Free Press Head Start for Nov. 2

Good morning.

Faculty at the University of Manitoba are hitting the picket lines after a midnight strike deadline passed. The faculty association’s president will give an update on the situation later this morning. The last such strike, in 2016, spanned three weeks.

Police investigating outside the YMCA on Fermor Avenue had part of the area in front of the building taped off Monday night. No details were available early today.

Voters in New York, the largest city in the U.S., will elect a new mayor today. Many other elections are also happening across the U.S., including a governor’s race in Virginia. In Minneapolis, voters will decide whether to disband the police department and create a new public safety agency in the wake of George Floyd’s killing.

The Astros, seeking to become one of the few teams to overcome a 3-1 deficit in the World Series, can force a Game 7 with a win over the Atlanta Braves in Houston tonight.

— Adam Treusch, assignment editor

What’s happening today

Manitoba's newly elected Progressive Conservative Leader and the province's new premier, Heather Stefanson, speaks at a victory party after defeating Shelly Glover in a leadership race in Winnipeg, Saturday. (John Woods / The Canadian Press files)

Manitoba’s newly elected Progressive Conservative Leader and the province’s new premier, Heather Stefanson, speaks at a victory party after defeating Shelly Glover in a leadership race in Winnipeg, Saturday. (John Woods / The Canadian Press files)

Stefanson to be sworn in: Heather Stefanson is set to be sworn in as the province’s first woman premier at 2 p.m. The lawyer representing defeated Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Shelly Glover wants the ceremony to be postponed because of questions about ballots. Carol Sanders reports. READ MORE

Set to speak: Winnipeg Jets general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff and Jets co-owner and chairman Mark Chipman are expected to speak about Cheveldayoff’s involvement in the Chicago Blackhawks sex assault scandal. Monday’s expected media availability was postponed because Chipman was suffering from vertigo. The Jets GM has not publicly discussed his role in the investigation. Cheveldayoff is the only person still employed in the NHL who attended a 2010 meeting in which the allegations were discussed. Mike McIntyre has a column. READ MORE

Seeing Stars: The Winnipeg Jets face the Dallas Stars tonight in their first home game since before the report on the Blackhawks sex assault scandal was released. The NHL later ruled Cheveldayoff’s role in the matter did not warrant disciplinary action. READ MORE

Plan for The Pas: The Manitoba Métis Federation will announce a multi-million dollar investment in The Pas that includes “affordable housing, a new daycare centre, a public park and a community garden.” READ MORE

COVID-19 shots for kids: A special advisory panel to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will meet to consider detailed recommendations for administering the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to younger children. The Food and Drug Administration has already cleared the use of the vaccine. The Associated Press reports.

Weather

Your forecast: A mix of sun and cloud with a high of 2 C, wind chill as low as -6 this morning and wind from the west at 15 km/h.

In case you missed it

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers a short speech at at the 26th meeting of the Council of Parties to the UN climate convention, known as COP26, in Glasgow, Scotland, on Monday, Nov. 1, 2021. Trudeau will push the world to negotiate a minimum price on pollution at the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow today. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

PM on carbon pricing: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is pushing for 60 per cent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions to be covered by carbon pricing in 2030. He made a speech at the COP26 climate talks in Scotland this morning. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE

‘Conspiracy mindset’ probed: Elections Canada conducted its first stand-alone survey on the level of trust in the electoral process in April. The survey included questions about how many respondents held a “conspiracy mindset.” The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE

On this date

On Nov. 2, 1934: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Franco-German animosity over the Saar basin continued to increase. British MP Winston Churchill continued to warn that the Nazi “reign of terror” within Germany was meant to hide the country’s rapid rearmament in contravention of the Treaty of Versailles. Three men were convicted on charges arising out of unrest during a mine strike in The Pas.

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