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Mainly cloudy with a 30 per cent chance of showers this morning. Clearing this afternoon. Wind from the north at 30 km/h gusting to 50. High 13 C. UV index 5 or moderate.
What’s happening today
The Assembly of First Nations’ annual general assembly is expected to kick off this morning in Winnipeg, where the federal government’s major infrastructure legislation is set to be debated.
The bill, which passed in June, has seen strong opposition from some First Nations leaders and community members who fear it will infringe on their inherent rights.
National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak says the assembly will hear diverse opinions, including from First Nations leaders who are in support, who are reluctant and some who lack information. The Canadian Press reports.
Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak (Sean Kilpatrick / The Canadian Press files)
Author Roger Turenne will lauch his book, Bit Player on Big Stages: A Journey Through Diplomacy, Advocacy, and Cultural Survival, at McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park location at 7 p.m. Martin Zeilig has more.
Roger Turenne (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
Today’s must-read
Meeting people where they are sits at the core of Main Street Project’s philosophy, long before housing is ever offered.
Outreach teams complete Your Way Home applications with people in homeless encampments, feeding into a waiting list of about 200.
When a unit at MSP’s transitional housing location on Sargent Avenue opens, the van outreach team recommends three people most in need. Internal referrals from shelters, case managers and partners are also reviewed before the best fit is chosen for Mainstay, MSP’s “low-barrier” supportive housing program on Sargent Avenue.
Once selected, residents meet with staff to learn expectations and set housing goals — anything from securing permanent housing to reconnecting with family. Ideally, they’ll stay six to 12 months before moving up the housing ladder.
Since Manitoba’s Your Way Home initiative began, MSP has housed most of the 77 people who are no longer living on the street. Scott Billeck has the story.
Main Street Project housing client Ryan came to Winnipeg after the 2022 flood in Peguis First Nation. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On the bright side
For millennia humans have tried to scare wolves away from their livestock. Most of them didn’t have drones.
But a team of biologists working near the California-Oregon border do, and they’re using them to blast AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck,” movie clips and live human voices at the apex predators to shoo them away from cattle in an ongoing experiment.
“I am not putting up with this anymore!” actor Scarlett Johansson yells in one clip, from the 2019 film Marriage Story. The Associated Press has more here.
Gray wolves halt an attack on a cow at an undisclosed location along the Oregon/California border after a drone emits noises at them. (USDA / The Associated Press files)
On this date
On Sept, 3, 1946: The Winnipeg Free Press reported thousands of Winnipeggers gave a rousing welcome to Field Marshall Montgomery of Alamein, Chief of the Imperial Staff, during his three-hour tour of the city. British troops placed a heavy guard around the port of Haifa after the injury of several British seaman who had boarded the Jewish refugee ship Four Freedoms as it was en route to Tel Aviv. In Manitoba, government liquor stores were stocking 40-ounce bottles of whisky, but not for long. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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