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Hockey heritage: Winnipeg was the hub of the hockey world over the weekend, with the Heritage Classic packing Investors Group Field on both Saturday and Sunday. It was all wonderful fun, until the puck dropped in the NHL game between the Winnipeg Jets and the Edmonton Oilers: As sports columnist Paul Wiecek writes: “A week that was all about hockey memories and tradition and, yes, ‘heritage’ ended Sunday in really the only way it was ever going to end — with the Oilers once again spoiling the party, just for old times’ sake.” READ MORE
Your forecast: Extra caution is advised when driving this morning with fog patches reducing visibility in some areas. The high today will be 7 C. The temperature will dip below freezing overnight, to a low of -1.
In case you missed it
CAROL SANDERS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSSelkirk RCMP are investigating after human remains were found on the banks of the Red River near East Selkirk Saturday.
Skull found: A fisher on the edge of the Red River about 43 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg made a grisly discovery on Saturday: a skull that looks human. Authorities have not yet said whether the remains are recent or ancient. Carol Sanders reports. READ MORE
New shopping district: A new open-air shopping development called Kildonan Place Shopping Centre will proceed on the south side of Reenders Drive between Stapon Road and Peguis Street. It’s the first major new retail project in the area in more than a decade. Shindico Realty expects the new centre to be full developed by the fall of 2020, with about 30 tenants, including retail stores, restaurants, a grocery store and maybe a hotel. Murray McNeill reports. READ MORE
Up next
CPAndre Alexis
Andre Alexis: The red-hot author, who won both the Giller Prize and the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize last year, is in Winnipeg in support of The Hidden Keys, his latest novel. It’s the third in a planned five-volume collection in which Alexis examines philosophical themes of faith, place, power and hatred. He’s signing at McNally Robinson at 7 p.m.
Hospital safety: A major study on hospital safety will be released on Tuesday from the Canadian Institute for Health Information, an independent, not-for-profit organization. The study will share results of a pan-Canadian study on harm rates in Canadian hospitals.
Around the water cooler
BILL REDEKOP / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSA poster advertising the photo contest in Thompson.
All about wolves: Thompson, Man., is growing its reputation as the “Wolf Capital of the World.” A huge painting of a wolf decorates the side of the city’s tallest building. Thompson copied the Bears on Broadway idea from Winnipeg, only with 53 multicoloured wolf statues. And a popular contest rewards pictures or videos of local wolf sightings, which are frequent on the outskirts of Thompson. Bill Redekop reports. READ MORE
Equity injection?: Hydro officials have floated the idea of an “equity injection” from provincial general revenues to help the utility reduce its debt resulting from new generating stations and a new transmission line. Columnist Dan Lett opines: “Asking the province to divert money from program spending or borrow to help ease the debt-to-equity equation at Hydro doesn’t solve the big problem, which is a consolidated budget that features too much debt.” READ MORE
Trending now
#TrumpaNovel: Last week it was Trumped-up book reviews trending on Twitter, this week it’s Trump at the heart of creating literature, with such titles as “Prejudice and Prejudice,” “The Great Grabsy,” “The Lord of the Wrongs” and “Sophie Would Not Be My First Choice.”
On this date
On Oct. 24, 1970: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that U.S. president Richard Nixon had invited the Soviet Union to engage in “peaceful competition” in place of the arms race. In Quebec, police sought five men in connection with terrorist kidnappings carried out by the Front de Liberation du Quebec, including that of provincial labour minister Pierre Laporte, who was found killed. In Manitoba, Highways minister Joe Borowski said the federal government was doing what was necessary to find Laporte’s murderers, but MLA Cy Gonick said the invocation of the War Measures Act was an infringement on the civil liberties of all Canadians. READ MORE
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