Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud, with a 30 per cent chance of showers early this morning. Local smoke becoming widespread smoke early this afternoon. Wind becoming northwest at 20 km/h gusting to 40 this morning. High 25 C, Humidex 28, UV index 5 or moderate.
What’s happening today
The Bank of Canada will announce its interest rate decision this morning as forecasters expect it to deliver another quarter-point rate cut. Its key interest rate currently stands at 4.5 per cent and governor Tiff Macklem has signalled the bank will continue to cut interest rates, so long as inflation continues to ease. The Canadian Press reports.
Governor of the Bank of Canada Tiff Macklem (Justin Tang / The Canadian Press files)
Today’s must-read
Terry Johnsen said he had been chatting with a woman and her partner at a homeless encampment next to the south bank of the Assiniboine River just before she was fatally hit by a police cruiser Monday night.
“They came racing down here, bat out of hell, and I guess they didn’t see her,” Johnsen, who lives in a tent in Fort Rouge Park in Osborne Village, told the Free Press Tuesday, after police held a news conference to announce the tragic incident. “You could hear the boom and then the ruckus.”
The Independent Investigation Unit of Manitoba is probing the woman’s death because it involves police officers. Nicole Buffie has the story.
Encampment resident Terry Johnsen was talking to a woman moments before a police car hit her. She later died from her injuries. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On the bright side
In a classroom at the House of Urban Culture, tucked away in the narrow streets of Dakar, Senegal, Aminata Thiam claps her hands in time with a beat she created on her computer. “You just have to find the loop that you want. Cut it, duplicate the sample, and then add your effects,” she says.
She is teaching a beatmaking class to five young women, each working intently on beats of their own on the computers in front of them.
Thiam, 31, is a beatmaker, one of only a few women in Senegal who call themselves such. Their discipline is the art of “making beats, making rhythms,” Thiam says. She traces a line from American DJs like Afrika Bambaataa and DJ Kool Herc, credited as among the founders of hip-hop, to beatmakers today. The Associated Press reports.
Students compose music at a beat making class for women in Dakar, Senegal, in August. (Annika Hammerschlag / The Associated Press files)
On this date
On Sept. 4, 1947: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that the first results from a probe into the Dugald train disaster, in which the Minaki Campers’ Special passenger train collided with the Toronto-bound transcontinental, indicated the former train should have been on a siding at the time of the collision. Railway workers continued to search for bodies of those killed in the collision and fire, and the mayor of Winnipeg announced that a mass burial including a civic service of mourning was being planned for all unidentified victims of the disaster. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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