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Sunny, with fog patches dissipating this morning. Wind from the south at 20 km/h becoming light this morning. High 8 C, UV index 1 or low.
What’s happening today
An old brown file folder, inherited from her uncle, sent Toronto-based journalist Tanya Talaga down a path that wound its way through generations of her family’s history — and the impact, past and present, of Indian residential schools on Indigenous communities across Canada. Years of research and investigative journalism led to her book The Knowing, which Talaga launches in conversation with David A. Robertson tonight at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson Booksellers, 1120 Grant Ave.
Tanya Talaga (Shalan and Paul photo)
Today’s must-read
Winnipeg needs more roving photo radar vehicles to nail speeders anywhere in the city — not just by schools, playgrounds and construction zones, which are the only locations allowed under legislation, the chairman of the Winnipeg Police Board says.
“We don’t have radar on residential streets, just collector streets, but now we see vehicles going high speed into residential areas,” said Coun. Markus Chambers.
He wants the provincial government to green-light a major expansion of the photo radar program and amend the law that governs its operation. Kevin Rollason has the story.
A Winnipeg Police anti-speeding campaign public survey asks Winnipeggers if they’d like to see photo radar expanded to residential areas. (Mike Deal / Free Press files)
On the bright side
Volcanoes were erupting on the mysterious far side of the moon billions of years ago just like on the side that we can see, new research confirms.
Researchers analyzed lunar soil brought back by China’s Chang’e-6, the first spacecraft to return with a haul of rocks and dirt from the little-explored far side.
Two separate teams found fragments of volcanic rock that were about 2.8 billion years old. One piece was even more ancient, dating back to 4.2 billion years. The Associated Press has more here.
The lander-ascender combination of Chang’e-6 probe taken by a mini rover after it landed on the moon surface, June 4. (China National Space Administration / Xinhua The Associated Press files)
On this date
On Nov. 15, 1967: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Ottawa, the trade and commerce minister denied the federal government was “torpedoeing” the recommendations of the McIvor commission on freshwater fish marketing. Mental institutions in Portage la Prairie, Brandon and Selkirk were likely to end the practice of burying former patients in on-site graveyards, and would be taking better care of their existing cemeteries. In California, former child movie star Shirley Temple Black, attempting an entry into politics, was defeated for the Republican party nomination for San Mateo County’s 11th district seat. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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