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TREVOR HAGAN / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSEleven candles were lit during a vigil at the Shaarey Zedek Synagogue in Winnipeg Tuesday night. The candles were in memory of the 11 people gunned down at a Pittsburgh synagogue.
Vigil for victims: People packed the Shaarey Zedek synagogue Tuesday night for a vigil to remember 11 people slain at a Jewish synagogue in Pittsburgh on Saturday. “Jews are not unfamiliar with tragedy,” Matthew Leibl, one of the Winnipeg synagogue’s rabbis, told the crowd. “Yet this is something new to us.” Kevin Rollason reports. READ MORE
New name for stadium: Investors Group Field will soon have a new name. The facility and the Investors Group Athletic Centre, both located at the University of Manitoba, will be rebranded after Investors Group changed its name to IG Wealth Management. Ashley Prest reports. READ MORE
Weed work: The newly created cannabis industry directly employs more than 500 people in Manitoba, Solomon Israel reports. Delta 9 Cannabis employs 153 people, while Bonify employs 40 at its North End facility. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Halloween will be mainly cloudy with a high of 3 C, a 30 per cent chance of flurries this morning and wind from the northwest at 20 km/h gusting to 40.
What’s happening today
COLE BURSTON / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILESGreyhound bus pulls out a bus terminal in Toronto, Ontario.
End of the line: The last Greyhound bus run servicing Winnipeg will arrive later this morning. Greyhound announced this summer it was closing operations between British Columbia and northern Ontario today. Meanwhile, Thompson will be without city bus service for at least two weeks because Greyhound runs its fleet and a replacement contractor has yet to be hired. Dylan Robertson reports. READ MORE
Stepping up security: Health Sciences Centre will start locking the doors of some units tonight as a security measure because of an increase in violent incidents. The change, which will reduce after-hours visits, is being done on a month-long trial basis. Jessica Botelho-Urbanski reports. READ MORE
Closing the book: The Tory government plans to withdraw from the Turning the Page Agreement signed with Manitoba Hydro and the Manitoba Metis Federation in 2014. The province said it will explain the decision today. Earlier this year, the MMF filed a lawsuit against the province for spiking a deal where the Métis people would be compensated for past and future Hydro projects. Jessica Botelho-Urbanski reports. READ MORE
On this date
On Oct. 31, 1984: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that a Dauphin farmer who had hoped to move into his house, which was under construction, before Christmas, was hit with a stop-work order and told the house must be moved because it was 4.12 m closer to the property line than the town’s building bylaw allowed. In India, prime minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated, reportedly killed by her own bodyguards; her son Rajiv succeeded her as prime minister. READ MORE
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