Your forecast
Expect a mix of sun and cloud today with a high of 19 C and a low of 9 C. Winds will come from the south, gusting between 40 to 60 km/h.
What’s happening today
Bryan Adams is playing the Canada Life Centre. The concert begins at 8 p.m. and tickets are available for as low as $28.75.
Today’s must-read
Winnipeg Jets co-owner Mark Chipman, one of the city’s most prominent business leaders, decried the “humanitarian crisis” of homelessness and drug addiction in Winnipeg’s downtown Tuesday. Carol Sanders and Danielle Da Silva have the story.
On the bright side
Gail Johnson has made history in the Rural Municipality of Grey, becoming the first female to win a local council seat in 116 years. The RM is located 73 kilometres southwest of Winnipeg and home to around 2,500 residents. She credits her success to what she calls the “old school” approach of knocking on doors and listening to residents’ concerns. Malak Abas has more.
On this date
On Nov. 2, 1944, the Winnipeg Free Press reported residents were complaining about excessive bus traffic along Woseley Avenue near Sherburn and Garfield Streets. Thirty people signed a petition saying an area where two bus lines converged, then known as “The Loop,” was too much for them to bear. W.P. Fillmore, who represented the residents, said conditions were “not only annoying, but intolerable because of noise, smoke, inconvenience and danger,” adding things would only worsen in the winter.
Overseas in London, England, German radio broadcasters announced the Japanese had a “new secret weapon” called Kamikaze planes, which were loaded with explosives and flown by “death pilots” trained to intentionally crash into the sides of allied warships.
Today’s front page
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