Free Press Head Start for Aug. 14

Your forecast

Sunny with a mix of sun and cloud this afternoon. Expected high is 26 C, humidex 29 and UV index 7 or high.

What’s happening today

In Ottawa, a sexual assault trial for the military’s former head of human resources is expected to hear from its first witness in an Ottawa court today. Vice-admiral Haydn Edmundson has pleaded not guilty to one count of indecent acts and one count of sexual assault in an incident that allegedly happened in 1991. The Canadian Press reports.

Vice-admiral Haydn Edmundson, the former head of the military’s human resources, (Justin Tang / The Canadian Press files)

Today’s must-read

An ongoing wage dispute between Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries (MLL) and about 1,400 striking members of the Manitoba Government and General Employees’ Union (MGEU) has closed most Liquor Mart locations across the province. And that has some local breweries worried their beer — and sales — will go down the drain. Gabrielle Piché reports.

Sean Shoyoqubov is founder and CEO of OXUS Brewing Company, (John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press)

On the bright side

Elementary teacher Audrey Pattie credits Girl Guides of Canada with shaping who she is today. “A lot of what I can do I learned in Girl Guides,” Pattie says. “Girl Guides is always giving me new adventures, new things to try and exposing me to new skills.”

For more than 100 years, Girl Guides of Canada has provided a safe environment where girls between the ages of five and 17 can learn a variety of skills and challenge themselves. Aaron Epp has the story.

Audrey Pattie is a longtime volunteer with Girl Guides of Canada. (Mike Thiessen / Winnipeg Free Press)

On this date

On Aug. 14, 1924: The Manitoba Free Press reported Winnipeg’s health commitee supported Ald. James Simpkins’ proposal that hotels’ liquor licences be revoked after two convictions under the province’s Liquor Control Act; the committee planned to take up the issue with the provincial government. In China, flooding had killed 30,000 people, at least one million were left homeless, and thousands of villages had been submerged. In Naples, two women who each saw themselves as chief in the affections of a local shepherd attempted to settle their dispute through a knife duel; one killed the other and was charged with homicide. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.

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