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Clearing this morning. Wind becoming west at 20 km/h near noon. High 4 C, wind chill -5 this morning. UV index 1 or low.
What’s happening today
Award-winning children’s author (and Free Press children’s books columnist) Harriet Zaidman returns with a young-adult novel that explores Canada’s abortion debate in the 1980s.
Zaidman launches What Friends Are For at McNally Robinson’s Grant Park location tonight at 7 p.m., where she’ll be joined by Shelagh Rogers. For more on Zaidman’s latest book, Martin Zeilig has a full preview here.
Winnipeg author Harriet Zaidman’s latest book draws on both historical research and personal stories. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
Today’s must-read
A 35-year-old Winnipeg man has been charged in a five-month spree of arson attacks against the constituency offices of two NDP government cabinet ministers, downtown restaurants and bars and other locations.
Jesse Robert Shawn Wheatland is accused of 22 arson, break-in and damage-related offences at 11 locations since June 11, including fires at offices of Families Minister Nahanni Fontaine and Housing, Addictions and Homelessness Minister Bernadette Smith.
“We believe Wheatland was acting alone when he attended these locations, causing damage by breaking windows, lighting fires and, in some cases, both,” Winnipeg Police Service Insp. Jennifer McKinnon said at a news conference. Chris Kitching and Scott Billeck have the story.
The Exchange Event Centre was among the restaurants and bars that were damaged. (Nicole Buffie / Free Press files)
On the bright side
When workers began pouring concrete at a resort construction site in southwestern Utah, they were met with a surprise: a great horned owl appeared in the slurry as it emptied from the truck, its body coated with the mixture.
Workers came to the bird’s aid, hosing it down before the environmental affairs director at the Black Desert Resort wrapped it in a towel and made a call to state wildlife officials. The Associated Press has more here.
Small animals manager Sierra Medlin examines the wing of an owl that was taken to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, Utah, after it fell into a concrete mixer. (Best Friends Animal Sanctuary / The Associated Press)
On this date
On Nov. 20, 1968: The Winnipeg Free Press reported a 12-year-old newpaper carrier was killed while riding his bicycle when he was struck by a truck and then three additional vehicles. In West Virginia, explosions in a slope-shaft mine set off fires that trapped up to 70 miners. In Ottawa, the federal health minister made public a list of tar and nicotine levels in all brands of cigarettes sold in Canada. Search our archives for more here.
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