- Tory MLA (and former cabinet minister) Jeff Wharton is denying the claims made by the new government as well as by two of his former colleagues, Kevin Klein and Rochelle Squires, that he tried to push through the Sio Silica mine during the caretaker period. Seems not too many people believe him.
- A trustee in the River East Transcona School Division has been suspended for releasing confidential information; this is the second time within a matter of months that he's been suspended for this.
- Over 2,000 Manitoba Housing units are vacant currently, including over a thousand in Winnipeg, due to a backlog in repairs. Apparently there hasn't been sufficient money in the corporation's budget to properly repair them; hopefully the new government will add that to their rather long list of tasks. It should be possible, though; certainly public housing wasn't always the hellhole it is now.
- A federal court has denied a student visa to a Chinese engineering student on the grounds that he could be "pressured" into spying for China, despite the lack of evidence of his previous involvement in espionage, or that his field of research has military uses.
- The founder and CEO of GFL Environmental, which holds the contract to collect garbage and recycling in the eastern half of Winnipeg, owns a yacht worth $350 million. Ain't contracting out grand?
- It appears that the next COP summit will be headed by yet another oil industry veteran. Mukhtar Babayev, the ecology and natural resources minister of host country Azerbaijan, spent 26 years with that country's state oil company before entering politics.
- ISIS has claimed responsibility for a bombing at a memorial for Iranian general Qassem Soleimani which killed nearly 100 people.
- A conservation organization in BC has been buying up trophy hunting rights for the Great Bear rainforest; even though this doesn't impact most hunters, there's some predictable outrage from hunting advocates.
- An Air Canada flight from Toronto to Calgary was forced to divert to Winnipeg after a teenage boy allegedly assaulted a family member on the plane.
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