Your forecast
Mainly cloudy with a 60 per cent chance of showers. Wind from the south at 20 km/h becoming west 20 this morning. High 6 C. UV index 1 or low.
What’s happening today
Tonight at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson’s Grant Park location, two Winnipeg educators launch the latest book in a series aimed at improving Indigenous education in the classroom.
Renewal: Indigenous Perspectives on Land-Based Education In and Beyond the Classroom is the second book in the Footbridge series from Winnipeg’s Portage & Main Press.
The editors of Renewal, educator/artist Katya Adamov Ferguson and Anishinaabe educator and curriculum developer Christine M’Lot, will be on hand for the launch.
Today’s must-read
Seven hundred people were living in 100 homeless camps in Winnipeg two months ago, says a report that outlines the protocol to remove the sites from many public spaces, including playgrounds and schools.
In September, city council voted to prohibit encampments from transit shelters, playgrounds, pools, spray pads, recreation facilities, schools, daycares, adult care facilities, medians, traffic islands, bridges, docks, piers, rail lines and rail crossings, as well as wherever the camps obstruct traffic or pose a “life safety issue.”
On Wednesday, the city released its policy and protocol to implement the new rules. Joyanne Pursaga has the story.
The question whether the city should allow encampments in a designated area was raised by a newcomer to Winnipeg, a homeless man coming from Toronto who is seeking work here. “(Winnipeg) should take a page from Vancouver or Halifax,” says Jonah, referencing cities that have allowed designated encampment spaces. Scott Billeck reports.
An encampment by a playground at Alexander Avenue and Lizzie Street.(Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
On the bright side
FortWhyte Alive’s new Buffalo Crossing visitor centre has thundered past nearly 1,000 submissions to win the prestigious Holcim Foundation Awards.
Opened in April, the 18,000-square-foot facility strong on mass timber and reclaimed materials is one of 20 designs across the world recognized by the awards for sustainable construction. Conrad Sweatman has more here.
The 18,000-square-foot Buffalo Crossing facility at FortWhyte Alive features mass timber and reclaimed materials. (Anthony Urso photo)
On this date
On Oct. 30, 1965: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that the British prime minister Harold Wilson said the demand by African nationalist leaders that Britain attempt to solve all of Rhodesia’s constitutional problems with a military invasion was out. In Montreal, CNR shipments of wheat to the Lakehead had picked up to the point the railway was exceeding daily quotas set by the Canadian Wheat Board. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
Get the full story: Read today’s e-edition of the Free Press.
|
