Your forecast
Mainly sunn, with increasing cloudiness this afternoon then 30 per cent chance of showers late this afternoon. Fog patches dissipating this morning. High 8 C. UV index 3 or moderate.
What’s happening today
Tonight at 7 p.m., McNally Robinson hosts lauded author and longtime journalist Linden MacIntyre, who launches his latest book of non-fiction An Accidental Villain: A Soldier’s Tale of War, Deceit and Exile, when he’ll be joined in conversation about the book by Reg Sherren.
The book chronicles the life of Sir Hugh Tudor, who after the First World War was appointed by Winston Churchill to lead the British police force in Ireland during the Irish War of Independence, and who eventually absconded to Newfoundland for the latter half of his life. Ben Sigurdson has a preview here.
Linden MacIntyre (Joe Passaretti / Canadian Press files)
Today’s must-read
Provincial officials are denying the government and the Brandon Correctional Centre were negligent in the lead-up to a brutal, fatal beating of an inmate by other prisoners last September.
Collin Kempthorne, 44, was attacked by other inmates in the Brandon Correctional Centre at about 10 p.m. on Sept. 26, 2024. He died of his injuries on Nov. 11, after doctors discovered he had little to no brain activity when he woke from a coma in October.
His family filed a lawsuit in the Court of King’s Bench in July over his death, naming the correctional centre, the provincial government and the attorney general, as well as the three inmates charged in Kempthorne’s death, as defendants. Erik Pindera has the story.
The Brandon Correctional Centre (Tim Smith / The Brandon Sun)
On the bright side
Michael DePeazer turns pain into purpose and death into direction.
In 2021, the Waverley West resident’s brother, Mitch, died of a drug overdose at the age of 39. DePeazer recalls how his brother, a drywall taper and musician, was always willing to help those around him because he cared so deeply about people. “I call him the man with two hearts,” DePeazer says.
DePeazer has cared about the people around him for a long time, but his brother’s death challenged him to consider how he might double down and help even more — how he, himself, might become a man with two hearts. Aaron Epp has more here.
Michael DePeazer wants to give youth the tools they need to succeed with the creation of the G.O.A.T. Mindset program. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On this date
On Oct. 14, 1943: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Allied forces made a major push in Italy towards Rome in the face of fierce German resistance. In Ukraine, the fate of Kyiv was being dcided in titanic battles beyond the city’s northern and southern outskirts. In Manitoba, a relief plane was planned to help the inhabitants of ice-bound Fort Ross. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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