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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 16, 2020, Winnipeg, Manitoba C M Y K PAGE B1 Call today to book your FREE Caring Consult! TM 204-800-0251 www.nursenextdoor.com I’m a senior. My kids are worried about my health declining. I’m anxious too, but I want to stay home. What can I do? CITY●BUSINESS CITY EDITOR: SHANE MINKIN 204-697-7292 ● CITY.DESK@FREEPRESS.MB.CA ● WINNIPEGFREEPRESS.COM B1 WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 16, 2020 SECTION BCONNECT WITH WINNIPEG’S NO. 1 NEWS SOURCE▼ THE SOUNDS OF ROSH HASHANAH A driver is greeted at the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg’s first-ever drive-thru shofar blowing at the Asper Jewish Community Campus Tuesday. The event is part of how the Jewish community is adapting during the pandemic to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, which takes place Friday. JESSE BOILY / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS POLICE accessed a dozen security cameras to piece together a suspect’s movements minutes before and after group home manager Ricardo Hibi was stabbed to death inside the foyer of a McGee Street home, jurors were told Tuesday. Jurors were shown a series of video clips, including security video from inside the group home showing the attack on Hibi, that prosecutors say identify 23-year-old Kane Moar as the killer. The video clips begin at 2:32 p.m., Dec. 17, 2018, near another McGee home as- sociated with Moar. They end just 13 minutes later in a commercial parking lot on Ellice Avenue, showing a male wearing a black, hooded winter jacket. In between those two points, at 2:35 p.m., is the attack on Hibi. Secur- ity video from inside the group home shows Hibi, cellphone in hand, walking up the basement stairs to answer the front door. Video from another cam- era in the kitchen shows Hibi opening the door, disappearing from view for a couple of seconds, then after a violent exchange, collapsing on the foyer floor. Security video from outside the house shows a figure in black fleeing through the front yard after the killing. Upon seeing footage of the killing, Hibi’s fiancée and another family mem- ber sobbed loudly before rushing out of the courtroom. Moar wasn’t taken into custody until Jan. 6, 2019 when police cadets found him in the area of Ellice and Maryland Street and arrested him under the In- toxicated Persons Detention Act. Const. Evan Kingston told jurors Moar, who had no identification, was taken to police headquarters “in hopes of identifying him.” Police finger- printed Moar, confirming his identity, and seized his black, North Face winter jacket. Another city police officer, Const. Susan Roy-Haegeman, told jurors the jacket tested presumptive positive for blood and was sent to the RCMP foren- sic lab in Edmonton for further testing, along with DNA swabs taken from the two McGee addresses and a Toronto Street home associated with Moar. On Monday, lawyer Sandra Bracken told jurors she was on the phone with Hibi at the time he was attacked. Bracken said she heard Hibi say, “Hey man, this isn’t your house, get out of this house,” followed by four or five “very loud bangs” and a different voice saying “Oh, f---.” Bracken said she heard no more talk- ing after that, only “a wet, jagged sound, as if somebody was trying to breathe.” Bracken called 911 and police offi- cers, already on patrol farther up the street, arrived a minute later. Hibi suffered three stab wounds to his chest, arm and hip. Pathologist Dr. Raymond Rivera told jurors Tuesday the stab wound to Hibi’s chest penetrated his aorta and lung. The trial continues today and is scheduled for three weeks. dean.pritchard@freepress.mb.ca DEAN PRITCHARD Video footage capturing slaying shown in court JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILES A police cruiser is parked outside the McGee Street crime scene in December 2018. W INNIPEG’S mayor said he wel-comes a funding “milestone” for the first phases of the $1.8-billion upgrade of the city’s largest sewage treatment plant, despite having to give up future cash for transit. Full provincial and federal funding of the North End plant upgrades has not yet been promised. “Since 2016, the City of Winnipeg has been alone in its efforts to upgrade the (plant) and today marks a milestone in those efforts to gain significant funding commitments from the provincial and federal governments,” Mayor Brian Bowman told reporters Tuesday. The province has asked Winnipeg to transfer about $321 million of potential Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program (ICIP) funds from a public transit stream to a green infrastruc- ture category to accommodate the fed- eral share of the projects, according to a city report. The mayor said he’ll support that change, as long as certain conditions are met. “(While) I wish the (transit) demand hadn’t been made… we’re trying to do our best to work with them to get those dollars,” said Bowman. He noted the city could still claim up to $204 million of federal transit funds under the program, which could trig- ger about $534 million of total funding, should all three governments agree to an ICIP transit deal. Council will vote on a call to support that transfer, subject to a condition that the province commit $268 million for the sewage project, instead of the roughly $183 million it has promised so far. The city said the province must guarantee no further reductions to Winnipeg’s remaining ICIP public tran- sit cash, and both senior governments must ensure the transfer doesn’t delay the project. “Provided the provincial govern- ment can step up its commitment, we’d be looking at over half-a-billion from provincial and federal governments to support (sewage upgrades), the No. 1 in- frastructure priority of the City of Win- nipeg,” said Bowman. Under the city proposal, Ottawa must provide $321 million and the prov- ince must pay $268 million toward the $909-million tab for the first two phas- es of the sewage plant upgrades. The city would cover the rest. The city separately funded some ad- ditional power supply work for the proj- ect. The province also wants to explore how a public-private partnership could be used for the final two phases of the sewage plant project, though the city’s public service warns that procurement change would delay the work. In a letter shared by the city, the province also notes “further discussion will be required in relation to flowing these funds within the City of Winni- peg’s annual strategic infrastructure basket” funding from the province. The letter doesn’t state if that means the province’s sewage funding could at some point use up part or all of that an- nual grant. Funding for the $828-million third phase of the project wasn’t part of the ICIP request. That’s the stage that will reduce the phosphorus and nitro- gen in effluent released by the plant, which promotes algae growth on Lake Winnipeg. In a written statement, Manitoba Municipal Relations Minister Rochelle Squires did not commit to the city’s terms. “We will review the City of Winni- peg’s proposals but also note that any proposed conditions are non-binding on the provincial and federal govern- ments,” she wrote. The minister stressed the province’s commitment to the sewage upgrades, promising to advance the project with the federal government, should council approve its proposal. Squires described strategic infra- structure basket funding as “currently separate from any provincial contribu- tion under ICIP.” joyanne.pursaga@freepress.mb.ca Twitter: @joyanne_pursaga Mayor horse-trades over sewage JOYANNE PURSAGA Welcomes funding ‘milestone’ for treatment plant but future transit cash in jeopardy B_01_Sep-16-20_FP_01.indd B1 9/15/20 10:35 PM ;