Today’s horoscope
Georgia Nicols 4 minute read Preview
Today’s horoscope
Georgia Nicols 4 minute read 2:00 AM CDT
MOON ALERT: There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions. The moon is in Sagittarius.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
This is a fantastic day to travel and do anything to expand your world. Sporting events, kids’ activities, the theatre or the arts will be exciting choices. You’ll also feel sympathetic to people in other nations. You might even act on this feeling in a practical way.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Here is how the high command of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) laid down the rules for “remotely” killing suspected Palestinian activists in the densely populated Gaza Strip after the surprise Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
Gang member who shot rival, bystander back in prison after release revoked
Erik Pindera 4 minute read Preview
Gang member who shot rival, bystander back in prison after release revoked
Erik Pindera 4 minute read Monday, Oct. 12, 2026
A Winnipeg man who shot a rival teenage gangster and an innocent 11-year-old bystander at the crowded Red River Exhibition more than four years ago has been sent back to prison.
Mocree Chuck Scatch-Dubour, now in his early 20s, left prison in April on statutory release on his 5 1/2-year federal sentence for the 2022 shooting. Scatch-Dubour was sentenced to the prison term as an adult in the spring of 2023 after pleading guilty to discharge of a firearm with intent to wound, aggravated assault and possession of a restricted firearm.
By law, most federal inmates automatically receive statutory release after two-thirds of their sentence, if they have not already been paroled.
Parole Board of Canada officials formally revoked Scatch-Dubour’s release this month after he unlawfully left his halfway house in June.
Ottawa investing $50 million in high-tech forestry centre in New Brunswick
Eli Ridder, The Canadian Press 2 minute read Preview
Ottawa investing $50 million in high-tech forestry centre in New Brunswick
Eli Ridder, The Canadian Press 2 minute read 7:35 AM CDT
FREDERICTON - The federal government says it plans to invest $50 million in a proposed digital forestry centre in New Brunswick.
Once launched, the goal of the Strategic Innovation Centre in Digital Forestry will be leveraging AI technology to keep the forest industry profitable while protecting the environment.
Canada's forestry sector has been hard-hit by tightening supply, increased operational costs, low pulp prices and ongoing U.S. tariffs.
The proposed centre is a collaboration between the Northern Hardwood Research Institute and Research New Brunswick, which asked for the federal funding earlier this year.
DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: My husband has been going to a therapy group to work through some trauma in his past. He seems almost high when he comes home — always in too good a mood and plays his guitar for hours. He won’t come to bed with me either and doesn’t want to make love those nights.
I just found out from a female friend who also goes to this therapy group that one of my man’s exes turns out to be in this same group. She’s seen them at the café where some group members go after meetings for coffee. They usually sit as a group, she says, but my husband and this woman have started breaking off from the main crew for private talks at another table.
When I asked my man about her, he was indignant. He said, “I come home to you, don’t I? Isn’t that enough?” Now he claims he’s helping his ex talk through her trauma. That may be so, but he seems way too happy and smug when he finally comes home.
This ex was the first girl he ever had sex with. I know exactly what she meant to him — until she dropped him on his head. So what can I do? I can’t just ignore it and let it go. He’s my husband till death do us part, right?
Storm costs not factored in to MPI request for 2.38% rate increase
Nicole Buffie 5 minute read Preview
Storm costs not factored in to MPI request for 2.38% rate increase
Nicole Buffie 5 minute read Yesterday at 6:43 PM CDT
Manitoba Public Insurance told the Public Utilities Board Tuesday it didn’t factor in reinsurance costs related to devastating summer storms in its application for an increase to vehicle insurance rates.
Cara Low, the Crown corporation’s chief actuary, told the board that given MPI anticipates an increase to reinsurance premiums, the 2.38 per cent increase listed in its application won’t be adequate to cover its costs.
“There’s going to be a significant increase. We still have to decide how much we want to retain, what we want the coverage to look like, and what the upper end needs to be,” she said on the opening day of a three-week hearing.
Nearly 41,000 claims have been submitted in relation to summer storms that swept across southern Manitoba from June to August. Floods, tornadoes and hail pummelled several communities and forced MPI to open satellite claims centres to deal with the record number of calls.
