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Good evening. Here’s a look at what our newsroom has been working on today:
Premier Heather Stefanson informed the families of two slain Indigenous women that the province is prepared to support a memorial at the landfill, but not a search for the remains believed to rest there, based on the findings of an Indigenous-led committee that studied the feasibility of searching the site.
A giant “peat island” that’s clogging Manitoba Hydro’s Keeyask generation station is costing the Crown utility $10 million a month, according to internal documents obtained by the Free Press.
The Winnipeg company that owns the Point Douglas industrial building destroyed in a massive blaze Tuesday has been hit by a string of fires in the last 12 years. Chris Kitching looks at what’s happened after similar fires in the area, while Kevin Rollason reflects on the history of the 1880’s-era building, previously the home of the Winnipeg Foundry and Machine Shop and Vulcan Iron Works.
And: When he died in April, local theatre impresario Danny Schur left behind the costumes, props and hand-painted backgrounds that were used in his musical, Strike!, about Winnipeg’s 1919 labour conflict. The warehouse where they’re being stored has to be emptied, so Schur’s widow is looking for someone to take the pieces, free of charge.
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