Your forecast
Mainly sunny. Wind becoming south at 20 km/h early this morning then southeast at 40 gusting to 60 early this afternoon. High 17 C. UV index 3 or moderate.
What’s happening today
📕 Former Winnipegger Don MacDonald will launch his latest thriller The Faithful at 6:30 p.m. at Whodunit? Mystery Bookstore (163 Lilac St.).
🏒 The Winnipeg Jets face the Pittsburgh Penguins at PPG Paints Arena at 6:30 p.m., with the newest member of the Jets, Clay Stevenson, set to start as goalie. Ken Wiebe has a preview here.
Goaltender Clay Stevenson during his first NHL game against the Pittsburgh Penguins in Pittsburgh on April 17, 2025. (Gene J. Puskar / The Associated Press files)
Today’s must-read
There’s an undercurrent of unhappiness running through the Winnipeg electorate as the municipal election day approaches.
One-half of Winnipeggers believe the city is heading in the wrong direction, according to a new Abacus Data poll, with nearly one-third unsure if Winnipeg is regressing or progressing.
Only 21 per cent of residents believe the city is on the right track, the Free Press-commissioned poll found.
That discontentment extends to how the city spends its tax dollars, with four in 10 Winnipeggers believing they receive poor value for what they pay in property taxes. Matthew Frank has the story.
On the bright side
Like most 12-year-olds, there’s nothing Ruby Barkley enjoys more than a tall glass of lemonade. So when she decided to set up a lemonade stand, Ruby’s Sips + Sweets, in her neighbourhood last month, her mom was only too happy to say yes.
Especially since Ruby had decided she was going to donate proceeds of the sales to West Broadway Youth Outreach (WBYO), a non-profit organization providing recreational and life-skills programming for children aged four and up.
Ruby had set up lemonade stands in the past and was accustomed to serving up glasses from a pitchers of drink she’d already pre-made, but this time round she chose to do something different. AV Kitching has more here.
Ruby Barkley sold 119 cups of lemonade at her stand and donated the proceeds to West Broadway Youth Outreach. (Supplied)
On this date
On Oct. 5, 1925: The Manitoba Free Press reported a new British dirigible, seen as the answer to predictions the flying technology was a fallacy in the wake of the Shenandoah disaster, would be launched in the coming days. A farmer from St. Charles was killed when he was struck by an automobile at Portage Avenue and Sherbrook Street.
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