It’ll be a sunny, warm weekend for all the events taking place around Brandon. Food Truck Warz begins today, also Paddlefest at the Brandon Riverbank Discovery Centre, a community bar-b-cue at Stanley Park – and a celebration of Brandon University’s 125th birthday at Bailey’s Cafe. On Sunday, the annual Terry Fox Run takes place starting at BU, and Brandon’s Kidney Walk kicks-off at the Westridge Community Centre.
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Manitoba premier Wab Kinew is getting input on the design of our new plastic health cards on Instagram – voting is open until midnight Sunday. The three designs are: an orange card with a buffalo, a yellow and blue card with a polar bear – and a green card featuring the northern lights. So far, the northern lights design is the favourite.
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Two people were lucky to walk away with only minor injuries after a vehicle roll-over Thursday morning at the infamous Carberry intersection. A report says it appears the car, with Ontario plates, flipped end-over-end after leaving the road near Highway 1 and 5.
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Meanwhile, Carberry town councillors voted last week in favour of an overpass at that intersection. The province has committed $12-million to making the intersection safer, but has said an overpass would be more costly – and would need significant planning. The options the province is looking at, and the public’s feedback, will be revealed this fall. In June 2023, 17 people were killed in a crash at the intersection.
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Some operations like cargo and vacation packages could be affected at Air Canada today as time runs out to avoid a pilots lockout or strike. A full shutdown could happen next Wednesday impacting 110-thousand travellers a day.
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A new survey has found that about one-third of Canadians feel they are ‘political orphans’ – they find all parties are too extreme. Nearly half also say there should be a mainstream centrist federal political party. There is a new party trying to do that – the Canadian Future Party which plans to run candidates in the upcoming Winnipeg and Montreal byelections.
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Donald Trump has ruled out another presidential debate against Kamala Harris, even though she believes they owe it to the voters. More than 67 million people watched their Tuesday debate – and in the 24 hours after it aired, the Harris campaign says it raised $47-million.
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No more soup for Campbell’s – the 155-year-old company plans to drop ‘soup’ from its corporate name. It’s all part of a rebranding because Campbell’s is now way more than soup. They own snack brands like Goldfish, Pepperidge Farm and others. Last year, their snack sales grew 13% – while soup sales went up 3%.
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And the awards for comical scientific achievement have been handed out at MIT. Winning an ‘Ig Nobel’ this year: a study that explored the feasibility of using pigeons to guide missiles, and one that examined the swimming abilities of dead fish. If you think that’s weird, there was a study showed some mammals are cable of breathing through their anus, and another study that examined whether the hair on people’s heads in the Northern Hemisphere swirled in the same direction as someone’s hair in the Southern Hemisphere.
