Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud, with wind becoming northeast at 20 km/h early this afternoon. Expected high is 13 C, UV index 3 or moderate.
What’s happening today
Manitoba Theatre for Young People’s production of Snow White opens tonight at 7 p.m. Ben Waldman talks to Beverly Ndukwu, a former Winnipegger returning to her hometown to star in the company’s season-opening production. For ticket info, click here.
Beverley Ndukwu and Tom Keenan each play multiple roles in MTYP’s Snow White. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
Today’s must-read
Illegal crossings at the Manitoba border into the United States have skyrocketed since an Indian family froze to death in a field near Emerson in 2022, raising fears other desperate migrants could suffer the same fate, as winter’s extreme conditions approach.
During a news conference in Grand Forks Thursday, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol and Manitoba RCMP officials revealed illegal crossings by foot have jumped drastically recently, from 90 people apprehended in 2021, down to 81 in 2022 and then up to 237 in the first eight months of 2023. Erik Pindera reports.
Grand Forks sector Chief Patrol Agent Scott Garrett speaks to reporters at a press conference in Grand Forks, N.D. (Erik Pindera / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
“This gentle new documentary is completely uncritical about its subject,” writes reviewer Alison Gillmor. “And that’s a good thing, because its subject is Ernie Coombs, also known as Mr. Dressup, and he was a kindly, creative, reassuring daily presence to generations of Canadian kids. Even better, as we see here in interviews with his colleagues, family and friends, he was just as lovely off-camera as on.” Read her full review here.
Ernie Coombs. a.k.a. Mr. Dressup, shows off a new treasure from the Tickle Trunk. (CBC)
On this date
On Oct. 13, 1961: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Liberal leader Gildas Molgat called for the abolition of premiums for the Manitoba Hospital Services Plan, while also rejecting the province’s expected solution to the premium problem, the introduction of a provincial income tax. East Berlin police fired more than 230 shots over the heads of nine fleeing East Berliners who crashed a truck into the barbed-wire border fence. The U.S. warned the UN it might have to resume atmospheric nuclear arms testing in the face of continuing Soviet atomic blasts in the atmosphere. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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