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Top of mind: Health care is the provincial election issue voters care about the most, with the state of jobs, the economy and the cost of living a distant second, a poll commissioned for the Free Press and CTV News Winnipeg found. Ben Waldman reports. READ MORE
Reform or reversal: In his latest column, Tom Brodbeck says there’s no evidence undoing all of the Tory government’s health-care reforms would improve wait times for patients. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: A risk of thunderstorms will end this morning after some overnight showers, then a mix of sun and cloud with a high of 22 C and peak winds from the east at 15 km/h beginning late this morning.
What’s happening today
An evacuee rests on a cot in an American Red Cross shelter at R.B. Stall High School on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019, in North Charleston, S.C. Officials estimate around 300 people have sought shelter here as Hurricane Dorian approaches the South Carolina coast. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)
Storm still surging: Hurricane Dorian is threatening to inundate Georgia and the Carolinas along the southeastern U.S. coast after millions of people were warned to evacuate, The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
Teen tennis star: Bianca Andreescu will face Belinda Bencic of Switzerland in a semifinal match at the U.S. Open tonight. Last night, Andreescu became the first Canadian to reach the final four in singles at the tournament since 1984. READ MORE
In case you missed it
WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILESPolo Park Shopping Centre, Dec. 14, 1963.
Milestone for mall: Business reporter Martin Cash has a story on Polo Park, which opened 60 years ago and has become one of the most successful retail properties in Canada. READ MORE
Phoning it in: The Progressive Conservative party let the Free Press listen in on one of their telephone town halls Wednesday evening. The Tories have been criticized for not attending many public debates and forums this campaign. Jessica Botelho-Urbanksi reports. READ MORE
‘Lapse of judgement’: A former child psychologist who admitted to possessing child pornography told a judge during a sentencing hearing Wednesday he feels “horrible.” Gary Anthony Shady was arrested in October after police searched his home. Dean Pritchard reports. READ MORE
On this date
On Sept. 5, 1986: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that a Portage la Prairie woman was released from jail after the Crown agreed her three-month sentence, imposed for the woman’s refusal to testify against her husband, was too harsh. Manitoba government MLAs who launched an attack on the media in the media were abusing their positions, said Conservative party leader Gary Filmon.The chief executive of MTS told a legislative committee that in 1983, he had flown to London to cheer up an exhausted MTS employee who had spent more than a year working for the company in Saudi Arabia.
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