WINNIPEG — Three Indigenous leaders were encouraged after discussing reconciliation and the need to confront residential school denialism with Gov. Gen. Louise Arbour, while she began her first official visit to Manitoba Wednesday. www.brandonsun.com/local/2026/1... #bdnmb

WINNIPEG — The premier and two New Democrat caucus members have denied they conspired to defame another politician as an excuse to oust him from the party. www.brandonsun.com/local/2026/1... #bdnmb

The race in Ward 2 is tied for the busiest in the city, with four candidates vying for the downtown seat. www.brandonsun.com/local/2026/1... #bdnmb

EDITORIAL: We’re glad to see the province actively addressing the growing ALC patient issue. But Manitoba-wide problems require Manitoba-wide solutions, and it’s more than a little disappointing to see the lack of investment in rural Manitoba on this issue. www.brandonsun.com/opinion/2026... #bdnmb

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Canadian poet, essayist and translator Anne Carson won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for “bold and inventive” works that fuse the classical and the modern and blur the boundaries of poetry and prose. www.brandonsun.com/entertainmen... #bdnmb

EDMONTON – Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the fact the provincial election authority is helping voters correct errors in about 3,000 mail-in ballot packages shows the system is working. www.brandonsun.com/local/2026/1... #bdnmb

A Manitoba judge reserved his sentencing decision for a man accused of sexually assaulting an intoxicated 14-year-old girl after he invited her back to his home when he was kicked out of a Brandon bar. www.brandonsun.com/local/2026/1... #bdnmb

The Manitoba government will fund a new RCMP position dedicated to investigating livestock theft. The funding announcement is expected to be made today at the annual lunch for the Manitoba Beef Producers at the legislature. www.brandonsun.com/local/2026/1... #bdnmb

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Elli Pomehichuk nearly faced the challenge of leading a completely new team in her Grade 12 year. www.brandonsun.com/sports/2026/... #bdnmb

Even with a changing hockey landscape in recent years, the odds of beginning a Western Hockey League career at 19 are rare. www.brandonsun.com/sports/2026/... #bdnmb

Tonight, the Taylor Jackson Financial Westman Superleague of Curling celebrates its 50th anniversary as one of the top destinations for high-level curling in western Manitoba, with a slate of seven games and two new teams. www.brandonsun.com/sports/2026/... #bdnmb

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Eva Marie Saint, the pale, willowy actor who won an Academy Award for her first movie, “On the Waterfront,” and starred opposite Cary Grant in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller “North by Northwest,” has died. She was 102. www.brandonsun.com/entertainmen... #bdnmb

An FBI complaint against a Washington state suspect accused of conspiring with the Tumbler Ridge mass shooter for months provides extensive new details about the guns that may have been used in the attack, and how the teenage killer may have obtained them. www.brandonsun.com/local/2026/1... #bdnmb

OTTAWA – In the three years since Hamas unleashed a deadly terrorist attack on Israel, and Israel responded with a relentless war it says is aimed at eliminating Hamas in Gaza, life for Jewish Canadians has changed dramatically. www.brandonsun.com/lifestyles/2... #bdnmb

OTTAWA – Edmonton mother Salomy Abusalim is running out of excuses to give her son when he asks why his dad is still in Gaza. www.brandonsun.com/local/2026/1... #bdnmb

EDMONTON – With less than two weeks to go until Alberta’s referendum, the province’s election administrator says more than 3,000 mail-in ballots have been returned with errors that make them invalid. www.brandonsun.com/local/2026/1... #bdnmb

Today's editorial page cartoon. #bdnmb

A man described feeling scared as he spoke about wanting to turn his life around during his sentencing hearing in Brandon provincial court on Tuesday. www.brandonsun.com/local/2026/1... #bdnmb

Following a council member’s push over the summer to develop a long-term agreement to mow provincial boulevards, the Manitoba government has not said what position it has on the proposal, council was told on Monday. www.brandonsun.com/local/2026/1... #bdnmb