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Suspect arrested in break and enter

Brandon police arrested a man suspected of breaking into a gated compound on the eastern edge of the city on Sunday.

Officers responded around 3:35 a.m. to a report that a man was seen on security cameras inside a fenced-off area in the 2300 block of 49th Street, police said in a news release Sunday.

Police used a drone and the K9 unit to find the suspect hiding in a bush.

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Worker killed in accident at Winnipeg construction site

By Morgan Modjeski 2 minute read Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026

WINNIPEG — Emergency responders were on scene and Manitoba Workplace Safety and Health is investigating after a worker died following an incident at a Winnipeg construction site Thursday.

Little information about the worker killed was provided, but the fatal incident happened at the Fairmont Winnipeg, located at 2 Lombard Place, with police responding around 5 p.m.

The hotel is currently closed and is an active construction site. The person killed has not been identified by name.

Information from a provincial spokesperson said the deceased was working for Kepsco Construction when they were fatally injured after a “portion of an overhead canopy collapsed during asbestos abatement work.”

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Landlords will face fines for breaching confidentiality

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Landlords will face fines for breaching confidentiality

By Carol Sanders 4 minute read Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026

WINNIPEG — The province is amending legislation to allow landlords to be penalized if they breach the confidentiality of tenants who break their lease by obtaining a domestic violence certificate.

“Hopefully, now there’s going to be measures in place so that if this happens again, and God forbid it happens again to anyone else, that there would be penalties imposed on landlords who do that,” said one victim whose concerns were published on the front page of the Winnipeg Free Press last month.

“Hopefully, now there’s going to be measures in place so that if this happens again … that there would be penalties imposed on landlords who do that.”

Under current legislation, landlords must ensure that any information received from those tenants regarding the termination of the tenancy is kept confidential, but there are no penalties for landlords who violate that section of the act. After hearing from victims put at risk when landlords broke the law by violating their confidentiality, the government announced Monday that it is amending the Residential Tenancies Act to allow for penalties.

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Border crossings to adjust hours due to time change

2 minute read Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026

WINNIPEG — The Canada Border Services Agency is adjusting operating hours at 13 Manitoba border crossings beginning Nov. 1 to account for the province’s move to permanent daylight time.

The changes are intended to keep Canadian border crossings aligned with their U.S. counterparts, where clocks will continue to change twice a year, the agency said in a release Friday.

The new hours will take effect at 2 a.m. Nov. 1 and remain in place until March 14, 2027, when the U.S. returns to daylight saving time. The CBSA said the adjustments will improve co-ordination between border officials on both sides, including situations where travellers are denied entry and must immediately return to their country of departure.

The affected crossings include Cartwright, Coulter, Crystal City, Goodlands, Gretna, Lena, Lyleton, Piney, Snowflake, South Junction, Tolstoi, Windygates and Winkler.

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Towing company hands stolen car back, but not to owner

By Matthew Frank 2 minute read Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026

WINNIPEG — A western Manitoba man says he is dumbfounded after his car was stolen, impounded by a Winnipeg towing company and given back — to someone that wasn’t him.

Cody Lamb lives in Douglas, about 18 kilometres east of Brandon, but spends weeks away from home working on oil rigs in Alberta.

The 24-year-old says on Sept. 11, while away for work, he heard from his girlfriend who told him his car wasn’t in their driveway. Lamb reported the car stolen to Brandon RCMP the same day.

After filing the report, he heard from Steinbach RCMP on Oct. 1 that his car was recovered that day in Mitchell, just west of Steinbach.

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Pentagon says execution will be livestreamed

By Konstantin Toropin, Eric Tucker and Claudia Lauer 7 minute read Preview

Pentagon says execution will be livestreamed

By Konstantin Toropin, Eric Tucker and Claudia Lauer 7 minute read Friday, Oct. 9, 2026

WASHINGTON — The firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed, the Pentagon said Thursday, a stunning revelation about plans for the first military execution in more than 65 years after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had described it as being “public.”

The Army announced this week that the execution would take place at Fort Hood on Dec. 3 after Hasan was convicted of killing 13 people and injuring 32 others in a shooting at the military base in 2009.

Hegseth, speaking to the conservative TV outlet Real America’s Voice News on Wednesday, said, “We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it’s public.” Officials in the Pentagon clarified Thursday that the execution would be livestreamed and that more details would follow.

The revelation from Hegseth about the public nature of an execution — let alone one as violent as a firing squad — has raised further questions about how the death penalty is carried out in the United States, especially after the botched lethal injection of Christa Pike in Tennessee.

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Massey edges Crocus in wild finish

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Massey edges Crocus in wild finish

By Rowan McCarthy 8 minute read Friday, Oct. 9, 2026

The latest instalment of the rivalry between the Vincent Massey Vikings and Crocus Plainsmen on Thursday afternoon will go down in history due to late-game heroics on both sides.

Despite a decade of dominance, a Vincent Massey victory was by no means a foregone conclusion in the Winnipeg High School Football League outing in the AAAA Vidruk Division. After starting the year with a 0-4 record, Crocus Plains is a team that shows a lot of promise.

“It’s so fun to see how great Crocus is playing. It’s fun to see that we’re competitive … it’s so great for football in Brandon,” Vikings head coach Mike Steeves said after his team’s 16-13 triumph.

The two teams battled back and forth throughout the afternoon in a defensive battle that saw just 29 points thrown up on the board between the two sides.

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Tories renew calls for CFS inquiry

By Carol Sanders 5 minute read Friday, Oct. 9, 2026

WINNIPEG — The Progressive Conservatives renewed calls to put Manitoba’s child and welfare system under the microscope Thursday, tabling a motion that urged the province to appoint a commissioner to lead a public inquiry.

Families critic Jodie Byram’s opposition day motion, which was ultimately defeated by the NDP majority, reiterated demands for an inquiry into the systemic failures of Child and Family Services, more than 20 years after the death of Phoenix Sinclair first prompted demands for answers.

“We have seen far too many children die under the care of CFS, and we need to determine where the gaps are in the system in order to make the system a safer place for children,” Byram, the MLA for Agassiz, told reporters before the motion was defeated in the legislature.

Families Minister Nahanni Fontaine said in an interview that her department, CFS agencies and authorities are “doing good work” and won’t call an inquiry.

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Kinew, two NDP caucus members file lawsuit defence

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Kinew, two NDP caucus members file lawsuit defence

By Erik Pindera 4 minute read Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026

WINNIPEG — The premier and two New Democrat caucus members have denied they conspired to defame another politician as an excuse to oust him from the party.

Mark Wasyliw, now an independent Member of the Legislative Assembly representing Fort Garry, was booted from the NDP in September 2024, which the party claimed was due to Wasyliw’s former law partner representing convicted sex offender and disgraced fashion mogul Peter Nygard.

The independent MLA, who’s a defence lawyer, claims statements his former colleagues made in September 2024 linking him to Nygard or accusing him of lying, harmed him and his reputation.

Wasyliw filed his lawsuit in December last year, naming Premier Wab Kinew, Natural Resources Minister Ian Bushie and Seine River MLA Billie Cross as defendants. The claim was later amended to remove Bushie as a defendant and add Environment Minister Mike Moyes, who was at the time chair of the NDP caucus, in his place.

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