Your forecast
Mainly sunny. Wind northwest 20 km/h becoming light this afternoon. High 6 C. Wind chill -8 this morning. UV index 1 or low.
What’s happening today
Heiltsuk First Nation member and United Church of Canada minister Carmen Lansdowne launches her new book, Wearing a Broken Indigene Heart on the Sleeve of Christian Mission, on Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Canadian Mennonite University’s CommonWord Bookstore (2299 Grant Ave.)
Published in August by CMU Press, the book tackles big questions about the relationship between Indigeneity and the Christian mission. The event is free and can be livestreamed here.
And at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson Booksellers’ Grant Park location, it’s a dual book launch of the poetic variety: Winnipeg poet Cam Scott — whose new collection, Manor’s Ransom, was published by the locals at ARP Books — will be joined by Calgary’s ryan fitzpatrick, who launches the collection No Depression in Heaven.
Today’s must-read
Lisa is the first to admit she’s “a pretty protective” parent, a byproduct of decades working in social services with vulnerable, at-risk youth.
She vets her children’s friends’ parents, doesn’t allow her kids to go on sleepovers and closely monitors their electronic devices.
But now she’s living every parent’s worst nightmare: a man she came to trust and allowed to spend time with her preteen son is a convicted child sex offender — a fact hidden from her because he had changed his name. Dean Pritchard has the story.
On this date
On Nov. 5, 1956: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in London, British prime minister Sir Anthony Eden told parliament a ceasefire had been negotiated with the Egyptians at Port Said. Britain and France said they would cease all military action in Egypt as soon as Israel and Egypt accepted the UN plan for an international police force to end the Israeli-Egyptian fighting and get the Suez Canal back into operation. The Soviet army appeared to have ended the revolution in Hungary in a dawn-to-dusk attack that silenced Budapest, captured most of the country’s principal cities, and sent thousands of Hungarians fleeing to Austria. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
Get the full story: Read today’s e-edition of the Free Press.
|
