The man arrested in connection with the attack on a foreign student inside a downtown Winnipeg bus shelter had just been released from a federal prison on weapons charges. It was the following day, around 10:30 a.m., that he viciously beat the student in a Portage Avenue bus shelter, police say. Surveillance video of bus shelter beating1:16Const. "It's not unknown throughout this city that police are often called to Portage Place," Skrabek said. Activists demonstrated in March 2017, saying drug deals outside the back of Portage Place Shopping Centre have gotten out of control.

Source: CBC News January 25, 2018 18:28 UTC