Your forecast
Mainly sunny, with some haze. Expected high is 24, humidex 26, UV index 4 or moderate.
What’s happening today
Thin Air 2023 kicks off tonight at 7 p.m. at Kilter Brewing Co. (450 Rue Deschambault) with ForeWords, celebrating all things books. Over the course of the next month, the festival has a wide range of launches, discussions and more slated to take place both in person and online. Ben Sigurdson takes a look at what to expect.
Winnipeg International Writer’s Festival director Charlene Diehl (Jessica Lee / Winnipeg Free Press files)
The Nonsuch, a reproduction fur-trading ketch that is the flagship of the Manitoba Museum, will be taken over by pirates Sept. 20-23 when the Manitoba Underground Opera performs Giuseppe Verdi’s The Corsair, which is based on Lord Byron’s 1814 poem. First performance is tonight, 7:30 p.m. For ticket info, click here.
The Manitoba Museum’s Nonsuch gallery will host the Manitoba Underground Opera. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press files)
Today’s must-read
Linda Rudnicki was on her way to buy milk when she was killed in a crash blamed on street racing on a Sunday night in June 2005. The tragedy left a family devastated and led to a crackdown on street racing and an increased police presence on Sunday cruise nights in Winnipeg.
“When that collision happened, they were warned. People in that part of the city complained about racing,” the 39-year-old victim’s mother, Ruth Rudnicki, said Tuesday.
Memories of the crash were evoked by a serious collision Sunday, allegedly caused by street racers on the same busy stretch of Portage Avenue. Chris Kitching reports.
Two people were taken to hospital after a serious collision Sunday on a busy stretch of Portage Avenue. (Supplied)
On the bright side
The tiny Pacific island nation of Niue has come up with a novel plan to protect its vast and pristine territorial waters — it will get sponsors to pay. Under the plan, which was being launched by Niue’s Prime Minister Dalton Tagelagi on Tuesday in New York, individuals or companies can pay $148 to protect 1 square kilometer (about 250 acres) of ocean from threats such as illegal fishing and plastic waste for a period of 20 years. The Associated Press reports.
A tail of a humpback whale breaks the water in Niue in 2018. (Richard Sidey/Galaxiid via The Associated Press)
On this date
On Sept. 20, 1948: The Winnipeg Free Press reported a red light spotted by an RCAF plane as well as by a trapper and his wife at Reader Lake, northwest of The Pas, was believed to be an aircraft distress flare and a sign that one or more of the crew of the missing United States Navy Beechcraft could still be alive. A Winnipeg man was in hospital after being stabbed multiple times while walking on Aberdeen Avenue. In Paris, a critical meeting of the United Nations assembly took place amid reports that talks between Western powers and the Soviet Union over the Berlin crisis had broken down. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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