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Two senior police officers and a recent recruit are accused of abusing their position of power while patrolling the streets of Winnipeg and face charges ranging from theft to interfering with a crime scene.

The Winnipeg Police Service announced details Thursday of an internal investigation into breach of trust and related allegations involving three members.

Const. Elston Bostock, const. Matthew Kadyniuk and Const. Jonathan Kiazyk has been placed on paid leave. The men are all general patrol officers. Maggie Macintosh has the story.

Deputy Chief Gene Bowers (front) and Supt. Cam Mackid announced details of an internal investigation into breach of trust and related allegations involving three members on Thursday. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)

Lest we forget

An ocean away from home, in a military cemetery in northern France, Randall McKenzie examines the rows of gravestones intersecting lines in the green expanse of Étaples-sur-Mer, a commune off the coast of the English Channel .

Among the more than 11,000 war dead at the Étaples military cemetery, McKenzie hopes to find his great-uncle, Pte. Oswald McCorrister, killed over a century ago during the Great War with the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Forces and buried in the French countryside.

“It’s hard to know what to say about someone you’ve never really met,” says McKenzie, a Peguis First Nation band member and former Canadian Armed Forces naval radio operator. Danielle Da Silva has the story.

Randall McKenzie places a penny on Pte. Oswald McCorrister’s grave in France as a sign of his respect. (Provided)

On the good side

The Fonz has praised an Exchange District restaurant — and he’s publicly expressing his love.

Henry Winkler, in Winnipeg, for the filming of the action film Normalvisited Deer + Almond for his second time Wednesday evening. Veteran American actor (Happy days) then took to social media platform

Since then, the post has been viewed more than 120,000 times. Gabrielle Piché has more here.

Henry Winkler ordered a lobster dish, scallops and schnitzel, according to Deer + Almond head chef Mandel Hitzer. (Jessica Lee / Free Press Files)

On this date

November 8, 1966: THE Winnipeg Free Press reported that Peter Sawatzky of Winkler was convicted of illegally transporting Mennonite immigrants from Mexico; he had driven them out of this country in his half-ton truck. In Brandon, Premier Duff Roblin said the labor shortage was so severe that the provincial industry minister planned to travel to Britain and the continent to recruit workers. Joanne Holm, 20, of Winnipeg, finished second in the Miss Canada pageant. Read the rest of today’s diary here. Search our archives to learn more here.

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