What you need to know
Chris Pietsch / The Register-Guard / The Associated PressTim Boyden uses the loose fall leaves in front of his business in Eugene, Ore., to encourage people passing by to vote in the midterm election.
Midterm elections: The U.S. midterm elections, seen as a referendum on the Trump administration, are today. The Democrats are expect to take control of the House of Representatives for the first time in eight years, while the Republicans are favoured to retain their thin majority in the Senate. READ MORE
Expand vote, trustee urges: Winnipeg School Division trustees were presented with a motion last night calling for non-citizens — and people 16 and older — to get the right to vote in board elections. The motion was tabled. Carol Sanders reports. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Today will be mainly cloudy with a high of 1 C, light snow beginning this morning and wind from the north at 40 km/h gusting to 60 in the afternoon.
What’s happening today
Still smouldering: A section of Dawson’s Road will remain closed during the morning drive as firefighters extinguish the smouldering remains of an industrial fire that started Monday afternoon. Ryan Thorpe reports. READ MORE
Downtown drama: Winnipeg police are expected to release more information about a suspicious package the bomb unit “rendered safe” at an office on Broadway.
In case you missed it
Taylor Jewell / Invision / The Associated Press FilesIdris Elba
Star deemed sexy: British actor Idris Elba was announced as People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive for 2018 on Jimmy Fallon’s The Tonight Show Monday night. READ MORE
In the chamber: Winnipeg’s new city council will be sworn in this evening, a day after the members of the executive policy committee were announced. Aldo Santin reports. READ MORE
Lemieux’s lunacy: Jets forward Brendan Lemieux has been suspended for two games. In a column, sports reporter Mike McIntyre says he “doesn’t deserve to play any time soon.” READ MORE
On this date
On Nov. 6, 1925: The Manitoba Free Press reported that a steamer, the Hamonic, had lost its propeller and was being driven helplessly by a 50-mile-per-hour gale on Lake Superior. In Winnipeg, in an evening robbery two bandits stole $150 on Martha Street from a young miner who had just come into the city. In Vancouver, a huge scheme for smuggling narcotics into Canada was discovered, with $100,000 worth of morphine seized. READ MORE
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