Your forecast
Mainly sunny, but with increasing cloudiness this morning then a 60 per cent chance of showers late this morning and this afternoon, with risk of a thunderstorm. Fog patches dissipating this morning. Wind from the south at 30 km/h gusting to 50. High 22 C, Humidex 25, UV index 3 or moderate.
Some southern Manitoba municipalities intend to seek disaster financial assistance from the province, after a three-day deluge washed out sections of rural roads and flooded basements. Chris Kitching reports.
Some people launched kayaks or canoes on flooded residential streets in the Steinbach area after a deluge of rain this week. Pictured from front to back are Hailey Friesen, Wells Penner, and Seth Friesen. (Supplied)
What’s happening today
Sheila Butler: Other Circumstances, a retrospective exhibition co-curated by Pamela Edmonds and Patrick Mahon, is on view now at the School of Art Gallery at the University of Manitoba, 136 ARTlab, 180 Dafoe Rd. Jen Zoratti has a preview here.
Sheila Butler has modelled a different way of looking — and thinking — throughout her half-century career as an artist, art activist and educator. (John Woods / Free Press)
Lac Seul First Nation member Martha Troian brings her debut picture book to McNally Robinson’s Grant Park location for a launch at 7 p.m. to be hosted by former CBC host Shelagh Rogers.
It’s Powwow Time! tells the story of Bineshii, a young boy learning to dance at his first powwow. The book was illustrated by London, Ont.-based Mushkego Cree artist Hawlii Pichette.
Today’s must-read
Two brazen thefts in two weeks have given a Portage Avenue wine shop a $20,000 hangover.
Kate and Scott Holden, who have owned and operated The Pourium, formerly De Luca Fine Wines, at 942 Portage Ave. for nearly 18 years, say they’ve never seen anything like it.
The incidents, on Sept. 14 and the Labour Day weekend, were caught on security footage. It showed thieves packing shopping baskets with dozens of bottles of the most expensive wines they could grab. Malak Abas has the story.
Scott Holden, co-owner of The Pourium, said thieves acted like they were shopping, picking and choosing bottles to steal. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On the bright side
Workeabeba Asfaw is feeling thrilled these days: the Ethiopian emigrant is officially a homeowner.
Asfaw, husband Addis Aboye and their two young sons were among the 15 families who received keys for their newly built homes from Habitat for Humanity Manitoba during a ceremony Wednesday.
The families are the first to move into the Pandora Avenue West development in Transcona, Habitat Manitoba’s largest and most ambitious project to date. Aaron Epp has more here.
Workeabeba Asfaw and Addis Aboye with their son, Eyoab, 5, inside their almost completed home. ‘Having a home means everything,’ says Asfaw. (Mike Deal / Free Press)
On this date
On Sept. 19, 1969: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Manitoba’s first-ever NDP budget came down, raising income tax to the highest of any province, which would take effect Jan. 1; personal income tax would rise by six percentage points and corporation tax would rise by two percentage points. However, predicted increases in taxes on cigarettes and alcohol were not part of the budget. In Ottawa, the defence minister announced Canadian Forces numbers would be reduced by 20,000. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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