Your forecast
Cloudy, with a mix of sun and cloud this afternoon; wind from the north at 20 km/h gusting to 40 this morning. Expected high is 15, UV index 1 or low.
What’s happening today
Manitoba premier-designate Wab Kinew and his NDP cabinet will be sworn in today at a ceremony conducted by Lt.-Gov. Anita Neville at the Leaf in Assiniboine Park. The event will be livestreamed at news.gov.mb.ca and youtube.com/ManitobaGovernment, but is not open to the public. Kevin Rollason has a preview here.
Premier-designate Wab Kinew (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press files)
Today’s must-read
Two years later, Candyce Szkwarek relives the attack that nearly took her life every single day. “It is never far from my mind,” the former Seven Oaks General Hospital nursing supervisor told a crowded Winnipeg courtroom in a victim impact statement Tuesday.
“I saw his eyes staring at me, then I saw the long kitchen knife he clutched along his right thigh. I remember thinking: ‘I think I am in trouble.’ Thirteen-plus stab wounds later, I really was.” Dean Pritchard has the story.
Candyce Szkwarek (centre) speaks to reporters outside court Tuesday after a judge declared her attacker Trevor Farley not criminally responsible for his actions. (Dean Pritchard / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
A group of Manitoba optometrists is volunteering its time to Winnipeg’s most vulnerable, offering free checkups, treatments and prescriptions from a joint medical clinic at Siloam Mission.
“We know that not having impairment correction can inhibit abilities and access to education and employment,” said Carmen Recksiedler, a member of the Manitoba Association of Optometrists. Tyler Searle has the story.
Optometrists Dr. Andrew Styba (from left), Dr. Carmen Recksiedler, 4th year optometrist intern Shehnaaz Brar, and Dr. Irene Mestito-Dao were particpants at the Gizhe Waa Tii-Si-Win Expo Tuesday morning. (Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On Oct. 18, 1952: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that excavation work was underway for the new Canada Post office building on Graham Avenue and Smith Street, which would include “helicopters and television devices which will help speed up mail handling.” Army authorities of Prairie command warned against touching small, square cardboard boxes that could contain detonators after a padlocked storehouse was broken into and detonators stolen. Communist-led Vietminh forces smashed their way into the strategic town of Nghia Lo, 100 miles southwest of Hanoi, and drove on toward the Red River delta, the main French bastion in Indochina. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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