Truth and Reconciliation events continue in Brandon this week. Children from several school divisions will attend Indigenous teachings at Brandon Riverbank, and a Missing and Murdered Indigenous Men and Boys
Awareness Walk will take place Wednesday afternoon. On Monday, about 200 people took part in an Orange Shirt Day walk. The focus of the walk to Brandon’s former residential school was to honour survivors, and to reflect on the history and trauma associated with the schools
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Manitoba’s minimum wage is going up today, rising from $15.30-an-hour to $15.80. Ontario’s is also increasing to $17.20 – while Saskatchewan is boosting theirs to $15.00, tying it with Alberta for the lowest in the country.
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There were power outages and trees knocked over because of high winds on Monday. In Brandon, peak gusts hit 94-kilometres-an-hour. Environment Canada says it’ll be gusty the next two days as we transition to fall.
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Brandon police are looking for several suspects in connection with a couple of incidents on Sunday morning. They say four or five people broke into the vendor at the Travel Lodge and took several items – and the decorated truck in front of Lady of the Lake Restaurant was vandalized.
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Two men from rural Manitoba, aged 63 and 33, face charges after a government employee was allegedly struck with a vehicle last week. Brandon police say the pair tried to prevent employees of a government agency from carrying out their lawful duties.
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Hurricane Helene and a rainstorm that rolled in ahead of it reportedly dropped more than 40-trillion gallons of rain on the southeast United States last week. Experts say that’s an unheard of amount of water. If it was concentrated just on the state of North Carolina that much water would be 3.5 feet deep (more than 1 meter). It’s enough to fill more than 60 million Olympic-size swimming pools. Meteorologists say the flood damage has been apocalyptic – more than 100 people have died.
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The U-S Vice-Presidents debate is tonight on CBS. Republican JD Vance meets Democrat Tim Walz. The debate will give each a fresh chance to introduce themselves, vouch for their bosses: Trump and Harris – and fulfill the time-honored role of a running mate: attack dog.
