Your forecast
Clearing early this morning, with fog patches dissipating this morning. Wind from the southwest at 20 km/h increasing to 40 gusting to 60 near noon. High 25 C. Humidex 29. UV index 6 or high.
What’s happening today
Sunday marked Recovery Day Winnipeg and today is International Overdose Awareness Day. On Sept. 12, Adult and Teen Challenge Central Canada will also celebrate the grand opening of its community services office at 1020 Main St., part of an effort to expand access to addiction support and meet growing demand for recovery services across central Canada. Scott Billeck has more here.
Ray Ducharme says his recovery has given him purpose. (John Woods / Free Press)
Today’s must-read
School crossing guards are preparing to resume their posts on busy corners across the Winnipeg School Division, but Luna Zúñiga isn’t one of them.
Zúñiga hung up her high-visibility vest about 30 months ago after she was struck by a motorist while escorting a child through a pedestrian crosswalk on Grant Avenue at Lanark Street.
Zúñiga protected the child, who wasn’t hurt, but the educational assistant at nearby J.B. Mitchell School suffered life-altering injuries, including nerve damage that limits her stamina, range of motion and makes her left leg “feel like it’s burning all the time.”
Winnipeg’s 30 km/h school zones return on Tuesday — a full week before the 2026-27 school year starts — following a summer hiatus. They are in effect every weekday, from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., from Sept. 1 until July 1. Maggie Macintosh has the story.
Former school crossing guard Luna Zúñiga supports lowering the limit and doing so on a year-round basis. (Mike Deal / Free Press)
On the bright side
When Bree-Ann Jubinville first met the eight-year-old she was going to mentor, she had no idea how much the child would go on to alter the course of her life.
Jubinville was interested in pursuing a career in social work but wasn’t entirely sure which field of practice to specialize in. Being the boy’s mentor clarified her purpose.
“I went to school in social work because I worked with him for four years and I learned from him throughout the whole time. He impacted me career-wise, guided me in the direction I am going today,” she says. AV Kitching has more here.
Bree-Ann Jubinville first heard about mentorship agency Big Brothers Big Sisters of Winnipeg after an acquaintance suggested she would be a good fit as a mentor. (Robert Lee / Free Press)
On this date
On Aug. 31, 1929: The Manitoba Free Press reported four settlements in Manitoba were doomed to destruction by forest fires unless heavy rains came to their aid; residents of Malanton, west of Winnipeg Beach hastily constructed a fireguard as a wall of fire 15 miles long advanced. Elsewhere, Rennie, Berens River and Flin Flon were also in jeopardy.
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