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What’s happening today
Toronto novelist Terry Fallis lands in Winnipeg today to launch his new novel about a thriller writer turned CSIS operative trying to help trapped Canadian gold miners escape a politically unstable Mali.
Fallis launches The Marionette at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson Booksellers’ Grant Park location, where he’ll be joined in converation by marketing/communications whiz and Free Press book reviewer Deborah Bowers. Ben Sigurdson has a full preview here.
Toronto-based novelist Terry Fallis’s 10th book is set in the midst of a CSIS operation in Mali. (Tim Fallis photo)
Today’s must-read
Manitoba’s NDP government will open the third session of the 43rd legislature today with a pledge to have a supervised drug consumption facility up and running in January, the Free Press has learned.
The speech from the throne will, for the first time in the province’s history, be presented in English, French and Anishinaabemowin, the Manitoba dialect of the Ojibwa or Anishinaabe peoples.
And, after relying on an American company to sell provincial park passes and hunting and fishing licences for the past five years, Winnipeg-based Online Business Systems has been contracted to take over starting in 2026. The new deal is expected to create about 40 local jobs, a source said. Dan Lett, Tom Brodbeck and Julia-Simone Rutgers have more here.
After two years of listening tours and announcing plans, it’s time for the Kinew government to take action, say anti-poverty supporters and members of Manitoba’s business community ahead of Tuesday’s throne speech. Carol Sanders reports.
Lt.-Gov. Anita Neville (centre) will open the third session of the 43rd legislature today. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press files)
As well, today’s provincial throne speech will announce the construction of an overpass at an intersection near Carberry, the site of a bus crash that killed 17 seniors two years ago, the Brandon Sun has learned.
The decision came after pressure from the community to abandon a tentative plan to construct a restricted crossing U-turn, or RCUT, at the intersection of the Trans-Canada Highway and Highway 5. Alex Lambert has the story.
A memorial sits at the intersection of the Trans Canada Highway and Highway 5, north of Carberry – not far from the scene of a deadly bus crash in 2023 that killed 17 seniors. (Tim Smith / The Brandon Sun)
On the bright side
Thousands more children will get nutritious snacks to eat on weekends thanks to Harvest Manitoba.
Harvest’s Meals2Go program is expanding from its current size — helping 5,000 students from kindergarten to Grade 8 — to assisting 7,000 each week at 21 schools in Winnipeg, Brandon, Thompson and Opaskwayak Cree Nation near The Pas.
Harvest executive director Vince Barletta said the program helps ensure no child goes hungry over the weekend. Kevin Rollason has more here.
Grade five students Jordan Musseau (left), Elisha Tardeen, and Charles Malonzo pack meals at Harvest Manitoba’s Meals2Go program kickoff on Monday. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On this date
On Nov. 18, 1938: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that trade barriers between the U.S. and Canada, and between the U.S. and the U.K., had been substantially lowered; as a result Canadian wheat would no longer enjoy prereferential treatment from the U.K. Two Trans-Canada Alliance pilots who were stationed in Winnipeg died in a plane crash two miles west of Regina. Search our archives for more here.
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