This morning
Switched at birth: The federal government is offering DNA testing to anyone born at the Norway House Indian Hospital 40 years ago as it tries to sort out how four babies were switched at birth in 1975. Health Canada spokesman Eric Morrissette told the Free Press the government supports the results of DNA tests that confirmed Leon Swanson and David Tait Jr. — both born at the Norway House Indian Hospital in early 1975 — were sent home with the wrong mothers. The revelation comes less than a year after another DNA test found Norman Barkman and Luke Monias were also switched after birth at the same hospital. READ MORE
Your forecast: Expect a mainly sunny day. The wind will become northwest 20 km/h early this afternoon. High 24 C. Tonight, there will be a few clouds with a low of 8. On Wednesday, it will again be mainly sunny with a high of 24. And Thursday? Yes, more sun and a high of 28.
In case you missed it
JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSTalia Gohari and her husband Shayke, recent newcomers to Winnipeg, show the injuries they received as they were robbed at knifepoint and slashed last Thursday when they took a break outside an entry to Canada transition program.
Slow recovery: An immigrant couple robbed and slashed outside an orientation classroom last week in Winnipeg are on the slow road to recovery. Talia Gohani, 34, and husband, Shayke Yehishua, 38, had stepped outside for a break during the Entry Program, a four-week course offered by local organization Altered Minds Inc. to immigrants and refugees who have recently arrived in Canada, when they were attacked. Yehishua will need surgery and might never regain feeling in his left hand. READ MORE
Grisly testimony: The trial of the Winnipeg mother accused of hiding the remains of six dead babies in a storage unit resumed Monday with some grisly testimony from a pathologist. Dr. Raymond Rivera said all of the remains were so decomposed that he was unable to determine how the babies died or whether they were alive at birth. The sex of the infant couldn’t be determined in every case — not even from the bones, court heard. Giesbrecht, 42, is charged with six counts of concealing a child’s body. READ MORE
Ministers get an earful: Churchill residents and businesses had a chance to express frustrations about the vulnerability of transportation links to their northern community as provincial cabinet ministers made their first visit there since port and rail service was disrupted in late July. Growth, Enterprise and Trade Minister Cliff Cullen, Families Minister Scott Fielding and 20 business and tourism officials flew to Churchill Monday. The government said it would enhance tourism grants, while Bell MTS announced it would upgrade the broadband infrastructure there. READ MORE
Up next
Postal mediation: A special mediator has been given another day today to help Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers resolve their labour dispute.
Around the water cooler
Child pornography: Police have laid child pornography charges against an educational assistant at a Winnipeg elementary school who also encountered children in his spare time as a magician known as Dan The Magic Man. Daniel Kamenicky, 39, has been charged with voyeurism, making pornography and distributing pornography. He was employed at Windsor School, a kindergarten-to-Grade 8 school in the Louis Riel School Division. READ MORE
Tax credit flap: The possibility of changes to Manitoba’s education property tax credit has provoked strong reaction from groups representing both the left and right of the political spectrum. The Pallister government’s value-for-money audit has put every tax credit up for review, including the education credit that saves up to $700 annually for both homeowners and renters. READ MORE
Rookie shines: Cornerback Marcel Arruda-Welch, who graduated Garden City Collegiate in June, is about to make the rare leap to a starting position with the University of Manitoba Bisons this fall. “He’s a special player,” Rick Urbanovich, the Bisons defensive backs coach, said of the 6-0, 180-pounder. “He’s getting it.” Arruda-Welch and the rest of the secondary combined for four interceptions in Friday night’s romp over UBC, limiting a prolific offence to just 187 yards passing. READ MORE
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Gene Wilder: The actor known to many for such roles as Willy Wonka and young Frankenstein, passed away Monday at the age of 83. READ MORE
#RejectedTrumpCampaignSlogans: What if he wasn’t trying to “make America great agaion”? Perhaps Donald Trump would be proclaiming “We shall overcomb,” “Enough About Me. Let’s Talk About Me” or “Help elect an angry 70-year-old orange toddler.”
On this date
On Aug. 30, 1979: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that former president of the Manitoba New Democratic Party J. Frank Syms had quit the party, saying that its organization had been taken over by radical groups and Communists. Asbestos ceiling tiles were ripped out of two Manitoba schools as a result of a trustee-government probe of hazardous materials in schools. In Ireland, police arrested two suspects in the bombing death of Earl Mountbatten of Burma. READ MORE
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