Good morning!
Your forecast: Try to ditch work early today because it will be lovely and the weekend will suck. The last workday of the week will bring mostly sun, with balmy temperatures reaching 26 C. Clouds creep in later in the afternoon with a risk of a thunderstorm overnight. The weekend will be totally grey and rainy, with temperatures dipping to a depressing 16 C on Sunday. Plan to do laundry.
In case you missed it
The house in Easterville where Shelly Lynn Chartier lives with her mother and other family members. It was from this house where Chartier pulled off an incredible scam on the rich and famous through “catfishing.” (Brendan Kennedy / Toronto Star)
A life less impersonated: He’s a millionaire NBA star. She’s a celebrity-obsessed shut-in from Easterville with a Grade Six education. Together they make up just part of a most unusual crime, one that spanned countries, made international headlines and came to a close earlier this week.
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Mulcair melee: NDP leader Thomas Mulcair’s first campaign rally in Winnipeg was punctuated by loud pipeline protesters Thursday evening. They demanded Mulcair oppose the Energy East project, but Mulcair replied with some zingers of his own, earning cheers from the huge crowd of supporters. READ MORE
Who is Benjamin Perrin: Most Canadians had never heard of the former lawyer for Prime Minster Stephen Harper – until Thursday. During testimony in the trial of Sen. Mike Duffy, Benjamin Perrin said the PM’s current chief of staff, Ray Novak, was told at least twice about the plan to cover Duffy’s disputed expenses. The Conservatives have maintained Novak never heard of the plan for his predecessor, Nigel Wright, to come up with the $90,000 from his own pocket.
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Smoking Hawg’s Bernie Lutzer will be defending his title as the festival’s barbecue grand champion.
Time to unwind: Head Start readers are a diligent bunch and, undoubtedly, have been productive and responsible all week. This evening, they deserve to start the weekend with fun. Here are four places to get the party started: 1) The Winnipeg BBQ & Blues Street Festival takes over three blocks of Smith Street in front of the Burton Cummings Theatre; 2) Dance on the street to local band Free Ride, Cockburn Street starting at 7 p.m.; 3) Take the kids to Assiniboine Park for free outdoor movies, Cinderella at 7 p.m., Avengers: Age of Ultron at 9:15 p.m.; 4) Drive out to Morden for the Corn and Apple Festival, one of the best community festivals in Manitoba.
Future of the Forks: The public has a chance to view plans for the 12 -acre area known as the rail side lands and Parcel 4 across from the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. While the idea of a waterslide on Parcel 4 was killed by controversy, other ideas will be outlined with nifty drawings at The Forks Market Centre Court from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday. A website containing all images presented at the public update can be found at the link here: READ MORE
Around the water cooler
TREVOR HAGAN / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS filesA woman shovels snow from in front of her Fort Garry house after a heavy snowfall.
Warnings of early winter: There are signs Manitobans could be in for a harsh and snowy winter. The nights are already colder, leaves are turning, geese are gathering and an early harvest is anticipated. But weather experts are cool to the notion. ‘Nature really doesn’t have a crystal ball to see into the future,’ says Environment Canada senior climatologist Dave Phillips. READ MORE
Clinging to hope: The disappearance of 57-year-old Thelma Krull in early July made headlines in the city for weeks. How could a person on a brisk morning walk through East Kildonan and Transcona simply vanish? No new leads have emerged, family members told the Free Press on Thursday. But their hopes have been bolstered by news the Amalgamated Transit Union has doubled its reward for information leading to her safe return. READ MORE
Tiger flashes some teeth: The player himself has seen signs his golf game has improved, but the results didn’t bear it out. Finally, Tiger Woods has the scorecard to prove it. The former titan of pro golf fired a 6-under 64 Thursday in the open round of the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, N.C., his best round in more than two years. Woods hasn’t won a tournament since 2013.
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LEE JIN-MAN / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILESDetails of some of the 37 million people registered on a cheating website are spilling onto the Internet.
#AshleyMadison: While you’re waiting for the big list of cheaters to emerge from the dark web, please savour this slapdown from New York Times contributor Jennifer Weiner on just how stupid 30 million men are: “We’re talking minimal effort here, people. Five minutes, a couple of security questions, a password that isn’t PASSWORD and you’re mywifehasnoidea@comcast.net.”
Kim Jong-un: The North Korean leader has ordered his troops on the country’s heavily armed border with South Korea to prepare for war, after a rare exchange of artillery shells between the two sides.
On this date
On August 21, 1967: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that Winnipeg postal workers would not support a one-day coast-to-coast walkout. Yorkville police arrested 56 hippies during a protest to have the city’s main street closed to traffic. Michigan governor George Romney said a Republican president would have a better chance to end the Vietnam war than U.S. president Lyndon Johnson. Indian Affairs minister Arthur Laing discounted reports of “possible Indian revolts” across Canada as false. Mini-pinis were the latest in teenage fashion. Winnipeg movie theatres were showing You Only Live Twice, Dr. Zhivago, Mutiny on the Bounty, To Sir, With Love, The Dirty Dozen and Barefoot in the Park.
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