What you need to know
MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSStarting this season, you can’t print Jets tickets at home (or for arena or Burton Cummings concerts), you have to have a smartphone. Now, using the NHL app, you can the access the Bell MTS Place box-office and purchase tickets for concerts and events.
Digital revolution: Fans attending Jets games, concerts or other events at Bell MTS Place and the Burton Cummings Theatre will no longer be able to print their tickets. Ben Waldman reports. READ MORE
Watchdog weighs decision: The independent unit that investigates cops in Manitoba is deciding whether to look into testimony RCMP officers were complicit in sexual assaults allegedly committed by Hydro workers decades ago. Dylan Robertson reports. READ MORE
Outdated attic: A Southdale apartment block gutted in a weekend blaze had an open attic, a design construction codes have since prohibited. “Today’s fire code limits the open attic space to limit the amount of fire spread,” said Vladimir Chlistovsky, president of the Canadian Association of Fire Investigators. Ryan Thorpe reports. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Today will be cloudy with a high of 17 C and wind from the northeast at 10 km/h for most of the morning and afternoon.
What’s happening today
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland
Talking trade: Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland will be in Washington, D.C., to try to restart trade talks after the U.S. and Mexico reached a bilateral agreement. ”We will only sign a new NAFTA that is good for Canada and good for the middle class,” a spokesman for Freeland said Monday. READ MORE
A ‘safer’ downtown: Downtown Winnipeg BIZ and Mayor Brian Bowman will announce data on how the Enviro Team makes downtown “cleaner and safer,” and “move revitalization forward” with a public-private partnership. Meanwhile, the stepfather of a victim of a disturbingly violent incident in Central Park is criticizing Bowman for remaining “silent” on crime. Erik Pindera reports. READ MORE
Farewell to Franklin: A public viewing for singer Aretha Franklin starts today at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit. Thousands are expected to pay their final respects. READ MORE
On this date
On Aug. 28, 1920: The Manitoba Free Press reported that a threatened strike by coal workers gripped London; boy employees in the mines, those aged 14-18, were voting heavily in favour of a strike. Canadian shipbuilders urged the government for a direct subsidy for every ton of shipping built in the Dominion in order to save the industry from ruin. In Manitoba, bush fires raged from Shoal Lake to Winnipeg Beach. READ MORE
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