Your forecast
Sunny with a high of – 7 C, wind chill as low as – 22 C and wind from the northwest at 30 km/h gusting to 50 km/h.
What’s happening today
The second show of DreamPlay Small Concerts sees Scott Nolan performing his songs and stories with Glenn Buhr on piano at the Winnipeg Art Gallery at 7:30 p.m. Admission is pay-what-you-can, and seats have to be reserved in advance. Ticket and seat information can be found here.
Author R.H. Thomson launches his new book, By the Ghost Light tonight at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson, where he will be joined in conversation by Brazilian-born Winnipeg actor and director Rodrigo Beilfuss, the artistic director of Shakespeare in the Ruins, before signing copies of the book. Admission to the Grant Park event is free and will also be streamed on YouTube.
Today’s must-read
A 20-year-old Winnipeg man has admitted responsibility for his part in a shocking Canada Day attack at The Forks that sent a Ukrainian refugee to hospital with stab wounds to his neck. Dean Pritchard has the story.
The sidewalk along Israel Asper Way, where an incident occurred on Canada Day that resulted in two victims being taken two hospital. (Mike Sudoma / Winnipeg Free Press files)
On this date
On Nov. 23, 1967: The Winnipeg Free Press reported two St. Ambroise fishermen were rescued by a Canadian Forces helicopter after spending the night on a crumbling slab of ice on Lake Manitoba. The Winnipeg police commission exonerated two detectives alleged to have beaten a Free Press reporter. The Union of Manitoba Municipalities approved a motion to forbid welfare assistance for unwed mothers with more than one child. A full-scale bid to find oil on the south shore of Hudson Bay was scheduled to get underway in one week.
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