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What to watch in Tuesday’s Georgia Senate runoff election

ATLANTA (AP) — The extended Senate campaign in Georgia gives Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker a second chance to persuade voters to send them to Washington. But without party control of Congress at stake and absent other candidates on the ticket, the runoff looks different from the November general election.

The results of the AP VoteCast survey illustrate some of the challenges each candidate faces on Tuesday. Walker will need to turn out a GOP base that wasn’t enamored with him to start with, and do it without the more popular Gov. Brian Kemp on the ballot. Warnock must get his coalition of some lower-propensity voting groups to turn out.

And both candidates have to motivate voters despite a predetermined balance of power in Washington.

The wide-ranging VoteCast survey of more than 3,200 midterm voters in the state provides a detailed look at the Warnock and Walker coalitions and the attitudes that defined their choices this year. The data reveals advantages — and disadvantages — for both candidates in the runoff.

The rules are set and the candidates are ready: Your guide to the Conservative leadership race

Patrick Brown’s official entry into the Conservative leadership contest on Sunday will add another candidate for the party’s third race in five years as it struggles to find a boss — and a direction — that it will bring it back to government.

‘Million reasons’ to keep virtual school

Manitoba’s virtual elementary school is scaling back operations as droves of students return to traditional classrooms this fall, but the principal says its early success proves the centre has potential beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.

Man who killed truck passenger handed new 12-year sentence

Manitoba’s highest court has given a man who shot at a passing truck and killed a 20-year-old woman a 12-year prison sentence for manslaughter.

William Ryerson Thomas Comber, now in his mid 20s, was found guilty of second-degree murder by a jury in December 2022 for the killing of Hailey Dugay on Nov. 17, 2018. Comber was later sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 12 years.

Dugay died after the truck she was travelling in was struck by gunfire late at night on a gravel road near Fraserwood, 90 kilometres north of Winnipeg.

The Court of Appeal struck down Comber’s murder conviction earlier this year and ruled he was instead guilty of the lesser offence of manslaughter.

Organ donation update a small step in right direction

About 200 people in Manitoba are on a waiting list for a kidney transplant. Too many of them will die waiting.

Manitoba has one of the highest numbers of patients in need of organ transplants, and one of the lowest rates of registration.

On Tuesday, Health Minister Cameron Friesen announced the province is retiring paper organ-donor cards and moving the process entirely online, via the signupforlife.ca website.

Mr. Friesen indicated the province is choosing to focus on educating people about registering as a donor before considering a presumed-consent model — recently adopted in Nova Scotia — where those who don’t wish to donate can opt out.