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Mounties make arrest: RCMP have arrested a man in the deaths of two men in St-Georges in February 2017. Claude Francis Guimond, 54, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Jody Brown, 43, and Steven Chevrefils, 35. READ MORE

Eviction order dropped: Liberal MLA Cindy Lamoureux’s office intervened in the eviction of a Manitoba Housing resident in the months before Phyllis Dawn Pascal allegedly killed another woman who lived in the complex. Ryan Thorpe reports. READ MORE

Aid migrants, Axworthy urges: Winnipegger and former federal cabinet minister Lloyd Axworthy says Winnipeg should take in some of the members of a migrant caravan trying to get into the U.S. Dylan Robertson reports. READ MORE

What’s happening today

Details on death: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth will release a report on the “tragic death” of a First Nations girl. We’ll have more on this story on our website later this morning.

Second Canadian seized: China’s foreign ministry confirmed today it has detained two Canadian men on suspicion of “endangering national security.” The detentions come after an executive of Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei was arrested in Vancouver. READ MORE

Weather

Your forecast: It will be mainly sunny for much of today, with a high of -2 C, wind at 20 km/h and windchill near -10.

In other news

Omar Khadr walks out the front door of his lawyer Dennis Edney's home to speak the media in Edmonton, Thursday, May 7, 2015. Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr is back in court today to seek changes to bail conditions imposed while he appeals war crime convictions by a U.S. military commission. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

Omar Khadr walks out the front door of his lawyer Dennis Edney’s home to speak the media in Edmonton, Thursday, May 7, 2015. Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr is back in court today to seek changes to bail conditions imposed while he appeals war crime convictions by a U.S. military commission. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

Khadr in court: Lawyers for Omar Khadr are scheduled to appear in court in Edmonton to seek changes to the bail conditions imposed on him while he appeals war crime convictions by a U.S. military commission. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE

Two hot teams: The Jets host the Edmonton Oilers at 7 p.m. The Jets have won six of their past seven games, while the Oilers have won seven of their past eight. Mike McIntyre reports. READ MORE

On this date

On Dec. 13, 1939: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that a 13-nation committee of the League of Nations adopted a resolution condemning Soviet Russia as an aggressor and containing an implied demand that Russia be ousted from the League over its invasion of Finland. The Leningrad-Murmansk rail line was blocked by Finnish bombing. Great Britain agreed to sell planes to Finland. READ MORE

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