Your forecast
Cloudy with a 30 per cent chance of flurries this morning and early this afternoon, with a risk of freezing rain. Expected high is 0 C.
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Jets face the St. Louis Blues at the Enterprise Center, starting at 7 p.m.
Be a Better Settler, an exhibit by artist Lani Zastre, will be on display at Artbeat Studio, starting today until Nov. 17. Eva Wasney has a preview here.
Artist Lani Zastre’s new exhibit features 16 portraits and essays created following interviews with Indigenous Winnipeggers about their thoughts on allyship and what it means to be a better settler. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
Today’s must-read
A notorious inner-city hotel long plagued by violence is undergoing a transformation that will include a walk-in medical clinic and a drop-in centre for families in need.
Three investors formally took ownership of the Balmoral Hotel — and the beer vendor on the same lot — Nov. 1. The hotel at 621 Balmoral St., will be gutted from the inside out and renamed Pimicikamak Wellness Centre, complete with a medical clinic, pharmacy, daycare centre, bus depot and local non-profit organization 1JustCity providing free meals and wellness programming in the basement. The beer vendor will be turned into a walk-in clinic. Malak Abas has the story.
The Balmoral Hotel will be gutted and renamed Pimicikamak Wellness Centre, with a medical clinic, pharmacy, daycare centre, bus depot and local non-profit organization providing free meals and wellness programming in the basement. (Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press)
On the bright side
The Kenyan government announced Monday a surprise public holiday on Nov. 13 for a nationwide tree-planting day, part of its ambitious plan to plant 15 billion trees by 2032.
Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki made the announcement via a gazette notice posted on the social network X, formerly known as Twitter, following a cabinet meeting held last week and chaired by President William Ruto. The Associated Press reports.
A Jacaranda tree in bloom in Nairobi, Kenya. (Sayyid Abdul Azim / The Associated Press files)
On this date
On Nov. 7, 1935: The Winnipeg Free Press reported a huge Ethiopian army was massing south of Makale for a desperate stand against Italy’s advancing forces. Noted U.S. evangelist and former professional baseball player William “Billy” Sunday died of angina pectoris in Chicago. In Winnipeg, two “armed miscreants” robbed A. Gordon King, proprietor of The Cave on Donald Street and Ellice Avenue, at 2:30 a.m., making off with $100, the business’s proceeds for the night. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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