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Mainly sunny, with wind becoming southeast at 20 km/h early this afternoon. High 19 C, UV index 3 or moderate.
What’s happening today
A strike by health-care support staff that was to potentially start at 6 a.m. has been postponed after a tentative deal was reached early this morning.
Today’s must-read
Kelsey McKay wielded his powerful influence to manipulate and sexually groom vulnerable teens under his wing, a judge said Monday before sentencing the disgraced high school football coach to 20 years in prison.
“Mr. McKay abused children for his own gratification and there is no cure for the havoc he wreaked,” provincial court Judge Ray Wyant said at the end of a nearly three hour-long sentencing hearing, during which his voice frequently cracked with emotion.
“Mr. McKay, if our justice system was based on vengeance, you would be sentenced to life, as you have sentenced your victims to life,” Wyant said. Dean Pritchard has the story.
Kelsey McKay pleaded guilty to nine counts of sexual assault and two counts of luring in July 2023. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
On the bright side
Another First Nation has joined the ranks of Manitoba’s Indigenous-run school board as the education hub in charge of it marks 25 years of operations.
The Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre celebrated its anniversary and ongoing efforts to revitalize Indigenous languages and cultures at a conference in Winnipeg last week.
Members of Kinonjeoshtegon First Nation — the 12th First Nation to enter into a partnership with the centre to deliver education — were among the hundreds in attendance. Maggie Macintosh has the story.
Charles Cochrane is the executive director of the Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre. (John Woods / Free Press files)
On this date
On Oct. 8, 1932: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Brandon, a coroner’s jury found a Nesbitt farmer, Arthur Dunk, had died as a result of being strangled by a person or persons unknown, not as a result of drowning, as had originally been thought based on how his body had been found. Farmers striking near Minneapolis, Minn, and Sioux Falls, S.D., decided to change tactics in their ongoing campaign against the marketing of grain and livestock, and ceased picketing highways in the area. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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