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Today’s must-read
Tania Cayer had no faith the justice system would do right by her son Tyree, killed during an unprovoked attack at Winnipeg’s flagship library last December. In a crowded courtroom Tuesday, the grieving mother instead looked to her son’s now 15-year-old killer for the only measure of solace to which she could cling.
“I have no confidence in the youth justice system,” Cayer said in a tear-filled victim impact statement. “I read the paper daily and the system is failing our citizens. The only justice I will ever have is that you change your life. You owe it to Tyree. You owe it to your mother. You owe it to my son to live proper, to be better.” Dean Pritchard reports.
Tyree Cayer and his mom Tania. (Supplied)
On the bright side
Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries that enabled the creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 that were critical in slowing the pandemic — technology that’s also being studied to fight cancer and other diseases.
Hungarian-American Katalin Karikó and American Drew Weissman were cited for contributing “to the unprecedented rate of vaccine development during one of the greatest threats to human health,” according to the panel that awarded the prize in Stockholm. The Associated Press reports.
Katalin Karikó (right) and Drew Weissman won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday. (Peggy Peterson Photography / Penn Medicine via The Associated Press)
On this date
On Oct. 4, 1945: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Paris, the first session of the trial of Vichy collaborationist Pierre Laval ended in tumultuous confusion, with Laval ordered out of the coutroom as he shrieked for the judge to convict him right away. In San Francisco, Maj. Geoge Trist declared, “Manitoba will have nothing but pride in the Winnipeg Grenadiers when the full story is told,” concerning Winnipeg’s famous Hong Kong battalion, members of which were on a special troop train to Seattle as they made their journey home. U.S. president Harry Truman told Congress he would initiate discussions with Canada and Great Britain on international cooperation in controlling atomic power, and called on the world to outlaw the atomic bomb. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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