What you need to know
Liquor Marts may sell Pot…..See Bart Kives story….. November 18, 2015 – (Phil Hossack / Winnipeg Free Press)
Liquor losses: City police implied Tuesday it’s time for Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries to do a better job at loss prevention. Police confirmed Liquor Mart guards have been told not to intervene when people are stealing products. Ryan Thorpe reports. READ MORE
Cops on Kirby: A police spokesman says she drafted a media release about ex-University of Manitoba professor Steve Kirby’s arrest for sexual assault in May but decided against sending it. She says the police service wasn’t trying to withhold pertinent information from the public. Jessica Botelho-Urbanski reports. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: It will be increasingly cloudy today with a high of 17 C, wind from the northwest at 10 km/h this morning and from the east at 15 km/h in the afternoon.
What’s happening today
The Broncos will host the Nipawin Hawks during the season home opener.
Emotional evening: The Humboldt Broncos host the Nipawin Hawks to open the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League season tonight. It will be the regular season home game for the Broncos since 16 people, including 10 players, were killed in a bus crash in April during a playoff series against the Hawks. READ MORE
Death toll: Sixty-eight people were killed and 165 were wounded in a suicide bombing in eastern Afghanistan, officials there said today. The Taliban has denied involvement in Tuesday’s attack among a group of people protesting a police commander. READ MORE
In case you missed it
Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister listens as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a press conference at a new 700-employee Canada Goose manufacturing facility in Winnipeg. (John Woods / The Canadian Press)
Sticking to stances: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier Brian Pallister met at the legislature Tuesday. The two leaders won’t budge on their respective climate change plans, Larry Kusch reports. READ MORE
Farewell to first captain: About 1,200 people, including past and present members of the Winnipeg Jets organizations, gathered Tuesday to remember the team’s first captain, Ab McDonald. Longtime friend and former NHL player Jim Benzelock led the crowd in an a capella version of Stompin’ Tom Connors’ The Hockey Song to close the celebration of life. Ashley Prest reports. READ MORE
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Brian Mulroney
Mulroney: Brian Mulroney, the former prime minister widely considered the father of the modern era of North American free trade, held court Tuesday in Ottawa on the fate of the intercontinental trade pact as talks to modernize NAFTA resumed on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
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On this date
On Sept. 12, 1941: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt had given the U.S. Navy orders to shoot first at Axis submarines, surface raiders or aircraft when encountering them in areas of the Atlantic Ocean the U.S. deemed necessary to its defence. Acting under war regulations, a Manitoba board refused authority for passports for six Manitoba hockey players that would have allowed them entry to the United States to play hockey there in the upcoming season; the board contended that the young athletes “should be soldiering instead of playing hockey.” READ MORE
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