Your forecast
A mix of sun and cloud, becoming sunny by noon with some haze. Expected high is 25 C, humidex 28 and UV index 6 or high..
What’s happening today
Today, Liquor Mart employees will resume stocking shelves and selling booze in almost all outlets across the province, after striking for the better part of the summer. At the same time, call centre workers and their unionized colleagues at Manitoba Public Insurance will stage a walkout amid stalled contract negotiations. Maggie Macintosh has the story.
MGEU president Kyle Ross (John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press)
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights will screen Chile: A History in Exile by Winnipeg director Cecilia Araneda at 7 p.m. today. It delves into what she discovered upon returning to Chile in 1995. Her parents had sought refuge in Canada following the 1973 coup d’etat, in which the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende was replaced by a military dictatorship under Augusto Pinochet. Graham McDonald reports on this and other events being held in the city to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the coup.
Artist and community activist Beatriz Barahona (right), with Winnipeg Chilean Association Committee chair Bernardo Jorquera, display a commemorative arpillera. (Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press)
Today’s must-read
Over the decades, the Hudson’s Bay store building on Portage Avenue has told many stories — of the historic Hudson’s Bay Company’s influence and power, of a growing Prairie city’s ambition and optimism, of the fate of the big downtown department store, from its grand ascendancy to its slow, sad decline.
Now, with the six-storey, 655,000 square-foot structure beginning a years-long transformation into a multiuse facility under the auspices of the Southern Chiefs’ Organization, the Hudson’s Bay building is telling a new Indigenous narrative — a story of historic and economic reconciliation that reckons with a complicated colonial past and looks to a better future for all Winnipeggers. Alison Gillmor has the story.
The Hudson’s Bay Co. store on Portage Ave. in Winnipeg. (The Archives of Manitoba)
On the bright side
Lego Braille Bricks are a building block toward providing play-based accessible and inclusive tools in schools to support students who are blind or visually impaired. Tessa Adamski talks to Michael Baker, resource teacher at Springfield Collegiate Institute, about using them to teach Braille literacy and numeracy.
Michael Baker is using Lego Braille bricks not only to help students with visual impairments, but to foster increased Braille literacy and inclusion. (Mike Thiessen / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On Aug. 28, 1925: The Manitoba Free Press reported two children, a seven-year-old boy and a five-year-old girl, died when their Burrows Avenue home was destroyed in an early-morning fire; their mother was in serious condition from shock and asphyxiation, and a niece of the family was in hospital suffering cuts and bruises from jumping through a window to escape. The family’s father was at work when the fire occurred. In London, the former director of the British Natural History Museum said the last direct descendent of the common ancestor between humans and apes could be living in Borneo. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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