was about three centimetres of snow in Charleswood and about five centimetres in St. Vital and Sage Creek areas. Around the province, there was six centimetres measured in Ste. Anne, four centimetres in Sprague, and with the highest amount of nine centimetres measured in Great Falls (Pinawa region).

ashley.prest@freepress.mb.caIn the land of state-owned businesses and heavy state control of civil society, this means tens of millions more people. Some observers have told Fairfax Media the new anti-corruption drive might prompt a new exodus of Chinese people overseas to places such as Australia, as investigators with quotas to fill go digging for past mistakes and grievances. Loading Punishable violations might include bribery, abuse of power, dereliction of duty, rent-seeking, siphoning benefits, twisting the law for personal gain and wasting state assets. Until now, the special system of "discipline inspection", under which people could disappear for months to undergo secret interrogation in the most serious cases and have their assets seized until admissions of guilt were extracted, was reserved for Communist Party members.

The process existed outside the law,