Your forecast
Light rain ending this afternoon followed by cloudiness. The high is 19 C, with the wind becoming northeast 20 km/h this morning.
What’s happening today
It is the last day of the Manitoba Museum’s special programming focused on the history of Indian Residential Schools and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Calls to Action, in honour of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Free admission includes the museum galleries, science gallery and planetarium. Visitors are encouraged to wear orange.
Today’s must-read
Crime and COVID-19 are being blamed for a nearly 30 per cent annual increase in overtime spending by the Winnipeg Police Service.
The WPS’s recently released 2022 statement of revenues and expenses reveals spending jumped in a variety of areas.
The force spent $1.7 million, or 28 per cent, more in officer overtime hours, spending $7.7 million in 2022 compared to about $6 million in 2021. Kevin Rollason reports.
Overall, the police service spent a total of just under $329 million in 2022, compared to $321.4 million the year before. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On the bright side
October is an important month for some local grandmothers and their supporters.
Grands ’n More Winnipeg is part of the Stephen Lewis Foundation supporting grandmothers in Africa whose families are devastated by HIV/AIDS, and they want the broader community to know about the plight of African grandmothers and their orphaned grandchildren.
Janine LeGal writes on the group’s upcoming fundraiser.
Sharon Twilley, co-chair of Grands ‘n’ More, left, and Jean Altemeyer, co-coordinator of the annual Art From the Attic event, with some of the art that will be for sale on Oct. 15. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On Oct. 2, 1923: The Manitoba Free Press reported two river pirate thieves stole US$11,000 in gold bars off of a ship in a New York Harbour. At least 60,000,000 bushels of wheat were expected to be handled by the Alberta wheat pool. Dr. Charles Harris, an Ottawa choral director, submitted a plan to the British Empire Exhibition to have London school children sing Canadian songs at the exhibition. Harris argued teaching Canadian songs to British youth would make them more interested in the Dominion than “a century of ordinary teaching.” Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
Get the full story: Read today’s e-edition of the Free Press.
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