Your forecast
Increasing cloudiness early this morning, with a 30 per cent chance of showers this morning. Wind becoming southeast at 20 km/h gusting to 40 this morning then increasing to 40 gusting to 60 this afternoon. High 17 C. UV index 2 or low.
What’s happening today
📕 Toronto-born Enshittification author Cory Doctorow returns with his musings on artificial intelligence (AI) in his new book, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence — Before It’s Too Late, which he launches tonight at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson’s Grant Park location.
Cory Doctorow (Wojtek Kutyla photo)
Today’s must-read
Ride-service drivers have been defrauding Manitoba Public Insurance by improperly insuring their vehicles as for personal use.
The public insurer and the City of Winnipeg, which regulates ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft, discovered the widespread fraud after MPI conducted a review in December last year.
“When a driver changes their coverage from ride-share insurance to a personal vehicle coverage and continues to operate as a ride-share driver, that is fraud, plain and simple,” said MPI chief executive officer Satvir Jatana at a news conference Thursday. Erik Pindera has the story.
MPI CEO Satvir Jatana (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On the bright side
It’s a grey September afternoon and a small group is gathered for a special behind-the-scenes visit with Assiniboine Park Zoo’s newest resident.
“Heeeeere, bubba,” animal-care specialist Caitlin Gordon-Hall hollers from between a double layer of chain-link fencing.
After a beat, a small white face appears at the entrance of the private enclosure. The polar bear cub sniffs the air before trundling toward the fence, where his keepers have been working to encourage calm behaviour around humans ahead of his public debut on Thursday.
The cub, whose official zoo name will be chosen by public voting, is an orphan.
It’s been an intensive period of relearning for the cub, who, prior to arriving at the zoo in August, spent his days roaming the tundra near Churchill. Eva Wasney has more here.
The latest addition to the polar bear family at the Assiniboine Park Conservancy arrived at the zoo from Churchill in August. (Mike Deal / Free Press)
On this date
On Oct. 9, 1975: The Winnipeg Free Press reported seniors were feeling the financial pinch as apartment rental rates climbed as much as 40 per cent, with one woman declaring, “I’ll be beggared in three years.” Canada would increase its crude oil export charge levied on U.S. purchases of western crude oil by $1.05 a barrel on Nov. 1.
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