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Giving the games away: The Canada Summer Games are over, but athletes will benefit from more than $800,000 worth of equipment that will be left to the sporting community and things such as the Canada Games Sport for Life Centre. Long after the competition, the city will also enjoy the popular Winnipeg sign at The Forks. Keila DePape reports. READ MORE
Your forecast: There will be a few showers ending this morning and then clearing, and a high of 25 C.
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The nurses at Victoria and Grace Hospitals, as well as the Misericordia Urgent Care Centre, will be the first to go through the changes.
Nurse numbers: Approximately 500 nurses — 250 each at the Victoria and Grace hospitals — will see their jobs eliminated in the next few weeks, as will 25 at Misericordia Health Centre. It’s not clear exactly how their jobs will change, but the WRHA says there are jobs for all of them, although it can’t yet say the same about health-care aides or unit clerks. Jane Gerster reports. READ MORE
Attack an “atrocity”: A man admits to brutally attacking an elderly couple in their Selkirk home and raping the 85-year-old woman, but his defence lawyer, Matt Gould, will argue his client should be found not criminally responsible. Justin Allan Bannab’s trial for what one police officer called an “atrocity” started in Winnipeg court Tuesday. Katie May reports. READ MORE
Probe after police party: The Independent Investigation Unit of Manitoba is investigating allegations two off-duty RCMP officers may have driven while impaired after a party at another officer’s home. The allegations are familiar to Robert Taman, he tells reporter Kevin Rollason. The IIU was established after an inquiry into the crash that killed his wife, Crystal Taman, in 2005. READ MORE
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Nofa Mihlo Rafo with her children from left, Maher, Rebar, Vian and Eman in Winnipeg.
Family reunion: A Yazidi boy will be reunited with his family early Thursday, more than three years after he and his mother were captured and separated by Islamic State militants in northern Iraq. Nofa Mihlo Rafo learned her son Emad Mishko Tamo, 12, was alive last month after he was liberated by Iraqi forces in Mosul. His flight is scheduled to arrive at 12:45 a.m. Two other families of Yazidi refugees living here are also on the flight, and the Yazidi Association of Manitoba is inviting anyone who wants to welcome the families to go to the airport. READ MORE
Around the water cooler
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B.C. Lions head coach Wally Buono sports a “Diversity is Strength” T-shirt on the sidelines before taking on the Saskatchewan Roughriders in CFL football action in Regina on Sunday.
Special shirts: Winnipeg Blue Bombers coaches will be wearing T-shirts celebrating the CFL’s diversity Thursday when they host the Edmonton Eskimos. The shirts were scheduled for limited release this fall but are being rolled out early after the violence in Charlottesville, Va., this weekend. A limited number of the shirts will be available in the Bomber Store on game day. Ryan Thorpe reports. READ MORE
Raw deal: Provincial government staff are investigating after it was revealed a toilet in the Assiniboine Park Zoo had been dumping raw sewage into the Assiniboine River for years. City hall and the park’s conservancy are working to determine whether there are any other illegal sewage connections at the site. Aldo Santin reports. READ MORE
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#myfolklorama: Trending locally as Winnipeggers tweet about the pavilions they have visited or are taking part in.
On this date
On Aug. 16, 1944: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that powerfully reinforced Allied invasion forces pushed eight miles into occupied France on a 40-mile front against weak German forces. Russia’s Red Army made an all-out bid for Warsaw against bitter resistance. The Canadian forces’ assault made the fall of Falaise “inevitable,” according to the Canadian Press war correspondent. READ MORE
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