This morning
WAYNE GLOWACKI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSJordan Belyk, 20, received a suspended sentence after he pleaded guilty to an assault.
Accused killer was on probation: The man charged in the slaying of a 19-year-old woman in Lac du Bonnet on Tuesday was spared jail time when he was given a suspended sentence last week. Jordan Belyk, 20, pleaded guilty to hitting a man on the head with a liquor bottle and was given one year of probation. Katie May reports. READ MORE
Your forecast: Today will be sunny with a high of 18 C and wind from the south at 20 km/h gusting to 40 this morning.
In case you missed it
WAYNE GLOWACKI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSThe Manitoba Fiscal Performance Review volumes.
Suggestions for savings: A massive report released by the provincial government this week urges cutting grants to business by 10 per cent, slashing funding to economic development agencies in cases where services overlap between groups and eliminating some “boutique” tax credits. Larry Kusch reports. READ MORE
Propane problem: Churchill will receive an emergency shipment of 2.2 million litres of propane Sunday, but bureaucrats haven’t figured out where to put it. Talks aimed at transferring control of the community’s shut-down rail line hit major hurdles last week. Dylan Robertson reports. READ MORE
Countryfest can’t ‘get complacent’: Dauphin’s mayor and Countryfest president Eric Irwin says the annual music event is learning from this week’s massacre in Las Vegas. “Awful things can happen. We always have to be very cognizant of our rules and our security performance,” he said Thursday, after this summer’s Countryfest lineup was announced. Carol Sanders reports. READ MORE
Up next
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Aaron LynettHamilton Tiger-Cats running back C.J. Gable collides with Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ Cory Johnson when their teams first met in August. The competition from the Ticats in that matchup is not indicative of the level of play the Bombers expect this time around.
Friday night football: The Blue Bombers will face the Hamilton Tiger-Cats tonight at Investors Group Field. Jeff Hamilton has five storylines on the game, which kicks off at 7:30 p.m. The Bombers have won three consecutive games and eight of their last nine. READ MORE
New Pornographers concert preview: Erin Lebar has an interview with New Pornographers frontman Carl Newman. The indie-rockers are performing Saturday at the Burton Cummings Theatre and released their seventh full-length album, Whiteout Conditions, earlier this year. READ MORE
Around the water cooler
WAYNE GLOWACKI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSWab Kinew, leader of the Manitoba NDP and the official opposition.
Leader’s troubles linger: Wab Kinew was calm, confident and effective in his first question period as leader of the Manitoba NDP, Dan Lett writes in his latest column. But while he is a major upgrade for the party, Kinew will remain hampered by allegations he committed a domestic assault 14 years ago, Lett says. READ MORE
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Jim Carr, Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, delivers a statement on TransCanada Pipelines’’ decision to cancel the Energy East Pipeline project on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Energy East: Manitoba environmentalists celebrated as TransCanada announced on Thursday that it was cancelling its Energy East pipeline, while business groups mourned local construction contracts. The move left Winnipeg South Centre MP and Energy Minister Jim Carr insisting the federal government can balance Indigenous rights, environmental concerns and the economy. Dylan Robertson reports. READ MORE
On this date
On Oct. 6, 1942: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that Dr. Ella Cora Hand, dean of Canadian newspaperwomen and a recognized world authority on grain and livestock, died at the age of 81, ending a 41-year career in journalism spent entirely at the Winnipeg Free Press. German forces occupying Norway were on high alert along the entire coast for a possible invasion by Allied forces. British prime minister Winston Churchill refused to discuss Britain’s war relations with Russia. READ MORE
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