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Ghost of Easterville: Shelly Chartier, the cybercrimes criminal who rarely left her home in Easterville, Man., has been released from jail. Reporter Mike McIntyre tells the latest chapter in the story of the reclusive 31-year-old woman who gained international notoriety for successfully manipulating a pro basketball player and a Hollywood actress. READ MORE
Your forecast: When pondering your choice of outerwear this morning, consider a raincoat. Showers will end early in the afternoon, but it will continue to be cloudy with a high of 9 C and wind from the south at 30 km/h, gusting to 50. The overnight low will be 3 C.
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BORIS MINKEVICH / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSWinnipeg Regional Health Authority president and CEO Milton Sussman talks to the attending. Meeting was held in the Canad Inns HSC. Oct. 25, 2016
WRHA expects big loss: Bleak news at Tuesday’s annual meeting of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority. It’s expecting a loss on operations of between $90 million and $100 million this year, more than 30 times greater than what it lost last year. Larry Kusch was there. READ MORE
High-profile sex attack: Details of a shocking sexual assault were heard on Tuesday at the sentencing hearing for Justin Hudson, now 22. He admitted attacking two women, leaving one for dead in the freezing Assiniboine River and then attacking her again with a hammer when she climbed out of the freezing river 100 metres downstream. Prosecutor Debbie Buors said: “He gets angry. And, unfortunately, the members of the public are his targets.” Katie May was in court. READ MORE
Up next
His Turf/Her Turf: Olympic medalist Desiree Scott and Manitoba Moose players Eric Comrie and Brenden Kichton compete for fun today in the third annual His Turf/Her Turf contest. Scott, the soccer star, will pick up a hockey stick and take shots with Comrie in net. Then, the hockey players will try to best Scott in kicking a soccer ball from centre ice into a net. The fun starts at 2 p.m. at the MTS Iceplex, 3969 Portage Ave.
Let the blood-sucking begin: Long before there were creepy clowns, there was literature’s quintessential bad boy. The Royal Winnipeg Ballet opens tonight with the full-length ballet Dracula, based on Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel about a blood-sucking vampire who rises from his creepy crypt each night to haunt Victorian society. It runs until Sunday. READ MORE
Around the water cooler
SEAN KILPATRICK / THE CANADIAN PRESS FILESFinland players reach for the trophy as they celebrate their gold medal game win at the IIHF World Junior Championship in Helsinki, Finland on Tuesday, Jan 5, 2016.
Seeking world juniors tournament: Winnipeg and Saskatoon have joined in a bid to host the 2019 world junior hockey championship. Reporter Randy Turner explains that host cities essentially buy the tournament from Hockey Canada. Recent bids in places such as Toronto and Montreal have been about $20 million, as the tournament has grown in stature and become a ratings bonanza for TSN. READ MORE
Ten ounces of fentanyl: The Winnipeg home where a nine-month-old baby was found in critical condition and treated for fentanyl poisoning also contained up to 10 ounces of a powder suspected to be fentanyl, police said Tuesday. Kevin Rollason reports on charges against the baby’s parents. READ MORE
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#BaseballBands: The hits just keep on comin’ from such lineups as Crosby, Steals second, & Nash; Sir Mitts A Lot; Fleet Wood Bat; The Who’s On First; and They Might Be San Francisco Giants.
Verdun: Site of prolonged battle in the First World War, in which the French and Germans suffered horrific losses, the French town was awarded decorations by the Allies on this day in 1916, for its role as “the war’s greatest battlefield.”
On this date
On Oct. 26, 1959: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that Western Manitoba’s second big snowstorm of the season had slowed highway transportation to a crawl and had dashed hopes of salvaging unharvested grain crops in the province; the blizzard had lasted 18 hours and resulted in as much as a foot of snow in some places. Five people died in a collision between a truck and a car on the Trans-Canada Highway as a result of bad visibility due to the storm. In Cuba, premier Fidel Castro spoke against “foreign aggression” referring to the United States. In London, France and West Germany agreed an East-West summit should be held, as desired by Britain and the United States. READ MORE
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