Good morning!
Welcome to a Tuesday that feels like a Monday: On this shortened work week, we begin with two bits of good news–1. It’s only 31 days until the next long weekend.2. Today’s weather will continue clear and sunny, no tornadoes in sight. The high will be 24C with a UV index of 7, sunscreen weather. The low tonight will be 12 C.
In case you missed it
ADRIAN WYLD / THE CANADIAN PRESS FILESCanadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Canada’s federal political parties are actively carving out their final plans for the Oct. 19 election campaign.
It’s Oct. 19: While you were sitting in a lawn chair and sipping cool beverages on the holiday weekend, they called a federal election. We’ll soon be blitzed with election lawn signs, political advertisements, party volunteers knocking on your door to drop off glossy brochures, and phone calls asking if the party can depend on your support on voting day, Oct. 19. If you want a reminder who is running in your riding, the Free Press offers a handy map that tells all. READ MORE
RIP Roddy: By now, most people know pro wrestling star Rowdy Roddy Piper died Friday of cardiac arrest. He was raised in Winnipeg and made his wrestling debut here. But Piper’s acting career extended beyond the ring, as Free Press entertainment reporter Randall King recounts today. In 1988, Piper starred in the John Carpenter-directed cult movie They Live. And in 2008, he played a paraplegic widower in the film Clear Lake, which was shot around Gimli. READ MORE
Up next
MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILESLarge development signs dot the weed filled Fort Rouge Yards, a barren two-kilometre stretch of land north of Jubilee running parallel to the Southwest Rapid Transit Corridor.
Land controversy: A public hearing beginning today will include the planned expropriation of 33 properties the city says it needs for a controversial dog-leg route on the Southwest rapid transit corridor.
Worldly week ahead: Canada is noted around the world for the way we absorb immigrants with relatively little conflict. Compared to many countries where immigrants are scorned with resentment and racist hostility, most Canadians appreciate our cultural mosaic benefits from immigrants and their traditions. Folklorama, which started on the weekend and runs until Aug. 15, is a celebration of diversity.
Around the water cooler
Your choice: Who will you vote for in the federal election? It’s the question asked today in the Free Press poll, and it’s a question bound to prompt lively discussion in any coffee-shop discussion. READ MORE
Right to die: In just six months, it will be legal in Canada for a doctor, under certain circumstances, to help a patient commit suicide and even to perform euthanasia. Free Press reporter Larry Kusch explains how medical authorities and government officials in Manitoba are scrambling to have proper protocols in place to meet a Supreme Court of Canada deadline of Feb. 6.
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#BadSharkTankPitches: No such thing as a bad idea? Ha! Read these off-the-wall pitches to the ABC reality show that’s based on the Dragon’s Den format.
#elxn42: From now until Oct. 19, a feast of political news and views for political junkies.
On this date
On Aug. 4, 1985: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that 2,000 black mourners in South Africa defied a new government ban on political funerals to bury 11 victims of civil unrest as martyrs. Flin Flon and the RCMP celebrated 50 years of the Mounties’ presence there; the community was the first municipality in Canada to use the RCMP as its local police force. Wet weather eased fears of forest fires. The Queen Mother Elizabeth celebrated her 85th birthday. Guitarist Lenny Breau’s 1984 murder remained unsolved.
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