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Winnipeg Free Press Files
Mounties shoot, kill man: A man was shot and killed early today after he allegedly stole an RCMP officer’s gun and unmarked van near St. Laurent. Police found the man, and the van, four hours later near Lake Manitoba First Nation, another Interlake community.
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Your forecast: It will be mainly cloudy today, with light snow ending this morning, a high of -3 C, wind from the north at 40 km/h gusting to 60 and a 30 per cent chance of flurries late this morning and early this afternoon.
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Winnipeg woman dies overseas: Two young women, including 27-year-old Abbey Gail Amisola of Winnipeg, were found dead in a guest house Tuesday in Cambodia, British newspaper the Daily Mail reported online. Both women were suspected to have died after taking an over-the-counter medication for diarrhea and vomiting, the tabloid reported.
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Legal moves over rail line: Omnitrax says it will sue the federal government if a settlement to repair the railway isn’t reached through arbitration. Earlier Tuesday, Ottawa filed a statement of claim after the deadline it gave the company to fix the damaged line to Churchill and its port passed. Dylan Robertson reports.
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Store shuttered: Ram Wools Yarn Co-op, the city’s oldest independent yarn shop, has closed its Erin Street retail shop. Lori Franko says debt and competition from online and big box yarn retailers contributed to the shop’s closing, Murray McNeill reports.
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JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSDale Hawerchuk waves to the crowd prior to the Winnipeg Jets game against the Arizona Coyotes Tuesday, where he was inducted into the Jets Hall of Fame .
Lunch with a legend: Dale Hawerchuk will be the guest of honour at the Winnipeg Jets hall-of-fame luncheon today at the Fairmont Hotel, near where he signed his rookie contract with the original NHL franchise at Portage and Main in 1981. A banner immortalizing Hawerchuk was raised to the rafters at Bell MTS Place before last night’s game against the Arizona Coyotes.
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Planned meeting to proceed: A self-proclaimed “white nationalist” vows to hold a far-right gathering at an airport-area hotel tonight despite plans by activists to disrupt it. “One way or another, people who want to hear me will get together with me,” Frederick Paul Fromm tells reporter Ryan Thorpe.
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Around the water cooler
PHIL HOSSACK / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILESCBC Sports broadcaster Scott Oake, right, poses with his son Bruce in a family photo. The Oake family is in discussions with the province and city officials in an attempt to build a residential addictions treatment facility in honour of Bruce, who died of a drug overdose in 2011.
No ‘backroom deal,’ Oake says: CBC Sports broadcaster Scott Oake briefed city councillors Tuesday on plans to create an addictions-treatment facility at the shuttered Vimy Arena in St. James. Coun. Janice Lukes says the public has been misinformed about the facility. The recovery centre would be named after Oake’s son Bruce, who died of a drug overdose in 2011. READ MORE
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Zimbabwe: The army said it has President Robert Mugabe and his wife in custody and was securing government offices and patrolling the capital’s streets following a night of unrest that included a military takeover of the state broadcaster.
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Worst toys: A consumer safety group released their annual list of worst toys for the holidays.
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On this date
Nov. 15, 1950: The Manitoba legislature approved $14.2 million to meet financial commitments arising out of the Red River flooding and Premier D.L. Campbell promised homeowners on the ‘wrong side’ of the dikes fair compensation; Bomber fans were assured of 4,000 tickets to the Grey Cup in Toronto; and alpine mountaineers climbed up Mont L’Obiou to recover the broken bodies from a plane crash on the crags of the French Alps. READ MORE
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