Disturbing crimes
Boy’s throat cut: Police are searching for a suspect after a three-year-old boy was seriously injured in a horrific attack in his Pritchard Avenue home early Wednesday. Sources identified the suspect as Dan Jensen, who is out on bail after allegedly assaulting the boy’s mother with a weapon in July. READ MORE
More on murder: Two teenage girls charged in the fatal stabbing of 14-year-old Jakira Eastman-Moore at a party Saturday allegedly boasted and joked about it on social media. In one post published hours after the attack, the older teen allegedly wrote, “They always said we gon (sic) be dead or end up in prison.” Ryan Thorpe reports. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Mainly cloudy with wind from the south at 20 km/h gusting to 40 early today and wind chill as low as -13 this morning, with periods of light snow beginning this afternoon. The snow will continue when trick-or-treaters hit the streets seeking candy, with the temperature at about 0 C and wind from the southwest at 10 km/h in the late afternoon.
What’s happening today
Dozens killed in fire: The death toll from a fire that erupted after a gas stove exploded on a train in Pakistan has increased to at least 71. Survivors said it took the train nearly 20 minutes to stop and some injured passengers died after jumping off to escape the blaze. READ MORE
Passing procedures: The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives is expected to pass the procedures lawmakers will use when they consider impeaching U.S. President Donald Trump. It will likely take weeks or months before the House votes on whether to impeach Trump, The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
In case you missed it
Washington Nationals’ Howie Kendrick celebrates after hitting a two-run home run during the seventh inning of Game 7 of the baseball World Series against the Houston Astros Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Franchise’s first win: The Washington Nationals beat the Houston Astros in Game 7 to win the World Series Wednesday night. It’s the first time the road team won all seven games of the series and the first championship for the former Montreal Expos franchise, which moved to Washington in 2004. It’s also the first World Series win for a Washington team since 1924. READ MORE
Surgery for Jets star: Defenceman Dustin Byfuglien, who has been suspended without pay since training camp for not reporting to the team, had ankle surgery in Minnesota last week is expected to take at least two months to recover. Mike McIntyre reports. READ MORE
On this date
On Oct. 31, 1990: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that auditor general Kenneth Dye said that inefficiency in the way the federal government carried out environmental, defence, tax and immigration programs cost taxpayers billions of dollars every year; people who cheated on their taxes also cost the government more than $1 billion per year. Iraq’s president Saddam Hussein was making final preparations for war and expected an attack within days from the United States and its allies, in response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. Great Britain and France were connected with the completion of an underground tunnel for motorists that went under the English Channel. READ MORE
Today’s front page
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