Your forecast
Rain or periods of drizzle changing to light snow near noon, with wind from the south at 30 km/h gusting to 50 becoming west 30 gusting to 50 this morning. Temperature steady near 2 C.
What’s happening today
It’s two local authors for the price (free) of one when Ariel Gordon and Mitchell Toews join up for hybrid launch of their new books from At Bay Press, Siteseeing and Pinching Zwieback: Made-up Stories from the Darp. McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park, 7 p.m. For more information, click here.
Ariel Gordon will launch her fifth book, Siteseeing, focused on nature and climate change on the prairies. (Mike Deal photo)
Today’s must-read
In a Winnipeg courtroom, packed with nearly 80 grieving family members and friends, Karen Reimer faced the man who took her daughter’s life in a high-speed drunk-driving crash and the mother who tried to help cover up his involvement.
“Everything they both did was to put themselves first and save their own skins,” Reimer told court Tuesday, in a tear-filled victim-impact statement. “There is not a doubt in my mind they would have stuck to their lies if not for the irrefutable evidence.” Dean Pritchard has the story.
A memorial set up at a MacEwan University ceremony in Edmonton October 2022, honouring Jordyn Reimer. She attended the school for five years and played on its women’s hockey team. (Supplied)
On the bright side
Scientists on Tuesday unveiled the first pictures taken by the European space telescope Euclid, a shimmering and stunning collection of galaxies too numerous to count. The photos were revealed by the European Space Agency, four months after the telescope launched from Cape Canaveral.
Although these celestial landscapes have been observed before by the Hubble Space Telescope and others, Euclid’s snapshots provide “razor-sharp astronomical images across such a large patch of the sky, and looking so far into the distant universe,” the agency said. The Associated Press reports.
Euclid’s view of a globular cluster called NGC 6397. (European Space Agency via The Associated Press)
On this date
On Nov. 8, 1945: The Winnipeg Free Press reported stern threats and repudiations flew across Canada’s automotive industry amid an ongoing strike, even as federal and Ontario provincial officials attempted to bring about an end to the labour strife, and a sharp clash between two labour leaders added fuel to the controversy. Winnipeg drivers slipped and slid on their way to work after an overnight blizzard dropped seven inches of snow on the city. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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