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Your forecast: Never take a Winnipeg weather forecast and carve it in stone. It shifts and changes at a moment’s notice, it seems. Take this weekend’s weather outlook, for example. All week, the well-intended architects of Head Start have hinted at the wonderful weather coming our way for the Halloween weekend. This morning’s report from Environment Canada, however, paints a less appealing picture. Yes, the periods of drizzle will finally end this morning, making way for a mostly cloudy day and a high of just 4 C. But here’s the latest adjustment: Friday will be mainly cloudy with a high of 9 C, Saturday will be partly cloudy with a high of 12 C, and Sunday will be gloomy with a 60 per cent chance of rain and a high of 10 C.
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BORIS MINKEVICH / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS filesCalli in 2008 with the dog she found behind her house.
We’ve met Calli before: Free Press columnist Gordon Sinclair wrote about gunshot victim Calli Vanderra seven years ago when she wrote a letter to the newspaper about how she and her single father, Corey, had rescued a whimpering puppy from a trash bin that contained the burned corpses of two others. She and her dad took the puppy home and named her Jessie. Calli wrote Sinclair, asking, “Why can’t people just be kind?” Now, Winnipeggers are asking the same thing as the 16-year-old battles back from a random, near-fatal shooting by a couple of alleged gang member wannabes in the parking lot of a Windsor Park convenience store. READ MORE
More debt for city: Winnipeg’s city council approved a new debt strategy Wednesday following an administration recommendation to increase borrowing because interest rates are at an all-time low. The administrative report stated city hall can safely take on an additional $250 million in debt — money the city needs for infrastructure projects. The administration cautioned, however, that taking on greater debt could affect the city’s credit rating, which could result in higher interest rates for future loans. READ MORE
Clinging to bad romance: There’s no storybook romance here. Only a crime novel. Yet, a Winnipeg woman insists she’s found true love with a notorious fugitive, despite the legal trouble she’s now found herself in. Brittany Kehler, 26, was sentenced Wednesday to time in custody – the past 16 months — for a series of charges related to chases across Manitoba between police, herself and her co-accused boyfriend, Matthew Martens, who was sentenced earlier this year to 10 years in prison. Martens, 24, had the primary role in the province-wide crime spree that happened during the summer of 2014. But Kehler was no saint herself, taking the wheel for one high-speed chase in which a motorist was nearly run off the road. “She was blinded by love,” Kehler’s lawyer said. READ MORE
Up next
Just say YES!: What is Manitoba’s business elite doing at 8 a.m. today? The suit-and-tie crowd is gathered at the Metropolitan Entertainment Centre, 281 Donald St., for the official launch of Campaign 2020, YES! Winnipeg’s drive to raise $6 million to cover operating expenses for the 2016 to 2020 term. YES! Winnipeg is an initiative within Economic Development Winnipeg Inc., designed to attract new companies and aid entrepreneurs expand existing businesses.
Saving the planet: A public lecture today stands out because of the significance of both the topic and the speaker. Nicolas Chapuis, France’s ambassador to Canada, speaks in Convocation Hall at the University of Winnipeg from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. on the question: Will the Paris climate conference shift the world towards a low-carbon economy? he goal of the Paris conference that starts Nov. 30 is to achieve a binding and universal agreement on climate, from all the nations of the world. We can only hope.
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SuppliedOne of the orphaned cubs now at the Assiniboine Park Zoo.
New polar bear cubs to zoo: The Winnipeg zoo’s blended family of polar bears just took in two more orphans. A pair of cubs from Churchill have been relocated to the Leatherdale International Polar Bear Conservation Centre at the Assiniboine Park Zoo. The cubs were found near their mother, who had been fatally wounded by a someone trying to scare the bears away from the entrance to a building with a cracker shell. The shell – shot from a gun and intended to explode with a loud bang near the animals — hit the mother, leading to significant blood loss and her death. READ MORE
Captain Serious back home: Chicago captain and Winnipeg native Jonathan Toews leads the Blackhawks into a collision with the Jets tonight at 7 p.m. at the MTS Centre. The defending Stanley Cup champions have a record of 6-3-0, while the Jets are 5-3-1. Will Chicago goalie Corey Crawford record his third straight shutout? Will Jets rookie sensation Nikolaj Ehlers score in a fourth straight game? Will the Jets hand the dangerous ‘Hawks a bunch of power-play chances? How many hotdogs with perogies on top will be served at the downtown barn? Ah, so many questions…
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#Halloween: It’s not even Gate Night yet, but it’s a week-long lead-up to All Hallows Eve on Saturday and the holiday is more popular than ever. This morning people are tweeting about Taylor Swift’s amazing childhood costume — she went as a Teletubbie one year — and whether Glasgow is, in fact, the spookiest place in the world to be on Halloween. It’s still a few days early to star hollering “Trick or treat!” but you can still get into the, er, spirit of things.
#nationalcatday: Just in case Black Cat Day wasn’t enough, today is a day for all cats. In Philadelphia, Uber is delivering Pennsylvania SPCA kittens around Philly.
On this date
On Oct. 29, 2001: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that the recent terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. had prompted Finance Minister Paul Martin to shift the focus in the upcoming budget from health care to anti-terrorism measures. Manitoba’s NDP government paid out $14 million to wrap up the previous Tory administration’s controversial SmartHealth information technology project. Residents at the Ashdown Warehouse condominium complex opposed a liquor licence for Shannon’s Irish Club, which sought to operate a private social establishment on the main floor of the complex. Winnipeg One school trustees planned to decide on Nov. 5 whether to ban school field trips to the U.S. and overseas in the wake of the terror attacks on the U.S. An aboriginal door and window manufacturer in Little Black River won praise from its clients and persevered despite tough times in the industry, with three Manitoba window manufacturers going out of business in the previous 18 months.
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