Your forecast
Mainly cloudy. Wind becoming south at 20 km/h early this afternoon. High 7 C, wind chill -5 this morning. UV index 2 or low.
What’s happening today
Filmmaker Kevin Smith (Mallrats, Clerks, Dogma) is in town to promote a screening of Malcolm Ingram’s documentary Phantom of Winnipeg, about Peg City’s unique obsession with Phantom of the Paradise, Brian De Palma’s nihilistic 1974 rock-musical. Conrad Sweatman has a preview here.
William Finley starred as a spurned musician in Phantom of the Paradise. (Supplied)
The Winnipeg Jets face the Columbus Blue Jackets at the Nationwide Arena, starting at 6 p.m.
Today’s must-read
A Winnipeg mother is raising concerns about security at Health Sciences Centre’s mental-health crisis response centre, after she says no one stopped her son from walking out of the 24-7 facility.
The woman, who asked not to be named to protect her 20-year-old son’s privacy, said her older son found him walking in the Polo Park area — a few kilometres from HSC — about eight hours later.
“Why does a family have to be left to their own devices?” said the mother. “I’m just furious. When I needed help, I didn’t have it.” Chris Kitching has the story.
Past incidents have led to concerns about security and supervision protocols at the HSC’s Crisis Response Centre site on Bannatyne Avenue. (Mike Deal / Free Press files)
On the bright side
Archaeologists using laser-sensing technology have detected what may be an ancient Mayan city cloaked by jungle in southern Mexico, authorities said Wednesday.
The lost city, dubbed Valeriana by researchers after the name of a nearby lagoon, may have been as densely settled as the better-known pre-Hispanic metropolis of Calakmul, in the south part of the Yucatan peninsula.
What the study, published this week in the journal Antiquity, suggests is that much of the seemingly empty, jungle-clad space between known Maya sites may once have been very heavily populated. The Associated Press has more here.
On this date
On Nov. 1, 1985: The Winnipeg Free Press reported a Seven Oaks Youth Centre staff member said the province was to blame for assaults on two Seven Oaks workers by a young woman; the attacks had been predicted days earlier but the province ignored the warnings, and the facility was understaffed and overcrowded, the staff member said. In Geneva, U.S. and Soviet representatives met for talks on reducing nuclear arms. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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