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A mix of sun and cloud. Wind up to 15 km/h. High 3 C, wind chill -9 this morning. UV index 1 or low.
What’s happening today
Industry Minister Mélanie Joly is jetting off to Asia for a five-day trip to meet with major companies and discuss Ottawa’s hunger for attracting large investments into Canada’s defence-related sectors. The meetings come as Canada looks to quickly ramp up non-U.S. exports, and will include talks with one of the two bidders on Canada’s major submarine procurement project. The Canadian Press reports.
Today’s must-read
A second company has its sights on mining silica sand in southern Manitoba — this time, near La Salle.
Consultants for Silex Resource Corp. plan to hold an open house about the proposed project in the Rural Municipality of Macdonald on Wednesday.
Donovan Toews, managing partner of Landmark Planning and Design, which is the consultant on the Silex project, said they want to inform residents at this early stage.
“They haven’t done anything except the research to know that this is a very good location to look for silica,” Toews said. Kevin Rollason has the story.
Consultants for Silex Resource Corp., which has several land claims within the area shown, are holding an open house Wednesday on a proposal to mine silica sand in the Rural Municipality of Macdonald. (Supplied)
On the bright side
Eleanor McMillan believes everyone should have access to an education, which has led to a lifetime of professional work and community service related to teaching.
The 83-year-old Winnipegger says her parents instilled the importance of schooling in her. “It was never preached. It was just there,” McMillan, whose father was a teacher and principal, says.
Today, McMillan volunteers as chairperson with the Program for Adolescent Parents and Infant Development, a non-profit group that supports the Adolescent Parent Centre at 136 Cecil St. Aaron Epp has more here.
Eleanor McMillan is the founder of the Adolescent Parent Centre, which provides academic courses for parenting and pregnant women through junior and senior high years. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On this date
On Nov. 24, 1939: The Winnipeg Free Press reported 20 million Poles faced starvation as German forces burned and plundered their country; their fate was described as being worse than that of occupied Belgium in 1914. The threat posed to shipping routes by magnetic mines set by German submarines was called “a grave menace” and Britain turned to scientists and fishermen to find possible solutions. Search our archives for more here.
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