What’s happening today
CPMembers of the Canadian Armed Forces at a long-term care home in Montreal in April 2020. (Graham Hughes / The Canadian Press files)
Arriving in Alberta: Military medical personnel are expected to arrive in Alberta as the Prairie province struggles with COVID-19. READ MORE
Heading home: More than 1,500 people from Pauingassi and Little Grand Rapids First Nations evacuated to Winnipeg because of forest fires are set to return home beginning today. Gabrielle Piché reports. READ MORE
Jets cuts coming: The Winnipeg Jets are set to announce roster cuts as the Manitoba Moose, their affiliate American Hockey League team, begin training camp today. Jason Bell reports. READ MORE
Nobel Prize awarded: Two U.S.-based scientists have won the Nobel Prize in the field of physiology or medicine for their discovery of receptors for temperature and touch. The prize is the first Nobel to be awarded this year. The others categories are chemistry, economics, literature, peace and physics. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
Missiles test-fired from sub: Russia has successfully test-fired a prospective hypersonic missile from a nuclear submarine for the first time, its military says. Two missiles were launched from the surface and while the submarine was submerged. The Zircon cruise missile has previously been test-fired from a navy frigate. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Sunny with a high of 25 C and wind from the west — and later the east — at 10 km/h.
In case you missed it
MIKAELA MACKENZIE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSThousands of marchers walk from the Canadian Museum for Human Rights to St. John’s Park on the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Winnipeg on Thursday.
‘Manitoba, you done good’: Niigaan Sinclair says the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation “was a step. Let’s do more every day.” READ MORE
Civil servants: Manitobans can expect the level of services they receive to suffer unless the province steps up recruitment and retention efforts for civil servants, the union representing government workers says. Carol Sanders reports. READ MORE
Brace yourself: Shelley Cook’s latest column is on her decision to bite the bullet and get braces. READ MORE
Republican sunk by remark dies: A former congressman whose 2012 Senate bid stalled after he said women’s bodies have a way of avoiding pregnancies in cases of “legitimate rape” has died. READ MORE
On this date
On Oct. 4, 1910: The Manitoba Free Press reported the outcome of a three-day Purity conference was that its advocates endorsed E.D. Martin to run for mayor of Winnipeg. In Winter, Wis., John F. Deitz, who had held the townspeople in terror such that they armed themselves against him, was now the subject of a grim siege with his property surrounded by sharpshooters, who intended to starve him out or shoot him.
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