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Earlier this year, officials announced another $60 million in port and rail funding.Dave Daley, a member of the Metis Nation, greets one of his dogs, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024, at his home in Churchill, Manitoba. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Dave Daley, a member of the Metis Nation, greets one of his dogs, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024, at his home in Churchill, Manitoba. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)Dave Daley, a member of the Metis Nation, walks through his property, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024, in Churchill, Manitoba. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)Dave Daley, a member of the Metis Nation, walks through his property, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024, in Churchill, Manitoba. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Local ownership is key in Churchill, said formerpresident Dave Daley, who left town in the 1980s but returned after five years because he and his wife missed it. Big hotel chains poked around once and said they could fix up the town’s infrastructure and build something big.

“We all stood and said ‘no’,” Daley said. “We’re a tight-knit group. We have our different opinions and everything else but we know how we want Churchill to be.”

As Churchill evolves, its forgotten past has surfaced at times as tourists ask about residents and their history, said longtime resident Georgina Berg, who like Spence lived on the flats as a child. That past includes “not-so-happy stories” about forced relocation, missing women, poverty, subsistence hunting, being ignored, deathsHell, and our proximity to it, is a not unrelated topic to Grant’s new film,

In it, two young Mormon missionaries (Chloe East, Sophie Thatcher) come knocking on a door they’ll soon regret visiting. They’re welcomed in by Mr. Reed (Grant), an initially charming man who tests their faith in theological debate, and then, in much worse things.After decades in romantic comedies, Grant has spent the last few years playing narcissists, weirdos and murders, often to the greatest acclaim of his career. But in “Heretic,” a horror thriller from A24, Grant’s turn to the dark side reaches a new extreme. The actor who once charmingly stammered in “Four Weddings and a Funeral” and who danced to the Pointer Sisters in “Love Actually” is now doing heinous things to young people in a basement.

“It was a challenge,” Grant says. “I think human beings need challenges. It makes your beer taste better in the evening if you’ve climbed a mountain. He was just so wonderfully (expletive)-up.”“Heretic,” which opens in theaters Friday, is directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, co-writers of