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IS sympathizer dead: A former Winnipeg man who was a known Islamic State sympathizer is dead following a police operation last night in the southern Ontario community of Strathroy. Aaron Daniel Driver, 24, formerly of Charleswood, was living in Strathroy, 225 kilometres west of Toronto, after agreeing to a peace bond earlier this year that stopped him from communicating with Islamic State and other terrorist groups. Driver was killed inside a Strathroy home and was suspected of plotting a suicide bomb attack in an unnamed major Canadian city. He was apparently acting alone. READ MORE
Your forecast: Expect a mix of sun and clouds this morning and a 60 per cent chance of showers this afternoon. The high will be 25 C. There’s a risk of a thunderstorm late in the afternoon and early this evening. On Friday, there will again be a mix of sun and cloud, with a 30 per cent chance of showers in the afternoon. The high will be 22. The weekend is still shaping up to be sunny, as are the first several days of next week. On Saturday the high is expected to be 22, on Sunday 27.
In case you missed it
Wayne Glowacki/Winnipeg Free PressPremier Brian Pallister is interviewed in his office on Aug 9.
Pallister hedges bets: Premier Brian Pallister is sounding less sure about whether he will keep an election campaign promise to protect front-line government workers. In an interview this week to mark his 100th day in office Thursday, Pallister said a fiscal mess left by the previous NDP government and potential federal transfer payment reductions will make the job difficult. READ MORE
Swimmers awesome: Wednesday was shaping up to be medal-free for Canada until the women’s swim team rode to the rescue in Rio. Late in the evening, Katerine Savard of Quebec City, Taylor Ruck of Kelowna, B.C. and Toronto’s Brittany MacLean and Penny Oleksiak claimed bronze in the 4 x 200 freestyle relay. With six medals — five bronze and a silver — Canada was tied with France for 11th in total medals won. READ MORE
Bail denied: Sandra Giesbrecht, a Winnipeg mother accused of kidnapping her two children, will remain behind bars for now. Giesbrecht, 44, has been in custody since her June 22 arrest on two counts of abduction and one count of fleeing from police. Provincial court Chief Judge Margaret Wiebe denied bail to Giesbrecht, who appeared in court via closed-circuit video Wednesday. The judge also reinforced a no-contact order that prevents Giesbrecht from communicating with her children or their father. READ MORE
Up next
FRANK GUNN / CANADIAN PRESS FILESCanada’s Penny Oleksiak shows off her silver medal from women’s 100-metre butterfly at the 2016 Summer Olympics on Sunday.
Rising star: Penny Oleksiak, 16, of Toronto will try to capture her fourth swimming medal of the Olympic Games in Rio tonight in the women’s 100-metre freestyle final. READ MORE
First 100 days: Premier Brian Pallister holds a news conference this morning to discuss his first 100 days in office.
Around the water cooler
Shizuo Kambayashi / The Associated Press FilesA girl on a baby stroller plays with Pokemon character Pikachu during a special gathering event of Pikachu at Minatomirai shopping district in Yokohama, near Tokyo, Wednesday.
Pokemon stop: It finally happened: the first reported traffic incident involving Pokemon Go in Manitoba took place near Brandon on Wednesday. A 21-year-old Carberry woman was handed a hefty fine for playing Pokemon Go behind the wheel. RCMP near Brandon observed a vehicle “nearly causing a head-on collision in a gas station parking lot” at around 2 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, said Sgt. Robert Cyrenne of the RCMP. READ MORE
Legal setback: A controversial garden-supply company is refusing to throw in its shovel after another legal setback in its bid to open a new composting facility. A Queen’s Bench judge recently ruled the injunction she ordered against Samborski Garden Supply from depositing any additional compost material to a property on Brady Road will remain in place pending the outcome of a trial. Lenn Samborski, president and co-owner of the firm, said he faces an eventual shutdown of his garden-supply company if he doesn’t get a favourable ruling from the courts to allow him to resume composting READ MORE
Helicopter costly: A new report on the Winnipeg Police Air1 program shows while the city’s police helicopter is spending more time in the air, it’s also costing Manitobans more money. The Air1 helicopter spent just over 1,000 hours in the air in 2015, attended 2,161 incidents, and was instrumental in the apprehension or identification of 347 people, 112 of whom were taken into police custody. It also cost the province $1.8 million, an increase of around $600,000 since 2011. READ MORE
Trending now
Associated PressA New York Police officer watches as a man attempts to scale Trump Tower.
#trumptower: A man who wanted an ‘audience’ with Donald Trump spent three hours scaling the glass facade of Trump Tower on Wednesday using large suction cups, climbing as high as the 21st floor before police officers grabbed him and hauled him to safety through an open window. READ MORE
#SaveTwitter: Twitter is not shutting down in early 2017 because of cyber bullying, even though thousands of people seem to think it is. READ MORE
On this date
On Aug. 11, 1948: In local news, a philanthropic widow lends a family $100 for a down payment on a house on Dawson Road so they can move out of a tent. Prices are on the rise – bread men raise the price of a loaf by 1 cent, a dozen eggs jumps 4 cents and master barbers vote to increase hair cuts to $0.65, a 15 cent increase. In international news, a giant radar network across Canada and the U.S. is under consideration in Washington and home-run king Babe Ruth is reported to be in critical condition in a New York hospital. READ MORE
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