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Your weather: The good news: there are sunny skies ahead. The bad news: they’re far ahead. Today is supposed to be much like Thursday, with cloudy skies, drizzle, chance of a thunderstorm and high of 25 C. Saturday has a 40 per cent chance of rain and a high of 26. But Sunday? That wonderful day will live up to its moniker of sun-day. Skies on Sunday will be clear, with a high of 25. And it will only get warmer in subsequent days, as Monday through Wednesday will also be clear, with temperatures between 27 and 30 C.
In case you missed it
Frank Gunn / THE CANADIAN PRESSGreen Party leader Elizabeth May speaks to members of the media after taking part in the first leaders’ debate.
The big debate: The first debate of the federal election campaign was Thursday evening, and everyone who watched it has an opinion. Here are the opinions of Free Press political pundit Dan Lett: Stephen Harper is “one cool cat”; Thomas Mulcair “looked awkward and stiff”; Justin Trudeau became “agitated and muddled.” Elizabeth May was “best overall debater.” Do you disagree with Lett? Go ahead, he enjoys it. READ MORE
Was Chris sleepwalking: TV personality Chris Hyndman was likely sleepwalking when he plunged to his death, according to his mother. Glenda Hyndman said Thursday her son, the co-star of the CBC design show Steven and Chris, was a frequent sleepwalker who even foraged for food without being aware of it. He fell to his death from the terrace of his downtown Toronto home late Monday evening.
Up next
Tribune Media MCTBig Hero 6
Best parents ever: Want to be a hero with your young family? Take the kids to Lyric Theatre at Assiniboine Park tonight at 7 to watch a free movie on a eight-metre screen as the popular Movie in the Park series returns for its fifth season. Get there early and take kids’ pictures with the zoo’s polar bear mascot and Gogo Tomago of Big Hero 6, the first of two films tonight.
Helping Harvest: At noon today, male dancers from the Australian review Thunder From Down Under will help Winnipeg Harvest by packing groceries at Ellman’s Food Products, 647 Jarvis Ave. A press release jokes that, specifically, the guys will be packing pickles.
Around the water cooler
Folklorama Food Fight: It was a nail-biter, but in the end one single vote put varenyky ahead of souvlaki… and the Ukrainian dumpling moves on to face off against the Cuban pulled pork sandwich in the Folklorama Food Fight. Voting on the final round of Week One will continue through Sunday, giving gastrophiles the weekend to visit the Cuban and Ukrainian pavilions for final taste tests. READ MORE
The Daily Show ends: Jon Stewart bid farewell Thursday evening in a special double-length show and, not surprisingly, he encouraged people to speak out against pomposity and duplicity. “The best defence against bullsh** is vigilance so if you smell something… say something.” READ MORE
Trending now
Top tweeters: It’s inevitable the federal election campaign will prompt zillions of tweets but, in the Twitterspere, no one wants to sort through a ton of gravel to find the few gems. The Free Press can help. We are curating astute political minds who will join four Free Press pundits and tweet regularly at https://twitter.com/WinnipegNews/lists/wpg-election-pundits. The Free Press contributors will include Mary Agnes Welch (@mawwelch), Mia Rabson (@mrabson), Kristin Annable (@kristinannable) and Dan Lett (@danlett). They can be your personal team of election insiders. READ MORE
#MyMotherAlwaysToldMe: Here’s an example of reflections from this growing string of motherly tips: “Mother always told me if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all…no wonder why my school classmates thought I was shy.”
On this date
On August 7, 1979: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that seven people died in an Ilford house fire, believed to have been caused by a wood-burning stove. Participants in the ninth annual Smoke and Fish Derby on Scotty’s Island near Kenora enjoyed catching fish and smoking marijuana while police watched from the shore. Folklorama ’79 was about to start on the coming weekend, with 37 pavilions, and 30,000 people attended Íslendingadagurinn, the Icelandic Festival, in Gimli. Rallies and “die-ins” around the world commemorated the 34th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Japan. The number of forest fires in Manitoba for the year had reached 533. READ MORE
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