In Brief

Libraries get Wi-Fi

WIRELESS Internet access will be provided at all 20 Winnipeg Public Library branches and the Pan Am Pool this fall, Mayor Sam Katz's office announced Tuesday.

MTS Allstream is creating Wi-Fi hotspots at the library branches and the pool at a cost of $23,000, the mayor's office said.

Wireless users will need credit cards to pay for the service, but the library branches will continue to offer free Internet access on computer terminals.

Winnipeg's contract with MTS calls for the communications company to share some of its wireless revenue with the city.

Maple Leaf order appealed

A former director of Maple Leaf Distillers is appealing a judge's $850,000 award to its shareholders and creditors.

Costas Ataliotis, who with David Wolinsky once presided over a multimillion-dollar business empire, is asking the Manitoba Court of Appeal to overturn the lower court decision. Investors included former Winnipeg Jet Thomas Steen.

During a hearing earlier this year, Madam Justice Brenda Keyser of the Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench ruled the pair used the companies they controlled as personal bank accounts.

Coffee sends kids to camp

YOUR morning double-double will provide more than a caffeine buzz today -- it will also help send roughly 12,000 kids on a free trip to summer or winter camp.

Today is Camp Day at Tim Hortons, which means all money collected from coffee sales goes to the Tim Horton Children's Foundation.

The foundation sponsors children between the ages of nine and 12 in Canada and the U.S. to go to either a 10-day summer camp or a week-long winter camp. Kids are chosen by Tim Hortons store owners through various youth organizations.

Cattle under quarantine

ABOUT 750 cattle are under quarantine after the first case of anthrax this year in Manitoba was confirmed, said the Canadian Food Inspection Agency Tuesday.

Tissue of an animal found dead in late May at a farm in the Rural Municipality of Stuartburn has tested positive for anthrax, said CFIA.

The farm also reported a separate case of cattle anthrax last year.

"Anytime animals are on pasture, which could be anytime starting from May through to November, we can see anthrax," said Sandra Stevens, a CFIA disease-control specialist.

Tissue was submitted to CFIA after the animal's sudden death. The tissue tested positive for the bacterial disease.