Your forecast
Cloudy with 30 per cent chance of flurries early this morning, and wind up to 15 km/h. Expected high is -1 C, wind chill -12 this morning and -5 this afternoon.
What’s happening today
Tonight is the launch for The Art of Ectoplasm: Encounters with Winnipeg’s Ghost Photographs, edited by Serena Keshavjee, who will speak at the event at McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park, at 7 p.m. Kittie Wong has a detailed look at the book here.
Lillian Hamilton (from left), Harold and Bessie Shand, and Elizabeth Poole at the tilting table, which was used much like an Ouija board during the experiments, circa 1921. (T.G. Hamilton. UMASC, Elizabeth (Poole) Shand Fonds, A16-024, Box 1, Folder 4)
Today’s must-read
The latest salvo in the decades-long battle for control of the Guess Who name was fired in a Los Angeles federal courthouse Monday.
Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman — the two most famous members of the Winnipeg rock band that rose to stardom in the 1960s and 1970s with songs such as American Woman and These Eyes — have sued Jim Kale and Garry Peterson, their former bandmates, for more than US$20 million. Alan Small has the story.
Randy Bachman (from left), Burton Cummings and Jim Kale of the Guess Who perform during the closing ceremonies of the Pan American Games in Winnipeg in 1999. (Joe Bryksa / The Canadian Press Files)
On the bright side
Esports clubs are allowing First Nations students to play against peers from other on-reserve schools without the costly and time-intensive trips required for basketball, hockey and other traditional extracurriculars.
For teacher Karl Hildebrandt, one of the many motivators to grow Manitoba’s online gaming community is giving youth in rural and remote areas more competitive opportunities to represent their schools.
“When you tell kids they can play video games at school, their eyes open and when you tell them you can compete against another school in the province, their mouths drop,” said Hildebrandt, director of rural and northern esports for the Manitoba School Esports Association. Maggie Macintosh has the story.
Grade 9 student Naeyli Desjarlais, 14, of Brokenhead First Nation, shows off her design award. She and her team secured the top prize for their design which incorporated a pixelated replica of a residential school, graves and flowers. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On Nov. 1, 1944: The Winnipeg Free Press reported troops of the Canadian First Army completed a hard-won crossing of the estuary linking Walcheren Island with Beveland, in a push by United Kingdom amphibious forces to crush the last German strong points blockading the sea approaches to Antwerp. In Ottawa, the crisis within cabinet over military manpower and the question of applying overall conscription entered its eighth day. U.S. submarines sank 18 more Japanese vessels, including a destroyer. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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