A Winnipeg man accused of beating Kyriakos Vogiatzakis to death outside his St. James-area restaurant nearly two years ago is expected to argue he was acting in self-defence, a court heard Monday.

Handy begins with an exposition of the father-knows-best doctrine that rules the small-town roost in the “cheerfully mediocre” Andy Hardy films of the late 1930s and early ’40s. Starring Mickey Rooney ...