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Cloudy. Becoming a mix of sun and cloud this morning. Wind from the north at 30 km/h becoming light this afternoon. High -3 C. Wind chill -14 this morning and -7 this afternoon. UV index 1 or low.
What’s happening today
Crafted: Show + Sale opens today at Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq, 300 Memorial Blvd., at 11 a.m. and runs until 5 p.m. Sunday. Support artists while being surrounded by art at this immersive take on the traditional seasonal market. Now in its 11th year, Crafted features over 100 artists from more than 30 communities across Manitoba, Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Nunatsiavut and Nunavik whose works include textiles, glass, wood, metal and clay.
Today at 2 p.m., the gallery will host a screening of the hit CBC comedy North of North, followed by a Q&A and a meet-and-greet with series actors Zorga Qaunaq and Jennifer Kilabuk. Several designers tabling at Crafted have had pieces featured on the show.
Admission to Crafted is $10; more information here.
Crafted features artists from Manitoba, Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Nunatsiavut and Nunavik. (Leif Norman photo)
Today’s must-read
Several red flags jump off the page when literacy expert Margaret Banasiak examines a Manitoba provincial court bail form.
The black-and-white legal-sized document, which can be up to five pages, is full of lengthy — and often jargony — sentences: “You are prohibited from seeking, obtaining or continuing any employment, whether or not the position of employment is remunerated, or becoming or being a volunteer in a capacity, that involves being in a trust or authority towards persons under the age of 16 years.”
As program director at Winnipeg’s Open Doors Adult Literacy Program, Banasiak believes the language used in bail documents — combined with low reading comprehension levels of many accused individuals — is one of the reasons people are frequently breaching the court-ordered conditions that are designed to keep them out of trouble. Toni De Guzman has the story.
Open Doors Adult Literacy Program director Margaret Banasiak (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On the bright side
There’s a cold-hearted thief in Winnipeg who won’t have cold feet: someone made off with more than 160 pairs of socks, to be donated to people in need, that were in Ashley Munro’s car, which was parked downtown Monday afternoon. They had smashed a window to get into the vehicle.
“The first thing (I thought) was ‘My socks are gone,’” said Munro. “I didn’t think of anything else in the car, it was just like, ‘Oh no, I got all these donations and now they’re gone’… it’s 164 pairs that could have gone to quite a few people.”
When she posted about the theft on social media, the situation went from “heartbreaking to heartwarming,” said Munro.
Her post has been shared widely and people have reached out to donate socks and money, allowing her to collect far more socks than she had planned to donate. Erik Pindera has more here.
Ashley Munro had 164 pairs of socks — donations to charity — stolen when her car was broken into on Monday. (Supplied)
On this date
On Nov. 7, 1986: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the Manitoba Progressive Conservatives were considering changing their party name to differentiate them from the governing federal party in the wake of Ottawa’s controversial decision not to award the contract to maintain CF-18 fighter jets to Winnipeg’s Bristol Aerospace Ltd. A Winnipeg woman would have to face charges of manslaughter in the death of an infant in the stabbing of the infant’s pregnant mother, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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