding up its end of the bargain when it comes to cost-sharing services, Dan Lett writes in his latest column. The shovelling of fiscal problems by various governments — including Manitoba’s — onto other levels of government is “crap,” he says. READ MORE
Up next
Sentencing for store plot: Former convenience store owner Amare Gebru is scheduled to be sentenced today. Gebru, 42, was convicted earlier this year of conspiring to murder his business partner.
Trending now
Jordan Strauss / Invision / The Associated Press FilesMark Hamill plays Luke Skywalker in The Last Jedi.
#TheLastJedi: The eighth instalment in the Star Wars saga featuring the Skywalker family won’t be out until December, but the second trailer for the highly anticipated sci-fi film, the second in a new trilogy that kicked off to widespread acclaim in 2015, made waves when it released on Monday, and is still trending on Twitter.
On this date
On Oct. 10, 1923: The Manitoba Free Press reported that the president of the Manitoba Moderation League assailed the provincial government over not involving the league in administering the Liquor Control Act. Germany wanted a response from France and Belgium regarding negotiations for work to resume in the occupied territories. New excavations in France turned up skeletons of Cro-Magnon people. The government of Romania announced it had foiled a fascist plot to assassinate the country’s premier and five of his ministers. READ MORE
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